Suggestions for a non-hospital green bedroom

[kreyszig]

Morning all
We're finally contemplating some interior decorating 2 years in to our move, yay!
We are just doing a quick repaint of a bedroom so we can move into it while we have visitors in a couple of weeks. It's currently a very wrong burgundy colour on woodchip. The wooden floors are stained dark (good), and most of the furniture to go in there is a similar mahogany colour. The woodchip will be staying for now, we don't have the time to correct any problems we find underneath it just yet.
We're hoping to lighten it up without sanitizing it completely, and a light green appeals to both of us - and it seems like it might suit the floors and furniture well. But it seems like we run the risk of ending up looking like a hospital - or just being completely insipid. Would welcome any suggestions for a green that's suitable for lightening up a bedroom, and would play nicely with the woodchip. We've tried a tester of a chalky emulsion (craig and rose soft green) which seems to hide lumps and bumps better than some of the other testers.
our place is Edwardian/Late Victorian fwiw, picture rail and high skirting which we will be doing (or leaving) an off white, and the frieze will stay a cream on textured paper.

Many thanks in advance for any ideas!

 

[mims&pip]

Hi kreyszig

We are in a similar situation, although the bedroom we recently (temporarily) decorated is one of the few rooms here where the PO didn't apply blasted woodchip to the walls - the same cannot be said for the ceiling unfortunately :roll:

Our house dates from 1853 with an Arts & Crafts style extension added in 1924 and we are fond of darker, saturated colours with green being a particular favourite of mine. We have an extensive collection of predominantly oak Arts & Crafts/Art Nouveau furniture and furnishings with this particular bedroom being home to a very nice set originating in Belgium as well as a carved oak fireplace we found at auction.

After extensive research (and many tester pots :wink: ), the colour we chose is Farrow & Ball Olive, which we are very happy with as it compliments both the oak furniture, soft yellow curtains and mid-blue carpet (which will be replaced later with a rug from our collection) although we have previously successfully used Craig & Rose Tapestry Green, which is also fairly dark.

Olive may possibly be too deep in tone for your requirements - Soft Green looks very nice and not *too* hospital-y looking in the online examples, although on my colour chart it does look a bit pale.....

*Hospital* green is a minty tone imho.....

Have you looked at Little Greene colours at all? Eau-de-nil, kitchen green and pea green look nice

Good luck with the project!

Mims x

 

[kreyszig]

thanks Mims, that olive is a lovely colour, as you say though it may be too deep. The room isn't lit superbly (the two windows are both in one corner) so I have been looking at lighter shades for that reason too.
this is what comes to mind as a hospital type green:

I'm starting to wish I was back up on the scaffolding! so many choices!
I just had a look at the little green paints you suggested. pea green looks pretty good - time for more testers!

 

[Mickey]

Hi Kreyzsig,

After some agonising choosing and many tester pots later we went for Dulux Heritage Stone Green for the bottom half of our painted kitchen units. As others said on a google search I did the colour does seem to change with the light so in some instances looks more soft grey and in others more greeny. I'm really happy with it although obviously the finish we had was eggshell and not emulsion and you might feel it's not perhaps as bold as you want. Just a suggestion. It was such a tough and potentially costly (if we got it wrong) decision that I am very pleased to say another other painting to be done in the house will be white! I also have the same trouble with tiles and thank goodness we've not got any more of that to do!!

Hope you find what you are after.

Mickey

 

[bennoa1]

Why not paint the walls a light colour and one darker feature wall? Maybe the same colour but one very subtle shade and the other darker.

 

[Andys]

Fired Earth Weald Green if it's not too dark? Shows up all the white or cream features nicely. Please excuse the Christmas cake icing on the ceiling...

 

[kreyszig]

thanks everyone some great suggestions there. will post pictures of the finished product, assuming we can decide on a colour!

 

[jocelyn plummer]

Country Living Magazine has brought out a series of soft chalky paints in association with Marston and Langinger. They are beautiful colours.
Also have a look at Francesca's Chalky emulsions, I have used those many times and her latest John Waterhouse series looks very interesting.