How to Decorate Living Rooms With the Color Green
Soft sage green is a light and soothing background for your living room décor. You can accentuate the room with soft floral furnishings, rich cherry hardwoods and black or white accessories for contrast. The color green brings nature into your home, so complement the theme with a decorative stone wall or stone fireplace surround and natural fibers on the floor. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Sage green paint
- Painting supplies
- Cherry hardwood floors
- Stone accent wall or fireplace surround
- White sofa
- Small floral patterned chairs
- Bamboo rug
- Black lacquer accent furniture
- Lamps
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Paint the walls in your living room in a soft sage green. The color green is peaceful and will help create a relaxing atmosphere in your home.
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Install a rich cherry hardwood floor in the living room to complement the green walls. Cherry flooring has a reddish hue which will work well with the green shade on the walls. Red is opposite green on the color wheel. Opposite colors complement and contrast each other. Having equal amounts of opposing colors in a room will make each color feel more active.
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Cover the fireplace surround with natural stones or manufactured stone that appears to be natural. If you do not have a fireplace, you can install a manufactured fireplace that burns gas or propane. If you'd rather not have a fireplace, but you like the idea of stone in the room, face one wall with stones the same as you would a fireplace surround.
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Flank a comfortable white or cream colored sofa with chairs covered in a small floral print. Large floral prints are also an option, but smaller prints may fit better with the soothing theme of your room.
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Throw a bamboo rug on the floor to encompass the seating area. A bamboo rugs is an eco-friendly choice that will add yet another natural element to the living room space.
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Add a modern touch to your natural living room space with shiny black lacquer accent tables. The black will complement the white sofa and provide a beautiful contrast with the green walls, cherry floor and stone accent wall.
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Select copper or brushed nickel table lamps to further enhance the natural elements in the living room. Bronze may work, but copper or nickel will add more of a contrast to the green walls.
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