This wall is crowded. You already have another good looking sofa in this room maybe this one can go. How about re thinking furniture arrangement.

On the computer sketch up, paint the ceiling also. Maybe a shade a little lighter in the same yellow.

I wrestled with color all weekend on the BM site and with your help, Houzzers, realized I need to change that sofa color. I won't be able to change the sofa, but since it is slipcovered I can change the cover. I tried a green wall color (not really what I envisioned but nice) with a darker sofa color and a Stuart gold wall with a red sofa. See what you think.

The green is Castleton mist, btw.

I like both the red and brown sofa and wall colors. Are those colors in some other elements in the room? In pillows or rug? or adjacent rooms? I like the red sofa for a bold statement. Two different feelings for a room. Bold/dramatic or soft/subdued.

LB, I have a red upholstered Mission chair in this room and several Kilim pillows with red and tan and a red paisley throw on the green sofa. The rug has gold, green and red.

Here are the photos

and the sofa

I like the furniture as is and the pillows. Paint the wall a golden color you love or a carmel toffee color.

I like the link LB Interiors posted of the room done in Stuart gold. The room looks nice IMO because of the contrast with the white woodwork and sofa. Can you slip cover the sofa in a light cream color?

rosiegabby, I tried this on the app but the sofa is tooooo big to be any lighter.

Here is the Stuart gold with a green sofa.

Not so fond of the green sofa : )

I absolutely love yellow rooms and think the red cover really goes well and resolves the problem with the tan sofa. I also liked the two tone wall on your stairway.

My current favorite picture in houzz is

http://houzz.com/photos/614404

With warm yellow walls and a grey sofa - another option for your slip cover.

My question - what is bm room designer and where do I get it?

BM design refers to the Benjamin Moore color designer app. Just Google Benjamin Moore and go to color designer.

Well i appreciate your Stuart Gold paint choice, which is giving no doubt giving extra zeal to the walls, but the hanging piece of art is not going too good with the wall color, for which i would advise to shift that picture to another room & put another piece of art with darker frame shade.

What about doing the fireplace wall gold and the other walls another neutral color. I think you'd tire of the color all over and it does not go great with beige.

I agree with rosiegabby.

Take a look at the painting over the sofa. It has a soft gold and blue/gray that look beautiful together and also work with the sofa. Maybe some of the decorators here could recommend paint colors for a gold accent wall and a blue/gray for the other walls.

I think the mistake that too many people make, including myself, is getting too focused on a specific item whether that's a fabric, color, furniture etc. rather than trying to achieve the effect that is so appealing in your particular environment.

Have you chosen a color?
A more subdued yellow? and other options

Sherwin Williams Blonde is a very rich color. You really ought to consider it. I think it would probably get you the effect you want.

BM Cork

IMO works better than the Stuart gold

I like the Cork better than Stuart Gold.

Would you (rosiegabby and LBInteriors especially ) consider BM Guilford green a neutral for the sofa and staircase walls, with Stuart gold on the fireplace wall?

I like BM Guilford green. I think Stuart Gold is too much of a harsh accent color with the green. Stuart gold is a strong color that I think I would use sparingly. MO

Thanks LB. I'm still working on it.

Go for the Stuart Gold. I live in a house with bold colors and we love our rooms. Art gets changed around until it finds a good spot.

Ok, I have done a complete turn-around on the deep gold idea for this room. I painted some swatches and left them there over the weekend and anything gold that looks good at night looks gaudy during the day. So I'm going to green. A light green with either a dark green or caramel on the fireplace wall. Please weigh in. I also changed the art on the sofa wall. Thank you!

I love the green paint. also the #2 pic , not the gray/green color. The yellow above mantle is a good color too.

If anybody is listening, today is D-Day. The painter has finished the dining room, a bedroom, the basement, and has primed the living room. He is coming in tomorrow morning and will want a color decision. I have gone back to the yellow-gold but much lighter. I started looking at the LRV factors of the colors I liked and most of them were way too low on the scale of 1-100. I'm also leaning more toward the neutral but on the brown, not gray end of the spectrum. This is Powell Buff, a BM color. Still a little too dark, I think.

Other contenders are Birmingham Cream

I'm having trouble with the color links...

and two Martha Stewart colors, Macadamia....

BM Powell Bluff

I can't find Birmingham Cream. Who makes it?

I like Powell Bluff. If you think lighter is better, you can't go wrong.

Have you ever used Farrow & Ball paint? I found a color, Matchstick, on their site that I love. It was featured in a story in This Old House this month. But the nearest retailer is 57 miles away....

Matchstick

That is pretty, but I think you can find something in BM or SW that you'll like or is close.

Here's a few
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A little darker

Thank you so much. I was going to spend hours on the road today to get the Matchstick but the nearest store doesn't keep F&B in stock so I'm back to what's available locally. I love the way Powell Buff looks on my computer but on the wall it is way too dark. I like the Roycroft Vellum by SW. Now it all depends on the Home Depot paint computer.

When shopping, use the Powell Buff chip and try to find a lighter hue.

I on the other hand would go with this

Genevieve, my late mother's favorite color was avocado!

I have to laugh at myself when I look back to February (!) at all the changes I went through about this wall color! So this morning, after waking up at 6 am to see if the paint store halfway across the state had the paint I wanted (no, they don't keep it in stock, only order it) I called a small local paint retailer I have dealt with before who stocks Benjamin Moore and asked if he could replicate a Farrow & Ball color. He could. I put my blinders on and drove straight over the hills and valleys, got the paint ($65/gal) and drove home. Didn't even stop at the bagel shop. My painter was there with a gallon of Behr from Home Depot (I had tried to call him to head him off but our cell phones don't work so well around here) in Navajo white- the default choice after all this. He is using the F&B Matchstick color in Aura and I'm really liking how it looks. Have to go to a rehearsal now. The true test is how it looks at night in incandescent and warm led light. I'll let you all know.

Wow, good for you. I think you will be happy with F&B because Navajo white will not have the interest or pizzazz that any other very neutral color would have in your room.

Any pictures of the final paint job ?

Wow, I really dropped the ball on this post! I went with the Matchstick and we love it.

Looks so nice! It's soft but still shows some warmth.