We’re in the midst of buying a house (we haven’t closed yet, so don’t jinx us!), and my wife was talking about how she wanted to repaint a couple of yellow walls in the kitchen.
This led to a conversation about various colours and what image they’d project to potential visitors. In the midst of this conversation, she mentioned that she’d read somewhere that a preference for yellow meant that the person was going crazy.
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I’ve never heard this before. Nor had she until she read it, but was curious as to whether anyone else had ever heard this and what might have led somebody to make this incredibly dubious claim in the first place.
Anyone? Is this something the other kids whispered to you on the bus when the class weirdo walked on wearing a yellow shirt? Is this how some people explain the freaky guy down the street who does nothing about the dandelions all over the place?
In our last apartment, shE. Thorp painted the walls of the dining room bright yellow. At first it felt like we were living inside a lemon. But we got used to it after awhile, and by the time the winter blahs set in it was downright cheerful.
But in your case, a fondness for yellow means something is wrong with you. Something is dreadfully, dreadfully wrong. :dubious: :smack:
I’d heard about singers never wearing yellow as a superstition, but… if yellow is such a “bad” color, why is it listed in every decorating manual including several legal regulations on workplace safety (Spanish ones, so I’m not linking) as a “warm, uplifting color; good for creating a positive, energizing environment; when using it on large surfaces, choose soft shades”?
Dunno about the cracking up part, but yellow is a hard color to work with/live with.
I threw caution to the wind recently & painted my living room yellow. (Behr’s “Lemon Souffle”, to be exact). While it was drying, I had my usual panic attack that it was going to suck. But it didn’t. My furniture is cream with a green & gold stripe - it looks good. I bought some raspberry red into the scheme (artwork & throws) and it really snapped out.
Yellow is cheerful, bright, warm–all the things I want my house, especially my kitchen, to be. Now if you painted your house puce, then you might be cracking up.
We painted a room yellow, didn’t like it, and thought we’d get used to it (it came out much brighter than the swatch indicated). After about 6 months we realized we weren’t getting used to it. We repainted the whole room more pale/beige.
A better indication of your insanity might be buying a house in the current market.
I hope liking yellow isn’t a sign of impending insanity! Our house is very dark, so I painted the hallway yellow with white trim to open it up a bit. It looks much less like a cave entrance now. I also painted my office and the cat suite different shades of yellow. Yellow has always been a cheerful color to me.
While not a big fan of yellow myself, I’m fond of saying “Well, that depends on the shade.” You know, bright, neon yellow? Probably insane. Soft, buttery yellow? Probably sane. Orange bus yellow? Nuts. Just a hint above “cream”? Slick. While we’re at it: Flat finish? Good choice. Gloss? Get the straightjacket.
When I was interviewing people for a design position once, one section of a man’s portfolio was pictures of highly contrasting thick jaggy stripes (interestingly, brown and yellow) on the wall of a communal set of short height cubes. The idea was that it was so jarring to look at, that workers kept their eyes on their work. Good design in the sense that it did what it set out to do, but I thought it a little sinister.
:dubious: :smack: 
