My Yellow Kitchen & Great Room

I love yellow colors. They are so bright and warm and inviting. But choosing the right yellow is really difficult. The colors always come out brighter than you expect.

We found and used a color for our Kitchen and Great Room that we really love:

Benjamin Moore 299 Firefly

We've found this color to be very warm and inviting, yet not too bright. It is a yellow but has an orange cast to it which warms it even more.

In the kitchen, which is mainly lit via incandescent bulbs, the color is fantastic.

My only gripe with the color is that it looks too dull in the great room. There are a lot of windows and the room is full of sunlight. However, it isn't the paint color's fault. Sunlight tends to wash out colors making them more dull and less vibrant. In hindsight, we could have selected an even brighter/deeper color for the great room to compensate.

One deeper color we could have used is Benjamin Moore 301 Glen Ridge Gold

And two other colors that would go well with the Benjamin Moore 299 Firefly for accents such as cabinets, furniture and artwork are Benjamin Moore 489 Oak Grove and Benjamin Moore 2080-10 Raspberry Truffle.