Yellow With Wood
My living room/kitchen has lots of heavy, well-preserved walnut trim with burl detailing. It’s in very good condition and I will never even consider painting it. The walls are another story. I’d like to go with a warm palette and would love to find the perfect golden, yellowish paint. I’ve found some that are close…
My living room/kitchen has lots of heavy, well-preserved walnut trim with burl detailing. It’s in very good condition and I will never even consider painting it. The walls are another story. I’d like to go with a warm palette and would love to find the perfect golden, yellowish paint. I’ve found some that are close but haven’t hit on the right one. Does anyone have a favorite, preferably Benjamin Moore, yellow? I thought Concord Ivory would be it but the wood made it look rather green..
Try Donald Kauffman Paints – their colors are richer and more complex than Ben Moore. DKC 28 or 30 are both good yellows, depending on how strong a color you want.
give rich cream (ben. moore) a try. It’s our “basic” color in our house, and it’s quite nice. More yellow than the name lets on.
Two of Benjamin Moore’s Historical Colors might work – Glen Ridge Gold and Stuart Gold. The Historical Colors look greyed and muddy on the fan deck but have nice depth and richness on the walls. Glen Ridge Gold has a nice orange-y melon undertone and Stuart is a straight golden sunshine yellow.
I’m looking at the color card now. If Dayroom is too daffodil, something like Sudbury might work.
After reading all the comments, I agree with the suggestion to test the color because the colors will look very different depending on the exposure (for northern exposures cooler colors are better and warmer colors better with sun.) The amount and quality of light, your furnishings, the size of the room will all make a difference. Paint some boards and put them in different areas to get a sense of the color. I have Linen white by the way in my hallways and that is different than both the Marble white (which is cooler) and the antique yellow which is a light creamy buttery kind of color (but subtle). The Linen white in my hallway is more beigey. It works fine in the hallway but I wouldn’t like it in the apartment — it is a little dusty as one poster said, not what I wanted in the apartment.
My house is pretty much different shades of yellow and cream. I have a cool cream slightly yellow color, Marble White in my living room and a more butter/cream color is Antique Yellow, in other parts of the place. Both Benjamin Moore. I don’t know if either would work, but I think that the warm antique color might be nice.
This link shows the range of B. Moore’s yellows: http://bit.ly/u850U
Of course, depending on calibration, the color that shows on your monitor may or may not resemble the actual color of the paint. We’ve used Linen White quite a bit, and think it’s a great warm neutral. In certain light, Windham Cream takes on a very beautiful buttery quality. As DIBS recommends, we too have used sage green in our hallways. Recently, we changed to a more vibrant shade of green that looks fantastic no matter how dark or bright the seasonal light. I second Ed Kopel: once you think you’ve found the color you want, paint a larger test patch and live with it for a few days.
make sure that whatever you choose has the same under-lying tone of color for the rest of your paint and any trim. we had an interior designer and our architect pick paints that all have a gray base. the colors of the whole place really work together, and is paired with roman shades made out of fabric with the same gray under tones in a couple of rooms. it’s noticeable to even people who you wouldn’t think would care about this type of stuff. we actually have a light yellow/gray for our kitchen/dining room, and it’s the best color of our whole place.
Always love inen White but find gold are difficult was lighting changes throughout the day. Wyndham cream is beautiful too but would you also consider something richer in the reds or red/orages? I love those colors and they can warm up dark wood tones. I speak as a color junkie 🙂