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DIY (and then do it again when it doesn’t turn out right)

Filed Under everyday life on January 21, 2008

Once upon a time, our dining room looked like this:

And then we got tired of the white walls, and we painted, and it looked like this:

But then Wade admitted that the yellow was a little TOO yellow for his taste, and we agreed that it wasn’t worth one of us not liking the dining room, and so we repainted. And now the dining room looks like this.

And one of us thinks that it’s a little too mustardy for her taste.

Now I’m remembering why I hate DIY. The end.

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Hmmmm, I think it’s not too bad. I recently did the living room in a similar, but not quite, shade, so I am a little biased. Ours is more golden though, I think. It would look awesome with a touch of a coffee colored rag glazing over it, if you want some more DIY projects.

I like the color but I agree with Mama Bear - a glaze would help the mustard. you could go either more brown or maybe even a bronze.

I think you are very brave for even trying! I like the first yellow, but ya know, yellow is one of those colors I think is so personal. Two people probably never quite agree on the same shade.

This is why it pays to marry a man with no taste: because a man with no taste also has no opinion.

Yes…try a glaze, better yet, try a wash with a glaze. We did the same in our bedroom with a lighter yellow and it was too yellow. We put a glaze over the top and it muted it just enough.
Use the same yellow paint, but dilute it and wash it over the top with some glaze in it, this should soften it up a bit.

Oh I like it. But how do you keep those votives lined up with two kids around?

Saffron. Think of it as saffron. That will make it all better, because saffron is so much prettier than mustard.

If that fails, then I think rag glazing is a fabulous idea — and so hard to do wrong.

I did my dining room three times.
Turns out that Restoration Hardware gray/green/blue color is VERY depressing looking.
I learned, in the living room, that any color that could be construed as baby shit is usually bad.

Have you tried it with furniture and accessories first? That can change a lot of the tones in the room without having to paint again.

If after, you find it’s still a problem, glazing is a really easy fix.

But your painting skills are improving with each color change. You could have a second or third career as a painter!

Benjamin Moore 200 — Westminster Gold. It is a little less yellow than the top photo and a little less mustard than the bottom photo (assuming that my monitor colors look anything like real life). I painted our north-facing office this color, and both my husband and I love it. Then a friend painted her south- and west-facing family room the same color, and it looks great in there too.
Then she asked if I minded if she bought the same curtains, and it started to get a little bit “Single White Female” but it’s okay, we’re still friends…

Wait a sec! I thought you loved that wall…when you passed by every 10 minutes. How could you paint it?!

Bahhhh, I hate that part of decorating. We’ve lived in our house a year and a half and painted the living room twice and the bathroom three times. I think it’s all happiness now, but man, what a hassle. good luck finding that (elusive) perfect color.

Ha. The fear of those colors is why, when asked to pick out a yellow for the guest room, I chose a shade so subtle that the exMrStapler said “Hm…not so much yellow as it makes it look like a smoker used to live here.”

you know what i saw once that i really liked? granted it was an eggplant dining room. but it was glaze applied in vertical stripes. it was a neat look with the matte flat paint and the glaze. maybe that would help yellow?

Find a place with the tiny pots of Benjamin Moore and get Shelburne Buff. We did our family room in it and it’s a really nice yellow. Sometimes it looks almost beige, sometimes it’s more of a yellow. It’s great in the room.

I always go for yellows which almost look like a warm beige on the card. Otherwise I end up living inside a bee hive. Or what I think it would be like.

I have to repaint my living room, I hate the color. But repainting the living room means repainting the kitchen and dining room (all one room for all intents and purposes).

This makes me want to die.

And I actually like painting.

Look you can get the pots online!

http://www.buyaurapaint.com/bemohicohcsh.html

The swatch looks a lot more beige on my computer. Look at my picture.

http://www.suburbanbliss.net/suburbanbliss/2007/09/this-entire-hou.html

Yellow is one of the hardest colors to get right. I love the color we chose for upstairs, but the basement yellow is putrid. Perhaps the upstairs is more refined because Ralph Lauren sold us on the name: Edwardian Gold.

I love yellow, in every room. We have a buttery yellow on almost every wall (when I like something I stick with it) and it’s amazing because in some rooms it looks very sunshiney yellow and in others it looks off-white.

Mostly I wanted to comment to say that I love your dining room table! How neat is that!

Good luck with the painting!

I realizes the concern2andI am very o glad to hear that you got your Supra fixed: I remember reading about some of your problem4cx4 !.

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