The absolute worst colour for a car in Southern Ontario is a light slightly-reflective greyish-beige. Why? This is the exact colour of the dirty snowbanks along the road as winter wanes. Ford offered cars in that colour. My uncle bought one. It was next-to-impossible to see when driving down the late-winter streets.
When I was a kid, we moved into a house where the kitchen floor was light grey, dark grey, green, and black.
In the basement of the house was a room painted a strong solid magenta. We demolished it.
Of course, I’ve heard car enthusiasts refer to many cars as “appliances”…
Dung - one time we looked at a house. One bathroom had walls that were SO bright pink, that we couldn’t tell whether the counter was light pink, or whether it was white and reflecting the wall colors. :eek: (And - that was FAR from the wildest design attribute of that house!)
I don’t know what colour it was supposed to be, but the house I live in is a nasty Faded Barbie Doll flesh tone colour. For a while my wifi network was called Big Pink House, but we all agreed that Pink was too kind a colour to call it.
Paint chips are pointless, except to give you the vaguest idea what the color will look like. You need to buy a small sample and paint about half a wall to get a good idea.
Many years ago my wife and I settled on a pastel yellow for the bedroom. We bought two gallons, started painting, and we both realized “This is way too bright.” So we decided to use the opened gallon to paint the bathroom, then mixed the other gallon with a gallon of white base, which turned out perfect for the bedroom.
Hee!I painted my bathroom Pepto color ON PURPOSE! I don’t have enough money to make it nice so I went for funky instead.
Mint chip ice cream really needs to be green. Most of it is but then you get the fancy schmancy kind that doesn’t use food coloring. There’s nothing as shocking and disappointing as having a spoonful of what you thought was regular chocolate chip and getting mouthful of toothpaste flavored ice cream. Blecccccch.
All of the above, but can we talk about the colors where I used to work?
Medium blue and medium grey. I don’t know who picked those, but it was the most depressing combination ever. They could’ve gone with darker blue and light grey, or dark grey and light blue. Anything else, but these two tones were exactly the same level of color.
This, especially when combined with yellow-y-bleached strawlike hair. Stop that. Do not pass go. Get your hair color toned and a good exfoliation to return to a humanoid color.
The bathroom and kitchen in my condo used to be Pepto-pink. WHO BUYS THAT? My landlord put a camel color over it, but only 1 coat, so it’s kind of the same color as those flesh-toned fabric band-aids!
I saw a lot of insane room colors while buying a house. One had a bedroom of so bright a yellow that it looked like the walls were pulsating (and triggered a migraine). Another had the brightest pink I’ve ever seen; that color also seemed to vibrate.
[Hijack]Good god, what is that thing? I’ve never heard of them before now. I Googled up a video of it, and it gave me the extreme heebie jeebies. One video shows one wiggling freely in an aquarium full of just water, and it looks like the world’s biggest centipede.[/Hijack]
At my current employer the building interior was recently painted in the corporate colors - green, orange, white and blue. All in the brightest imaginable shade. One particular meeting room entry was painted as follows:
wall around door = green
door frame = orange
door = blue
The VP in charge of this building and the head of HR were standing in the hall shortly after the area was painted, clearly admiring the work. As I walked by the VP asked “Hey, Doc, what does this paint make you think of?”. He got my immediate, unfiltered answer of “Dr. Suess?” They didn’t seem pleased by that…
I don’t have enough money to make it nice so I went for funky instead.
