>>I know you'll remember this next time you get to buy something. The choice (of colors) is limited.
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>Yes, I'm sure I will. I have a deep red couch. The choices in couches is unbelievable. Have you ever been to High Point, NC and visited the furniture warehouses?

There's a The NC Company here... and they're just closing shop. They looked like they had some interesting things (we were looking for a dining table, then for a couch), but when we came closer, and discarded the obvious kitsch or combination of gray metal with glass and stuff like that... they had pretty much nothing. But we eventually did find one oddball table which fit our dining... area. Can't really call it a room :).

And we got a couch too. Had to wait three months until they delivered it from Canada. Dark blue leather, no armrests, and hard enough. People (aka "the market") seem to fall for the soft and deep, but you can't sit in that more than 20 minutes, and then something will hurt - your back, maybe ribs. I take ergonomy seriously.

> I prefer gold walls (solid color - I like golds, dark reds, and forest greens inside a home).

May I assume you own the house? :)

Because, what I learned here is that if you don't, there's only one color you're allowed to love on your walls: light gray or cream. Not white. Not anything in color - that would cost you proportionately to the difference in price between a bw and white monitor ;).

FYI, colors we have now: my office space and dining area, white (really white, as white as it gets); kitchen, yellow with terra cotta tiles; throom (half bathroom) and master bedroom - sky blue; staircase and upstairs hall, light blue with white smudges, sort of white clouds thingy; one of the girls' rooms - darker blue on walls, light blue with darker smudges on ceiling; other one - orange; bathroom - dark blue-green with white tiles on the walls and deep green-blue-gray tiles on the floor. Brick on the outside, white doors.

The carpet is sort of blue - not blue enough to my taste, pulls to gray, but was close enough and we were tired so we took it ;).

> My car is white (I prefer light colors that don't absorb the sun's heat).

But then they don't cool off as fast either. They just have higher reflectivity - so they absorb less, but also irradiate less and thus take longer to cool. Which reminds me - can't we have glasses on the cars and houses (including, but not limited to the houses which are someone's homes)

>Funny, I don't like burgandy all that much in cars or clothes, but I like it in

...a bottle, in France, in...

> a room mixed in with other colors.

My car is burgundy, but doesn't really do justice to the wine. And it's just as ugly gray inside as any other car. Can't they make at least a decent... any other color? Went to buy seat covers last week, and had a choice of grey, black, and screaming-red-on-black, neon-blue-on-black or Tweety-on-black or something awfully Disney. Took gray. Made a mental note to mention it next time when we talk about choice on the shelves.

>I once owned a bright red Nissan sentra. I don't care for navy blue as a car color either. I've seen some really pretty copper colors lately I like. For my computer, I could care less but I like the idea of a splashy hot pink or lime green one just for grins and giggles :o)

Most of the day this ugly piece of gray-drab plastic is looking at me and occupying a sizable chunk of my viewport. I'll really dismantle it one of these day and spraypaint it something... probably some deep blue, if there's some left in the spray can. BTW, if you want to see how public space can be done in colors, get the movie Kontroll. It happens in Budapest subway, has a bit of a scary plot and lots of colorful characters. You don't see the light of day in that movie, and yet it looks very nice. Even though my only memory of the place was the fine we had to pay to one of these guys ("kontroll" means "your tickets ready for control")... because I misunderstood the instructions. Just take a peek at the place.


> I like the idea of a bright yellow, green, or pink fluorescent phone so it is easy to locate.