Gorgeous Green Interiors

In interior design terms the colour green opens a whole world of fabulous shades and hues to use within your home, either as a main base colour or as an accent in soft furnishings and accessories.

Associated with new life and regeneration, green is a fabulous colour to decorate your rooms with or use as an accent for soft furnishings; it's also associated with jealousy, so use this to your advantage and create an interior that your family and friends with be green with envy over!

In today's modern world if you mention 'green' it shows that you care about the planet and are prepared to do your bit towards recycling and are pro-actively trying to lower your carbon footprint.

Whichever way you want to think about it, I think it's fair to say that we all have a touch of green somewhere in our homes. If you think about floral patterns they'll have green somewhere within the design. Maybe you have on-trend sea-foam as your accent colour this also has green undertones as well as blue. We must also remember that to make the colour green you mix blue and yellow – so if you have yellow as part of your interior it will also have undertones of green and blue.

With jewel tones being bang on-trend this year, emerald green is the shade to go for. Use it in luxurybedding, window blinds, curtains and large rugs to create a bedroom which is regal, refined and elegant.

For those of you who say you don't like green take a look around your home – even if your have fresh herbs growing on your kitchen window sill, or a vase of cut flowers in your living room means that you have the colour green in your home – even if it is by default!

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