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Help my cream paint is too yellow!

18 years ago

We painted all of our rooms last year a very pale cream. It had just a hint of a soft yellow. Some of the rooms look perfect with it and others look like lemon chiffon!

The rooms that look great have natural lighting and i'm not sure what type of light bulbs we have.

What would be the best lighting to use to get it as close to the pale color- I really don't want to repaint but the more I look at it...it drives me nuts.

Comments (12)

  • 18 years ago

    GroomingGal~ Just wanted to let you know that the same thing happened to me, so don't feel bad. My color was called "Hazelnut Cream", it too has a very yellow tint to it. However, I've noticed that during the day when natural light is coming in it's not near as yellow. I actually like the way ours turned out, but I know what you mean. Good luck! :)

  • 18 years ago

    Pete978- thanks so much I switched all of the lights to the GE Reveal bulbs and the paint looks fantastic! So glad I asked the question here before repainting! Thanks!!!

  • 18 years ago

    That reminds me of my old dining room, which I painted a very pale creamy near-yellow and absolutely loved, it looked like a cheerful sunny day all the time! When I helped my MIL paint her study in her new house, I chose the same color. She was very disappointed. I didn't take into account that my dining room faced east and had 4 windows, and MILs room faced north and had one window. It looked depressing. That was my first major color lesson, to consider the light. (She later craved color so much that she repainted it a hideous peach. We won't go there ;)

  • 18 years ago

    When I was trying out all my colors I put them under and around the blue reveal bulb light as that is the majority of the light that will be in the rooms. I didn't have lights at the new house to try them as would be the normal thing, so I just tried them at this house in different lights and saw how they would look there in specific lighting.

  • 8 years ago

    I'm in a similar situation. Paint looks too yellow at night. I will definitely look into the GE reveal bulbs.

  • 2 years ago

    Oh my this has just happened to me I’ve painted my hallway stairs and landing and I thought it would be more of an off chalky white but it’s so yellowy I’m having regrets . If anyone has any tips please help me

  • 2 years ago

    HU-400 is the paint next to white trim? What color did you use?

  • 2 years ago

    Hi sorry I’ve only just seen your reply. No i specifically chose to paint the walls and trim the same colour as I don’t like white trim. It’s still too yellow 😂😂😂. All I see is a lemony yellow hue 🤦‍♀️. Slipper satin farrow and ball. What did you use ?

  • 2 years ago

    No worries I didn't realize how long ago this post was lol I just struggled a lot recently with painting my walls white I ended up mixing simply white and chantilly lace but now that I'm finally done I'm thinking I have to paint the doors and trim they're a different color and now you can see they're not freshly painted off whites are hard!

  • 2 years ago

    HU-400 What type of bulbs do you have in your lighting. Try led daylight 3500-4000 bulbs in your light fixtures, and hopefully, it will take care of the too yellow problem.

  • 9 months ago

    I have the same problem and wondered if painting baseboards white would help or make the creamy yellow appear worse. I have changed out the bulbs and that did help some.