I once had a pretty dark, north facing condo. We painted most of the walls Devine Butter. It was a creamy yellow that never looked too bright or canary, and could veer a little peachy or a little cream/off white depending on the time of day.

Now that sounds nice. I just looked it up on Pinterest and it looks like it's a Benjamin Moore color. I'll paint a sample board this weekend. Thank you.

Thank you. I appreciate the suggestion.

I agree with slourdes ... my living room & dining rooms were previously painted in a soft, creamy yellow ( Restoration Hardware “Butter” ,). Something like that would bring some warmth & furniture & art looks good with it.

Wonderful! Thank you so much. My favorite painting has oranges and yellows in it too. I'm anxious to give creamy yellow a try.

Not a fan of yellow walls. Maybe it was all the yellow walls in the mid 2000s that I tired of. Consider white walls. Then, you could splash in colors like your paintings with oranges and yellows. Some good whites are Benjamin Moore's Cloud White or White Dove for instance. Just noticed you said other than white or gray. How about a blue/gray?

I have BM Bare OC-98 in a room that gets little light except for a brief period in the afternoon. It’s more of a cream than outright yellow, but does have golden undertones & is neutral enough to pair w/ a lot of other colors. The rest of my house is BM Palace White OC-100. More of a beige than white, but definitely yellow undertones. One person even remarked it was too yellow for them (music to my ears as I hate the bland, drab gray trend). I also have some maple colored floors & it pairs nicely w/ the Palace White to keep things light & bright feeling like I wanted.

I actually love using more saturated colors in dark rooms. We recently painted SW Cooled Blue in our family room which gets very little natural light most of the day due to a heavily treed backyard. Everyone who has walked in has commented how much it has brightened up the space!

Thank you all so much. I have three weeks to decide and it's the last time this ol' girl gets up on a ladder so several of your suggestions will be tested out. I'll try to post before and after photos too.

There's a pie-shaped sun room on the other side of the LR sliding glass doors that also gets very little sunlight. See it in the background? Totally pie-shaped :-) This is someone else's unit but identical to the one I'm buying. I'm wondering if the sliding glass doors are even needed since my unit gets very low light anyway. This is Florida and it does get very hot on sun porches but mine will be shaded all day. Do you think it's even necessary to keep the sliding glass doors?? It's a very small 780 quare ft unit so not that expensive at all to keep cool. Those doors are huge too.

Take a look at BM OC-34 Marble White....it's very pale and warm, ties to almost every color except blues and greys

I'll do it! Thank you so much.

t's still a work in progress as you can see from the boxes, but here are before and after photos. The photo with the lamp in the foreground is the previous owner's. I ended up painting it the color Crepe – matte Behr or Glidden (not sure but it came from home depot) - which I can only describe as a beautiful mid-tone gold, and also installed a light maple flooring. This made a HUGE difference in warming up the living room and dining room. If you pull the color Crepe up on a computer, it may not look like the actual color at all. My laptop shows the color as a blah muted light almost beige (?) color which is not at all even close to the true color. The gold walls and light cherry/maple vinyl plank flooring solved the problem of a cold, almost depressing feel in the condo unit to one that looks soft, with a warm and cozy reflected glow that looks absolutely beautiful to me. And the mid-tone color doesn't make the room look smaller because of the lighter floors. Very very happy with the result. It really helped to paint a few sample walls beforehand so that I could see exactly what it would look like with all of the lights on, then just one or two of the lights on.

I really like your wall color, it turned out fantastic! The whole room looks great.

I am still stressing over paint colors. I do plan to use Ivory charm by Dunn-Edwards DEW323 at 135%. I just read an article that says when you're painting a small space like a condo it's best to find one color and use the other shades on the strip throughout your space.

Well I have a problem with that. Ivory charm is a single color it doesn't come on a strip. And I've already increased the pigment to 135%. So I don't know if I can increase it 200% and if it would look alright. I'm running out of time, tomorrow I'm going with my painter to pick up some white paint for the ceiling in flat and a high gloss white for the crown molding and baseboards.

I do feel that yellow hues work really well in low light condos. It helps negate the condo cave look!

Ivory Charm DEW323 at 135% on the left, original on the right.

How wonderful to see a room that isn't gray.

I feel your pain in stressing over paint colors. There's so much to choose from and gee you really want to get it right from the outset if at all possible. The color your leaning toward looks lovely. I hope to see an "after" photo. Have seen crown molding and baseboards painted a high gloss. It looked beautiful! I haven't tackled my baseboards yet. Being an older gal it'll be a little "challenging" so dragging my feet a bit BUT I'll get it done little by little. I'm thinking with the color you've chosen even if you opted to paint the entire condo the same color you can't go wrong because you can add as much or as little color as you want with accent pieces in your decor. And quite often even with the same paint color in every room, the color can take on a whole new look in a different room depending on the type lighting. The very best of luck with your project.

Yeah I totally agree that we want to get it right the first time.

And I can't do painting anymore, it's too hard on my body and I'm no spring chicken either. I have a painter that will do it .

I have eliminated gray. This condo is too cave like because of the lack of natural light. I feel it needs yellow to bring the sun inside! Wall sconces will be a must have.

I went back to Dunn Edwards today. I've decided to do a monochromatic color scheme using only 2 yellows. I'm still going to use Ivory charm #323 but I also wanted to add a deeper yellow to mix it up a little bit. Honey Nectar DET470 looked like the best deeper shade to Ivory Charm. I slapped some on the wall but with the dark colors the original owner has it's really hard to figure out what it's really going to look like.

Tomorrow I will look at the honey nectar in daylight. I put a second coat on when it was dark. It might need to be cut it 25% or maybe more. Yellows can multiple in intensity more so than other colors.

I did start a design dilemma and nobody has responded. It's under "please help me choose a yellow paint." I posted this on Saturday. If you go there you can see some of the photographs of the existing wall color. It's hideous so you've been warned.