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

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    arolarson Premium Member about 6 hours ago

    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.

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    Brass Orchid Premium Member about 5 hours ago

    I’m wondering where they found a comfortable sofa.

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    goboboyd  about 4 hours ago

    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.

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    R.U. Kidding  about 1 hour ago

    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.

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