love this. Our living/dining/kitchen space is done in primary colors, too, and it makes me happy to see others do it, too!

The room is bright YELLOW and there's not one mention of what brand or name of paint she used?! Her blog doesn't say anything about it, either.

we've got a house on the market to rent out and i painted the living room a similar shade of yellow. *i* loved it but realtors and renters have not. :(

The couch is perfection to me.

Don't love it. I think for me, the yellow is too bright. I do like the furnishings.

What is the color????

I don't know. It looks like a painted box -- no mouldings, etc. That art display looks way too small for the wall space. It just overall looks really... amateur.

The yellow has to go! But the wallpaper is fabulous!

I tracked down the wall color: Benjamin Moore’s 343 Sunrays. http://blog.bossycolor.com/2010/09/bossy-colors-living-room-part-one-million.html

Ick.

Love that couch and color. Great great room save the yellow walls for me personally but it is very great!

Like the overall effect (this post IS about color, right?) but agree the artwork is not to scale. Actually, I think the addition of a floating shelf just above the sofa would solve the problem. Then just move the (also not to scale) vases from the mantle (yikes) to the shelf & hang the artwork over the mantle. IF this post was shared by the average AT member looking for inspiratation on a budget, I might stop there. As it's a designer's space, I'll be bold & say that the addition of some crown molding wuold take this room to the next level. That said, I could get way too comfortable there with a good book. Great use of color.

*would* (i really hate that i feel obligated to correct my typos...please grant us *edit* capabilities!)

the yellow is fantastic. love it.

The color could be fine but not only the art, that sofa is way too small, the chairs too big, those vases are WAY too tall ( with sticks that touching the ceiling?) I do like the matchy drapes! Lets focus on those I guess?

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@Baines: I could not disagree more. I think the scale of each of those components is just right. In fact, the composition and symmetry of the room is what makes it so lovely to me.

I'd like to see just a TINY bit more integration of that wall color down into the room, but love the joy of it all!

Hi, commenters - this is the owner of the living room. I really appreciate all of the comments, pro and con! I've added the color to the post (it was linked to), but yes, it's Ben Moore's 343 Sunrays. Agree that crown moulding could work, and that may happen eventually to bring the 10.5' ceiling down. In person, everything is to scale - I'm thrilled that Catrin loved it! Thanks again.

This is how you do it. That's a fabulous achievement, full of personality, bright but livable. I'd love to see it at night -- that's one of the things I like about deep colors; they still have a presence when the lights are low.

I like that the room doesn't look like it's all trying to be one certain thing: "Look, I'm midcentury! Or steampunk! Or hard-edge contemporary!" It looks like an organically accrued collection of things that happen to go together without being designed for each other. I sympathize with those who say the art is too small; I would have expected a big statement over the sofa. But that would look really "designed," and what we have instead is items that clearly have some meaning -- things that drifted into the people's lives and found a home. I'd rather see that than a big bold print that looks like a client said, "Oh, and designer? Get us a big bold print. We don't really care what. We simply adore art but we're not choosy about what it looks like."

The carpet, I'm not sure about. The pattern is so barely-there that I wonder why it's there at all. And I worry that we're going to see traffic patterns ere long. But it serves the room.

I think the thing I like best is how this room hosts several big chunks of assertive pink, but keeps them in their place. In most other rooms, those chairs would probably have people saying "I don't know -- that's a lot of pink." This room manages to be bright but not childish, fresh but full of heritage, pink but not girly (although I can see Zooey Deschanel parked there ...). Great job.

Love the chairs. And I do love the wall color, but for me, it's perfect for a kitchen, not a living room. I like somewhat more subdued colors for the living room, like peach or celery green, or even a butter yellow.

That coral ikat sofa is beautiful!

Part of me wants to file this under "how to be boring and loud at the same time" and run; part of me wants to explore further. I think my immediate revulsion really stems from the fact that this remains a noncommittal, impersonal, Washingtonian kind of place., It's not the color of the walls, or any particular thing. This is a hodgepodge that doesn't work; something is needed to turn it into a "electic mix" that does.

I painted my former basement a similar bright yellow and learned something relevant. You need BIG windows! Even with lots of white trim, white closet doors ( a number of them) and a white shoji screen covering some of the color, that yellow reflected on everything! (The stairwell was just too much too close together. We repainted one wall white within days because people looked jaundiced!)

It's a fun, happy color, and looks amazingly good with pink (which normally I hate) and, more understandably, blue. But flood it with light, as this room seems to do, or be sorry!!

LOVE. It's a perfect, perfect example of what I try and tell my clients about color-bold color doesn't have to be for kids or only big modern spaces, it works equally well in eclectic and traditional rooms as well, and offsets more reserved furnishings and helps take the emphasis off of other bright colors like the pink chairs. This room has it all-darks, lights, brights, solids and patterns and they all dance together. LOVE it truly.

I like its high energy.

My livingroom is the same color and I adore it! You can't go wrong with yellow as far as I'm concerned! lol

Yellow is my favorite color but this one is too bright for me. I would use it in a kitchen. Love all the rest of the room but I would remove all those vases from the mantel and hang or just lean a nice size mirror when I had more $ to spend. Love the wallpaper in the next room !!!!!!
Great job!