The Boundless Banality of Beige
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The Boundless Banality of Beige
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Re: The Boundless Banality of Beige
#2Now bring that one coloured object into the green room, which clashes badly: At this point, you're in Frank Lloyd-Wright territory (he used to move the chairs back to where he damn told you to put them)
Beige being neutral, tolerates more random colour intrusion. Choice of colour is about more than the empty room.
Re: The Boundless Banality of Beige
#3Now bring that one coloured object into the green room, which clashes badly: At this point, you're in Frank Lloyd-Wright territory (he used to move the chairs back to where he damn told you to put them) Beige being neutral, tolerates more random colour intrusion. Choice of colour is about more than the empty room.
This doesn't match my experiences with colored rooms at all.
Re: The Boundless Banality of Beige
#4One nitpick with the writer, while beige is something I have a hard time with, pure resplendent white can be beautiful and is also a vivid color (or vivid absence of color?). But I mostly agree with her points...
Some of my most memorable experiences were staying at hotels that featured vivid colors, like the Blue House in Penang and I wish I was not renting and could decide on the colors I'd want in my space. Dull neutral colors might make decoration easy but it certainly doesn't make it sexy.
Re: The Boundless Banality of Beige
#5Now bring that one coloured object into the green room, which clashes badly: At this point, you're in Frank Lloyd-Wright territory (he used to move the chairs back to where he damn told you to put them) Beige being neutral, tolerates more random colour intrusion. Choice of colour is about more than the empty room.
Don't you feel like beige begets more beige though? All you need to do is look to new suburbs to see how beige or a faint peach colour abounds, often times (I imagine) with an HOA that prevents you from painting it something vibrant. Look to the restaurants that serve the people in those houses, and they have menus 10 pages long and densely packed, but all of it sub-par and bland having not been seasoned.
Re: The Boundless Banality of Beige
#6Does the colour logic used in interior design apply in other domains? I kind of like beige for text background, it's a softer white, or a lighter black. Pure white and black can be jarring on the screen.
From my limited experience I know that it's better to choose a few (2-3) colours that match well, perhaps two dominant colours and one extra darker nuance for each.
Re: The Boundless Banality of Beige
#7Does the colour logic used in interior design apply in other domains? I kind of like beige for text background, it's a softer white, or a lighter black. Pure white and black can be jarring on the screen. From my limited experience I know that it's better to choose a few (2-3) colours that match well, perhaps two dominant colours and one extra darker nuance for each.
It's entirely subjective; use it if you like it.
Re: The Boundless Banality of Beige
#8“We see things not as they are, but as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin
Re: The Boundless Banality of Beige
#9Now bring that one coloured object into the green room, which clashes badly: At this point, you're in Frank Lloyd-Wright territory (he used to move the chairs back to where he damn told you to put them) Beige being neutral, tolerates more random colour intrusion. Choice of colour is about more than the empty room.
This doesn't match my experiences with colored rooms at all.
My experience with colored rooms is that they absolutely drink light and require an outrageous amount of power to keep bright. But they're fun and I love being in them when someone else is paying the power bill.
Re: The Boundless Banality of Beige
#10One nitpick with the writer, while beige is something I have a hard time with, pure resplendent white can be beautiful and is also a vivid color (or vivid absence of color?). But I mostly agree with her points... Some of my most memorable experiences were staying at hotels that featured vivid colors, like the Blue House in Penang and I wish I was not renting and could decide on the colors I'd want in my space. Dull n…
My house is painted all white inside, as was the house that I grew up in. Among other things, it's the most efficient, and I like lots of light.