Yard OCD, am I the only one?!

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AllyJ92

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Yesterday a had conformation that I have a full time job once I finish uni at the end of April, YAY! This is a big deal as it means I can start pony shopping for my own, after years of sharing.

I will be able to keep said pony at my boyfriends' farm in a converted cattle shed, so will be just me and his sister there. I have visions of beautifully matchy matchy stable equipment. Please can someone confirm that I can purchase everything matchy matchy and not look like a mad woman? Is it possible to have a completely colour coordinated yard? I'm so excited about getting my own horse I want to start buying the essentials now, so once the horse is purchased I only have tack and rugs left to get!
 
I am so excited for you, and your new stuff ready for the horse.

Love your colour choice.

I WAS like this, but in the end, when you have your horse, and need something "now", odds on when you go to the saddler's if your yard is green they will only have blue, or vice versa!
 
Way back when I was a girl I once visited a posh barn near my home (in the USA) and every horse that boarded there had a matchy matchy tack trunk, feed buckets, bandages saddle cloth etc, there weren't so many rugs available back then but I am sure each horse had colour coordinated fleece/cooler type thing too. It did look awesome.

Happy shopping!
 
I've spent ages trying to "colour match" in my local tack shops, put they only seem to have everything to match in pink or purple, no sensible colours :/ I could settle for a royal blue over navy, just not baby blue or anything too bright! I think I'll have to take to the internet rather than local tack shops, as they have all been reluctant to order anything in, despite me willing to pay for half of its retail price upfront to secure the order :/
 
I think ebay may be your friend. Buckets and fork etc certainly to colour match along with grooming box and rugs, rope and headcollar. Wheelbarrow certainly too in green or blue, as well as haynets, feed scoop. tack hooks, stable name plate...

Oooh, lovely green mounting block... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3-Step-Mo...Domain_3&var=600456256849&hash=item4635e5fbc5

Green rug rack http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Forge-Two...Domain_3&var=420434975223&hash=item1c49f24ace

Green electric fencing http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Electric-...074?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item4171543c2a
 
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Red-1 said:
I think ebay may be your friend. Buckets and fork etc certainly to colour match along with grooming box and rugs, rope and headcollar. Wheelbarrow certainly too in green or blue, as well as haynets, feed scoop. tack hooks, stable name plate...
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I'll have to make an eBay account first!! I've always tried to shop local, but if the shops won't/can't help I'll have to take to the internet :( Off to the garden centre next weekend to try out wheelbarrows before buying one! What an exciting life I lead!
 
It can be done definitely, but takes a lot of effort.

I am on full livery so no longer own a lot of things but I have a set of blue brushes which took some finding to get everything as I wanted.
 
most of my stuff is purple - it is possible to match but I tend to go for practical first, if I can have purple and practical then thats what I go for (a really deep purple tho) but things like headcollar I prefer leather.
 
I am SO not OCD. Complete scruff/easygoing type here.
But...I just love matchy matchy and I'm such a girly girl when it comes to bling and fancy looking tack, saddle cloths and browbands.
Who cares if they think you're mad?! That's your personality and your identity. Everyone else can be boring and have plain tack and black/brown saddle cloths, but our horses look awesome in cute colours :)
My chestnut HAS to wear red/burgundy or white and has a sexy gold browband with diamontes (and a more plain Havana diamanté one for dressage)
 
Ponycarrots said:
I am SO not OCD. Complete scruff/easygoing type here.
But...I just love matchy matchy and I'm such a girly girl when it comes to bling and fancy looking tack, saddle cloths and browbands.
Who cares if they think you're mad?! That's your personality and your identity. Everyone else can be boring and have plain tack and black/brown saddle cloths, but our horses look awesome in cute colours :)
My chestnut HAS to wear red/burgundy or white and has a sexy gold browband with diamontes (and a more plain Havana diamanté one for dressage)
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Don't eveb get me started on bling <3
 
They all laughed at me when I arrived with matching everything ..... didn't take long till it was good enough to borrow though!!! My matching went out the window when I needed emergency buckets on a Sunday (horse treads on them), wheelbarrow needed like yesterday (wheel broke on old one) etc etc, would love to get it all matching again though!
 
I do like a little bit of matchy matchy - Pete's name plate is royal blue so he's got a royal blue headcollar, royal blue & pink leadrope, royal blue feed bowls. He did have a royal blue water bucket, but he broke that so that got replaced by a pink one! Most his haynets are blue with the odd pink or black one.

We haven't gone matchy matchy tack wise though - he's got a brown saddle with a black air filled corrector pad & a brown rope halter with black reins. It used to drive me mad as we were matchy matchy, but I don't care anymore :D
 
Not mad at all, but just a warning that often when in pursuit of matchy matchy you can end up spending much more on an item just becaus of its colour than you really need to.

Also it depends on the horse as well, some colours should just don't go with certain coloured horses.
 
AllyJ92 said:
Navy, or British racing green. A traditional colour in keeping with the traditional colours on the farm. I think my boyfriends dad would hit the roof if a shed full of pink and purple was on his farm!
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I was starting to think I was the only one left in the horsey world with a love of Navy and BR Green! Always looks smart and stays clean longer... some of the pink and purple stuff reeaaallly offends my eyesight.. haha
 
gingerlegs said:
I was starting to think I was the only one left in the horsey world with a love of Navy and BR Green! Always looks smart and stays clean longer... some of the pink and purple stuff reeaaallly offends my eyesight.. haha
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I'm all for bright colours on the pony, but for yard equipment I'd rather have traditional colours! :)
 
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