FAQ

• Why should I consider painting my walls green?
  Painting your walls green can bring a sense of harmony and individual expression to a space. Green walls can correspond well with various wood tones and are versatile enough to suit different color schemes.
• How can I incorporate a botanical motif into my decor?
  You can incorporate a botanical motif through bold wallpaper, upholstery fabric, drapes, or even accent pillows with leafy prints. Adding botanical elements can bring a fresh and natural vibe to your space.
• What are the benefits of decorating with plants?
  Decorating with plants not only adds a pop of green to your decor but also brings health benefits like stress reduction and improved focus. Plants can be used creatively to liven up a space and enhance overall well-being.
• How can I “green up” my decor through furniture and accents?
  To enhance your decor with green themes, consider using green furniture, artwork, and decorative accents. Creating a vignette with a collection of green objects can serve as a focal point and elevate the overall aesthetic.
• What does it mean to go sustainably green in home decor?
  Going sustainably green in home decor involves using eco-friendly materials and being mindful of the environmental impact of your choices. This can include repurposing items, choosing sustainable brands, and opting for natural materials to create a chic and environmentally friendly space.

Decorating with Green: Ideas to Bring the Outdoors In

Paint Your Walls Green

A chameleon of a color, green harmonizes and promotes individual expression, making it an ideal wall color for bedrooms, offices and communal spaces. From lush, verdant hues like evergreen and pistachio to moody brown-greens and hushed, meditative tones with just a whisper of green, there is a green shade to satisfy every color lover. Another benefit to painting walls green is that, regardless of the tone you choose, it will naturally correspond with virtually every wood tone you could possibly already be featuring in your space. Because, nature. Green and brown were just born to be a natural pairing.

Before you rush out to pick your favorite shade, take some time to study your sea of options and how your top picks will translate in your space with your lighting and any wall colors in adjacent rooms. Cooler greens tend to partner better with existing color schemes making them easier to decorate with. If you want a spa-like, nourishing vibe, consider a muted gray-green and, for a more energized feel, try a blue-green like emerald or a grassy green in an otherwise neutral space.

Play up a Botanical Motif

Botanical prints never fall too far out of favor in the design world but, as of this moment, they’re back in a big way. And not just in charming vintage frames grouped in sets of four. Botanicals are blooming large in chic modern interpretations that are super exciting to work with for even the most seasoned designer. For a straightforward, one-step way to achieve the look, botanical-inspired wallpaper is the way to go. Its bold, graphic, unmistakably green and screams jungle garden fantasy in the best possible way.

Whether you choose the ever-iconic banana tree, regal palmetto fan or the popular monstera plant with its Swiss cheese-like leaf cutouts, you will get your green fix and loads of graphic interest in a single update. If you want to experiment in baby steps, wallpaper a powder room in a bold botanical print and prepare to be amazed at how it amplifies the small space.
If you prefer to keep your palette more muted and less jungle fantasy, choose a botanical motif in an earthier green like khaki or sage. Or, skip the bold wallpaper altogether and look for upholstery fabric or drapes with leafy motifs. Even an accent pillow in a fun leaf print can deliver enough of a color moment to satisfy your need for green. For a truly low-cost way to achieve a botanical vibe, place tropical plant leaves in your favorite oversized vase in place of a floral arrangement.

Tropical leaves are sold at most florists and stay fresh and green for weeks.

Decorate with Plants

Health benefits like stress reduction and improved focus aside, decorating with plants is a creative, noncommittal way to introduce more green into your décor. Whether its the strategically placed potted plant punctuating a space with a pop of color or a room-turned-virtual greenhouse filled with plants of all varieties and sizes, showcasing live greenery is a brilliant way to get those happy pops of green without updating your décor.

For more of a designer-inspired statement, we love repurposing a piece of furniture, like a vintage bar cart or a Lucite console, into a plant station or an expanse of wall covered in smaller plants arranged in cool vertical planters as an alternative for a painted accent wall. Just having plants around you can boost your mood and sense of wellbeing, and unleashing your creativity by decorating with plants in new and inventive ways is self-care in the form of personal expression. With spring already in the air, you will get a jump start on that feeling of renewal that were long overdue for this time of year. Beautiful, sculptural, textural plants are a design win-win.

Green up Your Décor

Greening up your décor through furniture, artwork and decorative accents is a great way to build up a green theme to a level that suits your taste.

Though we have witnessed and fallen in love with spaces boasting layers of green on green on green, that bold of a statement isn’t practical for most. To create more than a pop of green here and there, try creating a vignette that will serve as more of a focal point. A great way to do this is by grouping a collection of green decorative objects together in a shelving unit or on a desk or media console. Sets of jadeite, pottery, green glass and even green book jackets grouped together on a shelf will draw the eye and create enough of a concentration of green that it will read as an accent color.

Proof of just how on-trend green is this season is the sudden availability of green upholstered furniture. Five years ago, khaki would have been your greenest option when picking out a sofa. Now, you can choose from tufted emerald velvet to a seafoam jade loveseat. The hunter green and brass combo that commandeered virtually every interior in the 1980s has been reimagined in floor lamps, coffee table art and dining room settings. Have fun experimenting and creating a green vignette. Maybe you can even repurpose what you already have and find a fresh way to layer your greens for more of a moment.

That’s thinking green in more ways than one.

Go Sustainably Green

While this particular decorating with green idea isn’t the most literal interpretation, designing with sustainable materials can deliver a lot of the same feel-good benefits that we get from painting our walls in the calming, restorative color.

Becoming more aware of our environmental impact over the past decade has been an open invitation to discovering exciting new and also stylish ways to incorporate sustainability into our living spaces. To add to that awareness, the pandemic taught us to live with less, hold tight to the things we cherish and edit out what no longer serves us.

If your take on green is more going green and less the color green, take inventory of what already exists in your space (or in storage in your basement or garage) and consider what you can repurpose or breathe new life into with a fresh coat of paint or swapping in new hardware. When buying new, look for brands committed to good-for-the-planet green design. Or, turn your attention to small-batch designs and ethically made or remnant fabrics.

Decorating with natural materials like grasses, stone, marble and reclaimed wood is responsible and can strengthen your connection to earth. Before you know it, buying sustainably will be your default and your décor will be as green and chic as ever.

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