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:
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.
I concur — I’m a huge fan of yellow, but over time they can tend toward mustard, depite all best efforts (almost feels like dust settling over the yellow!). I had that color in my room growing up, and so I’m probably a little partial to it, but think it could be better with a little more pop.
Love the site, and the blog!
Dave
My kitchen and living room are Benjamin Moore #317 Haystack
There are only two windows and not much natural light.
I love how warm and sunny the space feels with the change of paint color. Especially at night when it used to feel cold and drab.