Color+Inspiration: Beige

Who ever thought of beige being a neutral color? Lots of you did! Wrong! Think again! Or visit the blog of  Vancouver color consultant Maria Killam and convince yourself of the opposite! I did think that beige is the most neutral color from all and I could easily combine it with every color that crosses my mind ever! But then I was lucky to be introduced to the great Maria Killam and her blog, Colour me Happy, and read lots of useful stuff about colors, particularly about beige. One thing I learned about it is that it is very (!) tricky and there are plenty of colors that just go wrong along with beige! While trying to recover from the shock I had, I found out about the 3 main undertones of beige: yellow, pink and green, which are the well-known beige, but way too different! Here are the examples:

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this is the yellow beige

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this one is pinky beige

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and here is the green one

See the difference? Ok, maybe these images are too obvious and you could see that there are 3 different shades, but usually you can’t see it! Seriously, when looking at different pictures with beige painted walls I can’t say right  away which undertone has been used. Ugh! I really wish I could. I will now post couple more inspirational images, let’s see – will you be able to define the right shade?!

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So, I hope you understand what I mean when I say very tricky color! What are your ideas about beige?

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