I would search for 2littleFishies kitchen. I love her yellow cabinets. It is a soft creamy yellow that is so inviting.

This is the formula. We had our master bath repainted and I asked them to match existing. That is harder than it seems. Their match had slight green undertones. Luckily, I found an old can of MB paint and they redid it. It's the perfect butter cream yellow. Not sure if it can be turned into cabinet paint or not, I dont know how that works.

Here is the first thread:
2LittleFishies Yellow Kitchen Reveal !!! LONG!

The second thread:
2LittleFishies Yellow Kitchen Reveal- Part DEUX!!!

Of course, everything depends on your light. I have a lot of natural light in the Master bathroom.

I love our light buttery / lemon chifon cake color. It's Ambertique by Pratt and Lambert. You might have already seen this, but here's the color. Ignore the drawers above and below the small oven (they weren't painted at the time) and the backsplash isn't on yet either. It might be lighter than what you want, but worth a look. Pratt & Lambert makes great quality paint.

Here's a link to another 2littlefishies thread in which lots and lots creamy yellows are discussed. Hope it will give you some ideas.

We just had our walls done in Windham Cream, a pale creamy yellow. I love how it turned out for us. But you really have to try the colors out in your own space.

Here is a link that might be useful: A New (Yellow) Direction!

Whatever suggestion you get...PLEASE make sure you test it in your kitchen with the lighting if it's possible. I painted some of the old cabinets to test. Keep in mind if you add windows or add fixtures, it'll change the lighting and the color will appear different as well.

OOTM_Mom -- Love that color! Thank you for sharing your label! As I mentioned earlier, the yellow will be our kitchen cabinet color (as opposed to wall color). Our kitchen has a a wall of windows, so we will have lots of natural light :)
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ChristyMcK -- I love your color too! And I am *in love* with Pratt and Lambert paint. When we painted our current house with P&L, our contractor scoffed at us and asked what we had against "good ole Benjamin Moore" paint -- said we'd been talking to too any interior designers :D

BTW, love your range too -- which one is it?

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Thanks to everyone who suggested TwoLittleFishes' kitchen as an example for color. I did like the way her paint looked in her pix. But when I read her paint color name, I think it was "something oat" or "oat something"? Which said to me it was on the tan side (but I'll admit that I haven't looked at the paint swatches yet). I'm looking for a clear, creamy yellow. I'm seriously thinking of taking a stick of butter into my paint store to ask them to color match it :D

I will, of course, paint the color on my walls first (behind where the cabinets will be placed) so that we can look at it at different times of the day.

I'm off to take a second look at TwoLittleFishies pix -- thanx everyone for the links and your thoughts.

joyce

It might be too light, but you could take a look at Ivory Tusk by Benjamin Moore. We had it mixed up in Clark and Kensington paint and used it on the walls in our old kitchen.

I saw it referred to as a perfect "cream" online, which is what it appeared to be in swatch form. But, when we got it on our walls, it had a light buttery yellow hue with our lighting.

Here's another vote for doing some test swatches. I like to use foam board for these. They can be cut in halves or quarters and painted up. They're lightweight and can be moved around into different lighting conditions.

Here is a link that might be useful: Ivory tusk walls in our old kitchen

Hi Joyce,

We stumbled into a local paint store that sells Pratt & Lambert and just love to work with it. We have both BM and P&L in our house - they are both great but they do have different colors. I think P&L has a better curated color collection and it is just so buttery when putting it on - it splatters less than the BM Aura. From a kitchen durability standpoint it is great. I feel very confident when cleaning them and using a light scrubbing when food gets caked on (usually underneath the sink where the garbage can is). I'm so happy with our color. I think it's a little distinctive and it's so cherry without being cold. So I wholeheartedly endorse this type of color!

Our range is a Lacanche Volnay in French Blue. I'm very happy with it. I've attached a better pic of the range (and our beloved, dopey boxer). I chose to splurge on appliances and keep our existing cabinetry. I'm very happy with how it turned out. It fits so well with our 1939 house and is so much more functional.

Valspar's "Pina Colada"

Very true yellow, very pale yellow. As seen here in the partly finished dining room. It's most yellow in early morning light, fades to cream during the day and back to yellow in late afternoon.

Still looks yellow under bright white LEDs or incandescents.

i used "hinoki" from MAB....do not go by the sample on-line, looks nothing like it....they show pink which it definitely is not...

its a beautiful shade of yellow with no undertones, just
yellow...love it....

Second vote for ivory tusk. If you want something with a hint more yellow, look at BM Soleil. Beautiful. I used it on ceilings in rooms with gray walls (Pashmina and Whisper).

ChristyMcK -- I just love everything in your kitchen -- especially your cute and adorabe sous chef :) And may I say that you have my absolute favorite range. I think I would have magic cooking fingers if I cooked on that range :D

From the colors suggested so far, I think your yellow is the one I'm looking for -- but . . . I haven't done any recon yet on any of the yellows suggested. So the totality of my knowledge thus far comes from my eyeballs on the internet. And yes, I know colors can display very differently on screen than they do in person.

Now a general kitchen cabinet question for the group -- 1) did you use semi-gloss paints on your cabinets? 2) if yes, did it alter the color of your paint?

Love this group! Thanx again, and again, and again everyone.

joyce

Joyce,

Thank you re: your kind words about our kitchen. I am hoping to do the final touch up painting this weekend and get a kitchen reveal up on gardenweb sometime soon. We call our puppy the "Swedish Chef' because she's dopey like the muppet and likes to be in the kitchen (probably because that's where we are)!

I used satin rather than semi-gloss. The P&L paints are a little glossier but mostly I thought it was what had been used before. Also, our cabinets are old and I thought the gloss would show more imperfections. I painted the kitchen with brushes which I thought would like fine (versus spraying them). Since they are old I thought the brushed look would fit fine with the period of the kitchen (which it does). If I had newer cabinets I would use a semi-gloss.

I did use an extender which helps the paint relax and reduces brush lines and gave me more time to work with the brush strokes to make them look nice. I was glad I did. I do think it made a difference. This would only be needed though if you were not having them sprayed. As an aside, painting the kitchen (inside and out) is a job I would never do again - it was so much more time, work and energy than what I anticipated. Thank goodness my dear mother loves a good project and helped a ton.

My other advice, which I'm sure lots of people say but don't do, is to find colors you love but then actually paint a good size cabinet/piece of wood and see how that particular color is reflected with the light and other colors (e.g. floor) in your particular kitchen space. The color that works best and gives you a closer match to your vision may not be the color swatch that is your favorite initially or even recommended here. It's a pain but I've had so many problems with gray/blue gray paint looking purple in our house and have learned the hard way. Our light (west facing house on a slope) and red oak floors have me resorting to very tan looking gray paint to get a more gray non-purple look.