So Long, Neutrals—We’re Calling in Joy With This Season’s Saturated Color

Twenty-three ways to bring the happy hue home.

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Sage, it was nice knowing you. After a gloomy couple of years, we’re ready to wake up our homes with a sunnier shade that’s coincidentally popping up everywhere. We recently spotted Farrow & Ball’s Citrona brightening a back room in this L.A. house. In Paris, we caught a buttery shade warming up the walls, chairs, and table in the de Gournay x Vincent Darré show house’s dining room. On a smaller scale, our new favorite hue has been seen thriving on tabletops—just take Heath Ceramics‘s summery collection of wares, for example. We’re calling it: Everything’s coming up daffodil. 

In fact, Pantone’s fashion trend report for spring/summer 2022 pointed out a “desire for comforting familiarity and joyful adventure,” which runways proved to be true. Of all the chromatic experts’ playful predictions, we’re leaning into daffodil because the idea of fresh flowers takes us to a 70-and-sunny happy place where our biggest problems involve tinkering with our spring garden. But more than that, the lively essence of this bloom (often the first perennial to blossom after a frosty season) is the much-needed antidote to a long, cold winter. 

When it comes to working the botanical color into your home, keep in mind its versatility. The smile-inducing hue works in small doses, like on a patterned throw pillow or a Scandi-style candlestick on a coffee table. But because this yellow is mellow, you can easily scale it up by painting an entire room in it or choosing to make a sofa in the shade the star of your living room. 

Best of all, you don’t need a green thumb to take advantage of this season’s joy-sparking color. Instead tend to your home with these daffodil-splashed picks. 

To Plant on Shelves and Coffee Tables 

Trinket Dish Yellow by Octaevo

Smallable
$45

Inga Candlestick

Eleish Van Breems Home
$60

Knot Vase in Calfskin and Bamboo

Loewe
$1200

Gio Ponti Hardcover by Taschen

Amazon
$244

Trellis Planter

Matilda Goad
$85

To Brighten Counters and Tabletops 

Plaza 4×4 Tray in Sunflower Gloss

Heath Ceramics
$24

Yellow Centerpiece Bowl by Alessi

Ssense
$295

Il Fiore by Moda Domus, Set-Of-Two Hand-painted Ceramic Dinner Plates

Moda Operandi
$250

4982 Rainbow Espresso Maker by Bialetti

Amazon
$39.99

Yellow Check Tablecloth

Carolina Irving u0026 Daughters
$120

To Liven Up Living Rooms and Dens 

The Ludmila Round Pouf

Popus Editions
$587

Janinge Chair

IKEA
$65

Palo Modular 2-Seater Sofa + Armrest

hem
$3549

Bit Stool

Beam BK
$300

Bobbin Large Bedside Table

Chelsea Textiles

To Bloom on Walls and End Tables 

Ronald Hooks

Lostine
$30

Cantilever Table Light

Gantri
$98

14in Pleated Daun Cotton Lampshade

OKA
$95

Pill Switch Plates

New Made LA
$25

To Add Cheer to Sofas and Beds

Tina Hand Block-Printed Linen Pillow

Soil to Studio
$90

Fez Stripe Throw

Kip u0026amp; Co
$189

Across Town Rug

Saved NY
$1475

Mini Gingham Sunflower Petite Pillow

Heather Taylor Home
$78