Sherwin Williams Coral Reef. Will it be YOUR color for 2015?

I love watching the paint companies release their “Color of the Year” then watch all the Designers go nuts and promote it for them. Talk about free advertising right?

I try not to get too excited over any Color of the Year anymore because to me, it's just picking a color that wasn't picked the year before and doesn't have any rhyme or reason. 

Sherwin Williams just chose Coral Reef SW 6606 and by the way, that number has a little too many 6's in it if you ask me. It's is a pretty color but to whom?

I was just commenting on the Blogging Painters website that Coral Reef is close to the color that I personally would love to even come close to being color of the year but just didn't get there. Here's my response to their post on Coral Reef:

The question is what do YOU think of Coral Reef? I’ve been studying color for the home for some time, it’s my job  Anyway, I’ve been searching for a color that is new, fresh, liked by BOTH men and women and more importantly, not a blue hue. Coral Reef comes really close. I’ve been writing about “Salmon” since 2009 because I think it’s just a great hue to have in the home for so many reasons. Coral Reef is a cute color, one that will be very likable by women and popular in the girls rooms but it still leaves out the men. This is why my suggestion is too add just a tad more yellow to it and call it salmon. Oh well, I guess if I wait another five years it will eventually come out 

So getting back to Coral Reef, is it a pretty color? Yes and as a matter of fact I have a very similar color for my daughters room - see - perfect color for the ladies. 

This color of course would look outstanding in a contemporary style home or match it with specific hues and really change it's appearance to go just about anywhere but on a one-to-one, it's pretty good. Still not the color that I'm jonesing for in the home but I guess I'll need to have my own paint company to promote that one. 

Enjoy it, Coral Reef is pretty!