Hi Debra,
I just discovered your website and think it's great.
And I thought I was the only one who made a boo boo.
My question is: I bought two gallons of paint from Wal-mart (no blame to Wal-mart) in what I thought was a yellow/gold to paint my family room.
This room has a wood chair rail along it as well as wood crown molding and baseboards. The good news is that having a feeling that it was going to be too yellow on the walls, I only painted one short wall with this paint.
And, I was correct….it is much more yellow then gold reminding me of a color one would choose for a Spanish style home rather then a traditional ranch. Not that I don't LOVE spanish style. I watch HGTV almost constantly. But my home is NOT spanish style.
How can I get this paint mixed with a color that gives it a more gold tone but in keeping of a more yellow/gold tone? I anxiously await your answer as I want to try to complete this room by this weekend. Thank you, Bonnie
Seems we all have alot of oooppps colors lately. We love the color on the little paint chip, but when we get a large section painted it looks horrible. So to answer the question about changing yellow paint to a more golden paint:
Yellow is a primary color so you can usually add something to change it's color very easily. To create a more toned down not so bright color you would add a brown color. Brown is made up of a mixture of all the primary colors so you need to add a brown that has more red and blue in it than yellow. I am not trying to get into color theory here… just a short explanation of how colors might work in this instance.
My first thought would be to add the color burnt umber. Which is something the paint store has in it's paint tints. Burnt Umber is a warm brown which should tone down the brightness of the yellow paint.
I would take the cans back to Wal-mart and ask them to help. They are usually quite knowledgeable about paint mixtures. You can tell them THAT Painter lady sent you… but it probably won't mean anything to them. 
Hope this is helpful, Debra
