'Black-Orange' Is the Velvety, Moody Color We Think Might Replace Neutrals in the Most Expensive-Looking Homes

Image of a bedroom that has velvet walls in a black-orange color. The bed has a headboard is a gold material and there is a cheetah print throw pillow on the end of the bed.

It's not every day you come across a new color, or rather a velvety blend of familiar favorites that makes you rethink your perception of color completely, but that was the case when I first saw this not-quite-brown-but-not-really-orange shade.

The color black-orange sits somewhere between red, brown, and orange with a subtle black undertone. According to Livingetc's color expert, Amy Moorea Wong, it should never be called brown, though. "It is so much more," she says. "Think of it as brown’s warmer, more personality-filled cousin — it’s something you’d find somewhere on a tiger’s coat, in the embers of a hearth, or within deliciously rusty metal."