I am a bit of an optimist. There is still the phase in which JPO posts quotes from Franco Debono on his Facebook wall. Franco Debono himself has been doing it:

“No one is greater than the party but no party is greater than the People – Franco Debono”

Turquoise is somewhere between green and blue. When you match stuff you either go “octaves” higher or lower or you go to the complementary (opposite) colour.

If the match is “forced” e.g. your turquoise is blue-ish and you choose something that’s too red, e.g., it will look “stupid”. Unless you’ve got an eye for colour (by which I mean you can tell the nuances of a colour) turquoise (and other secondary colours) are a bitch to match.

[Daphne – Not at all. That’s the mistake most people make: to think in terms of ‘matching’ and colour scale and to imagine that it’s all about colour. It isn’t. In fact, it’s mostly about texture. When things go badly wrong in a room, the problem generally lies with the textures, not with the colours. Anyway, I could go on about this forever. It’s a pet topic and particular interest.]

It must be really diffcult to find stuff to match …

[Daphne – Matching in the literal sense is naff. Haven’t you been told?]