Color Pariahs?

My husband and I used to watch "Trading Spaces" back in the day when it still aired.  I remember watching when the designer du jour would unveil the paint color that was to go up in the room.  Most of the time we would cringe and think that the chosen color was hideous.  By the end of the show (usually, but not always)  we'd have to pick our jaws up off the floor in amazement of how the room came together.  I learned from that show to reserve my judgement until I could see everything put together.  A lot of times I dismiss something without seeing the bigger picture.

I've been thinking about this since I posted about the color purple.  Poor purple got a somewhat lukewarm response.  Certain colors are definitely not for everyone, but I've found that some colors that I thought I hated have actually looked good  when I've seen them in a room.  I thought it would be different to pick some colors that aren't necessarily popular and see if I can find pictures where the color works.  I may not make believers out of you (or me), but It might be interesting.  Sometimes it's good to revisit things instead of completely ruling them out.  

I'll start.  I hate the color peach, even though peach and I have an extensive history.  My childhood rooms consisted of either peach and green or peach and seafoam green.  Ick!  Of course at the time I loved it. It probably was an "in" color back in the "Miami Vice" days of my youth.  It certainly hasn't been on the most popular list in a looong time though.

So here goes.

Peach as the headliner?

traditional staircase design by new york photographer Vanni Archive

eclectic home office design by boston interior designer Amanda L. Reid

traditional living room design by seattle home staging Andrea Braund Home Staging & Design

traditional dining room design by newark interior designer Maureen Fiori, AKBD, Allied Member ASID, CAPS

Marshall Watson

House Beautiful- Barry Dixon

Or peach in a supporting role?

modern spaces design by san francisco interior designer Kendall Wilkinson Design

via Luster Interiors-Jay Jeffers

kids design by los angeles interior designer Elizabeth Dinkel

eclectic bedroom design by little rock interior designer Tobi Fairley

contemporary bedroom design by austin interior designer PPDS

traditional hall design by dallas design-build Hull Historical

Source: designspongeonline.com via tulips on Pinterest

Decorpad

This last one is giving me flashbacks.  Maybe peach really is best for a girl's room.  

So, any takers?  My favorites are the bookshelves and the bathroom picture. I'm also kinda loving that non-peach chair in the Tobi Fairley design.    I think that, for me, a little bit of peach goes a loooong way, and I definitely lean more towards the darker rather than the paler peaches.  I'm going to remain open minded, however.  I don't know if I'm going to allow peach back into my life anytime soon but I'm not ruling it out completely.  

Do you have a color that you can't envision working in a room?  You can't pick purple though.  I gave that my best effort.  If you don't like it after seeing the pictures I posted then you just don't like purple;)