

It felt similar an due time to amusement emotion for what feels similar the world’s astir fashionable colour – green. While I’m much of an adept successful “blue,” its sister colour – greenish – is besides a favourite and beloved by astir people. We cognize that the plan satellite is LOVING reds, burgundies, mauves – each these warm, heavy tones, but I personally inactive deliberation that the close greenish tin beryllium some connected inclination and much universally loved (long term). Sherwin-Williams has truthful galore antithetic tones of greens that we’ve utilized implicit the years, galore clocking successful arsenic our favourite colors we’ve ever used. So if you are wanting to overgarment thing successful your country green, these are ones I emotion and urge wholeheartedly. Here we go:
Evergreen Fog SW 9130


Evergreen Fog SW 9130 was the Color of the Year 3 years agone and sure, I liked it erstwhile I saw it but it wasn’t until I painted my brother’s household country this colour that I fell successful LOVE. My goodness, it’s truthful beauteous and affluent – with truthful galore antithetic fantastic undertones that change. Sometimes it’s bluer and different times much gray, but ever greenish for us. I volition accidental that that country has north, south, and occidental airy truthful it gets a batch (non-direct) and I’m definite that has thing to bash with it. Additionally, we did illustration this colour successful Brian’s caller office, which lone has 1 tiny window, and successful determination it work mostly arsenic gray, truthful it decidedly changes depending connected the light. You tin spot the quality supra – Caitlin’s hallway is acheronian (no windows and lone a fewer doorways), truthful it’s a spot cooler, whereas it’s overmuch greener successful Ken’s household room. Also sneak peek – we changeable it for a large shoot, but can’t amusement you the full country truthful enactment tuned
Pewter Green SW 6208

I inactive perfectly emotion this dark, deep, astir conifer greenish of the OG Portland task kitchen (Pewter Green SW 6208). It does person a batch of bluish undertones, but remains solidly green.


I deliberation paired with each the cooler tones of the chromatic and past contrasting disconnected the wood flooring, this shadiness is beauteous perfect. If you are frightened of going excessively “yellow” oregon olive successful your green, past I tin solidly accidental this 1 is truthful beauteous and beauteous hard to not love.
Rosemary SW 6187

Rosemary SW 6187 was the victor for this kitchen’s cabinetry that we did 2 years ago, and portion it evidently feels akin to Pewter Green SW 6208, it has a spot much warmth and “yellow” successful it. We matched it to the greenish of the leaves successful the wallpaper, which is simply a bully hack if you are utilizing wallpaper and privation to find a overgarment colour that volition spell perfectly with it.


design by emily henderson and sarah weldon | styled by emily henderson and emily bowser | photos by steven Mcdonald | from: the prettiest greenish and pinkish room remodel that we completed successful 7 weeks
My goodness, I emotion that task truthful overmuch and that greenish is 1 that I’ve astir utilized galore times since, but person opted toward immoderate with undertones that talk to the circumstantial task we are moving on. It truly does person the code of rosemary and pairs truthful beautifully with brass oregon silver.
Rocky River SW 6215

Heading adjacent bluer (and perchance much forest?) we chose Rocky River SW 6215 successful my brother’s mudroom. We felt that being connected the river, “Rocky River” was intelligibly appropriate.

A colour similar this volition look precise acheronian if it were colour drenched connected each the walls oregon successful a country with small earthy light. However, successful present it reads arsenic a bold moody color, but inactive agleam and amusive with each the white.
Mountain Road SW 7743

This colour was SO hard to take due to the fact that that Article sectional has a batch of yellowish (or olive) undertones. These much olive, yellowish under-toned greens are ace fashionable close present and successful this acheronian country it conscionable work arsenic lukewarm and greenish (whereas successful a country with a batch much earthy airy the yellowish pigment came retired more).


I LOVED this colour (Mountain Road SW 7743) connected these walls truthful overmuch that I astir painted our beforehand doorway successful Mountain Road, but it pulled a batch much yellowish extracurricular truthful ever marque definite to illustration connected YOUR walls with YOUR light.
Laurel Woods SW 7749

Emily Bowser chose Laurel Woods SW 7749 for her guestroom/office, which is what I painted the exterior of our upland location and I LOVE it. It’s beauteous dark, successful a bully mode truthful beryllium prepared for it to soak up airy and beryllium moody.


I emotion however Emily styled it with these heavy hits of achromatic and caramel – specified a beauteous colour palette.


For the upland house, I wanted thing that work arsenic “dark” but not truthful acheronian that you couldn’t archer it was green. A warning: erstwhile you are outside, the earthy sunlight (even if indirect) volition marque the colour look a batch lighter (our neighbors tried to spell “dark” but didn’t take acheronian capable and it’s overmuch lighter and brighter than they wanted. So you mightiness deliberation you are going dark, but past successful the prima it mightiness look agleam green, truthful err connected the broadside of overmuch darker if you privation a mean to acheronian exterior.
So this color, Laurel Woods SW 7749, volition work ace acheronian wrong a country without a ton of earthy airy (which is what Bowser wanted) and much medium/dark outside. But if you enactment successful a country wrong with a batch of earthy light, the greenish volition travel retired much and mightiness beryllium “brighter” than you mightiness want.
I genuinely anticipation that someday exertion volition lick each of our overgarment statement issues – I would emotion to locomotion successful to a country with immoderate VR goggles truthful I could effort antithetic colors until my heart’s content. But for now, each you tin bash is spell disconnected recommendations from radical who person painted a batch (like me) and past marque definite to illustration each the colors connected antithetic walls astatine antithetic times of time and past look astatine them for truthful agelong that your hubby mightiness question your sanity At slightest that’s my method!
Opening Photo Image: Photo by Kaitlin Green
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