Decorating and Design - Yellow bedroom shade

My living room and hallway are a honey color panel, the office and bathroom are green of two different shades. While I love the color green I am thinking of something different for the master bedroom. The carpet throughout the livingroom, hall, office and master bedroom are a beige berber.

The master bedroom boasts a beautiful antique cherry wood dresser, a dark cherry wood (slightly different, but it works) night stand. The bed has no headboard, but the quilt is white with light blue, and light green. I am thinking of doing the walls a nice yellow but not sure what shade.

I don't want the walls to look dirty as I know some yellows tend to look, nor do I want them to look white or beige so I am thinking of "joyous" or "moon dance" by Behr.

Any suggestions? (sorry, no camera to take pics with)

Color is a visual experience so, I can't imagine your colors without a picture (as I told you previously)
You can try these RGB yellow colors (Red - Green - Blue composition) 187-147-49 or 239 - 157 - 29

You don't want anything too bold, but if you paint yellow you want the color to stand out. You're right, if the yellow is too light then it will look dirty. Something bright but light would be good and would go well with your bed covers.

Yellow is a tricky color and almost always dries brighter and more vivid than you'd think. So stay in the buttery range, not the muddy, mustardy range. Yellow is definitely a color that would be worth buying the little $5 trial paint sizes first and paint a nice big area. I'd also suggest you paint an area that gets a lot of light (opposite a window) and a dark corner of the room because the color will look different in those 2 areas. Good luck.

Terrie

Hi Terrie,

I am against the small paint samples. First, you can't paint a big area, and in a small surface / board, you will never get the real color feeling, for 3 reasons
1 - The color absorption is different in a board and in a wall, so color shades will be different
2 - The light reflection is different in small surfaces, so the colors tend to look darker
3- The eyes tend to blend the colors this means that you can't see the small area color out the visual field

This is why the professionals try the colors on the real walls,

Let me know if you have questions