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Portia Carroll

Blue and Green Is the Surprising Living Room Color Scheme Everyone's Using — Here's How to Make It Work

A living room with teal walls and a forest green sofa.

Let’s get one thing straight. The saying "blue and green should never be seen" derives from a seafarer's tradition of not painting the hull of a boat green in case it's capsized and is harder to see. It actually has no reference to the world of interiors, as you may have thought, and why would it?

Blue and green color schemes are featured together in the most fearless schemes these days and in no space more than the living room. This analogous palette channels some of the biggest ideas for using color in the home right now — you might have heard about color drenching, but what about "double drenching," where you use a chromatic palette instead?

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