An extremely generous co-worker and friend gave me a hutch several months ago. I absolutely loved it, and not just because of the low, low price point! It is beautiful, with two glass shelves, a light, and windowed doors in a top area that is perfect for displaying breakables like my hurricane lanterns and some of my great-grandmother's china. On bottom there is a solid single-doored area for storage. It is an old-fashioned and genuinely lovely piece of furniture.
I lived with the orange for a while, thinking I would paint the back when I made some other decisions about painting my cheap living room furniture.
Eventually, I realized that I didn't want to do what the previous owners did. Just painting over the orange wouldn't bring back the niceness of wood grain, and if I wanted to change it later I would just be adding more coats of paint.
Enter my genius plan: cover the orange with fabric! I found a great microsuede-like fabric in a dark green that was very similar to the fabric covering my living room chair and ottoman. I used simple push pins (though I had to hammer them into the hard wood) to attach it, then put the glass shelves back into their original positions. I think it turned out really nice. It is colored, but is sort of neautral in that coloring...and I can change it quickly and easily anytime I want to! 
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