My fav is balck and yellow, but it id hard to combine these two in a room. I also like cool colors (blue and green), purple (and green/blue). Whats a good way to combine these without making a room too dark?
If you add white, you can do black and yellow with no problem. Choose stuff with a white background, black line work and bits of yellow. Or paint the walls yellow and have black and white furniture.
I’m a big fan of purple/green, purple/gold, red/turquoise, and red/grey.
I think what works in a room to avoid being too dark is to let the walls be neutral and then use the colors in accent pieces. This and this, for example, are two ways to combine purple and green without being overwhelming.
If you do a GIS for “interior design color combinations black yellow”, you’ll find all kinds of great ideas (some are a little over-the-top IMO, but you can find something you like and tweak it).
My favorite are the citrus colors, green yellow and orange.
I’d much, much sooner add gray than white.
–lissener, whose knitting designs always elicit compliments on my color choices and combos, for whatever that’s worth
Gray and yellow always reminds me of hard-boiled eggs.
twicks, who’s fond of purple and green, with either a pink or a blue for the third color
Also, a burnt orange and/or olive green might work as well.
Uh . . . purple and green remind me of moldy plums? bruised frogs? strangled Kermit? Sorry, not sure what game we’re meant to be playing here. I thought we were working with a starting point of yellow and black, per the OP, not just listing our own favorite colors. (And you’re obviously overcooking your eggs; mine are never gray. )
Yellow and black are good, it depends on how much of one. They need another color with them. I’m thinking purple, in any shade would be good, as its the opposite of yellow.
I like blue and black.
Those are my kitchen colors, and I love them. Whenever I need a new kitchen utensil I try to find one in one of those colors.
I also find it fun to experiment with color in the garden. This year my front-yard annuals are pink and orange, with lavender accents. It reminds me of the 60s.
My parents were artists, and for a couple of years they did some rug hooking. I never appreciated purple and green until I saw a rug my father had made . . . blue, green and purple with magenta accents. It’s truly gorgeous.
I know, I have used purple and green together–well, certain purples and certain greens. My point wasn’t that I’d never combine them. My point was that I was bewildered by twickster’s comment on my suggestion, which was offered as a suggestion to ralph, not in a competition that required campaigning for one’s suggestion and pooh-poohing others’.
In any case her comment made no sense: gray and yellow and white? hardboiled egg. Gray and yellow and black? not so much. If you look at the sketches I provided above, when you have gray and yellow and black together, yellow and black are the dominant color relationship; the gray becomes secondary to both. White and gray and yellow–a combination I never suggested–doesn’t have as dominant a pairing, so the three balance out a bit more, and would definitely suggest an overdone hardboiled egg. Again, not what I suggested.
lissener, you took my remark way too personally. It was an offhand comment about a color combination, not an attack on you or your color sense.
Big purple fan myself, although IMHO the purple/green combo is tricky at best.
I thought the that the NBA team Utah Jazz’s former colors were very cool. Couldn’t convince my wife to work it into my son’s room when he outgrew his crib and we went with a sports theme.
Color combinations as they appear in nature (flowers, birds, etc.) would make a good starting point, no?