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.

About to paint our bedroom and plan to go with a gray/greige. I like to be able to change the look of a room fairly often, so it's easier to just change the curtains/rug/bed linens instead of re-painting.

I would recommend a full spectrum like Ellon Kennon Buttercream.

I had a yellow bedroom and it was cheery. You could do peach, blue, or even light purple. Of course, the safest option is something neutral. Light green reminds me of my dentist's office.

We have BM's Cafe Mocha on the walls with dark wood furniture and blue and white textiles. It's a soft brown. Very peaceful. I pulled the color scheme from a resort we stayed at years ago and loved.

Sherwin Williams Eider White. Looks white on the color wheel. But is so soothing and zen like in our house. Has a little purple undertone.

I have a light blue with a gray base, Behr River Rock. Love it. It is so soothing with my white/ivory linens and wood bed.

Lavender. Or a deep color like blue - hey, if you have beautiful light, use it! House Beautiful always has gorgeous inspiration.

FWIW, my bedroom in high school was a pale yellow and I loved it. It was like sleeping above the clouds.

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Anonymous wrote:gray is a mistake and trendy, stock with a cream or faint yellow

Gray is a neutral that has been popular for several years now. Even if it's "trendy," most people repaint their bedrooms every 5-8 years or so and if you choose a lighter shade of gray, it will not be difficult to paint over.

I'd rather paint my rooms colors I like and repaint them 7 years later to a new color I like than constantly live in a world of cream or beige for fear of my own room being too trendy. I'm not sure who is going to care if my bedroom walls are trendy except buyers and I'm not looking to sell anytime soon.

I vote paint your room whatever color you like.

Yep! Can we stop saying gray is trendy?? I just love it. Gray has so many different shades. (LOL!)

I personally dislike yellow in a bedroom. I'm redoing my bedroom in "Toasted Almond". I normally go with Sherwin Williams colors, but I really love that one. Goes well with my white, blue and gold accessories.

Have you tried your lightbulbs? Dumb question, but the color of lightbulbs makes a HUGE difference. Softwhite vs daylight. Get something on the yellower spectrum.

Don't rule out dark colors even if a room is dark.
It's not true that a dark color will always make a room without light seem worse.
I wanted my bedroom to be cream but a decorator told me to paint it dark blue (warmer than navy because it has the tiniest bit of yellow in it) and I love it. Feel very cozy and restful.

I have a gray headboard and gray & spa green accents - our paint color is BM Muslin which helps warm up the room.

Anonymous wrote:gray is a mistake and trendy, stock with a cream or faint yellow

Gray is a neutral that has been popular for several years now. Even if it's "trendy," most people repaint their bedrooms every 5-8 years or so and if you choose a lighter shade of gray, it will not be difficult to paint over.

I'd rather paint my rooms colors I like and repaint them 7 years later to a new color I like than constantly live in a world of cream or beige for fear of my own room being too trendy. I'm not sure who is going to care if my bedroom walls are trendy except buyers and I'm not looking to sell anytime soon.

I vote paint your room whatever color you like.