Yellow living rooms are a timeless favorite. Hotter shades are perfect for warming up a cool space illuminated by northern light and pastel shades of yellow can be perfect for hot, sunny rooms.
Yellow living room paint can range from deep and earthy to just-off-white. Whichever yellow you choose, your room will feel welcoming by day, and cocooning by night.
Decorating with yellow is the perfect color to pair with contrasting and complementary shades, and it can work in both contemporary and period living rooms.
If bold and bright is your style, opt for a vibrant sunflower yellow.
The shade may conjure summery notions, but it also makes for a cozy, warming environment in the winter too. In this room, it brings a vibrant update to a period property, contrasted with white ceilings and a fireplace, and tons of texture in the silver velvet sofas and rug.
'Note the gloss finish on the walls,' adds Homes & Gardens Editor in Chief Lucy Searle. 'This is an increasingly popular interiors trend that designers are adopting to reflect light and give a high-end finish. But a warning – your walls need to be perfectly finished or this effect will only highlight lumps and bumps.'
Living room color schemes can also benefit from delving into yellow’s earthier tones, by mixing in a little brown for a yellow ochre.
As demonstrated in this living room, the shade works especially well when used as a wall paint alongside natural textures. In this case, a mixture of light and dark brown woods.
Yellow need not cover your walls to make an impact in a living room. It can have a transformative effect, even when used in small doses in neutral living rooms or in a largely monochrome scheme, like in this example.
‘If you wanted to inject a little playfulness to a room without having to commit to big decorating decisions, you can also do it subtly with accessories, cushions, throws or even an accent piece of furniture,’ say Jenna Choate and Mariana Ugarte, Co-Founders of Interior Fox.
‘Work with accessories with different textures, shapes and sizes to bring the space to life, while adding various points of interest throughout the home.’
As we’ve all been longing for the great outdoors a little more than usual, blue living rooms have become increasingly popular.
Pairing blue with yellow makes for a vibrant, mood-boosting scheme. In this room, blue walls are contrasted with sunshine yellow accents, with the combination kept light with the use of white in between them.
For a more traditional approach to yellow living room color scheming, pair yellow with a soft cream.
Doing so will create a room that feels welcoming and warm, without feeling too bold. Introduce mid-greens for extra warmth, or blues to cool the space down a little.
If you want to take a yellow living room scheme down a notch, but still want to create impact, one way to do so is with a gently patterned wallpaper. Yellow is teamed with black or white, for example, as in this space by Kit Kemp for Andrew Martin.
This peachy-colored living room has been given a contemporary flourish with pops of primary colors, including a zingy yellow on the bobbin-legged table.
Matched with strong natural textures, such as the weave of the armchair, the room feels pleasingly like a modern Shaker space.
Velvet is a sumptuous fabric, and in gold it is reminiscent of furniture seen in the most lavish palaces in Europe.
Clad armchairs with it in your own living room and the result will be just as luxe. The important thing is to be restrained with the decor in the rest of the space so that the bling doesn't over-power.
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