I always have some yellow. There is either pale yellow walls or pale yellow furniture.

I designed and husband and I built this two tone kitchen from Conestoga RTA's with all upper yellow cabinets.

Next two pictures are OLD house. Small awkward space. Walls in most rooms were pale yellow. Even sofa was an off pale yellow.

The house I'm in now has a very pale yellow sofa. My master bedroom and art room are pale yellow. Our mostly DIY master master bath is the same yellow with a 50% cut.

Five yrs or so ago I did an extreme budget mostly Craigslist stuff for son in ... yep, mostly yellow tone furniture.

Don't feel like digging out pictures of the home I had in the 90's. That house was a Behr color called cut squash. Very lovely! Some walls though were Eggplant.

I’m another yellow lover, too! I’m getting ready to sell, and just picked up a couple gallons of paint to refresh the upstairs, a Behr color called Candlelight that perfectly matches what’s already there and whose name I forgot!

Other than ceilings I too have no white walls and most of my color choices are on the deeper side. I have lots of yellow accents in fabric an a small wallpapered vestibule. My house is a patch quilt of colorful walls. Purple, blues, greens,red and grey rooms through out.

I really like my yellow, purple entry leading to a purple hall.

And because I can not seem to choose another color for my dining room I will finally admit to loving red! This is it decorated at Christmas.

Another yellow fan here. I love it with vintage and antique brown furniture. And here in Alberta, where between November and May the view from the windows is mostly white (snow and white skies preparing to snow) and brown/gray (tree trunks), I need some color indoors. When I first moved here, my husband had just bought the house and painted everything a very clean bright white. By January I was weeping.

Current house is yellow (BM Copacabana) in the kitchen, dining room, and our bedroom, living room is an apple green, and kids' rooms are a Wedgwood jasperware blue. New house, including kitchen, living room, dining room, our bedroom, and hallways is mostly BM Copacabana, but the pantry is green (Sycamore Tree), ditto laundry room (BM Sycamore Tree) and main floor bathroom (Grasslands). Our bathroom, my office, and guest bedroom are all Windham Cream. I have color-averse children : ) who have chosen Revere Pewter for their bedrooms, which I just can't imagine waking up to or living with.

Forgot to mention that my front door is a deep purple -- BM Peerage. Love it!

I love yellow! Before we did our addition, my LR & halls were a lovely soft yellow, pretty close to Candelight.

Since we knocked down a wall and opened everything up, I went w/a Valspar color called "Hopsack" (used SW paint)

The contractor gave me fits for choosing Hopsack. He said, "It looks yellow."

I said "HAVE you LOOKED at my walls????? I like yellow."

But there's not a bit of yellow in Hopsack.

I'm happy w/my choice, but I'm about to paint the guest rooms Candlelight. LOL

My kitchen is in Behr Pear, which my mother thinks is yellow and I think is green.

Pantry Behr Blackberry Winer

Living Room Behr Lime Light

Dining Room Behr Wild Horse

I love my yellow wallpaper in my LR. It faces east so after the sun starts up over the roof, it can be dark. But not with the yellow walls. And at night with artificial light, it's very warm and inviting.

I had a yellow in our guest room long ago, and I was horrified at first (it was very vivid). I was sure I'd have to change it. We had frequent guests back then, and everyone loved it. Then I stayed in there one night myself, and when the sun came in the next morning, it felt like the coziest, warmest room I'd ever had. I fell in love.

This picture was in late afternoon, so looks much more toned down (plus, cell phone camera washed it out). I miss that room. I wanted to move into it. :)

Our rental now has wonderful goldish/tan walls that change depending on light (sometimes even having a bit of green and khaki tones). I like how warm it feels.

I had a yellow in our guest room long ago, and I was horrified at first (it was very vivid).

Miz G, I remember that feeling. When we first painted our kitchen and entryway yellow about 19 years ago, I walked into the house and nearly cried. It was so very bright and unrelievedly yellow. But with everything returned to the room, it was (and has been) lovely!

Thanks everyone, for your beautiful & inspiring photos!

Roarah - I love your purple staircase and your red!

I look terrible in yellow and would never own any yellow clothing. But on a wall... so warm and inviting. I think if I had a larger house, I'd be braver & more bold (my only really bold color is that small, red dressing room wall.) My house is small (12x25 footprint, three floors) and fairly dark already, so I limit darker colors, even if I love them.

i have two wall paint colors in my home antique white (very creamy slightly yellowish) and windowpane windowpane is on all the ceilings (very pale blue) mbr and mb the house is 4 years old and the builder did question my colors just very politely said we were going the opposite direction of trends he also questioned our plan, said it was a great plan but were we sure we didn't want brick? but he really liked it when it was finished... we had to keep telling him we didn't want what other people wanted...we had a very clear vision of what we did want

I look terrible in yellow and would never own any yellow clothing. But on a wall... so warm and inviting.

Absolutely this! On me, never. In my home, always : ) .

I painted a friend's guest room in San Francisco a yellow similar to the banana cream color, and I warned him about it. Later he agreed that it had a depressing feeling and also seemed to make people in that room feel a bit sick. Yellow is not for everyone. I only like it on walls it when it is very muted or antique. I pretty much only use yellow outdoors or in small accents - I do not like seeing large fields of yellow indoors. Yellow reminds a lot of people of jaundice. Another friend in SF painted our kitchen bright yellow with bright red trim, and while I liked the red, the yellow did not agree with me, even though I thought I would like it at first.

My mother once had her bedroom painted a color halfway between mustard and chartreuse (the paint was on sale at the paint store), and I absolutely hated it. I repainted that room a very pastel grey with a lavender tint. I also made a patchwork bedspread for that room in various shades of purple and lavender - all muted and not bright.

I like the dark red wall that you posted.

I once had a living room that was painted a dark eggplant color with silver/gray trim for the woodwork, and I had a living room in San Francisco that was a forest green on the walls; ceiling and woodwork were white, and we painted the crown molding a metallic gold. I was in my 20s back then!

probably my least favorite color. yet I spent happy 6 years in this space..))

(all first floor was either this, or more toned down yellow-the previous homeowner's choice..decided to work with it, since the light was abundant there which made yellow really cheerful..with artificial lighting it looked less advantegeous though..

(wow of all the pics I wanted to dowload recently only this one worked? lol. the laptop also told me sternly I can't download it while downloading it)

I also like my current living better but not because of the colors..got an opportuntity to disperce books more evenly lol..the fig tree is now three times higher..have more room for art..switched the chairs-these were too big for the current living. One lives now in the bedroom. Another one, I traded for my very old off white chairs..with my ex..:) The amber light is still in the living, I love it so much. I think was my first light purchase ever. Etsy.

ok since I'm afraid it's one time success-the rest of description will be verbal..in the new house we have lots of off white..we have also tan, taupe, greige, sage silvery green, different more gloomy green, aubergine and mauve, wall color-wise

(other colors-well I like so many. some combos, I might dislike. it also depends on the surface it's used, etcetera)

unless I find this link my friend gave me when she took pics of my space (she's a photographer, so was for her business..she wanted to try some interior shooting). not sure it's interesting enough

Courage gets built up with years some, but I highly envy some designers or just couple very artistic people I know that are seriously fearless..nevermind what direction they choose to be fearless in

If I could be Lorraine Kirke for example. Well not her, but somebody with her attitude..

I'm not very adventurous with wall colors because I'm simply not good at choosing colors, but I did paint two walls of my living room gray with a green tint, have soft green walls in the entry room and red in the dining room. I actually find it restful to have the remainder of the house painted off-white. I have lots of paintings which gives color to just about every wall.

I'm so sorry, I just realized this post was in praise of yellow. Well, I can say I look good in yellow because I have green eyes.....

When I was a child and when my children were young, we all had warm blonde hair and brown eyes and yellow was very becoming. My mother put me in it a lot and I did the same with my children. When I was not quite 5, my grandfather took me shopping in Fayetteville Arkansas (this was summer of 1948), and he bought me a yellow dress with a white collar. It was one of two or three dresses I still remember vividly from my childhood. I loved that dress and it was very becoming. Yellow would no longer be a good color for me.

April, I was hoping you would post your room. It's one of my fav's.

Thank you justerrilynn..I loved it too but it seems now I see the shortcomings more:)

(interestingly, opposite from my own photographs-the older I become the more I'm puzzled why I was displeased with them then lol)

Anglophilia I had a yellow-gray plaid trenchcoat when very little!..it was probably too good, too dressy, since they rarely let me wear it..and then I grew up and it became too small))

Now though I have a very vivid yellow rain jacket, bought on sale in St Petersburg when August weather there suddenly turned into late October lol..strangely works well..but it was made in Germany blahblah..the quality is superb

It was 2010 though..maybe they also went down in quality since then lol

ah back to yellow. again when I was very little-somebody gave me three or four remnants of yellow velvet fabric..tiny but enough to imagine it being a blanket for a doll or something

I think I never recovered from it. They were so rich and luxurious and pretty and, well, velvet-y...

I think I still remember all my toys, dolls, and their clothes.

Which takes precious space in my brain since I'm bad with numbers and historical dates..

Great thread..I love looking at all the rooms and colors and reading everybody's stories.

Yellow reminds me of Leningrad/St. Petersburg.

Now, gray with lavender tones, or lavender itself, is a wall color that I find depressing yet I love eggplant-ish tones... perhaps because what I think of as eggplant has a warmer tone. I do agree that not all yellows will sit well. I dislike a yellow that tends toward orange myself, or one that is too strong (like a school bus).

My front hall is BM Hepplewhite Ivory. It faces north, so it needed some warmth. I saw this color in my friend's house with the same orientation, and it looked kissed by morning light. Has the same effect in my front hall. If everyone would just stay healthy I'd paint the upstairs hall, too. (Both halls were BM China White, an uninspired greyish white. Ugh)

My kitchen is a BM yellow and I looked at so many, I can't remember what I ended up with! But I love a yellow kitchen!

My dining room I'm so embarrassed about. It's supposed to be a candlelight pink, but it is decidedly peachy pink.

My son's room is Behr Holiday Road, a very nice light blue. He picked it out, and it's perfect.

I have changed my living room furniture 3 times, from mission to leather to mid century modern. But I've kept the yellow walls.

All other rooms in my home have been painted and repainted all different colors blues, reds, grays, purples and greens but the open living, dining kitchen always stays yellow.

I like yellow, and have had many yellow kitchens. They always seemed bright and cheery. I cant wear yellow at all, have never been able to. My house now, has no yellow, but, I have many shades of aqua, teal, turquoise in most of the rooms. Turquoise is my happy color, and always has been.

I like yellow, especially soft yellows like Windham Cream and Rich Cream, but somehow I don’t have any in my own house. I did have SW Blonde in my living room for many years and liked it a lot.

I do have a yellow/gold rug in our family room!