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[Oznell]

"Top of the mornin' to ye!"

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Green doesn't have to be on the wall, though, to have an impact.

This living room just uses little touches of green, in the garden seat, the ginger jar, and the plants and flowers, to enliven the space.  They combine with the equally subtle blue accents to give a fresh feeling:

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Sarah Richardson created a small salon-like condo living room out of a boxy space: 

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Sarah's famously meticulous attention to detail--  monogrammed chairs, in mint velvet!

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7). A store vignette shows the dramatic side of green--

A fresh, spring green gives new life to a chocolate brown leather couch--

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Cream colors. mid-toned woods, and natural fibers are among my favorite combos with green.  I like this dining room, but fewer all-green chairs would be more effective, I think :

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This green paint below, while rich, is too deep for me, personally, in a room.   If you are a green lover, do you have a particular shade or level of saturation that you prefer?

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This dark green living room seems to benefit by the strategic shots of white, and the painting.  Still darker than I could live with on a day-to-day basis, but for those who like deeps, handsome, especially for a library or study--

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Another store vignette illustrates how green in art or decor can really bring zest to a palette--

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Interior designer Cece Barfield Thompson did a widely discussed apartment, lush with greens, for herself.  Love the way she punched up the greens in the old-fashioned chintz, with her velvet throw pillows :

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Her preppy, traditional style gets a boost from the greens she chose, I think-- 

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15)  She has a little olive side table--

A living room that combines pinks and greens, a la Lilly Pulitzer.  

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Jack Fhillips ( yes, it is spelled that way!) is known for his sophisticated and often neutral Palm Beach interiors.  But for his own retreat, "Black Squirrel Farm" in upstate New York, he chose monochromatic greens:

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Love his kitchen, with its schoolhouse-inspired pendant lights, and quaint, painted stools--

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Soft green continues in his dreamy guest room--

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And more shades on his classic porch--

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I'm rarely an 'all-one-blanketing-color' fan.  Need a bit more contrast.   Back in the city below, sometimes even one or two touches of green can make all the difference.  Love how this little cabinet works in this quiet color scheme!

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EDITED to ADD:   Should have inserted these rooms from a cute, renovated guest house in West Palm Beach, that the Homeworthy site showed.  The homeowners identified the pretty living/dining room wall color--  Benjamin Moore "Soothing Green"--

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[ECBG]

I found a lot I liked!  Especially Sarah's LR with ehe emerald green! 

Did you see the white antique pitcher in the other room?

[stevieb]

Green, essentially being my favorite color, over time anyway, there's a lot here that I like and, of course, some that I don't.  My great room is painted Ruskin Room Green (Sherwin Williams, formerly Duron) and has been for over ten years now. I've not really tired of it though I often consider I might be ready for a change. It's called a 'historic' color, which is interesting. Some pictures below of it used in rooms, none of them are mine. Sometime I think I'd like to do a lighter spring green, but suspect that if and when I do the larger living space, I'll go with something completely different. Possibly even another Sherwin Williams color called 'Romance', which is a soft pink hue and possibly something I've yet to discover.

Romance...

[wagirl]

Green is my fave color too ---all photos are soothing to me except for #17---that is way too much,

[on the bay]

Green is one ofmy favorite colors to but not every green.

I like a deep forest green, sea green, lime green.

I don't like any kind of olive green or kelly green or grass green. I guess those would be the warm yellow greens.

[Babyfran]

Oznell, I love the shade of green in the " dreamy guest room." I love that whole entire room! Thank you so much for the pictures! 

[beach-mom]

I love green! When everyone else had a blue kitchen, mine was green. We don't have any green walls; ours are mostly neutral shades. But our sofa and loveseat are green - similar to the shade I will post below. Our shag curtains were already there. They are a similar color, but lighter.

I love all of these greens, but I agree you that #10 is too much. I love the porch!  

[Oznell]

Oh, yes, @ECBG ,  that antique ironstone really stands out against that wall!  It looks like it could be a bit smaller than yours...

Very nice--  that "Ruskin Room Green" of yours looks like it would be easy to live with, @stevieb , like so many good greens--  and I bet that any and all woods that you put against it look very rich.

I loved my pale pink living room in my old condo.  It took me a couple of tries to get the right pale pink, not too bright.  Unbelievably, I can't remember and didn't note down the paint color.  Since then, I've really liked Farrow and Ball's "Pink Ground" in other people's rooms,  which is a subtle pink, while still being pink.

Great choice-- I once had a green couch too, @beach-mom !   My favorite color for a couch actually.   You never get tired of it-- at least, I never did.  

[KathyM23]

I love green and can find something I like in every one of these rooms.  I was going to say except green walls, but then I remembered in my last house, I had one of the bedrooms painted a light mint green and the room was green and pink.  One of my favorite color combinations.  Not as pink as the pink in the Lile Pulitzer example tho, but pink.

As I look around my current house all my roooms that have carpet, it is either rose or green and all rooms have green or rose in them.

[feline groovy]

Nice.

Fun fact:  people who enjoy the color green are usually also nature lovers.  

(yep!)

It's my favorite color, so it's in everyone room of my apartment.

Not just decor; there are throws, towels, and other things.

It's refreshing, restful, and rejuvenating.  8)

I like most shades of it, but love the cooler-toned vibrant ones.