I like the green that's there. Yellow will be overkill. It already almost is overkill with so many matching pieces. You might consider a solid slipcover on the chair.

I would try an off white instead of yellow. I think you are getting to much yellow. I think you should move the cabinet away from the fireplace wall, it is not allowing the fireplace to be the star.

Not yellow, I would paint the kitchen green instead so it all feels like one room.

I like the green, but I can see how you would want a brighter color. Have you thought of maybe a light blue (like robin's egg blue)? It would brighten up the room and it would compliment the yellow of the furniture as well as create a color triad with the red hues in your sofas.

Yellow would be bad ... I'm thinking off-white.

How attached are you to this couch?

I would not paint yellow... you already have yellow in your kitchen... and the sofa... and it would be way too yellow! I would go with maybe another color from your sofa... I would maybe go with a cream or tan color.

I think the green you have is ideal. It ties in with the sofa. Now you can add art in green and yellow.

Keep the green. Change the kitchen. Yellow is one of themost difficult colors to select. Change curtains away from tan, and add rug in plain green with deeper sage border to break up tan against yellow at carpet. Add white framed elements on your green walls - hanging over the fireplace is charming.

need something on wall above the sofa wall. you have the design dilemna of the vaulted ceiling. so much wall space dwarfing the room. do not envy you. Perhaps leaving fireplace wall green ( I dont mind the color but with such large wall area there is too much of it). Then paint the other walls a complementary off white. It may break up the space. If you can lift the wall hanging above the fireplace by a few inches, that also may help break up the monolithic look of the fireplace. Have you though of hanging the wall hanging over the couch?

I agree with moving the cabinet if you can. (can it go where you currently have the arm chair? I can not tell if there is a corner to accomadate the cabinet or not) It looks like a toy next to the fireplace. Then you could place the chair or Chaise in that general area (but pulled well away from the corner) facing the sofa. pull sofa a few inches away from the wall so it doesn't look so smushed and cluttered.

Beautiful home, great upholstery, and nicely done! Beautiful yellow in the kitchen offsets the mahogany/cherry wood -- trust your color instincts, but that kitchen mustard does not work as well with your daffodil yellow upholstery. Yellow is really hard. I have an ottoman, circular, 30" wide upholstered in a similar fabric and style as your seating, that I hope will "bolster" my credibility. Try silken pine from Benjamin Moore for a light green, or Grand Teton White for an off white with green tint. White Dove for the trim.

But your upholstery, fireplace, and fireplace mantel -- and television cabinet -- even your fireplace brick -- all are different yellows and from different design eras. You know how this room is used, your budget, and the choices you make should support not just color harmony, but first also function, and how long you intend to live in your home. I would add harmony in the other elements of design.

First, I agree that an area rug is needed to relate these upholstered pieces to each other, as well as to the purposes of the room. And I agree that a darker green would work. Two shades of green from your upholstery is one idea, but I would also consider two different types of carpet (textures/heights/?) in the same color -- a carpet store can help you add a border and field with a carpet by the yard (it doesn't have to be expensive) -- but I would ask a designer to help you with the furniture placement first, to support the functions of the room, and then also to size the rug and the border of the rug, accordingly.

A second opinion is very valuable here because you are making the whole room serve the needs of your family and guests more effectively. A radical idea may be to arrange the furniture to support two functions at the same time -- conversation AND screening. Orienting the sofa to the screen, and placing the other chairs back to back, on a larger rug in dark green, is an idea intended to encourage your thinking beyond the current arrangement, even if these pieces were selected and upholstered for this room. Another radical idea is to place the sofa parallel to the windows, and to place a screen on the wall that is now above the sofa. Another option is removing one or both of the half walls, creating the opportunity to use the sofa as the "wall" between the informal eating area and the family room. Makes four rooms, four functions, not just three. All at different price points.

But you only asked about paint color!! And we are talking about rugs!! Most commercial rugs by the yard come in various heights, and textures, just be sure to choose the same proportions in the fabric content of the rug for ease in commercial cleaning and drying. If you need to see this idea first -- buy one or two clear plastic painter's tarp in 9x12, to help size the rug, and for color, borrow carpet samples from your rug store.

Function is conversation and screening? Reading? Some tables, a floor or table lamp or three, would help to scale the room to size by bringing the furniture into closer proximity to each other by bringing the pieces close to a common table -- and, in that way, defining an area the same scale as the kitchen, and informal dining -- within the larger family room. These tables should be purchased before the rug. I see a cat, and there are beautiful end tables that also serve as pet sanctuaries.

Budget lamps? I buy mine from thrift stores like Habitat, GoodWill, my hospital and veteran's thrifts -- and Target/HomeStore/Bed Bath and Beyond, etc. -- paint to please, and check the wiring with my lamp store. Sometimes the base is fine, but the proportion of the shade, the height of the "harp" and a finial, can make the difference between a "designer" and a cast-away. The last time I was in my lamp store, another customer asked if he could purchase a lamp like mine -- I paid $15. New, and was buying a new harp because I already had two shades from which to choose. Their shades are usually too fragile for family rooms, so I receive help in determining the height, width, and shop elsewhere for something I can replace if needed. Borrow a lamp from another room, before buying new.

The yellows on the far wall? Perhaps paint or stain the television cabinet and the mantel -- paint the cabinet the same color as the walls, and stain the mantel a color that looks good with the stone, but is more like the other wood in the kitchen -- this mantel suggests the kitchen cabinets were originally oak. Consider placing your plasma screen on a lower, smaller piece of furniture, perhaps painted.

If you want the room to feel shorter, paint the entire fireplace wall a different color that complements the wood in the kitchen and the brick in the fireplace. The copper fireplace screen looks custom, and complements the brick, so I would change that last -- but it is surprisingly easy to paint both metal and brick.

I believe it would be hard to find art to go above your sofa that would not compete with the sofa in some manner, AND the tapestry and I would place your tapestry in the category of art. The tapestry is in a different style than your upholstery -- if you want to add art, I would place it above the fireplace -- something wider than taller -- and move the tapestry to a different tall wall, perhaps a stairwell. The screen cabinet and the tapestry together would upscale a lower level gathering space, even if unfinished -- or an upstairs foyer. But these two pieces are making it harder for you to find a wall color you like.

Another easy, quick fix, without moving your sofa, is to consider a stock mirror, with a narrow frame, to repeat the width of the stripes in your fabric, or a series of vertical or square mirrors, perhaps mimicking the shapes and sizes of your windows elsewhere. See Horchow or Home Goods -- mirrors are pricey to ship -- and break -- so a local resource is best, but if you find one on line be sure to check their shipping carrier and return policies. A mirror would reflect the light from the windows and repeat the other colors in the two rooms, and perhaps add width and depth to the height of this room. You could even paint the mirror molding the same color as your trim, or a darker color from your upholstery -- a mirroedr screen the same proportion as the sliders would be an interesting choice.

You could easily do a reach Jersey Cream color on the walls to keep things bright and cheery

Creamy white would brighten the space and complement the kitchen color.

Nice.

You should take one of your larger, more yellow cushions and one of the striped cushions with you to the paint store or bring home lots of color cards. It would be easy to end up with something that clashes with this.

A creamy white might work if you want a light room -- unless you und up with one with a yellowish or pinkish hue that clashes. A tan without those yellowish or pinkish hues -- a pale brown -- would work better or a pale muted shade of the green in the sofa could, too.

No more yellow. Go for a creamy off white or a VERY light sage green.

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