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As I've mentioned before, my family room combines furniture from two rooms in my previous house. Therefore I have a hunter green wingback chair and two pieces of leather upholstery in a deep red (not maroon). It does not look Christmassy at all. I actually have a lot of green in the room, and a lesser amount of grayed aqua.
But if you choose a deep green for your room no one says you have to choose red as another color. Green is a mix of blue and yellow, so either of those colors should look great with the dark green.
I am not advocating a return to the deep green. I do think it is interesting that BH&G featured rooms with that color now.
Well, the look you are describing is totally different than what I was thinking about. Hunter green for me evokes more the look Katherine mentioned that was so popular I believe in the 1990's but don't exactly remember.....where you usually saw hunter green, burgundy, navy and perhaps ivory or gold in a stripe usually on a sofa. Whenever it was, it was everywhere. Way overdone.
You are describing classic styles of furniture in solid colors, which probably fall into the timeless category hence why you were able to pull them from separate rooms and mix them a different way.
One chair in hunter green I could tolerate. I just don't care for it on a huge expanse of walls or cabinets or tile. To me it is simply to heavy a color and I would find it depressing living with that much dark green.
I think that dark green leather wingback chairs are a classic that I'm sure you've been able to incorporate into rooms long past the 1990s! I bet that chair is beautiful. And it will probably outlive you like my sofa will outlive me!
I agree that a dark green can be combined with many different colors - if I had a dark green piece I think I'd look at mustard yellow and aubergine with a creamy white as an accent.
I'll go as far as saying the chair looks fine in the room. It is getting pretty dilapidated, actually. But it will be a permanent fixture for the immediate future.
I like your color scheme; very stimulating. I think the eggplant color would be interesting with the dark green and mustard. That very dark purple is underused and it is striking.
We were walking in a Portland neighborhood this past week, with my grand. I asked him what he thought the color of one of the brightly painted houses was. He stopped for a second and gave it a good look. "Hmm," he said. "I think it is blue violet." I was so impressed. At that age I would have said purple. He has a good eye for color, I think.
Just bought a house and this is the color my daughter asked to have her room painted. I'm not thrilled but we're doing it. I decided to pair it with white furniture and white trim so hopefully that will help. Besides that, she has an orange club chair and bedding with orange and green. I fear, like a post earlier, that it will end up looking too kermit the frog.
Just bought a house and this is the color my daughter asked to have her room painted. I'm not thrilled but we're doing it. I decided to pair it with white furniture and white trim so hopefully that will help. Besides that, she has an orange club chair and bedding with orange and green. I fear, like a post earlier, that it will end up looking too kermit the frog.
Good for you for listening to your daughter and giving it a chance! It's only paint. That's what I told myself when we painted my daughter's room a deep purple.
Just bought a house and this is the color my daughter asked to have her room painted. I'm not thrilled but we're doing it. I decided to pair it with white furniture and white trim so hopefully that will help. Besides that, she has an orange club chair and bedding with orange and green. I fear, like a post earlier, that it will end up looking too kermit the frog.
Good for you for listening to your daughter and giving it a chance! It's only paint. That's what I told myself when we painted my daughter's room a deep purple.
Just bought a house and this is the color my daughter asked to have her room painted. I'm not thrilled but we're doing it. I decided to pair it with white furniture and white trim so hopefully that will help. Besides that, she has an orange club chair and bedding with orange and green. I fear, like a post earlier, that it will end up looking too kermit the frog.
Good for your daughter knowing what she wanted for her room, and good for you for allowing her to do that. As the previous poster said, "It's only paint."
Our kids want the opposite of what they have been raised with, very often. I think it is healthy for them to experiment.
Good for your daughter knowing what she wanted for her room, and good for you for allowing her to do that. As the previous poster said, "It's only paint."
Our kids want the opposite of what they have been raised with, very often. I think it is healthy for them to experiment.
Oh so true. I'm one of those people that has just about every wall white. Love white, always have. My kid? All about color - loads and loads of color. She's an artist so I'm thinking that may have something to do with it. I guess I should upload a picture when it's all said and done. Might be a while though because moving - ugh.
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