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:
this is the yellow beige
this one is pinky beige
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?
