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Le Creuset already has an avocado color out. It's exclusive to Crate & Barrel. I forget what's it's called but it's not terribly attractive. It's an olivey green that shades to a blackish green. I can see the saffron and that avocado sitting on a reddish copper range - but NOT in my house....LOL!

So cute! LOVE it. It's now so bright and cheerful. The only things I would change is to paint the shelf as suggested, and add some small molding strips painted in the same white to where floor and walls join, or just to that wall-floor join with the chevron as it looks a little ragged there. You can adhere them with construction adhesive. You might want to add a molding to where the white and yellow colors join on the walls too for a more finished look. GREAT job!

I love the color but I agree that food doesn't look very appetizing in it. Picture a brownish braise or stew in it and you will get my point. Food looks even worse in the Misty Lilac as there were pictures posted of it being used on FlickR. The lighter color is called Misty Lilac and it is available at some signature stores in the cast iron and also abroad. They need a beautiful celadon green. The jade color they used to have was much prettier in the stoneware. Wish they would do that shade in the iron. A shaded, soft, lighter French blue would also be gorgeous.

The chrome handles separate, and then you can just lift the top off. Very clever design!

Also you can do mini no bake cheesecakes in it. Pour melted chocolate on top, let it cool, and then pour your cheesecake mixture over it and sprinkle the top with chocolate wafer crumbs and cool to set. Unmold and you should have chocolate covered cheesecakes. Would be fun to also layer no bake desserts with fruit puree like raspberries and then the chocolate layer on top.

Citron is an older color that has been brought back. It seems Le Creuset is recycling a lot of it's older colors. Azure is also a color that was discontinued and brought back. White has also been brought back by Bloomies and Sur La Table, and gloss black is back at Bloomies.

Citron is a soft, light, less saturated yellow that shades into a deeper, richer yellow. It looks a bit washed out in person. Dijon was a better match for the depth, saturation and brightness of the other colors. Dijon is a more saturated taxi cab, golden yellow with some ocher shading while Citron is softer, lighter, and a less aggressive yellow.

They are both pretty. Some people don't care for very bright colors, and the Citron is a pretty, country French looking color and nice for a more traditional kitchen.

That ad makes me never want to eat steak again! I think they should fire their ad agency. Yuck! How much better a photo of a big juicy rare steak with beautiful grill marks. Boring but not sickening as this ad is. The cliffs of meat look withered and dried out. The idea is to get people to eat their meat by making it look appetizing, not to show a photo that looks like someone ate it and threw it back up! It's absolutely horrid!

Most of the other Le Creuset colors work together if you're doing a mixed set. I don't think this would fit in with the other bright colors. It would work maybe with their Dune and discontinued white, discontinued Granite and black, and maybe the Kiwi or Cherry Red thrown in as an accent.

I understand the need for this as some people don't care for the bright colors and want a minimalist look in a stainless, white or black kitchen. For me, the whole beauty of Le Creuset is their bright, gorgeous, cheerful colors. This is just so dreary.

I much prefer the Staub Graphite if I had to choose a gray, as I love the dark gray highlights in the lettering and rings, the speckling, and the glossy glaze. This is just plain blah! Look for this soon in the outlets as a discontinued color!

Thanks Amilelka. Yes, it is much smaller, but the space it had before wasn't usable as it needed to be clear as it was an entry point into the bedroom, and you also needed clear access to the closet. It was also hard to place the bed before as you had the bathroom opening. That space though is usable in the kitchen, and makes it much larger and more functional. I love playing with floor plans. Wanted to be an architect at one point ;-).

Was hoping the gal whose apt. it was would see it. I had wanted to see her reaction. If it were mine and I had the funds I would do this. I didn't like the idea of having to go through a bedroom to get to the bathroom, and this solves that, and placed the bedroom away from the kitchen.

You would though not have your clothes near to the bedroom, but I guess there's give and take, and that's one thing you have to give up.

I couldn't get the image to show here, but here's the links.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a137/sheellah/APT.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a137/sheellah/APT2.jpg

I've enlarged the kitchen from some of the bedroom and part of the closet, and added another small closet, and one in the living room, and made a little entry into the bedroom. In the second one I added a little desk area, and enlarged the living room closet or made another. You would have a good sized kitchen from part of the bedroom that would be unused.

Let me know what you think!