Amanda the Great by Amanda El-Dweek for October 31, 2024

Beige is brown washed out practically to invisibility. Greige is even worse because grey is a lack of color to begin with. I am soooooooo glad that the trend for decorating in grey is, appropriately, fading out. Of course I live surrounded by woods and prairie in a home made of logs and decorated in saturated warm colors, so I am part of the Color in Decorating Party anyway. IMHO the worst crime against Color is beige/greige nursery decor; children need the stimulation of a multi color, multi texture environment.

Amanda, throw on a pile of bright colored pillows and snuggly afghans to solve the sad beige couch problem.

I’m wondering where they found a comfortable sofa.

It used to be marketed as an ‘Earth Tone’. Strangely enough often paired with orange, or forbid, yellow. An era I refer to as our ‘Faux Frontier’ period.

Beige isn’t brown — it’s even less exciting than brown.

One of my favorite gags ever was in a comic called “On the Fastrack”(is that still around?). The lead character was a super-boring guy named Bob Shirt. Occasionally he would wear a T-shirt that said “Beige University” — it’s not even colorful enough to be Brown.

Not a fan of beige, but brown? Yeah baby! It’s like chocolate, and trees, and all sort of cozy things.

Spoiler alert: Just trolling…“Brown” got my attention. What’s the visible-spectrum wavelength of “brown”?

My perception is like this: Brown, that’s the color of coffee; Beige, is the color of milk with a bit of tea added to it.

I like beige…