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May 30, 2004|By Carol Polsky, Tribune Newspapers: Newsday.
If you are into quiet, aloof tones in your home decor, get accessible to feel out of footfall with blush trends this summer. The new boiler is bold, not beige.
Orange, aqua and aubergine, greens, reds and yellows, affluent mocha amber and stripes abounding are assuming up on walls, accessories and ceramics as consumers abound anytime added assured and adventuresome with the use of color.
"What I accept apparent for this year is that added bodies are accommodating to embrace added active color, alike if it is aloof one bank in the active room," said Leatrice Eisenman, controlling administrator of the Pantone Blush Institute and a acclaimed blush forecaster. "There is beneath browbeating than anytime before."
She attributes this to the public's accumulation acknowledgment to the quick and affecting aftereffect adventurous blush can accept on a allowance -- an acknowledgment acquired from decorating books and television makeover shows. "There's a actual beheld afore and after. It makes you a little bolder and a little braver," she says.
A abating trend
She sees a continuing trend against warm, alike hot, colors like "molten lava, ambrosial orange, fandango pink, amethyst and active chicken . . . . The newest administration for 2004 -- and we'll see it into 2005 -- is the addition of an electric blue."
Over at Benjamin Moore, the acrylic company, the advocacy for this division is purple, in rich, abysmal hues. Glidden Acrylic went so far as to baptize a turquoise-based hue alleged Sea Fare as its "color of the year." One of the accepted amphibian tones, it's declared to arm-twist harmony, abundance and calmness and was articular as a cultural bellwether by a aggregation of blush forecasters.
At Behr Paint, which food Home Depot, all dejection abide awful popular, alignment from periwinkle to sea blooming aqua and teal. Reds are added vibrant, yellows added aureate and oranges abounding and spicy.
"Oranges are all over -- from coppery to terra cotta to accurate ablaze orange," says Behr's blush business manager, Karen Mantoen. "Orange is huge this year. It's awakening from the '60s, back it was a accepted color. For this year, bodies are application added adventurous blush in accepted in all hues, brighter cleaner shades of color, and orange is one of those."
Still addition acrylic company, Dutch Boy Paints, forecasts an change of the advancing abating trend, from ablaze reds and dejection to a palette of "brighter, fresher colors alloyed with bawdy colors. Copper-colored oranges are advancing assimilate the arena as the new red," says Solveig A. Elios, a blush specialist for Dutch Boy. "This puts a new, racier bend on red."
Blues lighten up
Elios additionally agrees that dejection are alive from aphotic hues to lighter tones aggressive by water, while neutrals are abating up, with anemic yellows, bendable taupes and beiges replacing added acceptable off-whites.
Crate&Barrel's big bounce blush is tangerine, followed by aqua, olive green, chicken and red, says backer Lisa Ridolfi, who addendum that "really fun, ablaze colors are bustling up everywhere."
A lively, multistripe arrangement with orange, turquoise, navy, yellow, lichen blooming and red will advance beyond aggregate at Pottery Barn this summer, from bedding and towels to placemats, alfresco cushions and affection attic mats. Expect bedding in red or orange poppy patterns, enamelware in orange, adhesive blooming and lapis blue, and bank towels in red, turquoise, fuchsia, chartreuse and "the actual accepted orange," says aggregation backer Leigh Oshirak.
And at Target, the new band of alfresco accoutrement presents a affluent arrangement of colors from brick red to alacrity chicken and moss green.
