Green room ideas – 10 ways to use nature’s palette

The colour green brings a refreshing touch of nature into our living spaces, creating a harmonious and tranquil ambience. Here are 10 ways in which you can splash this gorgeous colour around and intertwine it into your home.

1. Painted Furniture

Have you fallen out of love with your furniture and want to give it a refresh? Have you picked up some vintage preloved pieces that you would like to give a second chance at life?

There is an array of furniture paints available to suit your upcycling project, budget and taste. For the price of a few pounds, a little bit of your time and some elbow grease you can transform a tired piece of furniture and revive it into the showstopping talking point of any room.  From colour blocked emeralds, distressed pastels to ombre jades, the only limitation is your imagination. Let your creative side run wild and have a ton of fun creating a one off, one-of-a-kind masterpiece.

2. Soft furnishings

Nothing makes a more luxuriously impactful statement than a green velvet sofa. From zesty bright limes to deep jewel tones, a green sofa oozes opulence and timeless classic style. Powerful, striking and sumptuous, a green sofa would be a prominent figure in any living room, turning your friends green with envy.

3. Accent Furniture

If a green sofa might feel like a step too far, you could begin expressing your love of green through smaller, accent furniture pieces. Armchairs, occasional chairs or footstools can add a smaller, pop of vibrance without committing too hard to the colour.

4. Accessories

Taking a step down again, cushions, throws, vases, art can all add explosions of green to a room in a fast, vibrant way but can easily be changed out for the season or if your love for the colour diminishes.

5. Feature Wallpaper

Big bold botanicals or graceful geometrical greens, you don’t have to embrace floral gardens to express your love of green through the beauty of wallpaper. There is a vast selection of wallpapers available with or without flowery patterns, ready to make a quick, effective, immediate change to the visual dynamics of a space.

6. Colour Drenched Perfection

Colour drenching is everywhere right now and it’s easy to see why.  Using the same paint from ceiling to skirting board has the clever ability to make any room feel bigger, as using the same colour throughout creates an optical illusion of space. Whether you go for deep olive tones, soft sages or mint pastels, colour drenching gives any room a profound feeling of opulence.

7. Painted woodwork

If colour drenching a whole room green seems a step too far for your taste, you could start by painting all the woodwork for a more subtle splash of the colour instead. Architraves, skirting boards and windowsills are often neglected and left a shiny shade of white, but choosing to highlight these elements can create character and drama. Painting woodwork a strong colour creates welcomed focal points in a room, drawing the eye to usually forgotten, characterful features of a space.

8. Natures Natural Tones

An impactful way of adding natures favourite colour into a room is by using Mother Nature herself. By adding an array of plants not only will you be adding colour, texture and visual interest to a neutral space, but you will also be receiving the added health benefits of being surrounded by oxygen inducing plants. Win, win!

9. Panelling

Interior design of luxury living room with stylish armchair, gold liquor cabinet, a lot of plants and elegant personal accessories. Green wall panelling with shelf. Modern home decor. Template.

Panelling is a trend that is showing no signs of leaving any time soon. This cheap, easy to achieve DIY instantly adds depth, character and timeless elegance to a space.

An undeniably characterful feature that can be utilised all around a room or just focused on a standalone feature wall for added, extra drama.

10. Ceiling

A usually cavernous white space that is so often forgotten and neglected, there is no quicker way to draw the eye and create an impactful statement than a contrasting green ceiling. Darker colours recede visually, drawing the eye upwards. Contrasting a darker ceiling with lighter walls can make the walls seem taller, giving the effect of a more open space.

However you choose to express your love for this classic colour, it will undoubtedly be a favourite piece in your home for many years to come.