Anyone who has tried to match colors when buying online knows how difficult it is. Colors vary on each computer, depending on the resolution, the quality of the display and often the quality of the photograph itself. Our eyes all perceive color differently too. This makes matching anything a challenge.

One of the issues that has come up in the past few months is how our solid color melamine dishes coordinate with the patterned ones. And what seemed at first like a no-brainer, is in fact a bit more challenging.

Colors that we thought would obviously go together, when put side by side, actually do not work.

In an effort to help our customers pick out the best possible combination, we have devised a buying guide that we will divide by pattern to keep things simple. We photographed each design with each solid, so you can see for yourself. And we will give our opinion and rank them according to our personal opinion (and since we have them here, we can tell honestly and without the biais of a monitor, what we feel works).

Daisies

View the different Daisy pieces

1. With yellow

Fresh, not a bad combination at all

2. With blue

It is feasible but perhaps not the best combination for this pattern

3. With green

Not really good, the green is too ‘olive’

4. With red

Not ideal but it could work with the right table linens and accessories

Our verdict:

Yellow is best

Blue can work

Red is really dependant on what else is on the table

Green is not recommended