Green Is the Prettiest Color! These Rooms and Decorating Ideas Prove It
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From Kelly to kiwi, decorating with green has never been easier—or more on trend! While lush shades of green have been a designer favorite for ages, the increased popularity of nature-inspired aesthetics such as "cottagecore" and "dark academia" have pushed the happy hue—and, along with it, green rooms—back into the mainstream. In fact, Pinterest named “Moss Green” as one of its top five colors of 2024.
There is a full range of green paint colors to choose from, ranging from the palest mint green to the deepest forest green, but you don’t have to grab a can of paint to bring the color into your room. Whether you’re ready to drench your walls in a deep mossy green or just want to add an accent of the color through a rug or a pillow, we have dozens of ideas here that will help turn your house into a verdant villa with ease. (Don't forget to add in some Country Living-approved houseplants!)
For more ideas on decorating with green:
Greet with a Green Front Door
Start your foray into foliage-inspired tones by taking inspiration from this charming Maine cottage’s happy front door. The simple verdant landscape and a bright white exterior help the door pop.
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Front Door Paint Color: Rosemary Green by Benjamin Moore
Freshen Up Your Wicker with a Coat of Deep Blue-Green Paint
For her Georgia lake house, homeowner Kelly Gray leaned on an old trick of painting the outdoor furnishings the same shade as the house’s exterior to bring her screened-in porch to life.
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Wicker Paint Color: Night Watch by Glidden
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Pick a Vintage-Inspired Statement Appliance in Green
Salvaged wood countertops set the rustic, pieced-together feel of this cottage’s galley kitchen, which is inspired by old European cottages. The browns and golds of the tile backsplash unite the deep pigments of the blue cabinet and the emerald green Hallman stove.
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Green Range: For similar, Ilve Range in Emerald
Paint Your Cabinetry Green
In this Nantucket cottage, the existing lower cabinets got a fresh coat of mossy green paint, while wood beams, a pine farm table, and original hardwood floors were left to show off their natural warmth.
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Cabinetry Paint Color: For a similar look, try Down to Earth by Behr.
RELATED: Our 15 Favorite Green Kitchen Cabinet Ideas
Create a Jewel-Box Nook of Emerald and Peridot
This Virginia cottage’s tiny 5- by 5-foot nook, where the original kitchen once stood, now serves as the cocktail bar. Homeowner Amy Whyte played off the woodsy wallpaper (“Forest” by Cole & Son) by painting the lower cabinets a complimentary shade of green.
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Cabinetry Paint Color: Bancha by Farrow & Ball
Paint Your Floors Grassy Green
The floor sets the tone in this camp-style lake house kitchen. Thrifted signs and a happily hodgepodge collection of thermoses, cups, and dishes make for colorfully collected space and the mismatched stools enhance that come-as-you-are feeling.
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Floor Paint Color: Cypress Vine by Behr
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Drench Your Bedroom in Moody, Dark Green
In the “Captain's Room” of this Nantucket bedroom, homeowner Stephenie Watts painted the walls, trim, and ceiling all the same dark paint color for a truly cocooning effect.
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Walls and Ceiling Paint Color: Muddled Basil by Sherwin-Williams
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Transform Mismatched Dining Chairs into an Eclectic Set with Green Paint
Designer Raili Clasen gave her kitchen some cabin-conjuring moments like pine-plank walls and cabinets in a color reminiscent of vintage Coleman lanterns. Meanwhile, a couple of wood chairs left as trash in an alleyway put her on the hunt for more mismatched pairs, all which she gave a uniform look with a very California appropriate avocado-toned green hue.
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Ceiling Paint Color: Pure White by Sherwin-Williams
Cabinetry Paint Color: Ripe Olive by Sherwin-Williams
Chair Paint Color: Avocado by Sherwin-Williams
Pretty Up Your Porch with a Green Rug
The iron daybed on this front porch makes the space the preferred family hangout. The green area rug contrasts the yellow chairs and helps the porch to blend into its beautiful grassy surroundings.
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Rug: For similar, Green Outdoor Rug by Nourison
Pair Warm Wood with Mossy Green Walls
With such pretty views of the Delta landscape outside the windows of this Mississippi farmhouse, Country Living's Editor-in-Chief Rachel Hardage Barrett embraced colors inspired by the region. Swathed in an earthy green, this bedroom's more lodgelike accents are offset with the sweetness of poster beds dressed in ivory coverlets and crisp floral and gingham linens.
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Wall Paint Color: Oakmoss SW 6180 by Sherwin-Williams
Try an Age-Appropriate (for the House!) Patterned Green Wallpaper
Homeowner Melissa Duckworth looked to historic inspiration when choosing the paint colors for her early 1900s farmhouse. In the galley kitchen, which was previously the home’s hallway, a reproduction green wallpaper (“Larkspur 1872” designed by William Morris) pairs seamlessly with a timeless cornflower blue on the trim and cabinetry.
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Trim Paint Color: Jamestown Blue from Benjamin Moore’s Historical Collection
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Paint Your Paneling Green
Hear us out: We love the look of knotty pine paneling, but it might not work for everyone! Follow the lead of homeowner Bambi Costanzo and paint your paneling in a shade of mossy green.
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Wall and Trim Paint Color: Pine Top by PPG Paints
Drench Every Square Inch of a Bedroom Accent Wall in Soothing Green
Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge of Beekman 1802 turned one wall of this bedroom into a stylish photo gallery on a monochromatic, sage green backdrop. To create the 3-D photo gallery, they painted the frames and the interior backings the same verdant shade as the wall, door, and trim. The original pine floors and white bedding help offset the strong color.
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Wall Paint Color: Calke Green by Farrow & Ball
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Try a Touch of Tartan
A tartan throw blanket and custom bench seat cushion easily elevate this airy lake house bedroom. Yellow touches add a fresh, preppy feel.
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Blanket: Night Watch Tartan Blanket
Go for Tonal Tile
In her Maine cottage kitchen, designer Christina Salway used a show-stopping checkerboard tile pattern to set the stage for feminine finishes.
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Tile: For similar, Zelig Tile from Wayfair
Light Green Paint Color: Vert de Terre by Farrow & Ball
Don’t Overlook the Trim
Original to this farmhouse, the bathroom’s hunt dog-themed wallcovering showed some wear and tear, but ultimately was deemed too fun to go. To freshen things up, the homeowners painted the window trim and door in a corresponding color.
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Door & Trim Paint Color: Oakmoss SW 6180 by Sherwin-Williams
Add Colorful Seating
Vintage stool painted glossy John Deere green bring the only color to this light and bright modern farmhouse kitchen.
Play It Up with a Patterned Sofa
In a white living room, rely on bold fabric to tell your color story. Here, a green gingham sofa matched with tone-on-tone decorative pillows steals the show.
If you aren't ready to go all-in on green, this editor-approved gingham club chair adds the sweetest touch!
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Mix and Match Shades
Designed by Gideon Mendelson, this happy kitchen shows that you don't have to stick to just one shade to create a cohesive display. When paired together, the majolica dish arrangement, gingham ceiling (!), and lush island create a seamless palette.
Add a Statement Cabinet
Have an empty, all-white hallway or stairway landing? Spruce up the space with a perfectly patinaed vintage cabinet.
Pretty Up Your Pantry
For this pantry entry, designer Alison Kandler painted a standard screen door she picked up at a local big-box hardware store a punchy green. Focusing paint on small moments such as on a door or trim makes for an easy, low-stakes way to enjoy the color without feeling married to it.
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Screened door: For similar, Hinged Screened Doors from Lowe's
Paint color: Kelly Green by Benjamin Moore
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Cozy Up the Library
While home libraries are primed for dark, moody finishes, take a page from rug designer Ellen Allen’s playbook and paint your space a minty green. Not only does it make the space feel more welcoming, but it draws attention to the arrangement of books and antiques on its shelves.
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Create a Garden View
In this cottage, John Jason Oliver Nixon of Madcap Cottage coated this bathroom's wainscoting in not one but two leafy shades of green. The custom sink skirt features a green botanical pattern and the trellis wallpaper continues the garden theme.
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Wainscotting Paint Colors: Cooking Apple Green and Breakfast Room Green by Farrow & Ball
Work with Perfectly Imperfect Walls
When the owners of this New Hampshire farmhouse removed the wallpaper for this room’s renovation, they were initially disappointed to see the green walls beneath, but they quickly grew to love the color and the age-old vibe.
Build a Banquette
A built-in green banquette offers dining space in Jenni Glancy’s California home’s kitchen, where lights salvaged from a warehouse add a touch of industrial appeal.
Add Textural Interest
Here, green trellis headboards add texture without overpowering the space in this guest room because the two tones of the headbaords and the walls have similar undertones.
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Headboard Paint Color: Haven by Sherwin-Williams (headboards) Wall Paint Color: Apple Blossom by Benjamin Moore
Make Beadboard Shine
The floor to ceiling beadboard walls in this rustic bathroom in Chris O'Shea and Ashby Dodge’s Hamptons home’s is painted the happiest of greens. The cheery color is offset by natural wood finishes that lend the space a campy vibe.
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Wall Paint Color: Bunker Hill Green by Benjamin Moore.
Mix and Match
Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell, of Beekman 1802, juxtaposed the sophisticated red and green color scheme of their historic farmhouse’s dining room with simple furnishings, including a grouping of mismatched chippy green chairs.
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Trim paint color: Breakfast Room Green by Farrow & Ball
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Create Cozy Guest Retreat
To play up the snug dimensions of this guest room, homeowner Bailey McCarthy covered the walls and ceiling with a rich forest green. A four-poster barley-twist bed creates a comfy room-within-a-room feel, while botanical curtains and throw pillow reference the room’s verdant hue.
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Wall and Ceiling paint color: Alligator Alley by Benjamin Moore
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Paint the Ceiling
Sometimes dubbed “the fifth wall,” the ceiling plays an important part in creating a room’s mood. Here, a calming green on the slanted ceiling turns this attic bedroom into a super cozy sleeping nook.
Create A Classic Country Kitchen
In this kitchen, sage and cream cabinetry is paired with butcher-block countertops for a classic English country cottage look.
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Brighten Up A Kids’ Room
A bright green bed and happy blue linens add contemporary touches to this kids’ bedroom.
Pair with Purple
This charming cottage bedroom offers traditional country style with a few updates. For a fresh, not fussy, approach, stick to a cohesive color scheme (green and purple are long-time friends). Here, a soft sage and bright lilac create a happy and calm feel.
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Freshen Up a Old House
The kitchen of Sawyer Smith and Alex Chang's 1830s Catskills home features an oak table and mismatched wood chairs that are flea-market finds. The trim and beadboard wainscotting are painted in a fresh feeling green to distinguish from the diagonal paneling above.
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Trim and Wainscotting Paint Color: Timson Green by Benjamin Moore
Embrace Contrasting Colors
For the ultimate farmhouse-style breakfast room, this homeowner paired a hefty trestle-base table with antique ladder back and Windsor chairs. The polished nickel chandelier evokes equestrian tack supply. The cabinets are painted a light shade of green to contrast the darker floors.
Hang Wallpaper
Cultivate an indoor vertical garden with a green rambling vine wallpaper. The small-scale pattern provides a muted enough backdrop for bolder statement pieces, like vintage metal trays featuring bold buds. A quartet of soft gray Windsor chairs and an heirloom-worthy pedestal table balance the pattern play on the walls.
Let Accessories Bring Color
This neutral dining room comes to life thanks to the collection of green demijohn bottles displayed on both sides on the built-in shelves.
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Glass Demijohns: Green Glass Demijohn through Amazon
Bring the Outside In
Inspired by the lush landscape just outside the windows, the homeowner of this 105-year-old Victorian farmhouse filled the dining room with rustic wood elements and pops of green. The beech wishbone chairs, which are lacquered in an apple green, pop against the large antique hutch that stores the homeowner's collection of green and white china. A pale pink Oriental rug with subtle hints of sky blue and chartreuse rounds out the mix.
Frame Your View
When you have large windows, the small amount of wall space around can have big impact when painted a bright green. Not only does it add interest in the mostly white space, but it helps draw the eyes to the lush green outside the windows.
Add a Fun Room Divider
Homeowners Joanna and John Swanson brightened up their entryway with a chartreuse barn door, which was painted to match the front door.
Install Floor-to-Ceiling Shelves
Austinite homeowners Marco Rini and Tim Cuppett replaced awkward upper cabinets with shelving that makes the most of their kitchen’s pitched ceiling. Painted a grass green, the floor-to-ceiling shelves—accessible by rolling ladder—hold tons of tableware.
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Shelving Paint Color: Land of Liberty by Benjamin Moore
Play Up Your Bathroom Accents
Homeowners Mark and Linda Heister partitioned a section of the basement to create space for a bathroom. He constructed the shelf beneath the mirror from fragments of an old dresser; glossy hard-wearing paint unifies both pieces with the flea-market chest below.
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Dresser Paint Color: Hunter Green by Rust-Oleum
RELATED: 20 Best Small Bathroom Ideas to Spruce Up Your Space
Embrace Earth Tones
While most folks opt for white in the kitchen, it’s the one room homeowner Susan Stella bathed in moodier hues. She painted her custom cabinets a deep earthy green and oiled the fir beadboard a golden brown—giving the tight, 75-square-foot spot a jewel box feel.
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Cabinetry Paint Color: Mohengan Sage by Benjamin Moore
Try Green Kitchen Cabinets
In this beach house's kitchen the cabinetry is painted pretty soft green. Cape Cod artist Tim Dibble custom-carved the kitchen's slate apron-front sink to incorporate local icons: a windmill, whale, lighthouse, and the word riptide. Wood-Mode cabinetry stores the homeowner’s collection of Fiestaware.
Try a Small Pop of Color For a Big Impact
When homeowner Carla Malloy came across this early-1900s green Mexican desk — $350 at an antiques shop — she saw an opportunity for a one-of-a-kind kitchen island. To make the piece even more functional, she improvised a lower shelf by propping basic wood planks atop the stretchers.
Go for Darker Grounds
Conventional wisdom dictates white on wainscoting and color above, but the owner of this Montana farmhouse flipped that combination by painting the trim in her master bathroom a (custom-blended) mossy green and the upper walls ivory. Picking paint colors with darker grounds (aka, the starting color) adds elegance with ease to rooms in need of a wallet-friendly leveling-up.
Go for Green in the Library
In the library of this colorful farmhouse, the built-in shelves, covered with photos and prints, become artwork themselves.
Try Farm Fresh Greens in the Kitchen
Homeowners Helen Bartlett and Tony Bill borrowed from the verdant outdoors of their Connecticut farmhouse when creating the green and white color palette of their kitchen. Old chestnut boards reclaimed from the attic pave the room's floor.
Paint Your Beams
In a nod to English country style, the green living room in this renovated Catskills schoolhouse is filled with antiques, sculptural furniture pieces, and botanical patterns and prints on the walls. For a twist on the classic cottage look, the wood beams were painted the same happy shade as the front door.
Pretty It Up with Prints
The use of graphic prints and lively colors in this bedroom keeps the focus away from the actual small-scale dimensions. Yellow-green paint and an exuberant green-and-white print on the bed enlivens the small space.
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