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).

Limone – Lemons

View the different Limone pieces

1. With red

Very bright and summery, a good combination

2. With Green

Can work depending on what else is on the table, the greens do not clash as they can do with other patterns

3. With Blue

Not the best combination but then that’s not unexpected since Limone does not have any blue in it. But we’re just trying to be thorough…

4. With yellow

Excellent combination and very Summery!

The verdict:

We feel Yellow is the best, followed by red

Green is not bad and can work well

Blue is not recommended