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Oonagh Turner

10 Ways You Can Go Wrong When You're Decorating Your Home With Green — And What to Do to Get It Right

Green dining room with coffered ceiling, large dining table with chairs, patterned rug, black console with orange artwork hanging above, and curtains partially covering wall of windows.

Green in all its hues is an enduringly popular shade in interiors. Whether it's a lick of paint, a 'pop' of decor, leafy houseplants, or luxuriously verdant soft furnishings, it's a color loved for its natural connotations and it works in pretty much every scheme — except when it doesn't.

Just because it's a commonly used, naturally-occurring, and easy-to-pair shade, doesn't mean decorating with green is always straightforward. If the balance isn't quite right, or the shade is wrong for your space, your home will end up feeling discordant and mismatched.

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