Pantone Color of the Year 2011

Honeysuckle Pink

Pantone has declared that Honeysuckle is the color of 2011.

Well, Violet and I had a feeling it might be.

source: Pantone

Sometimes I wonder if Pantone has a camera in my house.

Last year they declared it the "Year of Turquoise"!

Well, I already had lots of turquoise in my home. 

I've had turquoise in my home like 25 years.

And it was soon followed by Honeysuckle or pink as I call it.

(although I think of a creamy yellow when I think of honeysuckle)

But if Pantone says its pink..then it's pink. There are pink honeysuckles, I know.

I thought I'd gather some of the photos I've shown of my home over the past year and

you'll see it's full up with honeysuckle already.

I was discouraged by many about reupholstering my sofa and chair in pink.

But I knew that was what I wanted.

Guess those women at the fabric store would not discourage me now.

And you know that dining room that I'm working on?

The one I haven't worked on this week because I'm Christmas decorating?

The ceiling in my dining room is.....drumroll please.....

HONEYSUCKLE!!

It's the same shade as my sofa. I just thought I'd do it for fun and love it.

I really like ceilings painted a pretty color different from the walls.

So when I do the big dining room reveal....

you'll see my Honeysuckle ceiling which is actually Devoe Paints' Desert Rose.

So I'm way ahead of this trend. 

I actually was thinking of repainting the ceiling...but now it's got to stay at least through 2011.