Will I regret painting the family room bright yellow

[neveronsunday]

Please help.

We have a large family room at the back of the house. it is North Westfacing and about 6m by 5m.

The back wall is mainly windows as we have trifold doors onto the garden plus another window.

The wall opposite has a door onto the hallway.

One wall has double doors onto the kitchen, and the opposite wall is the door onto the study but is quite a large expanse of space.

It's standard magnolia, as is most of the house, and I hate it.

We have a grey gloss IKEA TV unit and a large white Expedit unit in it. The sofa is brown I realise this doesn't go with the rest of it but it's old and knackered

I really want to paint it Race Yellow but I worry I've just lost my mind out of boredom
www.firedearth.com/paint/race-yellow-19141

Or orange.

One wall is an option but, as a rule, I'm not a fan of the feature wall.

What say you oh stylish one.

But there's so many different greens. Why not a pale eau de nil or a soft warm olive?

If you're going to keep the sofa, I would investigate light, bright blues - not a lover of blue myself, but really like it with brown.

If you would really prefer green then do it, whatever anyone says. Otherwise you will get fed up of yellow, I'm sure.

I'm going to be the lone voice who says that would look lush on one wall with greys or similar alongside it. what terrible yellow bashing!!

Green's my favourite colour and it's really, really hard to get tired of. And a good green looks fabulous with highlights of buttery yellow.

Yellow... I painted my bedroom sunshine yellow, with blue carpet... Felt like a beach on acid! I couldnt live with yellow but each to their own

I'd go for this one, weld yellow. Or perhaps aconite yellow. I think it would look really nice with the whites, greys and brown sofa, especially the second one. I'm assuming quite a modern shape to the furniture, and the wood work done in white. Nice clean lines, and no overly detailed or fussy patterns.

All that said, I painted our living room in a bold green. It's north facing and gets lots of cold light. All the wood work is a pale ivory/off white. I love it. My DM was very worried that it wouldn't work, but it really does, and she was suprised by how well it goes.

Can you picture how it will look that colour?

Kristina, what is that blue? I'm trying to find just the right grey/blue for our kitchen, and you might have it!

There are many different yellows too though - I have yellow wallpaper in one room (well gold really) and a warm yellow paint in another, a different warm yellow paint in another. It can work really well.

Never, we painted our hallway, stairs and bedroom in F&B Dayroom yellow and it's absolutely lovely. Soft, not egg yolky, and always seems sunny on the drabbest day. Paint marks easily but cleans up OK with sugar soap and even tolerates scrubbing. Would really recommend!

My son wants a grey and white bedroom with accents of yellow (lumi not custardy). I am okay with it because we are just painting the inside of the door and frame yellow.

You could always introduce yellow accessories before taking the plunge?

I saw a gorgeous rug in Ikea today that was white yellow and grey.

Mango -it's farrow and ball light blue

Or as my Dh calls it, undercoat

Thank you.