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Kristin
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I'm thinking about painting our front room yellow. I know that yellow can be a very tricky color, so I'm wondering if you all have any recommendations on a particular shade of yellow paint that you have found to be quite lovely?
I'm thinking of something ranging from a light to medium yellow, but I'm open to anything!
My plans are to use a blue and white toile for the valences - I guess it's the country French look I'm going for! 
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OOOOOHHHHH!!! I love yellow kitchens and blue toile!!! So happy and pretty! I have cream and blue toile in my bedroom.
You're right about yellow being tricky. I'd take some pictures of your kitchen and go to a nice paint shop over the weekend. They have decorators there that are really helpful. Our local Sherwin Williams has helped us a number of times. Then, maybe buy a smallish container of a few shades of yellow and paint big squares on your wall. Look at it at different times of the day in different lights. Then paint!
Your kitchen will be so pretty!!!! What a wonderful project to tackle!
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Yellow can be very tricky - and you'll also want to take into consideration which direction the room faces. My kitchen is yellow and east facing and we love it! We got several paint sample cards from the paint store and taped them up on the wall to see which ones we liked the best. You will be surprised at how the tone of the colors changes throughout the day. In the morning, the one we selected is a crisp, sunny yellow. In the evening, is has warm golden tones and is very relaxing.
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My kitchen is painted a light yellow and I've been very happy with it. I think the name of the color is Belgian Waffle by Olympic; I got it at Lowes. It was the lightest shade on a card with three shades of yellow. I used the middle color (gold buff) in the connecting entry way. It's true that it can be tricky and changes with the amount and kind of light - it looks so different with natural vs. artificial light. I too went for the French country theme in the kitchen and chose blue toile with a mustard yellow background and it has all come together nicely. I think erring on the side of too light is the way to go - I painted a bathroom what I thought was a light shade of yellow and it's much brighter than I really wanted. When we chose our colors I lived with the paper sample and then a painted sample for a while, again to see how it looked at different times of the day. And besure you have the fabric of your window treatment to compare it with before you make your decision. I never realized how many shades of yellow and gold there were before I painted our house! Good luck! I'd be happy to share pictures if it would help!
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Kristin--
sounds beautiful!
We used "pale daffodil" by val spar (egg shell)-- it has been great in all lights. I could even go a shade lighter--but lighter is better if you're deciding between 2. And definitely satin or egg shell finish--NOT high gloss! 
Good luck!
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I will second/third the lighter is better advice!
And avoid "bright". A previous employer of mine (I was a nanny and housekeeper and as the children grew, I did other things around the house too) wanted a brighter room in the basement, so bumblebee yellow it became. I helped with it (ok, I did most of the painting, actually), and when the oldest boy came downstairs and saw it, he quickly ran back up the stairs with his eyes covered, screaming "My eyes are burning!" 
It WAS bright. When they later sold the house, the first thing the real estate agent said was "get rid of the yellow paint - NOW."
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Mary Chris has a beautiful shade of yellow on her walls in a room with a lot of windows. I could live there...but that might have more to do with Mary Chris herself and less to do with the dreamy color of paint and the cute window treatments.  I'm hoping to paint a room in our house with the same color when we aren't moving so often anymore.
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We did a yellow bath in our home in VA. It was a tiny bath with no windows. I had hoped to brighten it up. Dh went to pick up the paint we agreed on and decided it looked too light and bumped the color up a notch.
We were ready to put a sunglasses holder on the outside of the door so you could put them on so you could see in there
It was bright--but I liked it.
It is a neat color.
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Oh, I loooove yellow--we had a lot of yellow in our old house in NC, and I've used the same color here in OK. THAT is how much I love this particular shade.
It is an OLD one, called "Ivory Castle". I don't know if they even have it on the computers anymore (I had my paint swatch from when I originally painted the old house eooons ago). It is, like someone else said, one of those that changes from a lovely soft warm buttery yellow in the morning, to a deeper, more "cuddly" parchmenty color in the evening as the sun moves across the sky...
It also goes splendiforously with red and blue and a good green. And black. It is a very versatile shade and I really really really really like it, can you tell?
Oh! Here is a picture of my dining room here, with this color on the walls...
(hope this works!)
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff189/barlcana/pigs-dinin grm-fabric004.jpg
(please ignore the mudroom, laundry bucket, and pile of laundry beyond it...  )
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Thank you, everyone, for your responses! I'm hopeful about finding just the right yellow. Not everyone is so crazy about yellow so it's fantastic to tap into the opinions of those who do 
Rachel, I would love to find out more about the color you mentioned. When you took the sample in and had the paint made, did they print a "recipe" on the label? Also, I wasn't able to see the picture, it has been moved or deleted?! 
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Oh I like yellow too.. I agree whatever yellow you pick is likely to be much brighter on a wall than on the card. You can get sample bits of paint now so you can paint a largeish patch of wall for the effect.
But that said I had a room growing up that I did a sunshiny yellow, two walls in yellow with yellow cutains and two walls in a creamy white trellis pattern wall paper with pale yellow, rose and blue flowers on green vines.. it kept the yellow from overpowering the room but oh.. I loved to go in my room and bask in the warmth and light of that room. Whenever I can I like a yellow in my kitchen.. kitchen are just supposed to be sunny I guess
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