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[quote=Anonymous]I agree that yellows are tricky and really depend on the lighting (both natural and artificial) and the trim, furnishings, accessories, etc. That said, if you love yellow, go for it -- paint is easy to change if you hate it, your tastes change, or you want to neutral up for resale. I love yellows for both living spaces and bedrooms personally.

Our last house had a yellow master bedroom and I loved it -- but we also had natural daylight from huge windows overlooking our yard on two walls and through the walk-in closet hallway to the master bathroom. Before we sold, we repainted the kitchen in BM Windham Cream and it worked really well -- but that room also had a great deal of natural light, white cabinets, etc. so the yellow was not overpowering. We used the next yellow up in saturation (Weston Flax) for the living room -- but again there were a lot of windows, white trim, white built-in bookcases, and eastern-facing windows, plus an open flow to the dining room and sunporch, so the yellow was not too bright or overwhelming.

As much as we loved in our old house, we just rejected both Windham Cream and Weston Flax for our new house that gets much less natural light -- north-facing orientation, lots of mature trees, so it's very shady and the yellows were too lemony and jarring. We are going with BM Linen Sand in the living room and Powder Sand in the hallways. Our master will have Soleil on three walls with an accent wall in Lucerne (a very dark blue), but it's in a new addition with windows on three sides.

I highly recommend you get those big poster-sized boards from the paint store and get pint cans of paint to put two coats on your sample boards to move around in your room and see the color at different times of day and night. I also highly recommend Colleen Mitchell of RedBird Redesign -- she stepped in and helped us find the right yellows when we painted our sample boards in Weston Flax and Windham Cream and realized how wrong those would be for our new spaces.[/quote]

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