Infographic: Mining Pinterest To Discover Our Color Preferences, By Room

A fascinating project scours Pinterest boards to find the most commonly pinned colors for kitchens, bedrooms, and more. Pinterest can be an inspiring place for home decorating. But unless you have five Gs to spend on that one particular chaise lounge, its utility can end in the daydream. When you wake, you’re standing in IKEA again, arguing with your spouse over the proper pronunciation of an umlaut. Colour and Space is a project by designers Mie Frey Damgaard and Peter Ørntoft for decorative paint brand Jotun (Turkey). It digs through Turkish Pinterest boards, analyzing two fairly basic but powerful categories: color and location. The results are placed into simple pie charts, showing preferred colors in places around the home like kids’ rooms (the faintest pink), living rooms (maize), and kitchens (white).Read Full Story