I am, of course, referring to the delusion of so many designers that colors positioned opposite one another on the color wheel are somehow fantastic-looking when put together. Um, no. No no. Absolutely no. I see this so often on HGTV in various renovation shows, and... just, please, no. I know, someone made up this rule, brought the color wheel into it to sound all "scientific", and managed to get a whole lot of people to then blindly follow along, but... y'all are trying way, way too hard to be trendy, and I predict that "opposite colors" will, in the not-so-far future, be looked at the same way that hideous 70s trend of painting every wall in your house a different, loud color is looked at today. Knock that shit off.
No, they are not "eye-catching". They are jarring. They clash. I mean, seriously? Blue and orange? If I walk into someone's house and see this color scheme:
I will laugh at them. And then put on my super dark sunglasses that remove all light and color from the world, and wait for the agony to be over.
No, blue and orange most emphatically do NOT go together. Oh, you wanted to imitate a sunset? Yeah, you missed that mark by several miles. Put up a painting of a sunset and be done with it. Green and red? Sure, at Christmas -- any other time, you look like a sad, seasonally confused elf. Not the hot Legolas kind of elf, the flippin' green and red Christmas elf of children's nightmares. The only combo that maybe, MAYBE, can occasionally work is purple and yellow. And that's not because they're opposites on the color wheel, that's because some shades of yellow are a nice neutral that go with anything. But even then, the look will be painfully please-help-me-match chic, not timelessly fashionable.
In summary, there really is no accounting for people's tastes. But an awful lot of designers have really awful taste.
⚞ SnapDragon ⚟
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