Guest Post :: Green with (Decor) Envy
Photocred: Joe Budd for Diablo Magazine
As the hills in the Bay Area slowly turn from green to gold for the summer, I’m finding myself wanting to capture their beauty! Why not have your interiors be evergreen? Here are some ways you can decorate with green, courtesy of our amazing intern Asra!
~L.S.
Photocred: Essential Home
When you see the color green, what comes to mind?
For me, it’s the color of life, nature, freshness, harmony… energy. Personally, I am obsessed with color, especially green. As it applies to interior design, color is how a house gets its personality. It creates different optical illusions and has a strong influence on our psychological level.
Using shades of green in interior design alone or other colors can have a stunning impact. Use this color especially when you want to inspire.
Here are some beautiful examples of how to use green in interior spaces:
Use of Green in a Kitchen
Notice how the outside was brought in with this gorgeous green kitchen. The warmth of the herringbone floors and gold accents, along with clean simple lines, keep this green right on trend yet classic, and maintain the feeling of a clean and simple kitchen without the boredom factor.
Use of a Green in Dining Room
Adding Green chairs to a dining table or coloring an accent wall with a shade of green will give a sensation of a freshness and this color is also known as to increase an appetite, so it’s widely used for dining room and kitchens.
Use of a Green in Living Room
In proper amounts, green can be used successfully in almost any living room. In such a room, green can be on an accent wall, on furniture, decorative pillows, rugs, accessories, paintings, lighting, vases, in combination with other colors according to your taste. For example, if you opt for a green sofa, this one will become the focal point of the living room and will give a modern fresh look.
Use of Green in a Bathroom
It’s a little unexpected in a bathroom, and that’s what makes this stunning herringbone pattern tile so successful. Notice how the accent color of peach really makes the green pop along with the white and gives it a fresh modern feel, along with the gold modern fixtures.
Use of Green in a Bedroom
Using green in bedrooms can induce an atmosphere of tranquility and peace, it’s relaxing and good both for sleep and for intellectual activities. In combination with blue shades is perfect for your bedroom, both of them are shown to lower blood pressure and heart rate. An alternative is to opt for curtains and green bedding.
Green up your Interior Decor Naturally!
A natural way to add green to your interior decor is by having plants either scattered or grouped in your home, usually near a window in a very traditional format or in a more modern vertical wall planting. It will add freshness as well as cleanse an air inside the home too.
For links to the above referenced photo sources and more inspo, make sure to visit LS Interiors’ Emerald Envy Pinterest page here!
Xo,
Asra