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Paint color help, this yellow thing is tough ETA Poll
So my mom requested we rip off her 1989 floral wallpaper that she has always hated and paint her kitchen a "sunny Tuscan yellow" she specifically said she didn't want a pastel yellow. I'm doing all of this, this week while her and my dad are on vacation.
The hard part is she has golden yellow Oak everywhere and its really close to a lot of yellow/gold colors and looks very monotone to me.
just for fun, here is the before with the paper.
I am having the hardest time finding a paint that doesn't look too dark or too light. I have looked and tested Dunn Edwards, Ben Moore, and Sherwin Williams.
These are the card board swatches I have come up with.
The paint is only going on the wall below the thin oak railing in the first pictures and then on this wall up by the windows. The ceiling is staying the off white.
What yellow will work?? TIA
Re: Paint color help, this yellow thing is tough ETA Poll
OMG, that (yellow-orange oak aside) is the most beautiful moulding evah.
As far as paint goes, I like the sample on the bottom the best as far as matching your mom's description and not clashing with the woodwork. If we're just talking about random paint colors, I like the top one the best.
Their oak in the house is Ah-mazing. I don't usually like oak, actually I'm like
normally.
But theirs is quite beautiful in person it's all custom done and very top quality with good graining to it.
This.
I think you made some good choices...any of the three lower ones would work.
Our house used to be somewhere around the second and third (probably more like the third), but we painted it lighter (more similar to the first one), to be more mainstream for selling, and I hate it.
This for me too.
My Pinterest
The Googlesites Paint Bio
Thinking of doing cosmetic updates to a dated home? These were our costs.
I don't really hate any of them. Even though the top color is a lighter I wouldn't consider it pastel.
I used York Harbor Yellow in my old kitchen with similar colored cabinets and thought it went well.
Though I like any of the bottom three, I like them as accent colors. I think, with the amount of wall that needs to be covered, it may be too overbearing, so I selected the top one.
I think it would be cool to find glazed pottery items to accent the kitchen with in any of the three lower colors.