2012 A Colour Party!!

2012 Colours; Tangerine Orange, Sodalite Blue, Bellflower, Solar Power, Cabaret, Cockatoo, Sweet Lilac, and Margarita are so powerfully descriptive that you don't need to know what they look like to know what they look like. Cabaret is a little ambiguous, but you can guess it's going to be lively and bold. (It's actually fuschia or rose/violet).

Tangerine orange, bellflower, solar power and sweet lilac are obvious. Sodalite is a gemstone that is a deep blue with a violet tinge. Cockatoo is like a tropical sea, and margarita is strangely a green/grey hue. You can view all of the colours at  http://www.pantone.com/

The Pantone site is describing this year's colours as provocative, vivacious, juicy, fanciful, scintillating, refreshing and sexy to name only but a few. They are not subtle in other words.
This Year is a Colour Party!! for Interiors and fashion!

I'm always up for some colour whether it's in my house or in a cocktail !! I have always been in love with orange and am glad to see Tangerine is a hit this year.

  

flowers, fungia, berries - so scintillating !!!

Colin and Justin's orange fireplace with furnishings and accessories in orange too! Couldn't you just settle in with a nice solar powered cocktail here?

Such a simple palette, and the orange really stands out in the Art and toss cushions. Kinda Sexy!

Earthy Green and Orange here with neutral window treatments. Simple, spacious and very warm.

Even in a small area orange is not too bold. It can be cozy and complementary to a space, as in this example, with the subtler blue and white wall covering and nestled against a traditional fireplace. Fairly Fanciful I think.

A room to die for!!!

A Contemporary Moroccan concept combining fuschia, I mean "Cabaret" and "Tangerine  Orange" with white. Delicious and wonderfully Refreshing!

 

.................... Party on!