We’ve featured yellow accents for the kitchen, but how about a wall-to-wall yellow kitchen? Seems like an obvious choice − sunny, bright and appetizing. But it’s also a surprisingly versatile color.
The 1st kitchen features a sleek, bright yellow for a modern, minimal look.
The 2nd uses a mustard, acorn shade of yellow that feels rustic and Tuscan.
The light, faded yellow in the 3rd photo goes well with a weathered farmhouse or beach cottage kitchen.
And a bold primary yellow, like the 4th photo, can help a room go pop and retro.
And since we’re not holding back our yellow love, does anyone else think the 1st kitchen missed an opportunity to have a matching yellow Le Creuset on the stove?
What kind of yellow fan are you?
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Word of warning... I painted our upper kitchen cabinets a sunny yellow since there was NO natural light in the kitchen and it really needed some cheering up. Unfortunately, since there was no natural light, it turned out looking really bad. You really need sunlight to pull off a big yellow expanse.
Agh, I LOVE lemon yellow kitchens. Love.
first avocado green kitchens, then harvest gold, I am feeling the grandma's house-of-1976 vibe today at AT.
is burnt orange next? I bet it's on the way...
IMO a little yellow goes a long way. I only like the 3rd one but find that kitchen a little too country for my taste. I think the fifth one might have worked had they had open shelving on top.
Absolutely agree that natural light is a must for yellow!
Our kitchen/dining area is teal, I love it!!
http://www.abbeycatchat.com/search/label/Our%20Kitchen
"Absolutely agree that natural light is a must for yellow!"
Only if you're facing north - if your windows face south and the room receives direct sunlight (no awnings, trees, etc) you'll need sunglasses whenever you're in the space during daylight hours.
my first roomie and i painted our in-law apartment a bright sunny yellow. it looked like we moved into a subway sandwich shop. 12 hours later, sunny yellow was gone, and replaced with a soft butter yellow. much more relaxing.
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http://www.colormatters.com/optics.html
i love yellow but some of these really hurt my eyes.
My old house
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/135/387650570_bfd1f7c44d.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/387650457_effd2bea75.jpg
@dailypenguin
I love the line in your link:
"Babies cry more in yellow rooms, husbands and wives fight more in yellow kitchens, and opera singers throw more tantrums in yellow dressing rooms."
Perhaps AT should have a post:
"Save your marriage by painting your kitchen green."
;-)
Hee Hee! (Yellow is the new black).
I agree with bepsf its all about the exposure I could not pull of yellow in my front room because it faces south yellow looked too cheap.
I think a little goes a long way not a big yellow fan unless its mustard or gold even with that just a bit.
You'd think that with all those there'd be at least one I loved, but...nope.
I think yellow is one of the hardest colors to use successfully in interiors.
It's one of my favorite colors, but I think I would get sick and crabby about these kitchens in .05 seconds.
The first kitchen would be so fun to cook in. Beautiful!
I love that farmhouse kitchen with the yellow accents. perfect!
I don't have a link to back this up-- but I was told once in a color theory class that despite people painting a room yellow to make them more cheery-- yellow environments actually cause aggression and there are more fights in yellow kitchens than in non-yellow kitchens... this went along with concepts of why McDonalds where orange and yellow inside (promotes hunger), why cleaning products are usually in cool colored packages and food in warm colored. Who know if it's true-- but beware!
Amiebarber8, sorry, but teal is a greeny-blue colour, not the colour of your kitchen walls.
Oh, but Amiebarber I meant to say that it still looks great!
I think the third-last picture above is the loveliest. Light yellow plus white plus stainless steel plus sunlight, and all in soft matts. I think it's important if you're going to do yellow to do it matt, otherwise everything is just too reflective. And the angle makes it look like the counter on the left has a birch trim; I don't think it actually does but that would be the icing on the cake.
The Danish magazine Boligmagasinet has a gorgeous yellow kitchen on their cover this month. Unfortunately not on their web site (yet?), but there is a small picture here:
https://www.benjamin.dk/abonnement/boligmagasinet?utm_source=boligmagasinet.dk&utm_medium=menu&utm_content=menu_frontpage . It's an original Norwegian 1953-kitchen that they have fixed up. So cute!
bepsf makes a really good point.
I really like 2, 3, 5, and 8.
Yellow kitchens always make me think of the kitchen in "Pattern Recognition" by William Gibson. This character has a yellow kitchen and everyone who sees it always says, "That's a nice yellow." Strangely I disliked yellow before reading the book, but liked it better afterward!
When we moved into our current house we had all harvest gold appliances and at first I hated them because they were so outdated. But in time I really came to like them because they were such a warm tone. It caused me a lot of headache when it came time to replace each piece and could find mostly white, black and stainless. I still have the old stove, partly because I can't afford to replace it and partly because I'm no longer in a hurry to because all of my friends have had to replace theirs twice, while this one is still going strong after 35 years.
I gave in to the cause and bought a harvest gold Kitchen-Aid mixer.
We painted a few years back and it was really, really hard finding a color to work around the gold fridge and stove in our lighting and with the existing flooring. Fortunately we have a paint store with a very helpful staff.
I'd love to have a yellow kitchen, but I definitely would have to ditch this stove first!
Yellow is my very favorite color and I still don't like most of the these. 2 and 3 are fine because the yellow is an accent and 8 works well, because the upper cabinets are white and the tone of the yellow is softer. I think yellow paint has to be less glaring than this to work in quantity. One screaming yellow piece of furniture is fantastic but a room of it like the first one is overkill.
(see http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/sf/roundup/let-the-sunshine-in-10-sunny-yellow-pieces-to-brighten-your-home-105781)
I think amiebarber8 was referring to the bottom half of her dining area (which looks more turquoise than teal in the picture, but that could be my monitor). And it's a totally cute kitchen.
I love yellow in the kitchen, but these examples are a bit much for me too.
I would like to know what brand the drawers are in the first picture.
I have a yellow kitchen. Yellow cabinets, white walls, black trim and knobs and red accents. The floor is painted green and black with a red stripe around the edge. Vintage stove, stainless fridge and some black appliances. I love it but it isn't everyone's taste. We actually tried the brown trim that someone mentioned above but it really didn't work. The black makes it sort of crisp.
oh...I have a le creuset in dijon that lives on the stove.
I painted a kitchen Benjamin Moore's Sweet Butter and never failed to smile and feel warm and happy in that room. It had no windows, only a skylight (since the apartment was carved out of the top floor of an old one family house). Never made me feel angry or aggressive. Maybe it depends on the yellow and the context?