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I love yellow as my single most favourite colour for houses, I keep returning to it.

My dream house, some day, is yellow.

When I was a teenager, we had a stucco house in Florida that was an admittedly hideous pinkish buff shade. My parents let someone talk them into painting it lemon yellow, on the grounds that it would "sell better" (never mind that it took more than a decade for them to get around to actually selling it). For the first few years after it was painted, the shade was so intense that it was difficult to look at in full sunlight. It eventually mellowed to a pale meringue shade -- the natural stone trim on the house had been painted white, so "lemon meringue" comparisons were inevitable -- but it was really hideous for a long time.

I'm not a fan of yellow paint on houses.

I grew up in a yellow house on the opposite side of the country, in the SF Bay area. I love yellow houses, they just make you smile. It might be my fond memories of growing up, but I think that yellow houses are the most inviting and always seem to guarantee the smell of fresh baked cookies are spaghetti sauce the moment you open the door.

My parents paired their shade of warm, buttery yellow with beautiful leafy green shutters and bright white trim. My mother always plants red flowers in front of the house to go with some ceramic house numbers we found in Italy that were the exact colors of yellow and green of the house... with a border of red flowers. I say, go for the yellow, but have a fun accent color, maybe on the door, to set you apart from everyone else. Good Luck!

The house next to mine where I grew up was more of a goldenrod color, you know that 70s color, the same color as our own stove and refrigerator... and wallpaper, and linoleum floor. I didn't like it for a house color then or a house color now, but a more lemony, chiffony, buttery color seems pretty, especially with white trim, and a real porch helps some of these example do better than others. All the tract houses in my childhood neighborhood had cement steps but not a real porch. It's maybe not the color of the house I like so much as how much warmth and welcome is expressed by a porch!

I like LOOKING at yellow houses, but I'm not sure that I could go for a yellow house myself. I like the neighborhood of yellow houses you have here (I sort of think it just depends on the style) because some of them are so sweet...like a little dolls house, while other come of as well, lets just say I'd go with another color:)

I'm ready for summer too!

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I also grew up in a yellow house. Only my parents went with a very creamy yellow instead of the brighter yellow in these pictures. It's an old farmhouse and it has white trim and white shakes in the peaks. My parents still live there and it's still yellow. I love it.

I will probably never paint my own house yellow, and am not quite sure why- too girly, too optimistic? But I love looking at yellow houses that others live in, for the same sense of verve and optimism.

I like the first one--it was meant to be yellow. Most of the others I think would look better in a different color. But yeah, every neighborhood needs at least one yellow house!

There is on the 1000 block of "P" St NW that is painted a very bright yellow. I love it. Unfortunately it appears that Google Street View was done before it was painted.

When I was a kid, my parents picked out a BRIGHT yellow for our house. They also chose a brick red for the trim. Unfortunately, it was less brick and more red, and the whole house looked like McDonalds. It was awful. I always joked about people pulling up to the front window and asking for a Happy Meal.

I do like yellow houses, but it seems to be a hard color to actually get right.

Meant to note above: learn from what my parents did, and from the same thing people say about painting colors in interiors, and if you decide to do something like this, paint it a less saturated shade than you think you need to.

A house covered in yellow is a WHOLE LOTTA YELLOW.

These are all classically styled homes. Paint your 1970's or 1980's split foyer yellow and you're in for trouble. These people were just trying to be historically accurate!

http://www.oldhousecolors.com/2007/01/18/colors-for-foursquare-houses/

I love yellow houses, but think it looks better on homes with a "sweet" architectual style.

I've read that yellow homes sell faster.

My childhood home was yellow (at first garish, bright. My dad has used leftover hazard paint from the plant, but it mellowed)

I have actually dreamt about yellow houses. I'm heavily pregnant, on a ladder painting the trim on a yellow house when my husband comes home and scolds me for exerting myself too much.

Is this in DC? I'd love to live in that neighborhood but those little teensy homes are over $800k. : (

And in a down crap market!

bmorebent--at LEAST!

Love yellow - when it's done correctly! Our house is yellow, but a shade my mother picked, and teamed with a rather ugly but 'classic' dark green trim. Unfortunately, with all the green around, it's taken on a distinctly green tint. And I HATE greenish yellows.

LOVE yellow. A yellow house is like a lemon cake, it's delicious.