Green Wallpapers in Interior Design: Usage Rules

Among the most popular wallpaper colors for 2017-2018 – a shade of greenery (intense green), a softer emerald tone Shaded Spruce, gray-green colors. Botanical prints are also trending – banana leaves, ferns, grass.

All shades of green have a positive effect:

• relax
  
• reduce eye strain
  
• lift mood
  
• energize
  
• help eliminate anxious thoughts.
  

Classic, grassy green and olive tones set a relaxing mood, suitable for everyone who loves harmony and tranquility. In the living room of an active and spirited person, intense green wallpapers – kiwi, jade, mint – are appropriate. The depth of tone and color companions also affect the atmosphere, so let's explore different shades of green.

Green Color and Room Characteristics

• Deep dark green or emerald color will accentuate the luxurious setting of a large living room with classical dark brown furniture. Decorating the room in an expensive and tasteful manner is possible, for example, with vertical striped wallpapers in a similar color.
  
• Meanwhile, in a small room with small windows, light green wallpapers will look more harmonious, making the space feel more open.
  
• Each living area can suit a specific shade of green. It is particularly important to choose the right wallpaper color for bedrooms. Muted tones – olive, sea wave – relax and relieve stress.
  

Original Way to Decorate a Bedroom

• In a small child's room, one wall can be accentuated with bright green wallpapers or moldings. A contrasting accent visually increases the area and makes the interior more interesting.
  
• If the room is located in the northern part of the house – choose wallpapers with warm green-yellow tones – colors close to ochre.
  
• Wallpapers, for example, flocked ones, can also be used for ceiling decoration. Different shades allow dividing a living room-studio, but salad tones should not be used in large amounts; mint or olive colors can dominate.
  

Wallpapers in Combination with Other Interior Colors

Green harmonizes well with other natural colors. The most comfortable combinations for the eyes are often found in nature: green with white, green with wood, green with yellow.

Colors that go well with green

Nature perfectly combines bright shades with more delicate ones, but when decorating an interior, it's important to properly select the depth of colors.

For example, salad and cooler green tones should be used moderately and combined with warm colors – for instance, brown and red. A girl's bedroom can be stylishly decorated using salad wallpapers and pink accessories.

Child's Bedroom

Besides, golden and wooden frames for pictures look elegant on a salad-colored wall.

Pastel shades of wallpapers – pistachio, yellow-green – create a beautiful backdrop for interiors in Provence or romantic styles. The combination of pale green and white makes the space feel open and light. Thanks to chocolate or chestnut accents, such colors will look elegant. The deeper the brown shade, the lighter the green should be.

Design: Irina Legotkina; Project Manager – Boris Komarovsky; Studio 3.14 Director – Timur Abdurakhmanov

A spacious room with dark green wallpapers looks noble and expensive. Emerald color is one of the colors of luxurious classical interiors, favored by those who appreciate harmony and tranquility.

Intense green tones are also suitable for Baroque and Neoclassical styles, in combination with golden, beige, burgundy, and black elements.

Design: Architect Tatiana Vakueva

Emerald and similar expensive classical colors can be present in small quantities in modern youth or avant-garde interiors. In this case, green colors are used for accent walls.

In the latest minimalist projects, black-green or basalt-colored wallpapers are also used. But only in spacious rooms and to highlight one working zone. The more black there is, the stricter the interior looks.

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Stylish wallpapers – solid or patterned?

In modern, most trendy design ideas, minimalism and simplicity are valued, and solid wallpapers are always appropriate. Thanks to the depth and richness of one green tone, a living room becomes stylish and self-sufficient.

Combination of Classic and Modern

Meanwhile, in fashion, wall designs with colors and original tropical prints are trendy, which create a summer mood in the room. A large and bright pattern on the walls – palm leaves or vines – visually makes the room higher and can become the main detail of style, a reference point for selecting other interior elements.

Example of Greening the Interior Without Plants

Simple and patterned wallpapers can be combined to highlight zones in a child's room or living room. Paintings with floral patterns will harmoniously look on a separate wall with open shelves.

Green Photo Wallpapers in Design Projects

Wallpapers with nature images, for example, grass and flowers, help solve a series of design tasks – visually stretch the room, elegantly highlight one accent wall.

Stylish Way to Refresh a Bedroom

Recently, photo wallpapers with landscapes, park photos, and tropical resorts have returned to fashion. They add depth to the interior and make a small room spacious. But in a living area decorated with such paintings, there should be simple miniature furniture and minimal additional decor.

In the Living Room

A living room in green tones is associated with classical European style, luxurious and harmonious. Deep green walls were used in the homes of English aristocrats.

Design: Tatiana Vakueva

There are ready historical solutions for how to decorate the walls of a living room to make the room look spacious and not gloomy. For example:

• One wall can feature wallpapers with vertical green and contrasting stripes, while the rest are solid dark green.
  
• Striped wallpapers can be used only on the lower part of the walls, and for the upper part, choose a harmonious color – blue or white.
  
• Wallpapers with gold patterns always create a pleasant festive atmosphere, ideal for friendly gatherings.
  
• A spacious living room will look homey and cozy if you complement the strict green background with items in milky white, yellow, beige, or blue.
  
• A small living room can be decorated in the style of Country or Provence, by choosing wallpapers in white-green checks or solid light green.
  

In the Bedroom and Children's Room

In the bedroom, a pleasant soft tone of wallpapers should reduce stress and fatigue, restrain emotions. The green color that you like will also lift your mood after waking up.

Choose a natural tone – pistachio, grassy, or olive. In a spacious relaxation area, green wallpapers can be combined with beige.

In a child's bedroom, a calm natural tone should dominate. But the play area wall can be decorated in intense green, which awakens energy.

In a room for toddlers, light olive or pale green wallpapers, even close to white – colors for peaceful sleep. In a stylish teenager's room, bright mint accents are appropriate, combining light green and red patterns or accessories.

Design: Maria Mahmudova

Useful Tone for Kitchen Walls

A green shade is very suitable for the kitchen as it normalizes digestion.

In the dining area, green wallpapers in warm tones look harmonious. In a working corner, soft leafy tones can make kitchen work less tiring.

Design: Maria Mahmudova

In a spacious kitchen-studio, green wallpapers can perfectly complement sand, yellow, beige, or light brown.

Red and orange colors that stimulate a healthy appetite can also be used in measured amounts in such a room. But it should be noted that vivid crimson strengthens green. Therefore, if the main color is intense green, accents can be pale red.

Trendy Interior Styles

Greenish tones have long been recognized as a color of harmony, prosperity, and wealth. Rich colors: malachite, emerald – were dominant in the homes of the wealthy during classical and romantic eras.

Dark green wallpapers will create the right atmosphere in an interior designed in a particular historical style: classic, baroque, or gothic. A feature of such interiors is ostentatious luxury: large chandeliers, big vases.

An olive color can be the hallmark of a French classical interior. Green wallpapers with patterns on the walls are part of the elegant Art Deco style.

Interior Close to French Style

Colonial and eco styles also appreciate an abundance of rich tones, predominant in nature. The combination of green with wooden carved or woven furniture is the main feature of natural styles.

Room in Colonial Style

Tropical style is very close to eco-friendly. Its features are similar – items made from natural wood, indoor palms, and themed wall decor with photo wallpapers.

The foundation of a colorful Eastern style can be bright wallpapers in emerald or khaki colors.

Idea of a Bright Design

Shabby chic and country styles, in which comfort is more important than ostentatious luxury, appreciate pale pastel green tones and their combinations with white, soft blue, or pink.

Country Style Bedroom

The newest style – techno, the style of progress – also skillfully uses natural and comfortable grass green color. The modern room's decor with new technology, chrome details, can be complemented with gray-green wallpapers or fir color.

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Finally, green-colored walls can become the basis of an interior in a marine style. Especially those shades that are associated with sea breeze and ocean. The style requires a harmonious combination of green with blue, indigo, turquoise, and white.

Window Treatments for the Room

Universal curtain colors for rooms where green tones predominate – beige, white, and gray.

Decoration in Scandinavian Style

Green walls will also pair well with curtains of marine tones – blue, turquoise, or more vivid green.

Decoration in Country Style

If the room has pale green wallpapers, choose curtains of a more saturated color to make the interior more dynamic.

Compare design projects of rooms and harmonious combinations of different shades of green with other colors.

Design: Elena Lazareva

Design: Elena Lazareva

Trendy Wallpaper Design

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On the cover: Design project by Daria El'nikova.