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Amy Moorea Wong

6 Green Paint Colors to Avoid When Decorating — Including the 90s-Rave-Style-Fever-Dream Green on My Living Room Wall

Green color-drenched bedroom with green marble windowsill, roman blinds, rattan bedhead, green side table with striped lamp, and green bedding.

As the color symbolizing the verdance and vitality of nature, green is timeless and complements many other colors, textures, and materials, but there are some green paints that designers would recommend avoiding.

Decorating with green brings nature inside. The right shade should be both grounding and rejuvenating, enlivening and soothing, and create an atmosphere that feels calm yet quietly alive. It should gently blur the boundary between the indoors and outdoors, creating its own landscape. Rather than seeming enclosed, it should feel open, breathable, and deeply connected to the world beyond the walls.

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