Interior decorators appear to have quite a bit of control over their projects. I wonder what goes into their choice for colours when they are dealing with the various professions.
What are the most popular themes professionals and their decorators are choosing these days?
Vona
Well, as an attorney, I’ve always been partial to blood red and currency green.
You can’t discuss color without any context. A person’s favorite color for a house would be different than his favorite color for a car, or a shirt, or a flower. Especially in interior design, ***everything ***is contextual. And I’m not sure whether “educated professionals” are different than anyone else.
Hmm, I still think people have a general ‘favorite’ colour. And I wonder if it changes through the years of schooling. Do some colours represent something/somethings more than others?
From a decorator’s experience and point of view, I wonder if they’ve noticed whether different professions like different colours…
For their homes, for their clothes, for their cars… wherever they have the personal freedom to express themselves.
Confined for years in training they then become free to express themselves.
Vona
Hi, I’m just throwing out some questions I’ve always wanted answers to and I see that you’re trying to answer them. I find it all very humours and entertaining.
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Vona
As a graphic designer I whole-heartedly agree with panache45. Context is everything. I understand that picking a favorite color can be fun and simple way to express your identity to others… but in and of itself, it doesn’t mean much. Color has a definite effect on mood, but more in context than it does by itself. Also, I think people change their minds, and love variety a lot more than they realize or are willing to admit. As a professional, I enjoy ALL colors. They each have a time and a place. It just depends on what you are trying to convey. If anything defines a sophisticated taste, I think it’s an open mind to be able to accept different colors and designs, even if it defies your “favorite color” (an idea I don’t truly believe in).
How ironic. in this thread, only the attorney, the profession that is famous for giving non-direct answers, is the ONLY one to give any kind of a direct answer.
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As a doctor, I am partial to blood red and bilious green.
I was recently talking with some friends and mentioned that I avoid using or wearing the color purple in any kind of professional setting, because I’ve read that it conveys low credibility.
No one believed me.
I’m trying to decide whether that proves my point, since I was wearing purple at the time.
I’ve been in a lot of big law firm offices, and beige seems to be a common choice. It’s a soothing, non-threatening colour that goes well with the various wood trim that a lot of law firms seem to fancy.
Since there isn’t a “direct” answer to the question, only an attorney would pretend that there is one. Not ironic at all.
Me, personally, I’m just shocked to see a doctor and a lawyer agree on something.
As a professor, I am partial to chalk yellow on black.
As a biologist, I would go for hemoglobin red and chlorophyll green.
Well, as a psychiatrist, I would go for primary colours in my home and neutral colours in my office.
As an intellectual, I say it’s the gray of my matter.
The problem with the question is that educated professionals is a very broad group, and so it’s hard to make blanket statements about it.
I believe it was in the endless entertaining book Class , by Robert Fussel, where he talked about an official US Government style consultant, who spends a lot of time advising people not to wear purple. It is percieved as a low-class color.
Beyond that, almost everyone’s favorite color is blue.
I’ve read that gourmet cooks often like orange.
Pastels make me ill.
As a teacher I suppose I should like “institution green” and “mean red” – the color of the ink that bleeds all over homework! Bhwahahahah!
But hunter green is nice. And better still is rose gold when it shimmers.
As an antiquarian book-dealer - The Scarlet Letter and Sir Gawain & The Green Knight.