Olympic paint color...Belgian Waffle. I have it in my foyer and part of my living room and also the sunroom. It is a wondeful color. I had it made up in BM matte. pics are in my photobucket. this is the truest pic...foyer in background:

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9x6 is a pretty small room. Be sure, when you're picking your samples, to choose those that don't look too yellow. When the paint is on all four walls, the color will magnify, greatly. While this is true of all colors, yellow is, by far, the truest example.

When I painted a test wall, it looked beige. I knew, from other pictures, that it would turn yellow once it was on all four. An old trick is to paint the inside of a shoe box and watch how the color intensifies.

Have you checked out the gallery to see pics of other yellow rooms?

BM Filtered Sunlight or Straw (1 down from Filtered Sunlight). I don't have pics (the rm. changed that fast) but for a very brief period of time we had our teeney tiny and I mean TINY room like about 8X6, painted as follows:

Walls: Straw
Trim: Filtered Sunlight
Built ins: Vanilla Ice Cream

It was perfection (high mid noon sun filled the rm). Our then 4yr old son told me that he really liked the rm. because it was cozy and warm. But they had too many toys and the rm. became a nursery w/ a whole new scheme.

I had visions of putting an old gold patinaed crystal chandelier in there w/ sumptuous rich ivory curtains. Oh how I adored the subtlety of that rm! BTW - I HATE yellow so that tells you how much this combo worked for me.

Trailrunner,
Beautiful colors!!!
What is the other color in your room? (the toasted/rust one at the back of the lamp)

marthaelena: thank you I am all about color, as they say :) The chocolate is Belgian Chocolate, also an Olympic paint color made up in BM matte. I really like Olympic colors more so than any other brand that I have found. They really do come out very well when made up in BM paints. Here is another view of the morning room with the chocolate.there are more at the link: house interior pics. Thank you again. c

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Look at Acorn Yellow. Just painted a small powder room this color and love it! Not too bright at all, but more rich and welcoming...

I want to do a creamy yellow that isn't too bright. Any suggestions or pictures.

Jersey Cream from Sherwin Williams is a good one. BenM can mix it, no problem.

Wow, thanks for the suggestions! These look great!

BM Philadelphia Cream. Shown truest in this pic over the door frame.

Have a look at BM #207 (vellum). It is a wonderful color. It's soft and creamy, and not a bit "in your face" at all. My mom used it in her living room:

ok, dumb me. What is a morning room? maybe I need one!! ha ha:)

I just posted my finished pictures of my dining room in another thread on here but thought I would post one in here. I used BM's Windham Cream on the upper portion of the wall and Linen White for the lower part. I love the windham cream, it is yellowy cream.

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Check out an Ace color called Manor White (BM can mix it for you). It's not white, it's a cream with a whisper of lemon sunshine. (Can you tell I love the color?! ;) I don't have any photos I can post, but it's not a jarring yellow, it's one of those colors that just leaves you wanting more, if that makes sense. Holds its own in lower light rooms. It's one of my favorites! ;)

I just painted my bedroom Montgomery White. It is a soft yellow. I can post pictures if interested- don't have any yet since it was just painted a few weeks ago.

All the yellows shown are very pretty and like everyone says ( creamy ) what would those same colors look like with the dark oak woodwork?

Both my daughter and I painted our long, narrow halls with BM Straw. Lovely shade that shifts from cream almost to yellow. Warms up the space and lightens it.

patches, the rooms I painted in Ace's Manor White are in an older house that has white trim, but several varying shades of darker stained oak antique pieces. I personally love how the color looks as a backdrop to the dark oak.

susanj8, can you post pics of bm montgomery white?

We had Almond Bisque CC 280 and Straw Hat CC 290 in our old house. They were very easy colors to live with. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures to share.

It is very overcast and rainy today so my bedroom is really dark now and I don't want to use the flash or turn on the halogen light and skew the color. I will try and post a picture tomorrow!

We just used BM Gentle Cream, very light and easy yellowish cream.

On my monitor it looks a little peachy on my own photo, but in person it doesn't. Our rooms are narrow and anything with more yellow than this looked too me as really yellow.

this is painted with just one coat:

I can't figure out how to post the pictures within my message. Here is a link to an album showing Montgomery White. I think the first picture is the "truest" and the third is the worst- it is definitely not that bright in real life.

Here is a link that might be useful: Montgomery White