Pls recommend a gold/yellow for whole first floor
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Benjamin Moore Linen Sand is a nice very pale yellow, and I also love Windham Cream. We have Linen Sand upstairs where we have more windows and light and Windham Cream downstairs where we don't. We also have BM Soleil in our master with an accent wall of Lucerne (very dark blue). I love yellows -- people who don't can paint their own houses something else, and whoever eventually buys our house from us can paint it how they like then.
We use big poster-board size sample boards and paint each one with two coats, then hang them up. We've done the direct-painting-on-the-walls thing and it doesn't always work out well when it comes time to paint over it. You can also move the sample board around to different parts of the room to see how the colors look where the light might be different. |
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Try one of these:
http://myoldcountryhouse.com/the-best-interior-yellows/ My living room is straw color, and I love it. I say choose what you like. |
Anonymous
Those are great. We have a color that looks like BM Philadelphia Cream in our living room and basement family room. We get lots of compliments. It's more beige/gold than yellow. The exact color is SW Paper Lantern. Highly recommend for a warm yet subtle color, especially if your decorating style is more traditional. |
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| We recently moved and painted a sunroom BM Windham Cream. It's a lovely, light shade. We also painted a living room BM Mushroom Cap, which is a deeper shade of gold. Love them both! |
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Sherwin Williams Ivoire
Let us know what you go with! |
Anonymous
People in this area are hilarious. So much wealth they look at others homes and sniff about color |
Anonymous
It's more that they're very, very conventional and conservative around here. Their very souls are beige/white/gray. |
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So your soul contains silk flowers and ornate French words on the wall?
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I love a yellow kitchen--ours is Sherwin Williams Goldfinch (I think) but I agree it would be a lot for an entire floor.
We used a light, warm brown for our open living/dining room (adjacent to the yellow kitchen). SW Angora I think. |
Anonymous
Ooh, fun! Not PP, but my soul contains antique Persian rugs and original art. I'm guessing yours contains...chevron? 
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Yellow-loving PP here. For what it's worth, as much as I love yellow and have four different shades of it in my house, different yellows work better for different rooms depending on the light. So for example we went with Linen Sand for the living room/dining room, but Powder Sand (one shade lighter on the paint chip card I think) for the hallway, which doesn't have any windows. Windham Cream is downstairs, which is a below-grade walk-out basement with less natural light, and Soleil is in our second-floor master, which has windows on three sides.
When we bought this house, I hired Colleen of RedBird ReDesign to come over to help us with paint colors, as the colors we'd loved in our last house didn't work as well in this one -- different orientation and natural light. She was very reasonably priced and incredibly helpful. |
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LOL. I did have a chevron throw pillow for a few years. It was replaced with a fun, colorful print. 
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I love yellow but wanted a stageable warm color. windham Cream is just the best. Love it esp in a room with limited light (north facing, etc).
I also like Linen White if the WC is too yellow for you. |