Flamboyant and Energetic: An Orange cushion is vibrant. Orange as a colour is a combination of red and yellow so it shares some common attributes with those colors. It denotes energy, warmth, and the sun. But orange has a bit less intensity or aggression than red, calmed by the cheerfulness of yellow.

As a warm color orange in a room as an accent is a stimulant — stimulating the emotions and even the appetite. It represents the changing seasons so in that sense it is a color on the edge, the color of change between the heat of summer and the cool of winter.

The softer oranges such as peach are even friendlier, more soothing. Peachy oranges are less flamboyant than their redder cousins but still energetic.

Orange really pops with a medium blue, red or even yellow. Orange can be a fiery hot combination or, in tamer shades, a fresh, fruity experience.

To make a fantastic 60s psychedelic look by mixing orange and pink. Really bright and vibrating,

Try a dash of orange with deep purple or a dash of purple with a bit of orange, tempered by lots of mellow yellow or white for an eye-catching look that's not overpowering. Your cushions will call out to you!

Try combining your orange cushions as feature shades of orange going earthy with browns and greens as well as sophisticated with blues, grays, and other neutrals.