I painted my hallway woodwork in white gloss like everyone else: when I moved the dresser two years later, the colour I found behind it was too late to fix
That mustard-yellow patch behind your dresser isn’t permanent damage—it’s chemistry. Oil-based gloss paint yellows when starved of light, and the good news is this might be reversible. Learn what caused it, whether you can fix it, and which modern paints avoid the problem entirely.