Brighten your living room by working yellow into the palette.
See how to style the sunny shade with our yellow living room ideas.
Yellow Living Room Decor
Quickly introduce yellow into your living room with furniture and accessories.
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Gold finishes on metal furnishings or light fixtures add depth to ayellow color scheme.
Yellow Living Room Color Scheme
Yellow’svibrant, happy tonespair well with other bright colors.
For balance,try pairing mustard yellowwith deep cerulean and coral.
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These updated shades of primary colors naturally work well together to create an energizing effect.
Boho Yellow Living Room
Yellow is one of many colors featured in thisboho-style living room.
The yellow walls host agallery of colorful art, and a deep blue sofa holds plenty of patterned pillows.
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Upholstered chairs feature rich patterns that tie thewarm red and yellow schemetogether.
The yellow tones throughout the space complement the warm ivory fireplace surround.
Then use fabrics on furniture and pillows or an area rug to pick up the color around the room.
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This is one way to brighten a space without making the color too overwhelming.
Lemon-Yellow Living Room Accents
This midcentury modern living room revolves around bold, lemon-yellow wall decor.
Browns and blues dominate the space, but a yellow upholstered accent chair brings the scheme together.
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Shades of yellow also appear on the mantel in artwork and on coffee table accessories.
Dark wood furniture grounds the light color scheme, while pops of white keep it light and fresh.
This look fits perfectly with traditional home decor.
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Here, a bold yellow stripedsofa adds a punch of colorto the room.
It pairs with navy blue accents in the stripes, pillows, and window treatments to achieve balance.
In this airy space, abundant natural light and high ceilings are the stars.
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Off-white walls and armchairs blend away in the space, and dark accents ground the light hues.
Small gold accents give this design a vintage tone while also incorporating yellow tones around the room.
A soft yellow rug gives the space a color foundation.
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An amber cabinet adds even more variety.
The light chaise and yellow lamps play up the gold accents throughout the space.
White woodwork contrasts dark wood floors to strike the perfect balance.
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Subtle Yellow Decor
Bring yellow living room decor into your home without letting it take over.
This space marries dark wood furnishings with light yellow textiles for a balanced and subtle look.
Muted patterns andcolors carry throughout the spacethanks to accessories like yellow wall art and coffee table accents.
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Buttercream Yellow Walls
Light buttercream yellow unites this large living room.
It starts on the walls and echoes in the gingham curtains and the striped rug.
The lighter yellow backdrop allows yellow wall decor and alively animal printon the ottoman to take center stage.
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Adding black accents will give a yellow room more zing.
Just be careful not to add so much black that you mimic the decorating equivalent of a bumblebee.
Golden Yellow Living Room
Golden yellow walls lend this living room a sunny disposition.
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Retro Living Room Decor
This bright living room brings a 1960s color scheme into the modern era.
A tufted butterscotch sofa brings out the yellow tones in the chevron window treatments.
Gray and yellow striped chairs bring neutral tones to the deep tones of the rest of the decor.
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Cheerful Yellow Paint Colors
For an outdoors-inspired space, start with a sunny yellow wall color.
Incorporate sky blue and grass green accents to complete the yellow color scheme.
Gray and Yellow Living Room
Thisgray and yellow living roomfeatures bold pattern and texture.
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Artwork on Yellow Walls
Art galleries know a neutral backdroplets the artwork shine.
This room shows that a neutral background doesn’t have to be white.
A warmyellow wall coloremphasizes the hues in this graphic, unframed piece.
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Lighter shades in subtle yellow-and-white patterns add interest to the white furniture without detracting from the bold painting.
Tall curtains add drama and lead the eye up to the natural wood beams.
Gray and yellow wall art carries the color of the armchairs around the space.
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Decorating with Yellow Walls
Wondering how todecorate a room with yellowwalls?
Make the floor match, and let the furniture bring something new to the space.
Here, a yellow floor rug blends with yellow walls to create a blank canvas for furnishings.
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A blue sofa and red-and-white accent fabrics bring in all three primary colors without looking elementary.
Graphic black accents weave into the scheme to emphasize the geometry of this modern space.
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