These handsome hues bring a whiff of nature indoors.
Green is the easygoing color of grass lawns and leafy trees, but it’s also among the most difficult of paint hues to get right.
“Pink, blue and green all can be very, very tricky when they’re not saturated,” said Jamie Davis, co-founder of Los Angeles-based. “Blues can look like baby blue, pink can look like a little girl’s room, and green can look really minty and really weird.”One solution, Davis said, is to lean into darker, richer versions of green.
Sounds simple enough, right? But if you go too far in that direction and embrace the wrong shade of olive, “you run the risk of it being very drab,” saidOur solution to this dizzying paint challenge: Ask the pros. Here are seven paint colors that get a green light from designers.
which he’s used in both offices and playrooms. “It’s one of my favorite colors and never disappoints,” he said in an email. “It reminds me of classic Bauer pottery from the 1930s when they developed cheerful colors that people needed after the great depression … versatile and CHIC!” Before you invest in gallons of any paint color, be sure to try out shades you’re considering at home.
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