Purple is noble, purple is sweet, it comes from what marine mollusks secrete…
Room Setting by HGTV
Purple has a history of richness, associated with dignitaries throughout the ages. The Roman Empire distinguished purple by reserving it’s use just for royalty and decorated generals. Purple still carries with it an air of greatness, living with purple is an intentional choice.
Purple is as celebrated today as it was historically. Top designers like Madeline Weinrib have taken it to new heights by using it in engaging decorating scenarios like the chairs featured here. I would not normally choose seating like this, but these chairs look fresh and up-to-date and I can see placing them in a room that lacks pizazz.
Room Setting by Better Homes & Gardens
I love seeing soft lavender in a bedroom, not only is it “pretty”; the color has meditative qualities about it that promote deep sleep.
*I had to laugh after reading Giorgio Armani’s blog on T magazine, he says that Americans bedrooms are too bright and that he has trouble sleeping when visiting New York. He actually installed room darkeners in his apartment there to adjust this problem… how about some lavender walls Giorgio?!
This is a color that looks great when used with neutrals as an accent. I love the lavender velvet chairs mixed with the patterned rug and textured ottoman.
Fiestaware Jug
If purple rooms are not your thing then you can add a touch of this color with accessories. How about this Deco-ish purple pitcher from Fiestaware? Or maybe a trip to Provence in the South of France would leave you literally swathed in lavender.
Perhaps living with purple on the outside is your forte, here is a good example of an exterior painted in a soft violet hue.
These days purple is forcasted in color trend reports across the boards. It is a player in designer collections in both fashion and home furnishings and being worn on the streets by fashionistas everywhere.
*Paint yourself some purple today!
Purple in any shade is just not my color, but lavender is my absolute favorite smell, essential oil and I even love it as an accent in food. I wonder how one can dislike a color but love the other sensory aspects of it?
Hi Laura,
There are three ways a person connects to color:
1) Emotional: Sensory, feel
2) Behavioral: Decision making, purchases
3) Physical: Reaction
It sounds like you connect to lavendar / purple emotionally but not behaviorally or physically.
FYI: In my color classes, purple is the least liked color of them all.
Over time, purple has grown on me and now I absolutely love it… So you just never know.
🙂
~Patti
Purple is one of my favorite colors – and that picture of dried lavender is divine.
-s
I love purple and so does my daughter (she’s 4 loves purple, pink not so much).
On a local historical note, the Phoenicians that once lived in Northern Israel (Acco and up) and southern Lebanon were famous for their purple dye that they made from shellfish gathered from the sea.
~Your daughter is in on the color purple early, girls usually do the pink to purple flip around age 6 or 7…
She sounds like my kind of girl!
~Patti
The bedroom is heavenly.
By better homes and gardens I mean, not HGTV. I think they went wrong, really wrong with that one.
Ahhh! This is truly the Purrfect Purple House – even the asphalt drive is purple! In my dreams I live in a house like this! -Thanks!
i really love PURPLE so I dream someday i will have this kind of house