Picking My Valspar Paint Color
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This has not been an easy decision. At all.
You all are so creative with your accent colors and mixing palettes. I am confused enough just trying to pick ONE Valspar Paint color. Though I will admit that now I have great ideas for all the adjoining areas.
The second most popular sugggestion was Cream in My Coffee. While I like that color by itself, when I put the swatch next to my tile floor and carpeting it was all too much of the same. It seemed really bland.
The same was true with the Lyndhurst Shady Grove. In the light of my house it looked like a really boring gray. As in go paint a battleship with the brush while you have the paint out. I think in a smaller room it would be a perfectly lovely color, but not an enormous expanse.
I really do like this paint color, alot. I love greens. But I think it would too much for such a large area. Sort of cave like.
This is the color I decided to go with:
The color looks decidedly more yellow in person than on my monitor. A sort of lemony butter? Buttery lemon?
The Gothic Tan on the swatch matches the color of the grout on my floor tile. And the tile is brown, so they all seemed to tie together nicely on the little swatch.
I am beyond excited to have this project done. I already feel more emotionally invested in this house, by painting it I am making it into the home I want it to be. Next up I can actually hang things up on the walls! Where I want! Not just where there are already nails. I know! There is no holding me back now.
I have begun painting.
I hope I survive.
So, tell me what you think so far. I must admit that I feel sort of boring going with one color now that so many of you had such great ideas for accent walls and using paint to define different areas. But I figure this is a start, right?
Tune in next week when I reveal the new paint job in its entirety. Unless, of course I die first.
Again, I will be picking one person who leaves a comment to win a $100 Lowe’s gift card. You could buy lots of paint with that money! I really hope that someone decides to paint and blog about it, because this is the most fun I have had picking a paint color. Check out some ideas of what you could do with the gift card here.
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Hey, looks nice! Did your husband have any say about the color, or is he like my husband and says, “Yes dear” to whatever you say?
July 21st, 2010 at 12:46 pmOh I love the color you picked! We have been living in our house for two years and we still haven’t painted yet. I’m really itching to get started with that. These colors help give me some ideas. The painting looks lovely so far!
July 21st, 2010 at 12:47 pmI like the color. It looks very similar to the accent wall in my living room (also with impossibly high ceilings). I agree that picking paint colors is HARD. I think there were 12 different samples on my walls ALL over the house before I found the ‘perfect’ one. Who knows how long it will remain perfect!
July 21st, 2010 at 12:47 pmI LOVE that color, but my husband has vetoed yellow for most of the house. Our whole house is painted in a weird light beigey-almost pink color, and we are hoping to start tackling the walls with fresh color this weekend. So exciting!
July 21st, 2010 at 12:47 pmMy goodness, are you doing all the painting (with that big tall ladder) yourself?
July 21st, 2010 at 12:47 pmI think it looks great … although I CANNOT in anyway imagine painting all those high walls and crevices! I think you will love the yellow color. I painted my kitchen a yellow and every time I walk into it, even on a rough morning, it lifts my spirits just enough! Do you have Miles helping? I have a picture of my niece painting a closet door when she was about 3 - !
July 21st, 2010 at 12:48 pmLooks like it’ll be sharp when done. Not my vote, but probably a close second.
July 21st, 2010 at 12:52 pmLooks great! Be careful on that ladder!
July 21st, 2010 at 12:52 pmThose colors rock! That yellow is going to make your room so happy & bright - like it alot!
July 21st, 2010 at 12:53 pmLooks really good! I love yellows anyway, so the color is definitely one I would use, too. Good luck with the painting!
July 21st, 2010 at 12:54 pmIt looks great so far! I just moved a few weeks ago myself and I’m on my first painting project as well. The den in our last house was a shade of yellow that I liked so much I’m painting the den here the same color. We didn’t live in the last house long enough to get tired of it so I don’t feel completely unoriginal in using the same color.
July 21st, 2010 at 12:55 pmLove the color! Not to out there, but enough color to not be boring.
July 21st, 2010 at 12:57 pmYay, you picked my color! Can’t wait to see it finished. I wish the internet could help me choose a color to paint a dresser I’m trying to re-finish.
July 21st, 2010 at 12:57 pmlove it!! yellow is my favorite for walls… *sigh* now i want to repaint my house! i blame you. (ok and lowes)
July 21st, 2010 at 12:59 pmGreat choice. Like living in a smile.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:00 pmLooks good so far. I too have impossibly tall ceilings in my livingroom. We painted when we first moved in, I would love the change the color, but I’m not up for painting it.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:01 pmAnd I thought painting my 10 foot ceilings was torture to my butt and legs. You will feel the burn, but you will love it. It will feel more like home soon. At least that’s what I keep telling myself about the new home we’ve been sharing with my mother-in-law for the last two years.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:01 pmI love the yellow! I painted my kitchen yellow 2 years ago and it still makes me happy every morning. I painted the rest of the house neutral 6 years ago, (thinking we’d be selling in a few years—not.) and I am ready for something more interesting. Can’t wait for the final photos!
July 21st, 2010 at 1:03 pmYou sure are professional! Look at all that plastic! Can’t wait to see the results.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:04 pmLove the yellow, We painted a third of our house one color and then a year later changed it. I suppose that is the nice part of paint, it is pretty easy to change.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:04 pmAfter 3+ years in our house, I’ve just this week finally been painting the dining room and kitchen. Man how it needed. I love the yellow. I was thinking that would be great for your space, but am horrible at selecting ACTUAL paint colors, so left that to others. And I’m all for starting simple - one color everywhere - as you can always choose to accent specific walls later. Especially over a light-ish color like yellow. Good luck with the high places!
July 21st, 2010 at 1:05 pmI love new paint and my house could really use it. I’m excited to see it all done. Beautiful.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:06 pmOoooh I like it.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:08 pmI love the color choice, and it looks very similar to what we have throughout our house. (Also, with an open floor plan). It truly goes great with everything! Now we need to do some exterior painting as we have a large concrete wall that surrounds the property. It is currently puke green and so inviting!
July 21st, 2010 at 1:08 pmNice colors….looking forward to seeing your finished work!
July 21st, 2010 at 1:08 pmWe just bought our first house and have a new baby so paint for the nursery would be great.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:09 pmWe are needing some new color in this house. Most of the walls were painted what I refer to as “flesh”. The former owners had no color in here.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:13 pmHi - Great color! I think you are going to love it.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:13 pmI love the color! Good choice!
July 21st, 2010 at 1:14 pmI love sunny yellow - it is the color of the “baby’s room” at our house.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:14 pmthe yellow is so different in all the different lighting situations - gives the different rooms different colors without even trying! it looks fabulous. can’t wait to see the final pics.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:15 pmlooks good to me - but this is coming from the lady who still has a bunch of paint swatches on the walls of her house because she’s indecisive.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:16 pmLove it! It looks great. And also, wow, I am super-impressed that you’re painting that yourself.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:20 pmI love it, it’s so warm and cheery! Are you planning on working that Fountain color from the swatch into the room, or do you have something that color already? Some throws and pillows in that color would be perfect.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:21 pmI love the yellow! You can’t help but look at it and feel cheery. Happy painting!
July 21st, 2010 at 1:22 pmi love the buttery yellow. i can’t wait to see what you do with the space.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:25 pmLooks great! I hope you have lots of help and it goes quickly.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:26 pmLooks great! I love yellows, but have yet to choose one that looks good once I get it up. This maybe my next try!
July 21st, 2010 at 1:26 pmlooks great. I hate painting myself but we really need to.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:29 pmI have painted my upstairs hallway twice this summer. I am still not in love with it. The first was too yellow-y. I felt like I had walked into a Mexican Cantina. And although I love yellow and to eat Mexican food, it just didn’t go with my house.
I have the same problem….very high ceilings. So I am living with the hallway and hoping to go with an accent color on the rest. I’m waiting until school starts just in case I have to paint and repaint. Or die.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:30 pmI really like it. I’ve been wanting to repaint our house for ages so I’ve been loving the ideas here. Now I just need to do it too!
July 21st, 2010 at 1:31 pmLove it so far! I’m generally more of a cool-blue type of girl but the yellow is so warm and inviting. Nice choice!
July 21st, 2010 at 1:31 pmI like the color. The house is going to look great and it will feel more like home.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:35 pmSupposedly my hubs will be painting sometime this week, though I have my doubts. I picked a lemon yellow for our bedroom after five years of a gray-blue that has become depressing, so I like the yellow you’ve chosen. Good luck!
July 21st, 2010 at 1:37 pmLooks good so far, although I’m sure it seems endless.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:39 pmCan’t wait to see it finished, Chris. I’ve got paint chips taped to the walls in two of my rooms right now trying to decide on the right color. I also think I need to add just a couple more from some competitors to be sure I’ve got it right. Maybe I’ll have $100 to go and buy the paint! Thanks for the chance!
July 21st, 2010 at 1:39 pmI like it. I love yellow!
July 21st, 2010 at 1:40 pmPainting always SOUNDS fun….until you are half way through and want to quit but can’t because your room is only half way painted! The end result is always worth it though.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:41 pmGorgeous! I just love yellow! I can’t wait to see the finished product.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:41 pmSince I voted for that color palette, I’m glad you picked it.
Good job!
July 21st, 2010 at 1:44 pmLove the color you chose. I once painted a bedroom yellow and it was my favorite room. who can be in a bad mood in a yellow room?
July 21st, 2010 at 1:45 pmI like it, but I’m partial to yellow!
I cannot imagine painting that much house! Good luck and I am betting in a little while, you will be doing some accent painting!
July 21st, 2010 at 1:46 pmI love that color yellow unless my monitor is really off it looks a lot like my kitchen yellow and it does blend really well with the tan and brown (my kitchen runs right into my family room where the walls are close to that tan, and the couch is chocolate brown, yum!
July 21st, 2010 at 1:46 pmThat yellow will certainly warm up the entire house. How fun to pick out accent colors - there are so many combinations to be had! It’s going to be gorgeous.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:50 pmWOW!! Those are somw high walls. I like the color. I have been leaning toward tans and browns of late and that yellow would make a great accent. Painting always means major cleaning so I am always thrilled when it is done. Good Luck!!
July 21st, 2010 at 1:51 pmLOVE the yellow. I had the same color in my kitchen and found that guests always migrated into that room because it had a cozy home feel to it.
Great choice.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:52 pmI LOVE that color! It is the one I’d like to pick eventually for our living room, hallway, dining room/kitchen, too! How many gallons are you going to need? Have fun!
July 21st, 2010 at 1:52 pmGreat color.Isnt it strange how colors look so different in homes.I have an open concept home and the front rooms are all the same color.But it looks different in each room as the sun moves!
July 21st, 2010 at 1:52 pmI think the color looks really great. I painted all of my living/dining room one color (warm honey) and now I am set to hit my kitchen with the bold streak of red - I am hoping it will all pop and not just make me shriek with horror.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:54 pmOhhh yay! That is the one I was hoping you’d go with! Good Luck ! Painting is a hard job…but it will be SO pretty when you are finished.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:54 pmI’m not usually a fan of yellow but I really like it in the second picture, it looks a little darker there. I’ve got a bedroom to paint, maybe this will be the inspiration I need to get it done. Good luck with the rest of it and I look forward to more pictures.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:56 pmWhile I thought the green would be really nice, this color is gorgeous.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:57 pmLooks great so far! And you can always add accent colours in later. (although we both know you won’t…)
July 21st, 2010 at 2:01 pmAnd soon I will have a new house, and I’m sure it will need painting, and I’m going to copy your idea. Although it won’t do any good; my husband is very opinionated, and last time we painted it took us a very long time and much marital counseling to reach a decision.
I like it much, much better in your “on the walls” picture than in the swatch - yellow is always such a cheerful color, isn’t it?
How on earth do you keep the kids from accidentally knocking you off that ladder?!
July 21st, 2010 at 2:02 pmthat is such a cheery color!! it looks great so far!!
July 21st, 2010 at 2:02 pmI love that color, can’t wait to see it all finished!
July 21st, 2010 at 2:02 pmI love the color you picked. I hate painting. The end. = )
July 21st, 2010 at 2:09 pmI love the buttery color! And holy heck that ladder is scary!
July 21st, 2010 at 2:10 pmOh my…a painting project…makes me want to run the other way. But it is Oh, so nice when it is finished!! Looks great!!
July 21st, 2010 at 2:13 pmlooks wonderful … we just finished remodeling our kitchen (it went from white with laminated cabinets and counters to blue walls with quartz counters and dark-stained oak cabinets) and dining room (from white to yellow above the chair rail and chocolate brown below) … can’t wait to see your finished product!
July 21st, 2010 at 2:15 pmI love the color. It’s almost exactly the same as what we painted our house when we moved in 6 years ago. The idea was that we would go back and repaint with other colors after we settled in. Of course we haven’t managed to do that yet.
Krista
July 21st, 2010 at 2:17 pmGood choice. I would agree with accent walls, though. I’ve done that in my house with expansive ceilings and it really adds interest where there might be none. I recently painted my bathroom purple, with Valspar paint, of course. Next up? My bedroom, so winning this would help a lot!
July 21st, 2010 at 2:18 pmI like it! Just be careful over those stairs!
July 21st, 2010 at 2:18 pmLooks beautiful already and I’m so jealous of your big open stairway! Lovely.
July 21st, 2010 at 2:20 pmI love that color! I have so much painting to do - We keep putting it off. Good luck with the rest - it looks great already.
July 21st, 2010 at 2:23 pmGREAT color! Looks happy and sunny!
July 21st, 2010 at 2:26 pmLove it! And you’re inspiring me because I am also painting our whole house and I have lost steam right in the middle of a giant tall hallway, but I think I shall take it up again. Plus, everyone tells me, “are you insane? How can you paint with two toddlers?” but now I’m going to tell them about my friend who paints with 7 kiddos. That should shut them up, right?
Good luck!
July 21st, 2010 at 2:26 pmThat is quite the project. I don’t envy you, except that maybe you are getting it painted by professionals and not having to do it yourself? ha!
July 21st, 2010 at 2:27 pmThat is the color I was hoping you would go for! I think it will look wonderful with your floors.
July 21st, 2010 at 2:27 pmWow! Are you guys doing the painting yourself or hiring painters? Those are some seriously high walls! Love the color and can’t wait to see the finished product.
July 21st, 2010 at 2:28 pmNow you have a big yellow house again, seams appropriate.
July 21st, 2010 at 2:31 pmLove the color
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July 21st, 2010 at 2:34 pmWow, looks great! Very warm, and rich - very homey. Good luck with the painting! I have high ceilings in my house too and well, they are a bitch.
July 21st, 2010 at 2:34 pmI chose to paint all of our new house before we moved in. Made things much simpler. However, now that it’s been 3 years, the camoflauge in my son’s room is getting dated….
July 21st, 2010 at 2:38 pmGood choice! The nice thing about yellows is that one paint color looks so different in different sorts of light, so the color changes from room to room and hour to hour through the day.
We have a similar sort of open plan (but with ceilings so low that I, at five feet tall, get claustrophobic) and it’s a challenge to choose paint colors for that sort of house.
July 21st, 2010 at 2:40 pmI love it! Of course, I’m one of the people who was begging to know the color of the living room in your old house and then ran right out and bought it and painted several rooms that color in my old house. I think I just confused myself.
July 21st, 2010 at 2:40 pmWow…looks really nice! Can’t wait to see the “AFTER” pictures!
July 21st, 2010 at 2:42 pmI cannot believe the difference between the yellow as it appears on the chip, and the yellow as it appears on the wall.
Good choice of color, though. Should keep the family cheery! Even on rainy days (does it rain in Texas?).
July 21st, 2010 at 2:47 pmOh I love it! I can’t wait to see more!
July 21st, 2010 at 2:52 pmI think it’s going to be bright and lovely without being in-you-face-eye-popping bright.
July 21st, 2010 at 2:53 pmIt is lovely. So cheerful and sunny.
July 21st, 2010 at 2:56 pmWhen we moved in to our current home, we had a tiny window of time to paint. Our furniture was arriving in days and my husband was starting his teaching position. We had to cover a large area that was painted, I kid you not, pepto bismol pink. I wanted a nice matte brown. In my mind, I knew exactly what I wanted. I picked the color and couldn’t wait. When I came into the house on painting day and found our dear friend who was painting for us, I burst into tears. The lovely brown, when put on the wall looked purple - deep, eggplant purple. Our friend had no idea what to do with a sobbing woman in the hallway. He just kept saying, “It’s just paint. I can re-do it.” And he did. Re-painted the whole thing!
I’d love to paint either my bather room a light green and accent it with pink roses…. if I can get away with it
I have so many things I need to repair at our house that a $100 would be a nice start. My living room is more the tan color. the rest of the house is white paint. When had the house build 15 years ago I had everything painted white because that is the way I was raised. ummmm Kill me I was 24 and had no idea what I was doing. The tan living area and entry way really warmed the place up. My son put navy Blue on a couple of walls and left the other two white.OH my heck was that a pain in the rear.
July 21st, 2010 at 2:56 pmLooks great. Large area rooms with a lot of wall space are tough to figure out a color. I think you made a great choice. Nice!
July 21st, 2010 at 3:00 pmPlease tell me you hired painters! We also have very high ceilings in areas, although probably not quite as high as yours. I wonder about them, when they’ll need to be repainted. The upside is that they are so far away you won’t actually be able to see when they need to be repainted.
July 21st, 2010 at 3:03 pmLove the color you picked! Picking colors is so hard for me too!
July 21st, 2010 at 3:03 pmLooks great! I hope you have someone painting for you
That is an awful lot of space to paint alone.
July 21st, 2010 at 3:06 pmI had a love affair with color a few years ago and painted my dining area a rich dark red, which I still like. I then painted the large wall next to the stairs what I thought was going to be a cream color with a bit of orange in it. I was wrong, it was yellow, and not a good yellow, we lived with it for a few years and recently repainted it white.. I have now fallen in love with all white rooms, which is awesome when you have kids, eh? But I’m contemplating painting a dark hallway a color. But what color? A dark blueish gray? A dark chocolate brown? It doesn’t help that my husband, who actually went to art school, has strong opinions of his own.
July 21st, 2010 at 3:07 pmback to the big yellow house?
pick on if my comment wins btw I am in the uk.
July 21st, 2010 at 3:11 pmI like the yellow. I wanted to comment on the first post, but really I am a spaz when it comes to picking out colors and making decisions regarding decorating.
We have a buttery yellow in our kitchen and did a slight different color for this odd wall that holds our a/c/heater unit. It is in the kitchen faces the dining room and can be seen from the living room, so I didn’t want to paint it the same as any of the rooms. I am happy with the color we choose which is just slightly darker than the kitchen color.
Anyway, good luck with your painting.
July 21st, 2010 at 3:11 pmI like it! We are going to take a painting job upon ourselves at my office in the next couple of weeks! That’s a good color to know about…buttery yellow…it would actually look really pretty with the carpet in our office…maybe that one will win our color contest too!
July 21st, 2010 at 3:19 pmI think that color will add *alot* of warmth/cozy to the rooms. You picked a color much faster than I did when I painted our house 4 years ago - I’m pretty sure it took me 6 weeks of pouring over paint samples to decide!
July 21st, 2010 at 3:23 pmThat staircase is gorgeous - although I wouldn’t want to be the one painting around it!!
I have a very similar yellow going up my stairs and in the upstairs hallway. Love it.
July 21st, 2010 at 3:23 pmI love it. Not sure i would have the guts to do a yellow, but I think you are going to pull it off!
July 21st, 2010 at 3:24 pmLove it! Love all the Southern Color names, too. Can’t wait to see the finished results. As an aside, seems to be turning it into “The Big Yellow House”??
Guess I’m dating how long I’ve been reading.
July 21st, 2010 at 3:25 pmLove the color! I can’t imagine painting that all yourself though. I have to hand it to you, I would have picked up the phone in a heartbeat. LOL
July 21st, 2010 at 3:31 pmI think it looks great! Nice soft tone, it’ll warm up the room but not be overwhelming. I love color on walls. We bought 35 gal of paint when we moved into our current house (about 6 months ago) and we’ve got 6 rooms done. Two of them need a bit of touchup and one hallway, two bathrooms and a kitchen to go. Woohoo. Painting was much easier when the baby couldn’t walk.
July 21st, 2010 at 3:32 pmI think it looks great! Yellow makes a great backdrop and your trim will really stand out! I’m kind of a fan of everything being the same color…
July 21st, 2010 at 3:33 pmLooks great in the photos! Yellow is hard … there’s a very narrow line between lemon yellow and orange, but it looks like you landed on it. I might steal this color for the new baby’s room!
July 21st, 2010 at 3:33 pmNot to brag, but I love picking the right color. Looks great, Chris!
July 21st, 2010 at 3:34 pmOkay and this is not a ploy for the prize. The valspar paint chip thingy? Way cool!! I can forsee too much time spent determining colors with it. Thanks!!
July 21st, 2010 at 3:35 pmI love painting. A place doesnt really feel like home until I slap some personal color on the wall. I love that color you picked.
July 21st, 2010 at 3:36 pmReminds me of the color I painted my house (outside) only we used green for the trim. It looks great, I’m impressed with your hard work.
July 21st, 2010 at 3:37 pmWe just painted and laid new flooring - you are right, it makes such a huge difference in how settled you feel! I blogged pictures if you want to check ‘em out. I never knew picking paint would be more difficult than the painting itself!
The yellow looks great! That is the color I really want in my kitchen. It’s so fresh and happy and uplifting.
July 21st, 2010 at 3:38 pmThe paint looks great but um…are YOU painting that ginormous room yourself??!
July 21st, 2010 at 3:39 pmVery nice. My brother and sister-in-law have a large house with tall walls and have a very similar color to the yellow you chose. It looks great in their house.
July 21st, 2010 at 3:40 pmI love that color. I actually have a huge paint job waiting for me to come tackle it…a staircase that does something similar to yours, and requires a tall ladder. Ladders and I do not mix at all, so I have been procrastinating indefinitely.
July 21st, 2010 at 3:41 pmLooking good…be careful!
THat was my favorite color. We just painted our living room and ceiling is high high. Not fun. Good luck
July 21st, 2010 at 3:44 pmCongratulations on a color choice.
I have about 10 paint chips of different shades of blue taped to my kitchen wall. They have been there WAY too long. I cannot decide what shade to go with.
July 21st, 2010 at 3:44 pmI do like that color…very warm.
July 21st, 2010 at 3:48 pmI’m so proud of you! Yellow isn’t a color for the faint of heart. And if you believe one of the * eliminated * contestants on Design Star, it’s “confrontational.” But it also reminds me of where your blog began, and that’s fun! I have a yellow basement and dining room, and we don’t fight in those rooms any more than we fight in other rooms.
July 21st, 2010 at 3:54 pmVery nice. I started rearranging furniture because painting is not in our budget this year.
July 21st, 2010 at 3:54 pmI like it; I think it will really brighten the room & make you feel SO much better about your “new” home. When we moved into our current home, we immediately painted the kitchen, living room & the kids’ rooms…and then sort of stopped. Now that we’re trying to sell the house, we’re having to go back & paint the ones we didn’t paint, PLUS paint over some of the ones we did because I was pregnant & got a little “creative” with the colors. (Honestly, my kitchen looks like a Mexican restaurant.) I think the colors you’ve chosen are bright enough to be cheery, but muted enough to be calming, if that makes sense. If it doesn’t, then have another donut! It worked for me! :o)
July 21st, 2010 at 4:00 pmI like that color; it looks much better than the sample on this post. Your living room is looking good, however, honestly, I think *I* would get tired of having the whole downstairs (and upstairs?) all the same color.
July 21st, 2010 at 4:00 pmOh, I hope you find a way to use that blue color on the swatch too, I am a total blue girl! (which is why every color in my house looks different when you hold the swatches together, and looks the same from one room to the next. But they are different! One is dark storm cloud, and one is raging sea! Completely different!)
July 21st, 2010 at 4:07 pmOh… I have so much painting to do in my new house. Other people’s projects definitely help in the inspiration department.
July 21st, 2010 at 4:09 pmgood call not going with the green, you won’t be sorry
July 21st, 2010 at 4:09 pmI like the buttery color. It’s fresh but not over-the-top.
July 21st, 2010 at 4:10 pmI love it. Great choice. I can’t wait to see the rest!
July 21st, 2010 at 4:13 pmOooo! I think it looks great so far. Our butter yellow rooms are the favorite in my house!
July 21st, 2010 at 4:14 pmYou are one brave lady!
July 21st, 2010 at 4:14 pmI think that it is beautiful for your house… It looks so open and inviting and not cookie cutter house. The only thing I might have done differently is I would have defined those lovely alcoves and cut outs with different paint that matched with the color palette; however looking at how much you had to paint… I might have rethought that idea lol.
July 21st, 2010 at 4:17 pmJust this afternoon we started painting my son’s bedroom - we have already painted my daughter’s room a few weeks ago. Son chose Florida Gator blue. Kind of a dark color - but his room gets TONS of sunlight so it should be ok. Next up will be their bathroom - maybe then they will use it instead of my bathroom!
I like the yellow! Bright and sunny!
July 21st, 2010 at 4:22 pmI love that color and think it will look great when finished. Yellow is definitely one of my favorite colors to use because it can go with so many different styles/colors of furniture and flooring.
July 21st, 2010 at 4:26 pmIt’s better to have the simple and neutral painting done first, then do accents later. So your procrastination will pay off. We just finished painting our house, and it was so daunting, that even thinking of accent colors made me go crazy. We’ll get there later. For now, it still looks 1000 times better than before.
July 21st, 2010 at 4:27 pmThat is the color I chose for you! Looking good! I am about to start painting several rooms in my house. Sage green for my bedroom, sky blue for teenager’s room and bathroom. Four yr old wants a Hulk green room, but i’m going to have to veto that one!
July 21st, 2010 at 4:31 pmI love it! It will look really good too when there are things hung on the wall to break the color up some. You chose well!!!
July 21st, 2010 at 4:31 pmYay! That was one of my picks, and if I do say so myself, it looks just as good as I had hoped it wood. You are right - it is a bit more yellow -I count that as a good thing. I think it looks great!
July 21st, 2010 at 4:32 pmoooooooh, I could do a lot with a hundred bucks:)
July 21st, 2010 at 4:36 pmLoooove the colors! I am sure it will give your home the right feel. Happy- as every home with children is.
July 21st, 2010 at 4:38 pmIt looks so cheery! Our LR is yellow & I love it. You can always do accent walls later if you decide you want to.
July 21st, 2010 at 4:38 pmI love yellow walls. They make life so much brighter.
July 21st, 2010 at 4:46 pmI love that yellow. How exciting to choose a paint color! I can’t even commit to a color to paint an old secretary. Have fun painting!
July 21st, 2010 at 4:47 pmLooks like a good pick!
July 21st, 2010 at 4:55 pmYellow is always good; so happy and warm. Good for you for making a decision and getting started!
July 21st, 2010 at 4:56 pmI just had my house repainted and know exactly how you feel, I finally put up all the pictures I wanted to and where I wanted to. Happy Painting!
July 21st, 2010 at 4:57 pmYou can always add the blue later.
July 21st, 2010 at 4:57 pmI love that color!! Can’t wait to see it all put together! We just moved and I am in need of some paint too, but deciding on colors will take a little bit as we feel out the house! Good Job!
July 21st, 2010 at 5:10 pmYou are going to love yellow. It really brightens it up and you have so many options of colors to go with it. I used to be an accent wall person, but I gave it up. Now when I see one I cringe.
Good luck on the painting. Can’t wait to see when it is done!
July 21st, 2010 at 5:11 pmLove the color! Have been toying with using a buttery shade for my (low ceiling and smaller) living room and foyer….I might just be sold!
Enjoy the painting!
July 21st, 2010 at 5:15 pmJust painted son #1’s room, and son #2 is giving me the evil eye…I foresee more paint in my future.
Your room looks nice, I like that color. It is so bright and cheery.
Congrats on starting to feather your nest and make it your HOME.
July 21st, 2010 at 5:24 pmWow. I really like that paint color. My paint color that I’m trying to do is a summer moon color by behr. Sadly, my husband couldn’t read the label and painted the ceiling that color, so now I have both yellow walls AND yellow ceiling instead of the candlelight ivory it was supposed to be.
July 21st, 2010 at 5:26 pmIt will take me longer than a week to paint my dining room. Mostly because I’m still working on primer and I only get one wall done a day with a baby and a 5 year old.
I still have the walls and the trim to do. You are my hero for ambitiously getting it done in a week.
Wow, that looks great. We are getting ready to paint the house room by room. Ugh. It seems like we just did it, but uh, no.
July 21st, 2010 at 5:26 pmI love it! We also have a huge open living area that is still painted beige. This is very inspiring, and I think it’s time we took a trip to look at paint colors!
July 21st, 2010 at 5:52 pmI like it! We moved into our house a year ago and have painted nothing so far. I keep thinking that I’d like to paint my bathroom, of all places. Green, perhaps.
July 21st, 2010 at 5:57 pmI don’t feel so bad for having no pictures on the walls (except where there were previous nails of course) after 8 months! It looks great so far!
July 21st, 2010 at 6:03 pmI have never gotten around to commenting (although I have been reading your blog for years now) but I think you made a great choice! Buttery Yellow is the color I had my room for years and it always gave it a cheerful, warm glow!
July 21st, 2010 at 6:11 pmLooking at how high the ceilings are in picture #1, you have a lot of work ahead of you!! It will be very rewarding and satisfying once you are done
Love the colors you chose.
July 21st, 2010 at 6:14 pmI think it looks great so far! I can’t believe you’re doing the painting yourself! Really?
July 21st, 2010 at 6:15 pmBeautiful color! I can’t believe you get up on that ladder!
July 21st, 2010 at 6:21 pmLove the colors! They sure are high ceilings!
July 21st, 2010 at 6:26 pmIt looks great! Can’t wait to see the finished project.
July 21st, 2010 at 6:32 pmIt looks great, can’t wait to see the finished product… I am currently in a house with every wall white and I can’t wait to move and paint again!
July 21st, 2010 at 6:35 pmGreat color choice. I can’t wait to see the final reveal. Want to come to my house to paint? Such an inspiration.
July 21st, 2010 at 6:42 pmI still like the coffee one, but your explanation suffices. I like PICKING paint colors more than actually painting. But will do it when necessary!
July 21st, 2010 at 6:50 pmLove the color choices and your blog!
July 21st, 2010 at 6:55 pmOMG! Are you doing the painting yourself on that giant ladder? Go you. Wow. I painted my breakfast room…the same color it was before…after my son learned to feed himself.
July 21st, 2010 at 6:56 pmIt looks great! And you are very brave to be doing the painting yourself. I had to use a stepstool to reach some areas in my house, but nothing like the extension ladder you have leaning over your staircase! Good for you!
July 21st, 2010 at 7:01 pmIt looks great so far. I think it’s a great choice to stick to one color. I did a few colors in my house but the tannish/brown (actually called Oregon Dunes)is my favorite and now I want to paint all the other rooms that same color. You can accent with accessories. Happy painting!
July 21st, 2010 at 7:05 pmThat yellow is going to be so cheerful. I painted my kitchen a similar yellow that ended being a little too bright. So, I used a glaze with a little bit of white and got exactly the look that was in my head.
July 21st, 2010 at 7:14 pmI think that IS actually the color of the lobby in the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, NC. Which helps you not at all but is a nice little trivial fact living in my brain since I was married in the Carolina Inn ten years ago. Enjoy your new living space as much as we enjoyed our wedding (which was not actually IN the lobby but people did have to pass through the lobby to get to the wedding…)
July 21st, 2010 at 7:32 pmHey, that’s the color I picked out of your final options! I knew I liked your taste. I think it looks great so far, but all I can think about is those plastic covered stairs and how I’d definitely fall down them. Or worse, your boys creating a slip and slide!
July 21st, 2010 at 7:37 pmI think that’s a great color, especially since it will end up on most of the walls! That looks like a sweet, happy yellow.
My mom’s townhouse has a similar open style to your house. Changing the paint (a neutral-y pumpkin color, oy) has only happened in the living area so far. I admire the huge undertaking painting a house the size of yours is!
July 21st, 2010 at 7:39 pmI think the yellow you picked will look good with the rest of the house. It will compliment the other colors very well.
I personally can’t go with a yellow in my house. I painted over all of the yellow in the house when we first moved in. It just reminds me too much of the 70’s color scheme that was in the entire house (lime green, bright blues with swirls, nasty wallpaper, lets not forget the linoleum floor in brick red style and carpet covering up beautiful hardwood floors.
I could always use $100 from Lowes. I would just have to decide whether I want to use it to repaint every wall that has hand prints from the 10 yo or 2 yo or to finish the patio that got started while pregnant with child #2 that hasn’t seen any work since (and we have a child #3 now with a possible #4 on the way).
July 21st, 2010 at 7:39 pmIt looks really nice! I cannot imagine painting all of those tall walls…we have 2 in our house and that is more than enough for me!
July 21st, 2010 at 7:44 pmYou make me want to paint my rooms.
July 21st, 2010 at 8:06 pmMy favorite!! Just the color I had in mind for our home.
July 21st, 2010 at 8:11 pmWhat?? You are painting your house by yourself???? OMG!
July 21st, 2010 at 8:20 pmI think it looks nice- can’t wait to see the rest of it!
July 21st, 2010 at 8:26 pmOhhh I love to paint. I have been itching to do my boys rooms and the gift card would be awesome.
Good Job on painting. I can’t wait to see the end result.
July 21st, 2010 at 8:34 pmI like it a lot - a very warm color that will probably give you lots of subtle shadings in the niches and angles.
July 21st, 2010 at 8:38 pmI think Lyndhurst Shady Grove is my favorite color, but I agree that it might have made your house cave like in such a large dose.
I can’t wait to have a place where I am allowed to paint colors on the walls.
July 21st, 2010 at 8:38 pmMore yellow than I was anticipating, but I like it! Are you doing the painting yourself? Way to go!
July 21st, 2010 at 8:39 pmIt is a very warm and welcoming color. I see it is from Valspar’s Historic Colors. I have found some really wonderful and rich colors from the historic colors from several paint manufacturers. Be careful on that ladder.
July 21st, 2010 at 8:46 pmI bet it took a long time to do all of the cutting in for this project!
July 21st, 2010 at 8:47 pmlove yellow! it was my bedroom color growing up and as an adult. wonderful to wake up to and live in.
July 21st, 2010 at 8:47 pmI love the color. My question though, is are you doing the actual painting?
July 21st, 2010 at 8:50 pmIt looks wonderful, and alot like the color of my house! No wonder I like it
July 21st, 2010 at 8:54 pmI think it looks very welcoming. I’m really most impressed with your drop cloth coverage, though.
July 21st, 2010 at 9:00 pmYou are brave! :o) I hope you survive. Love the color!
July 21st, 2010 at 9:01 pmLove the color. It will make your fireplace more prominent.
July 21st, 2010 at 9:01 pmHardly noticed it with the bland colorl
I vote that you paint that alcoves in the last 2 photos one of your accent colors - add a little pop of color to break it up… and easy to repaint when you get sick of the accent!
July 21st, 2010 at 9:02 pmNice. It’s cheery without being too chipper.
July 21st, 2010 at 9:06 pmwow, that is a high staircas! Be careful. I love yellows.
July 21st, 2010 at 9:06 pmLOVE the color!!!!
July 21st, 2010 at 9:09 pmI love the smell of new paint. For years I couldn’t decide what colors to use, so I stuck with neutral, light tan shades (yawn). I finally woke up and made some changes, and love it! I hope you love your new walls too. Can’t wait to see the reveal next week.
July 21st, 2010 at 9:20 pmI like the color. When we moved into our house, my husband and I were of the same mind, all walls should be white, decorate with stuff instead. NOW, all but the living room walls are painted different colors. The next project to paint a different color is the dining room and living room. However, I HATE picking colors, we never agree.
July 21st, 2010 at 9:22 pmLooks wonderful!
July 21st, 2010 at 9:25 pmThose colors are going to look great. Now how did you figure out how much paint you need on those walls that go on forever?
Really are they 20 foot ceilings?
I painted every inch of this house before we moved in….since it was a local move I could work an eight hour
day of painting then go home and pack some more for the move.
I used Valspar and it still looks great 6 years later.
Oh did I mention that every wall in this house was a different shade of green? I’m so glad you didn’t go with the green!!! And mine is a modest house of 2200 square feet…….I think your living room is bigger than that!
Good luck with it and be careful on that latter.
July 21st, 2010 at 9:25 pmSuch a happy color!
July 21st, 2010 at 9:26 pmButtery lemon yellow is my favorite color and most of my walls are painted with it. I think way back when I bough my paint, the swatch color was called ‘Michaelangelo’ which sounds classier than ‘Buttered Corn’ which is a little more descriptive.
July 21st, 2010 at 9:34 pmLove it!! looks yellower (word?) than the swatch on my computer. I wish you’d have someone take a photo of you on the scary ladder…
July 21st, 2010 at 9:40 pmI bought my first house last fall. Thank goodnes the living room was recently painted and I liked it. It took me forever to choose a color for my guest room and then again for my office. My sister took one look at the office and said ohhhh, your so daring
beige! LOL, it is hard and in my case I don’t know why, it is only paint and my rooms are small. Your choice looks great and I hope you have some help.
July 21st, 2010 at 9:43 pmI love the color, it is not what I expected, but it is loooking good so far!
July 21st, 2010 at 9:48 pmIt is looking very good! Good luck with the project — it’s a lot of work.
July 21st, 2010 at 9:52 pmIt looks great! Jealous of that high ladder. I love to paint.
July 21st, 2010 at 9:56 pmI really like it. I painted my great room almost the same color. Can’t wait to see the finished product!
July 21st, 2010 at 9:57 pmLooks bright & cheery, sunshine all year long.
July 21st, 2010 at 9:58 pmI too am painting right now. We have a French foreign exchange student coming and her favorite color is red! So, I am going with an accent wall in red. The rest will be a more basic cream. Then I can change that red wall easily enough later if I want…or not! Don’t know about you, my arms hurt! But, I don’t have to get on a ladder this time! I don’t envy you the high ceilings right now…
July 21st, 2010 at 10:01 pmI so need to paint and as I watch you do it…I become even more inspired…to keep watching you. I would have to hire somone, my husband and I would kill each other before we finished…I love the color and can’t wait to see it finished! I loved watching your old house turn into a home…
July 21st, 2010 at 10:04 pmlove the color — that was the one i voted for (tho, i’m not sure if i actually left a comment communicating that..). good choice, and congrats on taking the plunge!
July 21st, 2010 at 10:05 pmGood choice! It looks great and you are right it will make you feel much more at home.
July 21st, 2010 at 10:06 pmBeautiful choice; happy painting. BUT, Uhem, that ladder is high, yikes!
July 21st, 2010 at 10:06 pmI love yellow! We have a yellow kitchen (which is supposed to make you eat more)and I love how bright and sunny it is - even in the yucky winters!
July 21st, 2010 at 10:07 pmGirl, I can’t believe you are painting while on top of that ladder….I’m scared for your life too! The color looks nice so far, can’t wait to see it finished!
July 21st, 2010 at 10:07 pmI’m impressed that you’re doing all the painting yourself! I just painted our smallish bedroom, and that was enough for me!
July 21st, 2010 at 10:09 pmIt looks great! I love the yellow. We just moved into a new house and I need some inspiration for the new playroom! My daughters vote for pink!
July 21st, 2010 at 10:10 pmI love the color! I am glad you went with it, I picked that one as well
Good luck I hope you don’t die from painting I am looking forward to seeing the end result!
July 21st, 2010 at 10:10 pmI love the color. I actually stayed at the Carolina Inn (in Chapel Hill) and this color does remind me of that trip. Beautiful.
When we moved in, we painted literally every surface of our house (ceilings, walls, trim) I’m hoping we’re done, but every now and then I do find myself thinking about an accent wall here, another color there.
July 21st, 2010 at 10:15 pmLove the yellow! Can’twait to see more.
July 21st, 2010 at 10:20 pmMaybe I’ll get my act together and paint our family room downstairs. I painted it 7 years when we moved in and it’s gotten some serious abuse over the years. It’s not as daunting a project as your house though so maybe there’s hope for me!
July 21st, 2010 at 10:22 pmChris! Are you really doing that yourself? You’re a better man than me, Gunga Din.
July 21st, 2010 at 10:33 pmI bought a house a month ago, and currently have about 12 paint swatches taped up in the den, trying to decide on the right color. After that, we’ll decide on the bedroom furniture which will lead to the bedding, which will hopefully lead to the color of the bedroom….I appreciated the website you used to show the colors from Valspar!
Jen
July 21st, 2010 at 11:11 pmWe just moved into a house and I’m dying to paint it anything different than the white builder’s flat that just can’t stand up to my four kids. But, we still have a house to sell before I can justify the expense : (
July 21st, 2010 at 11:17 pmGREAT color. My BIL’s parents have an even brighter yellow on their walls & it looks gorgeous like yours.
July 21st, 2010 at 11:18 pmI, too, have stayed at the Carolina Inn and the lobby is a warm and inviting place (with fairly high ceilings). Good choice! When I’m ready to pick colors for my kitchen, I’m coming back to these posts and re-reading the suggestions.
July 21st, 2010 at 11:29 pmHa, perfect! We did ours in what appears to be the (insert name of other brand here) equivalent (assuming the swatch on my monitor is even near being a match to my walls), and I love it. I was going to try and figure out the Valspar equivalent to recommend for you, but I’m lazy. I really like the way it looks different in the different lights of the day and soothing at night when the lamps are on.
Congrats on making your house your own. In three years I’ve done my living room and entry way. I still have the dining room, hallway and guest bath before I decide on the colors for the bedroom.
July 21st, 2010 at 11:38 pmLove the color! I have a similar buttery yellow in my kitchen/dining room. It’s nice and sunny even in our dreary MN winters! I hope you enjoy it!
July 21st, 2010 at 11:39 pmwe are so bad at picking colors we have painted some rooms in this house 3 times in a 4 yr period…
July 21st, 2010 at 11:40 pmLove it even if it’s more yellow than I thought. I am in the process of picking exterior colors for my 3 story Victorian that I will be painting myself. Last time I did this, I tied myself to a desk inside the 3rd floor in case I fell off the ladder. My neighbors loved the circus show every day.
July 22nd, 2010 at 12:01 amI hope you have banished the kids from the house while you are up there. You’re tiny enough that you could tie yourself to the chandelier for added safety.
So pretty! I love the yellow.
July 22nd, 2010 at 12:35 amGlad you chose a yellow - that’s what I suggested! Bet you’re glad you don’t have tiny ones underfoot while you’re painting anymore. Sigh. I have to run upstairs now - I can hear my 3 yo got ahold of the can of Lysol and is spraying it EVERYWHERE. Good luck with painting!
July 22nd, 2010 at 12:54 amI like the color! I think it would be really pretty in a kitchen, too. Have always wanted a bright, cheery yellow kitchen. Hope it goes well!
July 22nd, 2010 at 1:01 amYAY! Paint!
July 22nd, 2010 at 2:10 amLove the color you choose! We’re renting so no painting the walls for us.
July 22nd, 2010 at 2:31 amI have to say when I looked at the swatch I thought the colour was a bit boring. But on the walls? Gorgeous!
You aren’t really going up that ladder are you?
July 22nd, 2010 at 5:42 amYellow, such a nice mellow color - looks great! Can’t wait to see the end result. Good Luck!
July 22nd, 2010 at 6:19 amI love painting! But I also don’t have huge high ceilings. Love the color!
July 22nd, 2010 at 7:22 amI think it looks lovely! I wish I had the guts to use color, but I’m stuck with clean cream walls. Which are a nightmare to clean. Maybe if I win that gift certificate I can splurge on a color…
July 22nd, 2010 at 7:50 amYellow is good! It shouts ‘HAPPY’!!
July 22nd, 2010 at 7:57 amHa! I tried doing my own painting ONCE, in college, for about half a wall. I decided then that no matter how poor I am, it’s worth scraping up the money to pay someone ELSE to do it!
July 22nd, 2010 at 8:40 amYour color choice is very nice. I posted about painting my bathroom way back in 2007.
July 22nd, 2010 at 8:44 amLove it! And I love that you are enjoying your home more now that you’ve invested some thought and time.
July 22nd, 2010 at 8:48 amI love it! I wonder if these brown/blue combos will be the avacado green and harvest gold of my childhood or the mauve and blue of the early 90s?
July 22nd, 2010 at 8:55 amLinked on my blog:
July 22nd, 2010 at 8:59 amhttp://penguinsgift.blogspot.com/2010/07/another-giveaway-link.html
Lovely color! I’m in my own painting hell right now too…I feel your pain.
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:14 amWow! That is going to be sunny and bright and warm! I love yellow, but I never think to suggest it as a paint color because there are Certain Factions in my household who despise it. Good luck with the painting!
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:14 amIt is hard to pick the right yellow, especially when you need to match it to the tile and grout. I think you did a great job. Plus, I love it when the rooms are all one color because so many people go overboard with accent colors and walls. You should put up a picture when you are done so we can see what it all looks like without the ladder, drapings and all the painting must-havesl
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:15 amI put your giveaway up on my blog.
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:17 amOh I would LOVE to win this because I’m repainting some walls and I love repainting furniture- fingers crossed!
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:17 amChris, the color looks very warm & inviting.. I can’t believe you’re painting that all yourself -thats a high ladder!!!!!!!!
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:26 amI like it! And if you’re doing ALL THAT space by yourself, then surely I can handle my (much more reasonable) living room. Thanks for the inspiration!
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:39 amI love yellow! I wanted a warm yellow kitchen, but when I got my paing home and started painting, it was not warm at all. It ended up being almost neon. Having said that, I love your yellow.
It looks perfect.
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:42 amLove the color, very cheerful!
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:48 amWith all that carefully placed plastic and the really tall ladder, you would think some pros came in to do the actual work! Good luck…the color looks great!
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:49 amNice color! My house is painted Philadelphia Cream, which, when painted on my walls, looks like Southern Living yellow. I love it!
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:52 amVery warmand friendly. Nice choice.
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:52 amlooks good! We are almost done with our current project room (which has been the project room for over 2 years now!) I just need trim installed around 1 window, and then I can move onto the next room. I am hoping the next room will go much quicker, as in days instead of years till completion,.
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:55 amI love yellow, we have it in our kitchen and dining room. It was really hard to decide on a yellow color. So,once we had one we liked, I decided to paint 2 rooms with it! Good luck.
July 22nd, 2010 at 10:12 amWe’re about to paint our boys’ room and repaint the living room. That GC would be fantastic!
July 22nd, 2010 at 10:21 amI feel your pain. We are repainting this week too. Every muscle in my body hurts - even ones I didn’t know I had! And I have come the the conclusion that vaulted ceilings and crown moulding are way over-rated!
July 22nd, 2010 at 10:24 amVery nice! I’m impressed that you’re tackling those two story walls yourself. Hang in there - just got done with a round of painting myself & I know how loooong the process can feel. But now I love it when I walk into my room & see the color on the walls. So glad you went with a color instead of the beige - it looks very warm & inviting.
July 22nd, 2010 at 10:29 amlooks good!!
July 22nd, 2010 at 10:32 amIt is a beautiful color on the swatch, though it does look a little more “lemony” on the walls. But I bet it will look slightly different in every room. Overall, based on what you said, I think it’s the best choice for your house
Can’t wait to see the finished product!
July 22nd, 2010 at 11:01 amI have just completed a color change in just 1/2 my house with standard height ceilings…. If I had your ceiling woulda had to call in the professionals! Love the color!
July 22nd, 2010 at 11:05 amI like the yellow!
My husband recently finished building our house and I had an entire house to paint. Just finished last week or so. Picking that many colors at once is insane. I hardly blame you for picking one color and sticking with it! Enjoy!
July 22nd, 2010 at 11:14 amIt is indeed a lovely color, and will change with the light. You are probably best not to go with a green throughout the house.
July 22nd, 2010 at 11:17 amI LOVE the new color! Great choice. Yellow is my absolute favorite color. I drive a bright yellow Jeep Wrangler. And I painted my foyer and formal dining room Goldenrod. It’s a very bold yellow. My neighbor across the street told me how much she loved it when I opened my front door. She was standing on her porch when she yelled it across the street lol.
My dining room suite is a dark wood with inlays. I accented with burgundy sheers and sage green table linens, all pulled together in the area rug. It’s a very handsome, rich looking room. This is the first room you walk through to the casual areas at the back of the house. Those rooms are painted sage green and have the other colors to accent. I always say when people come in my house, the house greets them with the Goldenrod saying “Hello! How ARE you?!” and the sage green rooms saying “Come in, sit down for a while”.
July 22nd, 2010 at 11:43 amI would love to win. We are redoing my son’s room, and will definitely need paint. I think the husband is planning on painting a mural in his room. We’ll see.
July 22nd, 2010 at 11:47 amI usually don’t like yellow, but I think since it’s not a light pastel yellow I actually really do like it. I hope you are putting your sons to work!
July 22nd, 2010 at 11:57 amVery nice! Most of the living areas in my previous house were a yellow/gold warm color. I loved it! It seemed to coordinate with just about everything, which is good because I really suck at decorating!
The house we’re in now is all builder’s beige. I would paint, but it’s on the market now so we’re keeping the blah neutral.
Good luck painting. At least you’ll get almost immediate results — always nice to feel like you’re accomplishing more than you really are. Ha.
July 22nd, 2010 at 12:22 pmThe names of paint colors these days crack me up. I always imagine a group of designer/marketing types in high level meetings discussing these silly phrases. Lookin good there in “Carolina Inn Lobby Yellow”. You may just feel like ordering room service from your couch, or expecting maid service to pick up all those beach towels from now on.
July 22nd, 2010 at 1:06 pmThe pictures make the paint look much lighter/brighter than the electronic image swatch. In real life does it match the swatch better? Anyway, congratulations!! Hope you LOVE it!
July 22nd, 2010 at 1:44 pmANd I need paint for my living room! No really. I have the gallon for the accent wall, as it was on the oops table and was excatly the color I was waiting for, but I need the 2 gallons for the other 2 walls, and another gallon for our halls. And then a gallon or two for our den. And then our house will finally have color on every wall, as opposed to the shades of tan that the people that lived there before us liked.
THe master bedroom had an accent wall, but we couldn’t tell until the night we moved in and I walked into one of the corners looking at the floor. The colors were so close they blended.
July 22nd, 2010 at 1:58 pmCongrats on going with color!!!! Our house is mostly greens and yellows - except for the boys room - they picked red! I get tired of cream and brown walls. Enjoy and be careful on that ladder.
July 22nd, 2010 at 2:19 pmLove it! I love yellow - its so cheery. Its impossible to be depressed in a yellow house.
July 22nd, 2010 at 2:40 pmWe are also due to paint. Seems like we just finished. Partial to the yellow hues - my husband does not understand the subtleties of color. “Why do we have 5 cans of YELLOW???”
July 22nd, 2010 at 2:44 pmI wish I had your motivation!! If I win that giftcard maybe it will do the trick ;o)
July 22nd, 2010 at 2:45 pmI’m glad you picked a color. I’m not a fan of yellow, but I can’t wait to see the finished product. Thanks! and be safe on that ladder!
July 22nd, 2010 at 2:57 pmI hope your air conditioner works well…. that looks like a hot and sweaty job… the color will go great with the couch.
July 22nd, 2010 at 2:58 pmI love the color! Accent walls or not, I think it will look great!
July 22nd, 2010 at 3:25 pmWhat fun - I love it. I think it will look fantastic when all put together.
July 22nd, 2010 at 3:28 pmI had a buttery yellow in my old home and loved it. I chose a “Caffe Latte” color for my new home and in the living room have an accent wall with “Farmhouse red” on it. Very Nice! Now I’m moving offices and need to paint.
July 22nd, 2010 at 4:03 pmThat looks pretty!
July 22nd, 2010 at 4:27 pmI am impressed it is getting done in a single year!
July 22nd, 2010 at 5:08 pmThis is the exact color of my office and I big puffy heart it! It’s a color that feels warm in the winter and cool in the summer, plus it gets bonus points because you can literally hang just about anything on the walls and it looks good!
July 22nd, 2010 at 7:42 pmChris, I am so glad that you chose a yellow. I LOVE that color and how it goes with the others- good job picking!
July 22nd, 2010 at 7:42 pmYou do that with 7 kids in the house and no taping? Holy CRAP! I’m not worthy…I’m not worthy!
My last house had ceilings that tall. We never painted (in our defense we were only there 3 years (AND with babies…yeah, right, so we were going to paint?)
I think you’ll find you’ll gradually figure out where you can add the splash of color.
I am curious…did the DH have any input? Mine’s color blind (really) so he could give a rip just as long as he doesn’t have to say “our living room is painted periwinkle”.
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:05 pmOMG OMG OMG!!! That is MY color!!! I have a different brand but the color is the same… buttery yellow. I love it. I have it in all of my hallways and in the side foyer. It makes me HAPPY!!!
Yellow is a hard color and the first time it was painted I felt like I was living inside of a lemon. The buttery color was perfect!
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:27 pmI live near Chapel Hill, NC. I feel the need to go check out the Carolina Inn and see if that is really the lobby color.
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:30 pmLove the buttery-lemon color! We’ve been in this house for two years now and I’ve painted exactly two bathrooms. Every other room in this house is “Antique White”. Bedrooms, living room, kitchen, everything… and I’m hoping to change that soon when we finally pick some colors. Thanks for the inspiration!
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:44 pmLarge spaces visually work better, my opinion only, with one neutral color. Pictures, accessories & furniture personalize and will make a space that represents your family.
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:58 pmWe also recently painted our new house in a yellow color, called pollen grains. Love yellow! Your yellow color looks great in the picture. I hope you don’t have the “orange peel” wall texture like we do. It makes painting super hard!
July 22nd, 2010 at 10:06 pmI think it looks nice so far. If I win, maybe I can make my son’s bedroom walls actually match ANY of the decor in his room.
July 22nd, 2010 at 11:44 pmI LOVE the color you chose. My kitchen is painted a very similar buttery yellow color (was here when we moved in), and I adore it. Looking forward to the after photos.
July 23rd, 2010 at 12:34 amLove the color!!!
July 23rd, 2010 at 12:36 amGood luck, love the color. I painted my walls a very pale buttery yellow, it turned out great. Of course I ran out of paint and energy before I made it all the way down the hall…
July 23rd, 2010 at 12:57 amlooks great, Chris! I’m always impressed when someone up and paints something. choosing the color is the step I always get hung up on.
July 23rd, 2010 at 7:39 amit’s a nice color…and I am very impressed that you are doing it yourself!
July 23rd, 2010 at 9:02 amBright and welcoming, looks great!
July 23rd, 2010 at 9:04 amThat looks great! I work down the street from that paint’s namesake, FWIW.
July 23rd, 2010 at 10:05 amLove the yellow! I’ve been wanting to repaint our downstairs forever. It is all a green similar to the one you show above. I want to go yellow also!
July 23rd, 2010 at 12:07 pmI love the new color and your house is amazing ! Good luck with getting all that painted - that is the worst thing, but once its all done it will look great.
July 23rd, 2010 at 12:09 pmI think the color you chose goes wonderfully. I love the name, esp. since The Carolina Inn is abou 20 mins. from me. We did our dining room and kitchen and now it is time to do our bedroom so I’m getting some great ideas from your post.
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July 23rd, 2010 at 1:46 pmGreat choice! Thanks for sharing the pictures, can’t believe you are doing that yourself! Looking forward to seeing the finished product.
July 23rd, 2010 at 1:50 pmCan’t wait to see how it all turns out! My husband would have had a heart attack if I had told him I was painting practically the whole house yellow!
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July 23rd, 2010 at 4:13 pmI love color and love painting projects, I’m just not a painter myself - I don’t have the steady hand or the patience to do so, so I am in awe of your abilities and determanitiaio to find the right color. I like the color you picked but if you don’t you can always paint over - that’s what good about paint it can always be “fixed” (with a good primer and some good coats!) (BTW hate walpaper with a passion!)
July 23rd, 2010 at 9:36 pmI have always wanted to paint a room (or more!) yellow. It is such a cheerful color. However, I’ve never actually mustered enough motivation to paint…One of these days…
July 23rd, 2010 at 11:25 pmThat yellow is great! I wouldn’t have thought so upon seeing just the paint at the store but this looks great!
You’re doing a really nice job!
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July 24th, 2010 at 1:07 amWhen I was a kid, my parents always painted my room yellow. I really wanted blue, but they had some reason why it had to be yellow. It put me off yellow for quite awhile, but I love it now (and have lots of yellow in my house now). Good luck painting. I hope it goes quickly!
July 24th, 2010 at 10:26 amI like the color, but I think yellow is a hard one to pick based on paint chips. I hate painting stairways, good luck!
July 24th, 2010 at 11:43 amIt looks way better on the walls than in the swatch! Excited for the final reveal.
July 24th, 2010 at 2:57 pmVery simular to what i am painting my bedroom right now. Really starting to like it,even though i was not sure of it.
July 24th, 2010 at 3:08 pmI just finished (well, almost) painting my whole house, and only repainted TWO rooms! Colors are hard.
July 25th, 2010 at 8:00 amWe have a bedroom that is two walls that are similar to your yellow and two that are butternut squash orange - so I love your pick! It’s going to look great!
July 25th, 2010 at 10:05 amI think that’s my kitchen color…I love the upbeat feeling I get from it!
July 25th, 2010 at 11:23 amLove the color!
July 25th, 2010 at 12:54 pmHey, Carolina Inn! That is an actual hotel in Chapel Hill, NC, on the campus of the University of North Carolina. I went to school there. At the university, not the hotel.
And I hate accent walls.
July 25th, 2010 at 4:36 pmThat is going to look fantastic when finished.
July 26th, 2010 at 2:14 amJust about our whole house is a mix of different shades of blue. I like to say that it goes with the ‘beachy’ theme since we live on the SC coast, but I would love a yellow in the entry instead of the sand color we have now. So. Boring.
July 26th, 2010 at 8:28 amCan’t wait to see the finished product.
I love the color you chose. Looks great!
July 26th, 2010 at 12:07 pmLooks great–although I would probably hire out a painter with those tall ceilings!!!
July 26th, 2010 at 1:15 pmI like the slim yellow edging. That’s a difficult thing to do neatly. My room has a bit of colored edging, and it was a lot of trouble.
July 26th, 2010 at 4:39 pmAccent paint makes a huge difference. I used to wok for a builder. One part of my job was to go to the model homes of our competitors. I love looking at models and I got so many great ideas for wall treatments. I have two purple accent walls waiting for some art to jazz them up!
July 27th, 2010 at 1:13 amThis looks great! I can’t wait to see the finished project!
July 27th, 2010 at 10:45 amlove the choice and shocked that you are painting it yourself you go girl
July 27th, 2010 at 11:22 amYay! I suggested yellow (a different shade), so I’m happy that’s what you went with. It looks great so far. Yellow is such a bright, happy color.
July 27th, 2010 at 12:49 pmReally looks good! I wish I could be that creative, but I’m not.
July 28th, 2010 at 5:00 pmI cannot imagine trying to paint that stairway. I got vertigo just looking at the ladder… Because I am an enormous wimp about heights.
I love the colors and can’t wait to see the big reveal.
July 28th, 2010 at 10:14 pm