Green is one of the coolest colors to the eyes. It has an aura of tranquility to it and lends a calm and relaxed feel when used.
It is the color of nature and hence gives a fresh and lively feel when looked at.
It also cues positivity and optimism and signals new beginnings.
Adorning with green almost always puts one in a cheerful and pleasant mood.
It is hence a popular choice of color for home decor, whether in the living room, bedroom or bathrooms.
It comes in various hues like emerald, forest, sage etc. and you can choose the tint of green as per your liking and preference.
Green when used in the living room transcends effortlessly the balance between contemporary and traditional.
Due to all it’s above positive connotations, it is a perfect color for a home’s entrance.
Let us look at some of the ways you can use this color in your living room
Gold Accents
Use hints of gold accents – whether in the center table, pillow throws, vases, showpieces etc.
A dark green tone with gold, sure makes for a regal combination, which will give you the feel of being amidst nature, both through greens as well as the precious metal we are all so fond of.
While bringing a calming feeling into your living space, it will add the much needed elegance.
A perfect balance of being pristine, while at the same time being plush.
Plants
Use a hero plant, as well as other smaller pieces of greenery generously to give the feel of life in a meadow.
Eg. Use a floor plant, a table plant, a green meadows painting, floating flowers with leaves to design ur room around lush greens.
You could go for a contrast color like a beige sofa or rug to offset as background & make the greens stand out.
Multiple textures
Use differing shades and materials of green, with multiple textures & items to add the much needed variation
Eg. Team your sofa with sea green velvet pillows, green throw, a green floor rug, a bright leafy green plant, green center table, a green abstract painting, wall textures, wall art etc.
Walls
Paint your main wall in the green shade of your choice & let that be the dominant color in your living room.
For the rest of the room could either go for a green shade one lighter or a white/ any other contrast color with matching or mix & match furnishings and decor.
Flooring
How about walking on a green flooring?
For the same, you could choose a shaded wood, with shades of green like light, dark, olive, sea green etc. or simply go for a rug in a green of your liking.
Tan and Brown
Create a forest look, by complementing your green with tan & brown
Eg. Green wall with tan sofas or wooden furniture like a big wooden center table or side table.
Wooden Flooring
Another perfect recipe for the forest look could be wooden flooring, combined with green walls, furniture like your sofa set or furnishings.
Who wouldn’t walk to get the feel of a ‘walk in the woods’, each time you step into your living room?
Add in a few plants & voila! You wouldn’t long much for a forest retreat, having the luxury of one in the comfort of your own home.
Complementary Colors
Use partners of green as the dominant color and green as the secondary color – If you don’t wish for your paint color to be green or even your sofa color, worry not.
There are other ways you can incorporate green into your color scheme.
There’s room for those who prefer other colors to build a bit of green into their look.
There are many colors that complement green & are living room colors.
Eg. A mustard yellow will give you the color of your choice, add brightness, lend a rich look and it makes for a perfect green partner:)
Another popular color that will go perfectly with green is the all favorite black. You can’t go wrong with that combination.
Similarly white, gold, beige, brown etc. – there are plenty of complementary colors to green to choose from.
Base Accent Color
Another route to exploring the above trend, could be using green as your base accent color eg. a royal green carpet to give a feeling of walking on grass-like coolness.
Everybody’s homes have maroon carpets, but when you do green, you do the new:) Brownie points for a different view.
Plus it gives you the liberty of adding green, without that being your main color.
Furniture
This is for those who like to be imaginative and don’t mind going bold on color.
This will definitely make your living room stand apart from what most homes have and give a feeling of the much needed ‘space of our own’ we all long for.
You are sure to get complements on your innovative thinking by design admirers.
As a tip, a white sofa set would compliment this look perfectly, making for a perfect combination of color and class, bold & conventional, trendy & classic, checking all the boxes just the way they should be.
Furnishings & decor
For those with more conventional tastes, you could throw in green as furnishings & decor
Eg. Your sofa pillows could have prints of leaves, your floor rug could have a green tone, your wall painting could be that of greenery, you could have a green side table, a green pot, green artefacts etc.
Curtains
Green with it’s natural partner ie. ‘light’. Yes sunshine on green makes for a garden like feel.
Read draping your curtains here in Nature’s color & letting the beams of the sun hit your face as they pass through your green curtains.
You could mix and match the rest of the furnishings or go for a all green monochrome look.
It would be best to partner it with a white paint & white windows to give an airy, spacious and raw feel to your room.
Cane
Yes, wood can get a bit much for some of us at times (like my mother:) coz it tends to give a heavy feel.
For those who prefer to keep it light & roomy, one leverage green could give you is having good old cane furniture.
Yes, it will lend a casual, laid back, down to earth country feel to your home, instead of coming across as overtly done up. Another advantage of having a green look:)
Grey
Another good combination to have the best of both worlds.
Grey is a universally adopted and oft used color for living rooms, both traditional and modern.
While Grey sets the perfect muted base, green adds the much needed dash of pop and helps you achieve the balance we all crave for in our lives.
Grey makes for a good wall paint color, while green is a good choice for sofa & furnishings.
It’s a celebrated combination, classic and conventional and one you’re sure not to go wrong with.