I think it's safe to say that no body gets excited about going to the dentist! And listen....whether I get a crown or an implant I WILL BE under sedation. That is not even a question...haha.
But....I certainly loved all of the sympathy I got.
Before we get started I wanted to give you a heads up on a series I just finished watching.
Ted Lasso on Apple TV. I laughed my ass off....well obviously not all of it because it is clearly still there. BUT.... I promise you might laugh and cry a little.
Listen carefully because there are some one liners that are just priceless.
So.....todays topic is a strange one. Yellow. It is not a color you see very often. But I am here to tell you that a 100 years ago when I was first getting in the design business.....here in the south....I can almost guarantee I would have had a yellow room painted somewhere! [probably a kitchen]
Anyway you will find very few rooms on Pinterest that are yellow. One of the paint companies [ I can't remember at this minute but I'm sure you can google it!] even picked "yellow" as their color of the year.
As I was looking for examples one of my favorite designers kept popping up....Mary Drysdale Douglas. I can remember loving her yellow rooms many years ago.
So that is where I am going to start....
I grabbed most of these from her Instagram....
I have read that yellow is her favorite color and I can see that she uses it often....even if it is just a bowl of lemons!
I love how yellow changed the mostly white room below!
I think she is an expert with yellow....
So then I dove a little deeper.....and for most of these I could not get an original source.
I found a few kitchens that appear to be fairly recent!
So I have saved this one for the end....a gorgeous kitchen below done last year from Carter Kay Interiors with photography by Emily Followill.
I love it...the perfect yellow....in my opinion.
The stone really makes it work!
Below is what Benjamin Moore has as their top yellows. Some of these will look like neon on the walls but I remember when I used to paint walls yellow [back before cars were invented] I would use Hawthorne Yellow.
OK....what are your thoughts....are we ready to invest in yellow again? Can you go there? I am still curious about this color and I really do wonder if it will make a comeback.
OK....get working on the weekend!
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I love the yellow wall color on my kitchen walls! It is BM Omaha Wheat - you should check it out.
whoops....it's Oklahoma Wheat
My mom covered the family sofa (9 kids) in yellow naugahyde.
Yellow is not for me but then my favorite color is avocado green (like from the 70s) so what do I know?
I have the lightest buttercream yellow on my living rooms walls. I love it as a sunshiney neutral and I accent it with black. It's perfect and I have never tired of it in the 15 years I've had the walls painted that color. It was a Restoration Hardware color at the time.
I have always had a little yellow in my rooms. I feel like it's the equivalent of the red or the black that some designers believe should appear in every room. Right now it's in the form of a yellow upholstered chair. The rest of my colors are orange, blue and green. I can't imagine never having one or all of those colors in my house. I do think yellow walls are harder to live with than just a splash of it here and there.
The yellow is so happy! Also, I love Ted Lasso :).
Hi, Sherry, In 2003 the living room in my West Hartford, Connecticut Cape was painted BM Mannequin Cream. The ground of the drapery panels guided the selection of this color (the panels were strewn with oversized tulips). The color was beautiful in the NE light. However, the color did not translate in the NE Ohio light, where I now live. The panels are still in my front closet! (After four colors in eight years, I have happily settled on Valspar Wispy White, it’s a great foil for color. ) However, the exterior of my current house (carriage house-style with a hip roof) is lemon yellow in homage to the tear down previously on the property. In a neighborhood of dark houses—various shades of mustard, dark green, red, beige, putty—it looks great and stands out. The only yellow inside is found in artwork or a bowl of lemons. Take care.
Oh Sherry, Thanks for the memories, my entire house was yellow, black and white in the 60’s and 70’s. I even had a wall with the same bright yellow that you shared. I must admit, I loved it until I didn’t! I like the white room with touches of yellow used in ways that can be easily changed out. It will be interesting to see if it becomes the color to use in the future.
I am so ready! Also, may we keep green, and grey? I am TOB (tired of blue.)
I love blue but I love the glow of yellow and sunshine too! Mary D Drysdale is such a talented designer.
I was in Homegoods the other day and saw a display of lots of yellow, like neon yellow. Reminded me of my room growing up and throw in an orange and yellow shag carpet. Not my taste now. Now I am a blue and green girl.
In my own home, neutral feels more relaxing to me, but I love the touches of yellow that my Mom has in her house. She actually has a butter yellow sofa with red Swiss dots, but it really blends well with the warmer reds and spring green colors that she uses. For me, a bowl of lemons or a yellow orchid is enough.
I recently redid my downstairs Powder Room and used one of my favorite yellows - SW Anjou Pear on the cabinet. And then I found a gorgeous yellow ochre velvet ribbon I ended up using at Christmas (They are on my IG). I've been loving the warmth and cheeriness of yellows lately (maybe a reaction to being inside/at home or maybe it's just yellows turn to cycle back around!) There's a fun, colorful designer on IG @amandalouiseinteriors and she uses yellow with gusto!
Not my first choice of color, but some of these rooms are divine! BTW, the pic with the blond woman in a short dark dress and sandals—that’s Trish Johnston, a Canadian designer in Toronto. Familiar to readers of House & Home magazine or who watch House & Home videos.
I bought my first house in 1997, and I had a yellow kitchen. I loved it for a long time because it reminded me of my kitchen growing up. But, I'm not really a yellow person for the long haul. I do really like the more earthy yellows that you posted though. Those seem more restful - to me- than the brighter yellows. Fun post!
I like to add yellow and mustard yellow to my charcoal gray living room for summer. Looks great with greenery and feels modern in my opinion. I love seeing all your examples of yellow well used.
Nope can't do it. Yellow is to me like that overly cheerful chirpy person. Only thing worse would be purple. Or yellow and purple together. But I must say, if anyone can do yellow is it Mary Drysdale Douglas. She is a genius!! What ever happened to her? I loved her mix of modern and pedigree antiques with monochromatic schemes. I used to tear out pages of her work for my dream file back in the day!!
Yellow.....mmmmmm.....NO!
I have two shades of yellow in my laundry room - a darker yellow below the chair railing and a paler, more lemony yellow above the railing. I like it in there - it makes me happy and cheerful when I'm in the laundry room. But don't think I could do it in large doses in a larger room. Although, now that I think about it, my living room sofa is a burnished brown-gold. Maybe I'm more partial to yellow than I realized!!
I love yellow! I have a yellow guest room upstairs, with a classic blue and yellow toile and yellow and creme plisse checks. The antique mantel piece is black as are two lampshades and a rocker. This spring, some more of that yellow plisse is reappearing in the master bedroom after having a rest for a couple of years. It will be used with lots of white (oil walls and some furniture) with some blue touches. In my last house I had a "buttah yella" living room, and everyone who came in the house loved it. A repairman one time stopped and just looked for a couple a minutes to my amusement, before observing, "I just love this room! It is like it is giving you a great big hug." I am about to do over a couple of chairs for the MBR in some yellow velvet I ordered from England, so I guess I am making another yellow commitment. In my experience yellow will not work on the walls in just any room, but looks better in a room with Southern exposure. It can turn muddy in a room that is inherently dark. So there you have it.
I remember the 1990s...one yellow room, one red room (dining) one green room! Ugh. Yellow is my least favorite color but MDD Makes yellow look amazing, I too used to tear out her pics from the mags and save them. Love her style.
I had my kitchen cabinets painted yellow several years ago. I love them. Thanks for the TV show recommendation. I have one for you--"Resident Alien." It was full of humor--I actually laughed out loud. It's on SyFy channel but don't let that deter you. The show is clever and good.
Oh my. Yellow was my favorite color when I was in my teens. I'm not sure I could go back to yellow. I lived through the "harvest gold" appliances. It pretty much ruined the color for me.
xo,
Karen
Bring. It. On. My beautiful living room yellow silk draperies have stood guard against design trends for 10 years! Laura Ashley used to do the best yellow. Thanks for a fun post.
I realise that while I love yellow, lol... my house exterior is painted yellow and white while the interior is a somewhat pale yellow-beige. Also, I just had my living room couch re-upholstered in a yellow velvet; I wouldn't paint an internal room or cabinets a full on yellow.
Well, we are living in the past but our house color is yellow. It is a Cape Cod and is a beautiful yellow. When I give directions to find us I always say, "It's the yellow house." Sometimes I say, School Bus Yellow, even if it isn't quite that yellow. I love it but have considered going with a more updated color, and just can't make the change.
Where is our Sherry and what have you done with her?????!!!!! From the black and neutral lady, I would never have expected a "yellow" post from you! LOL! Just busting you! But the photos you posted were divine of course and refreshing.
Thank you for reminding me of my love of yellow. Small pops, well placed of a creamy yellow is a warmer neutral!
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