Interior in green tones is not too common, especially for the living room. However, psychologists and designers consider it almost ideal in terms of effectiveness and impression. This natural shade pacifies, calms, but does not depress. In addition, he makes the room fresh, vibrant, positive.
Advantages and disadvantages
The design of the living room in green tones requires a certain courage, but in the interior it most often looks rather harmonious and non-irritating. It is worth evaluating all the advantages and disadvantages of the palette.
Let's start with the pros.
- It has a positive effect on the nervous system, is able to level anxiety, tension, especially if the shades include blue tone.
- For those who use the living room as a dining room, one should remember those shades that lower appetite. It is the color of olive, malachite, lettuce.
- Gamma has a good effect on relationships between households. Reduces the need to conflict, pacifies.
- Helps relieve fatigue from the eyes, relax after a busy day.
- If you are prone to mood swings, such shades will help get rid of this. Green contributes to the formation of a smooth emotional background.
- To give the living room dynamism that will affect the mood, motivate and motivate, add a few red elements to the composition.
- It is ideally combined with yellow, brown, white. Suitable for many styles.
- Looks good in a room of any size. The main thing is to choose the right key, competently combine colors.
There are also disadvantages:
- too relaxing design can lead to a state of apathy;
- with nerve disease, green in excess leads to a loss of energy;
- not suitable for many modern styles.
Color palette
Psychologists have revealed the influence of different shades on the human condition. Depending on your desires, you can make a living room that forms a certain mood:
- pacify herbal tones;
- stimulate emerald and mint;
- dark greens of a saturated spectrum gives the room status, respectability;
- well suited for a smooth emotional background olive and sage greens, such a living room will be warm, elegant;
- pistachio and apple at the same time create a fresh and relaxing interior;
- for large living rooms in a classic style, dark turquoise, emerald, needles are suitable, these are rich, but strict and rich tones;
- light green is able to expand space, well suited for small rooms.
Good color combinations
If you choose greens as the main background, you need to figure out which palettes to take as an additional and accent palette.
White green
Perfect for forming a modern design, where there are metal surfaces, modular furniture. Greens and snow-white look good in retro-vintage directions. This combination will visually expand the room, fill it with air.
In this variation, it is better to abandon the sharp contrast, playing in midtones.
Yellow green
These colors are close in the palette, so the pair look great. They are widely represented in the living landscape. Only moderation and restraint are needed here, since in excess both tones can create a flashy picture. An excessive amount of yellow is especially harmful to the composition. Better choose faded tones.Using yellowness as an accent.
In small halls, it is not recommended to use too rich tones of both scales.
Blue green
Another duet close in terms of palette, however, you need to be more careful with it. Excessive blue saturated tone can lead to a feeling of crowding. In this case, light, light shades of blue, blue in a small amount are optimal.
Gray green
Refined tandem, original, relevant and noble. Gray is able to balance the greens, give it conciseness, restraint. This is a calm combination, where only beware of dark shades.
Beige green
Another pacifying hit, perfect for decorating the living room. Beige is not as categorical as white, it is warmer, quieter and perfectly balances the composition. Good in the pair look bright greens and all shades of beige. The energy of such a living room will be calm, warm, but cheerful. Looks luxuriously in classic and rustic interiors. The most respectable in a company with beige shades of grass, olive, lime.
Brown green
Here everything is naturally organic, it is the color of a summer tree, therefore it is well suited for all eco-destinations. There are many opportunities for experiments, in any case, the interior in this variation will always be relevant and non-trivial. They will complement the composition interspersing red or orange, but only in minimal quantities and, if desired, make it more active.
But to combine orange, red with greens in equal proportions is not recommended. A pretty controversial is the black and green combination. Neutral black, in principle, is not contraindicated, but is able to give the room a mourning mood. This is not the best choice for a living room.
Designers advise combining in any variation until you find the perfect color combination.
Style solutions
The style variety for a similar background allows you to choose. Moreover, Based on the chosen style, you can select color combinations, this will significantly narrow the range of variations:
- in oriental style it is better to use shades of olive, jade;
- in the Mediterranean - light tones and aquamarine;
- in the tropical - light green.
Ecostyle is an ideal platform for greenery. It can use a large number of home plants, wooden and bamboo pieces of furniture and decor.
This color looks good in all village directions:
- in provence - mint, light muffled greens in combination with white and beige;
- in country - more saturated shades in combination with brown and beige;
- in English - deep and dark tones of green in combination with coffee, gray.
Scandinavian style the use of snow-white, gray, beige and greenish is appropriate. In classic styles optimal tandem of noble greenery with gilding or silver. In modern - pistachio, salad are mainly used.
Wall, floor and ceiling decoration
The greenish background of the hall in the apartment is created by decorating primarily the walls. Moreover, it is not necessary to design all the walls the same way. This is especially not ideal for cramped living rooms. The best choice is wallpaper or beige paint, pastel shade. One or two walls can be decorated in green colors. Photo wallpaper in green looks good.
The green background is finely accentuated in wood, cork, marble and stone.
The ceiling in the green living room is usually decorated in a classic white color - this allows you to make it higher. You can use not only white, but also beige or faded green colors, but only in large living rooms.
The floor in the hall of this color is ideal to choose wooden or imitating wood or stone. Suitable parquet, laminate, tile, linoleum in the appropriate design.
Choice of furniture and curtains
Furniture in green shades in leather and suede looks respectable and solid. If the background is restrained, then this option can be applied in almost any style. Such a composition with expressive accents will certainly impress. Cabinet green furniture is an original solution. It is necessary to correlate the size of the pieces of furniture and the room.
Window decoration is the finishing touch to the interior. Translucent, airy fabrics of the color of delicate greens will give the room lightness, freshness. Heavy curtains, satin, velvet are appropriate only in large classic living rooms.
It is better if the curtains stand out against the background of the walls.
Selection of accessories
Regardless of style, you need to complete the composition with beautiful details.
In such a living room will look perfect:
- black and white photo frames;
- landscape or floral paintings;
- wooden, bamboo, wicker items;
- clay products.
Pay attention to the lighting system. Do not limit yourself to the central upper chandelier. Luxurious or laconic wall sconces, soft or austere floor lamps will make the living room more interesting.
Beautiful examples
Here are some beautiful living room options:
- white and green living room;
- gray and green;
- brown and greens;
- in combination with yellow;
- greens and beige.
You will learn about the combination of colors in the interior in the next video.