I just painted my bathroom, it should have been pale yellow, but it is very bright, what should i do?

Question

I dont really want to repaint the whole room but just tone it down a little.

Answer 1

I don't think there's anything you can do once it's painted. Either get used to it, or buy some low wattage GE soft white light bulbs. I'm not sure if that'll help, but that's what I came up off the top of my head. It's worth a shot, right?

Answer 2

Get a pale yellow and a natural sponge or some lambs wool. (Natural sponges and the wool can be found in the paint section of a good store.)

Practice on a piece of cardboard or something first to get the hang of it if you have never done it before. Just get a little on whichever you choose and sponge it over the bright yellow. You will get kind of a parchment or cloud effect, depending on how you do it. If you go to a big home improvement store, sometimes they have demonstrations about different paint effects.

This way you can lighten up your paint without buying enough to totally repaint, and it will probably be prettier than plain, flat color.

Answer 3

even pale yellow will seem very very white. Yellow produces very strong psychological effects on the mind. While it can be very cheerful in small doses, too much yellow can cause viewers to be anxious, and sometimes even aggressive. Yellow tends to strain the eye because of it's abundantly bright color

Now you can solve this by choosing black, which is a decent combination. It brings the drama of the yellow down really really fast. Also, the objects in black standout because of the high contrast (the same reason why they paint some golf balls yellow and black)But if you dont want your room to resemble a shrine to the Hornets; make use of natural oranges, or orange yellows that are also pale. You might even want to go for a darker orange, such a burnt orange.

Now even if it is such a oppressive color now, you are in luck. Even the psychological effects any color yields tend to lessen over time. you might even like this new color someday

Answer 4

A fresh paint is often bright. After 2-3 months you will find the paint as toned down automatically by the atmospheric reaction and the same will look pale yellow. So, you need not do any thing now.

Answer 5

You need to incorporate darker colors, even black in the space. That will neutralize the yellow.

Use picture frames with a black frame for art. Use black iron candle holders. Perhaps add black towels, with a yellow trim.

This will really help tone it down, why? Because it takes your eye to the dark colors in the room and the yellow doesn't seem so yellow. Black is what we call an anchor color, it will anchor the room. Hope that helps.

Remember, black is the new neutral *wink.

Answer 6

You can sponge paint over it, I would try a cream color and a darker shade of the yellow, you can also get a different look using a feather duster, just dip in the paint dab off excess and stipple on. Good Luck

Answer 7

Get a paler yellow or a offwhite and mix it with a little water. Get a rag and rub it all over the walls. It won't give it a textured effect (CHEESY!) if you runb it on right. This will not make it look so "highlighter-ish"! I have made the yellow mistake too!

Answer 8

If you don't want to repaint.Try putting a yellow shower curtain and/or things that are yellow in your bathroom. It will give the walls a slight yellow hue when light reflects off them.

Answer 9

sponge paint over it with a softer shade. This really does work. They have classes on how to do this at Lowe's and Home Depot. It will look much prettier sponged anyways.

Answer 10

i did that once with what was supposed to be roasted red pepper. It turned out to be bright red. I got a darker version of the red and sponged it on. It doesn't take as long and you don't have to cut in the trim.