Yellow

Do you have certain colors that you just don’t like, or would never wear?  Or would you wear one, but never decorate with it?  I’m that way with purple – I like to wear it (actually I look better in lavender), but I would never use it in decor.  I might use lilac in my living room if I had a big formal home in Buckhead, but I’ve got my sturdy ranch house, so purple just won’t work for me.

On the other hand, I really like yellow in decorating, but I never thought I could wear it – I’ve read that yellow is a tricky color to wear.  I tend to wear rich pastels like spring green, coral and blue, rather than intense colors.  However, I happened upon this J. Crew butter yellow top with white embroidery one day, and I thought it was really cute, and well, what the heck why not, so I got it!  I wore it to a neighborhood playdate one Friday afternoon, and I swear, every mom that came up said, “You look cute!”  It was so funny because every person said it, and after about the fifth person, we started laughing because everyone was saying how cute the top was.

I have never ever had that happen with any piece of clothing I own.  I guess yellow is my color, and I didn’t know it!  In my house, I tend to use yellow accents.  My living room has a yellow sofa and club chairs in a bold green, yellow and red check.  I’d love to paint the walls lighter (they are kind of a boring kraft paper color now) and add some bold yellow curtains like these:

(unable to find the original source for photo above).