Interesting Yellow...

I am really disappointed, I wrote a really long blog and even had photos and it has gone missing somewhere in cyberspace. Well life goes on and … so will I and today,  I’ll write about a couple things first this yellow room, this was on the cover of House and Garden in 1966 the year I started design school. I don’t really think it is any great design feat but it still looks pretty good, the cocktail table is really beautiful maybe Ficks Reed and I really love the thought of a yellow floor. Look at the fantastic parrot lamps sitting on bamboo lamp tables. The drapery is a little non descript for me and what looks to be green stained wood walls I could live with out, BUT the overall look is really pretty good even all these years later…If I was asked to perk this up I would add an area rug paint the walls white put up new drapery in a David Hicks print (not that Jonathon guy) and add lots of accessories, there are hardly any,one oblong toss pillow and a couple round ones will jazz those sofas right up . There you go…Now, yellow is NOT one of my favorite things, it has a tendency to suck the color right out of ones skin tone, so one will never look as attractive as they really are in a yellow room. It also is the most irritating color to the human eye so people may tend to become a little aggressive in a yellow room. Fact babies cry more and longer in yellow surroundings. another yellow cars seem to be hit less often... Look at all these cool Yellow items funny how although they are all on the market right now they have a kind of retro look to them. I tried covering up the dress and the rest still look retro then the  other items at different times they still have that look…any one remember pyramids of lemons, a favorite decorative accessory in the sixties? I still LOVE them.( so did Thelma Blow AID,and Mrs Riggin had a pyramid of flowers) probably imported by Decorative Crafts…Enough on Yellow……..