yellow walls aganst black furniture

i need serious help

at this point i have 7 different yellows on my dining room wall...

i have a kitchen in an eggplant color that opens into our dining room...i want to paint the dining room yellow and then paint the living room a green (dining opens into living room)

i cant pick a YELLOW...i started way too gold (stuart gold and dorset gold), then went too light (haystack and hawthorn yellow)

I mixed the hay and the hawthorn, and that was better...

i just added phili cream to the mix last night...

I am lookng for a nice butter yellow that will compliment the eggplant in the kitchen and the black furniture, and also our china...as well as the green that I eventually will pick for the livingroom...

:)

The first pic is livingroom looking into the dining room, and then the kitchen

The second pic is in the diningroom looking into the livingroom

The third pic is what the refinished floors look like in the 2 rooms

The fourth picture is our china (with yellows and greens) - india wedgwood

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Message edited 2/4/2007 11:46:39 AM.

Re: yellow walls aganst black furniture

How about

Leap of Faith
Antique Bronze
El Serno Gold

All BM

Good luck!

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Concord Ivory (its says ivory but it is a yellow from benjamin moore). It is such a pretty color on the walls.

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Benj Moore Filtered Sunlight

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We've painted alot and I'd say out of all the colors I tried to choose yellow is by far the hardest. There are like a gazillion shades of yellow that all look on the chips to be almost the same color as each other. I had this problem when I picked the color for the nursery. Sorry I can't remember the name of the shade I chose for our living room b/c it came out very nice. But hopefully some of these suggestions people made will work out.

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I looked online & its too hard to tell if the colors are accurate, but IMO the most important thing is knowing if your eggplant color is warm or cool. You've got to stick with the same tone in all the rooms. Mixing warm & cool paint tones does something weird...it never flows right. I love your china & I think it will look awesome when you're done.

Re: yellow walls aganst black furniture

don't have a pic but BM desert tan is a really nice color. it is not really tan nor yellow. nice blend of the 2 colors.

ETA: desert tan is a REALLY close if not perfect match to the color in the mug you posted

Message edited 2/5/2007 11:27:11 AM.

Re: yellow walls aganst black furniture

thanks for all your suggestions...I am checking out all the colors that were mentioned!!

need to make a decision asap :)

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ah I dont know the name or have a pic but I have the same china set and black furniture- broyhill, half of the wall is yellow and the bottom half is wallpapered black and white check and on the window treatments are black and white toile. the chair rail we did in a wood stain instead of paint. we did a french country theme with the china and I get a ton of compliments. we also accented with greens and red too.

edited to say- OMG, the above posters pic is the same color on the wall, almost the same chandelier ( we got ours at fortunoffs) and we accented the room with the cushion colors she has on her chairs. on our chairs we dont have cushions.

Message edited 2/11/2007 11:56:35 PM.