Had yellow, all-yellow, with white ceiling. Nice for about 5 minutes (that's how long it takes to choose a paint chip, LOL), then when you sit and look at it for an hour, you go ballistic. Really-- read up on color psychology. (It's physioslogical.)

A classic combination that flatters yellow's better aspects is blue and yellow. Our grayblue-floral-papered rental kitrchen was quite drably orful till I added golden-yellow accents. Any blue will work; I had an aqua LR once with golden yellow curtains.

Another color that pairs well with yellow is purple, and it doesn't have to be a deep or lurid purple for that to work. Very nice combination, very peacefully cheering. A friend took my advice and did A LR in brights, 2 walls each, and it was great; I've seen it done well in pastels as well.

Look at floral arrangements and bird colors-- you'll see what attracts you. Or wallpapers-- look at the color combos there. Or wrapping paper, greeting cards....

Blue & orange is good too, and again, the shades do not have to be lurid... peach is orange, too. Had an all-melon kitchen once; it was BAD. I didn't know it then, but if I had added blue accents it would have been better.

Greens and red-- not Christmas-dark shades-- are nice. Our avocado-green-papered living room is only bearable because of the rose upholstery and curtains I added. (Our last post-G'way Gathering pic shows that one as does the dog photo I sent you.)

Blue and green, very restful and organic-looking.

Very amall splashes of red, orange, or black will make any other colors in the room "pop."

Darker shades below chair rail-level "ground" a room. Lighter shades as a top border float the ceiling. Semi-gloss stripes on a background of the exact same color will "glow" like a very subtle metallic.

There is an HGTV show on these days that does a good job teaching about this, where the color wheel is illustrated with common, everyday objects and the color-wheel theories are explained and shown in concrete terms. It's about how colors that are near each other have one effect, and colors across from each other have a different effect. "Get Color," I think. (HGTV website probably has stuff there for you as well.)

~S~