The color of living greenery - fresh and fragrant - is the first news of spring, spring renewal, the birth of a new life. Despite the fact that such a palette is actually rarely found in interior design as a background, designers still recommend reconsidering your attitude towards a wide range of grassy tones.
A green living room with its composition alone can calm and pacify. The interior turns out not only fresh, but also serene - like a forest in good, windless weather. Although each spectrum has its own properties. The main thing is that the entire palette is able to relax the nervous system, making it more stable and balanced, and also instill self-confidence, which is especially necessary when solving a variety of problems.
How to combine green color in the interior of a living room or hall
Numerous design ideas and rules for using green cannot be combined into a single complex. Difficulties arise because the range includes a wide range of shades, and many of them differ from each other in character and mood.
A green living room in muted colors is a noble, peaceful solution. Apple and walnut colors expand the space well, allow you to relax and feel absolute comfort. But the color palette in the hall in acidic and poisonous shades in the yellow-green spectrum can hardly be called relaxing. It's more about prioritizing accents in a more neutral environment.
A living room in light green tones can be different - it all depends on the tonality and notes, because this color can be both bright and pastel. A bright room, like the interior of the hall in a rich palette, will be luxurious and traditionally fresh. What’s interesting is that such an environment will always be emotional and positive.
The choice of shade also depends on the style of the interior. For example, elegant emerald and turquoise shades are often chosen for classic rooms. Modern design can be different, although it often uses light and bright colors - lime, chartreuse, apple.
Interestingly, green shades can be both warm and cold. Sometimes this works solely on an associative level: in the heat the room will be fresh, but in winter the greenery evokes pleasant associations with summer warmth.
Living room in olive tones
Natural olive color in the living room interior is an opportunity to decorate the room elegantly and harmoniously. This is a natural color that is perceived favorably, creates a positive atmosphere, and at the same time makes the atmosphere restrained.
The olive-colored living room organically includes a wide palette of the same restrained and natural shades - warm wood, exquisite beige with sand, caramel, and almond notes. This is an ideal combination for eco style, Japanese minimalism, organics.
The photo shows an olive living room with a woody companion color.
It’s easy to match olive tones with muted yellow details. With such a companion, the green room will be cheerful and sophisticated at the same time. A more intense palette will make it dynamic, and soft shades will fill the room with light.
A living room in olive tones is an interesting solution in different styles. This range is suitable for both retrospective and current design trends.
Green and white combination
The most popular duet is exceptionally fresh, but the nature of the combination depends on the intensity of the green color. And it doesn’t matter whether it paints the walls or is present in the details.
Intense green shades - emerald, malachite, khaki, marsh, frog - create a clear and eye-catching contrast. Therefore, such an interior usually involves white walls, a ceiling, a light floor and deep accents - sofa upholstery, curtains, living greenery, paintings. Rich jade can also be used in ceiling decoration - in multi-level structures.
More often, white color is combined with delicate or muted shades - mint, olives, pistachio, lettuce. The design is harmonious and soft. In this case, the walls can also be green, and snow-white is used in contours, perimeter, ornaments, etc.
A living room in tones of green and white turns out to be calm, cozy, and airy. But this effect will not be in strong contrast - such an environment is characterized by increased severity and majesty, which is usually chosen for classic formal interiors.
Living room with green and gray interior
A stylish and strict duet is increasingly found in modern interiors, where gray is used as the color of metal - steel, chrome, tin, aluminum. This combination is suitable for those who prefer a discreet atmosphere - without unnecessary emotionality and individualism. As a rule, the ash palette is chosen by introverts, business people, as well as those who lead a fairly active lifestyle and just want to relax at home. The steel palette with its laconicism and the freshness of greenery create the ideal atmosphere for a relaxing pastime.
A living room in green with smoky inclusions can be implemented in both a classic, neoclassical and technological, urban style. Calm industrial settings with decor from living greenery look interesting. Against the background of strict decoration, simple lines, and city landscapes, it is the plants in tubs and flowerpots that create the mood.
The green interior of the living room with ash inclusions can be decorated in two shades equally. But the darker and more saturated one of the tones, the less of it will be in the decoration.
Pistachio living room
The delicate green color looks great in the background for a composition with a restrained but fresh character. The pistachio living room looks romantic, elegant and cozy at the same time. This shade is in harmony with soft beige and milky notes - in marble or onyx, with natural whitish wood, with apricot accents.
Pistachio color in the living room interior is appropriate in rustic and high-tech style, in the Provence direction and Texas design. The atmosphere turns out to be original. As a rule, this is a light composition with a favorable atmosphere that gives a feeling of comfort, peace, and balance.
A living room in pistachio color can be almost monochrome - with the addition of slightly more saturated greens of apples, mint, and emeralds. Of course, there will be wooden cabinet parts and finishing notes of a different palette - both natural wood and steel metal in a modern style.
Mint color: freshness in the hall or living room
Mint color in the living room interior is another soft green shade that will help make the environment soft, fresh and elegant. The background or accents, textiles, and furniture can be made in tones of fragrant greenery. The light palette is organically combined with neutral shades - from white to black.
The mint living room has a lot of advantages that are not inherent in all shades of jade:
- There is never too much of it.
- This color always makes the room fresh and bright.
- Blue notes in mint tones create the feeling of coolness necessary for southern rooms.
- It is versatile in its ability to be combined with other palettes.
For a living room in green tones, mint color can be the ideal design - it has enough originality, sophistication and freshness.
Lime notes in the living room
Decorating a hall using lime color is a rather bright option for a modern style. The light green palette always looks fresh, but this shade is also rich, so it is often used in accents, even if they occupy a significant area. The brightness of this tonality is smoothed out by the inclusion of a neutral range, especially in ornaments.
Green with blue
The green color in the interior of the living room is rarely combined with a blue palette in a duet: there is always a third – a neutral tone. Most often it is white, milky, cream, ivory, light beige or gray. As a rule, blue and jade are combined depending on the saturation of each: the darker one is, the lighter the other will be.
Shades such as mint, tiffany, and turquoise often echo the light blue range, flowing into different shades. This can be wall decoration or accent inclusion in universal interiors.
Harmonious color combinations with green
Having decided to decorate the living room in green tones, you should think about what colors should be added to achieve harmony in the interior. Therefore, we will consider the most successful combinations and look at photos of interiors.
White and green living room
White is a unique color that blends harmoniously with the entire color palette. It also looks great with green tones, complementing light shades and softening dark ones. If you want to visually enlarge a room, then this is exactly the color combination you need. Slightly washed out shades of green look great with white. An interior that combines dark tones of green or bleached light green with white will be no less impressive.
Green and wood living room
What could be more harmonious than a natural combination of colors? This color duet can be seen in any park or forest: tree leaves and trunks, grass and earth. This is exactly the environment in which a person can feel easy, free and natural. This is ideal for the living room.
Brown and green living room
Almost like wood tones, brown pairs almost perfectly with green. There is no need at all to add a third color, as design canons often require.
Blue and green living room
Green and blue can be used together in the living room, but it is advisable to dilute them with white or shades of light beige. Vanilla tones would also be appropriate. Depending on the shade of green, blue is selected. So, pistachio tones look great with dark blue, but the color of young grass and shades of foliage will harmoniously combine with blue.
Red and green living room
The combination of red and green is quite contrasting, but this does not mean that they cannot be used in the same room. Skillful design work and a living room can turn into a real art object. Since red is a very bright color, it needs to be softened by adding some neutral tones. White and light beige shades are suitable for this. If desired, yellow tones can be used for dilution. If you want to place accents, then turn to black.
Black and green in the living room
Black color will help add accents to a green living room, and to prevent the room from looking too gloomy, designers advise diluting this option with white. It will lighten and soften the dark tones a little.
Similar tones in the living room
Next to green in the color spectrum are yellow, turquoise and blue. Thanks to this relationship, they combine especially well with each other. The correct selection of shades plays an important role in this matter.
Furniture in the green living room and hall
Furniture in any room, including in a green living room, is a factor that shapes the mood and style. It is the interior items that reflect the features and character of the design direction. For example, in a classic style, a sofa will be decorated with carvings or a typical pattern in the upholstery, but in minimalism it will remain an inconspicuous neutral sofa or a bright, but monochromatic and geometric detail.
The design of the living room in green tones suggests two furnishing options:
- When the walls are made in a light jade palette, the furniture will be made in other shades - neutral or accent.
- When the furniture is implemented in grassy tones, and the walls are in white, beige, gray.
But, of course, neither all walls nor interior items can be completely green.
Moreover, the combinations depend on the chosen design style.
- In a classic living room, different surfaces can be rich . If this is a green sofa, then its upholstery often includes a damask pattern. Case models are decorated with moldings, gilding or patina.
- In eco-design, details are more likely to be green - living plants, fluffy carpets, decorative stones. But wicker furniture would be appropriate.
- In minimalism, where beige and wood predominate , individual elements will also be green, so the sofa can be in this range - bright lime, light mint or muted pistachio.
- In the Mediterranean direction, walls are often mint (on the border with soft turquoise) . Here the furniture is usually white or natural wood. The sofa can be chosen in a neutral tone, but there are other options - in the same mint color, but with a pattern. This design is characterized by a meander and a lattice called “imperial trellis”.
- In the high-tech style, juicy salad, chartreuse, and apple are used . Although you can also find muted olive, khaki, and marsh colors, they are less common, since here green often acts as an accent. As a rule, this design is somewhat detached and cool, so intense color adds coziness and emotion. This is exactly what a sofa, accent chair, or rug can become. But there will definitely be no closets here - they are all hidden, built-in, camouflaged.
The choice of a harmonious combination also depends on the general background, the degree of natural light, and the characteristics of the materials used.
How to decorate a living room in shades of green?
Wall
Walls completely painted in rich green are rare. In ordinary apartments, this is hampered by small window openings, which turn the hall into a dark, dull room. In this case, you can use finishing materials in pastel colors that will not “eat up” the light and space. Lovers of bright green can use wallpaper or photo wallpaper, but should limit themselves to one accent wall, complementing it with, for example, neutral-colored trim. The impression will be enhanced by finishing materials with complex textures and patterns (marble, leather, cork). If the shade of green used to paint all the walls is too saturated, then you can lighten the interior with the help of white furniture and a carpet. It is also recommended to highlight the beauty of the green wall with white patterns, shelves or vinyl stickers.
Furniture
Upholstered furniture in green tones looks unusual and attractive, especially if the upholstery is made of leather or suede. Moreover, such sets (with a neutral design and decorative elements) can fit into both classic and modern styles. It is better to place such furnishings near the wall (and on the floor) in a neutral color.
Textile
A small living room requires an abundance of light, so it is better to decorate the windows with translucent curtains in delicate shades of green. And in spacious “ballrooms” with high ceilings and huge windows, dark green velvet curtains are needed. Curtains should stand out against the background of the walls and echo other furnishings. It is not necessary to match everything tone to tone. For example, a pale green wall will look good next to curtains in an olive or grass shade. Also suitable combinations are blue and pastel green, brown and green (the shade of summer foliage), black and rich green. An interesting idea is to sew covers for decorative pillows from curtain fabric or choose a rug with the same pattern.
Remember that a green living room should be thought out slowly, and it is better to select all shades carefully, without oversaturating the interior. If you are not confident in your abilities, it is better to use this color as an additional or accent color. Then you will get a truly fresh, airy and relaxing piece of forest in the middle of the urban concrete jungle.
Living room decoration: walls, floor and ceiling
When talking about the green design of a living room, we usually mean the walls, because the floor is usually covered with wood material, and the ceiling with white paint or stretched fabric. Most often, walls painted in one of the shades of the grassy palette remain monochromatic. Only the accent surface is decorated with a pattern. Then you can choose a pattern for the living room wallpaper in the most suitable style.
The accent surface can occupy a strip or the entire space from corner to corner.
It may be more saturated than the background, but more often it contains a characteristic ornament.
- Green wallpaper in the interior of a living room in a classic style usually contains a repeating rhythmic pattern with large rosettes of a damask pattern - ornate or floral. The design can be a tone darker than the background of the coating or gilded, mother-of-pearl, or silver.
- In an oriental setting, “paisley” - “Indian cucumbers”, reminiscent of a drop with a curled tip, is appropriate . In such a composition it can be soft pistachio coverings, and with a pattern in brown tones, with red nuances or burgundy. In the Moroccan direction of oriental design, the “quatrefoil” pattern is also often used - 4 intersecting circles, sometimes with right angles at the joints. This pattern also looks good in shutters, screens and light facades. Then, together with the accent surface, such details look harmonious, and the composition looks complete.
- or, conversely, rich emerald coverings with a contrasting houndstooth pattern look interesting The same pattern looks great in the upholstery of armchairs, sofa cushions, and lambrequins, if one of the shades in the pattern matches the color of the curtains.
- A living room in a Scottish or classic English style will look great with green wallpaper and a tartan pattern - the well-known check pattern. In the Victorian direction, an emphasis on diamonds in two or three shades would also be appropriate.
- In the Mediterranean style, you can decorate surfaces with wallpaper with a “scales” pattern , which looks especially characteristic in a light turquoise shade - a direct association with the summer sea.
Of course, you can accentuate the surface with the help of panels, modular paintings, mosaics and mirrors on a basic neutral or pastel green background.
Luxurious green shades for your living room
For those looking to create a cozy, warm and elegant space, it is best to choose lighter shades of green. At the same time, the dark, emerald shade of this color will bring to your living room a feeling of luxury and splendor that simply has no equal! And what about the shades of sage, olive and other beautiful tones that strikingly combine elegance and attractive shine...
As a general rule, deep and rich shades of green are great for small rooms that have little light and already have dark furniture. On the other hand, large living rooms with high ceilings and open floor plans look very nice with walls painted in lighter colors. In addition, bright green shades should be used in rooms with shiny and glossy decor to create a perfectly harmonious balance.
Decorating and selecting accessories for a green living room
When decorating a living room in green tones, you should pay special attention to accessories, because more often the opposite happens - when lime, apple or jade act as accents and not as a background.
The interior looks organic with different decoration options:
- When using a mint or delicate pistachio shade to paint the walls, you should choose a neutral color for the furniture - cream, beige, gray. Then among the accessories, a green carpet in the living room interior, a couple of flowerpots and lamp shades would be appropriate. Of course, their tone will be more saturated, but in the same palette as the walls.
- If grassy is applicable only in an accent wall , it can be present in furniture - in upholstery, in the ornaments of sofa cushions and curtains, as well as armchairs. Any universal or achromatic color will complement the pattern and background.
- Quite saturated neutral tones look good against a green background of any intensity - coffee with milk, smoky, chocolate, almost black, dark blue. Such combinations are set off by a white ceiling and a light floor - with whitish or gray notes.
- Among the obligatory accessories in almost every room are carpets , but not only a green carpet in the interior in similar shades, but also details in any other color scheme, which is also present in the design. Curtains, as a rule, are selected exactly to match the color of the carpet. Sofa cushions are often chosen in the same tone.
The role of accessories in the interior of a green living room
Accessories need to be given special attention, since a large number of them will not create a cozy atmosphere, but rather, on the contrary, will create a feeling of discomfort. You can use vases or paintings, the color of which is better to choose a contrasting one so that they stand out against the background of the living room walls.
Curtains in the green living room
Planning curtains for the living room is based on harmonious combinations with the main color of the design. If the room is designed in green tones, the organic options include almost the entire natural palette. But curtains can be in the color of the walls and in the shade of the decor.
The light pistachio interior of the living room is complemented with matching curtains to the green walls. Then the window design will merge with the decoration, and completely different details will become accents. But quite often their color matches: curtains and carpet, as well as sofa upholstery, can be implemented in the same accent tone. An interesting option would be to include a pattern that contains both background and accent shades. Similar ornaments are used in lambrequins in different styles.
The completeness and harmony of the composition depends on the choice of curtains, so they should be given enough attention. Win-win options remain the choice of paintings in the color of the walls or furniture.
The color of calm in the interior
Green, as you know, is the color of calm and tranquility. From the point of view of psychologists, thanks to the presence of green in the interior, it is easier to deal with negative emotions, irritability and other negativity in such a room. Moreover, each shade of green has its own effect on a person. Lighter, warmer shades of green promote relaxation and relieve negative emotions. But rich and cool colors mobilize energy and encourage active action. Adding green to another color can neutralize the properties of that color.
It is believed that the darker the green color a person prefers, the more withdrawn and closed off he is from others.
Green color and style direction
A green living room can be decorated in completely different styles, especially since this color goes well with other colors. And there are many shades of green itself. When choosing a certain interior style, select the appropriate shade. A living room in green tones with an oriental interior looks best if you take an olive shade of green or jade. An aqua or light shade works well for a Mediterranean style.
The living room is decorated in a tropical style using light green accessories and items. And if you want to give the room elegance, then you should choose an aquamarine shade. Mint color of textiles or accessories refreshes the interior. Lovers of home plants can safely decorate the living room with them in eco-style in combination with khaki color in the design of the room. Plants perfectly harmonize in color with pieces of furniture made of wood or bamboo. And also the floor is made of stone. And if you create a living room closer to the rustic type, for example, Provence or country, then the symbiosis of brown and green will be just an excellent design solution.
A Scandinavian-style green living room usually looks like a combination of white and green. Green is also combined in such living rooms with gray or beige. A swamp shade of green looks serious and weighty in combination with pink accents in the form of pillows or curtains. But such an interior is a little difficult to perceive, and therefore not many people like it.
A classic green living room accepts a combination of noble green with gold or silver. The furniture in such a living room has a special texture that emphasizes elegance and sophistication. Modern interior styles can be colored with pieces of furniture in a light green or pistachio shade.
Modern living room interior: how to properly use green color when decorating
As a rule, many are afraid to choose light and too bright shades: the first ones get dirty too often, and the second ones are difficult to handle on your own if you overdo it with their use. But practical owners always find optimal solutions. Designers recommend choosing a trio: chocolate furniture, beige background, green details. This is the optimal combination for natural interiors in eco style, Japanese minimalism, and many other compositions in classic and modern design.
In classicism, green can be present in emerald color, which is complemented by expensive wood and neutral sand. This style is characterized by the use of luxurious materials, rich surfaces, and deep shades.
In a modern interior, instead of emerald color in a bright environment, there are soft delicate shades that match any brown or beige tone. When choosing a style for an apartment or private house, you should pay attention to current combinations with a light green palette - they look more fresh.
Green living room: photo selection of interesting design ideas
The choice of suitable and interesting design ideas often leads to the fact that owners are still inclined to neutral interiors with a few bright accents. But the designers are confident that when viewing photographs of finished projects, you will be convinced of the originality and perfection of the green palette. It makes interiors balanced, which is often lacking in spontaneously created interiors.
The photo shows a living room design in green tones in a modern style.
Take a closer look at the different shades and combination options, and you will surely find solutions that are comfortable for you.
The influence of an interior with green shades on people
The color of nature itself will have a truly magical effect:
- Calms and relieves emotional stress. Shades of green with the addition of blue and cyan have these qualities. They bring serenity to the atmosphere;
- Light green, malachite, olive - all these colors can affect appetite. For those people who are struggling with excess weight and are accustomed to eating in front of the TV screen, green interior details will help reduce appetite and reduce the need for food;
- This interior shade can improve the microclimate in the family. Any of its tones will help smooth out conflicts, relieve tension, and positively affect the well-being of each member of the household;
- For people who work at the computer for a long time, a green element in the interior will help relax the visual receptors and calm them down;
- A living room in blue and green shades will create an even emotional background. Therefore, it is suitable for unbalanced people with frequent mood swings;
- The overall green tone of the room with red accents will suit those of us who are afraid of the future and have lost faith in ourselves. These shades motivate you to overcome obstacles and set you up to achieve results;
- Any combination of it with yellow will help smooth out the rough edges of your character and awaken the desire to please others.
Living room in green tones
