I have obviously contracted a raging case of scarlet fever, or perhaps I’ve come down with the Pepto Bismol Flu. Because my new appreciation for hot pink can only be explained by a fit of delirium. Now — I’m a black, white, and brown, kind of a girl. Sure, I like loads of bling to slick it up, but at heart I love my drabby neutrals. Except I have recently developed a strange, inexplicable attraction to hot pink. It’s probably because the hunny says it doesn’t look good with my hair — which makes me like it even more.
Whatever. You can’t deny that a dash of hot pink puts the schwing into spring.
Nicolas Matheus
Girl, you know you be a sexy beast.
Yes, I realize I mixed my gender metaphors there, but it may just be that hot pink is a transvestite hooker with a heart of gold.
Hot pink’s interests are: It’s Raining Men, lip gloss, and having better legs than me.
But you know what? I like her. A lot. Hot pink is sharp, funny, edgy, and adds a touch of in your face glamour to any room.
Scott Weston
Did I mention versatile? Pair her with other brights or darks and she will hold her own.
Abigail Ahern
Pair her with neutrals and she will coyly bat her false eyelashes at you with a flirtatious wink and a nudge.
Abigail Ahern
Laura Day via Lonny
Display her on your pedestrian TV in full frontal view, right next to your haute pink James Nares painting, and you will be a GENIUS.
In closing, I leave you with this showstopper of an image, which is not to my usual taste. At all. For starters, I don’t know who allowed a giant clam to crawl across the floor and die a horrible, ugly death beneath the console table. But that swath of hot pink brightness rescues the whole room from stuffy old lady land. And do you know what the paint color is called?
Razzle Dazzle.
That’s what I’m talking about.
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Hot pink is never wrong! It is only RIGHT. One of the oldest images in my dream house binder is a photo of Gary Hume’s home in London. Eccentric artsy English loft with his great art…and a giant hot pink sofa. I can’t find it online so this may motivate me to buy a scanner.
Yea, not a pink girl, but I like it a lot with black or klein blue. like a girly surprise in a moody room.
There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with you!! Pink is the new black
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Hi Laura, thanks so much for your comment. Love your new online mag! I really meant what I said about your room — your whole house, actually. Genius.
Hot pink sang its siren song for me in the form of the Suzy Hoodless’ “Hothouse” wallpaper I hung in my daughter’s room.
P.S. If that clam shell was about 10 times larger it wouldn’t look so bad there. I’ve never understand the appeal of that particular bit of old lady design iconography.
The Laura Day application is my fave…I’ve always feared the pink myself. That indigo room with the pink Togo really works for me too though…even if I could never commit to it…I appreciate it!
erin, we are on the same pink wave length!
first the ouno posting on mexico, with tons of pink. gorgeous….
your fantastic amazing pink posing! some show stoppers!
and i just finished my pink posting on a bed in pink in the middle of nowhere
what’s in the water?
best!
david john
YHBHS Blog.
If loving hot pink is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
You and Laura Day have convinced me! (and that awesome chair in the last image…not hot pink, but awesome nonetheless!)
welllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll…………………to be honest i was worried about this post. hot pink? bleh! so 90′s! but then i took a look at your fab pics, and i decided you ARE RIGHT! hot pink can be rather fab!
Oh I got the fever too. Ive just done some hot pink velvet cushions for one job, doing hot pink lampshades and dinning chairs on another, and a super awesome hot pink wing back for yet another project.
All by coincidence though. promise I dont do same same everywhere!
Hot, hot, hot! Especially those last three images.
I didn’t think I was a hot pink kinda gal but some of those rooms are gorgeous.
I’ve always had a thing for hot pink. You just can’t not like it!
This post just made my little hot pink loving heart go pitter patter. Keep the pink goodness a coming!
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