I want green walls. Does it seem like a good idea?

My bedroom in my last apt was painted green, kinda like the wall color "Bay Laurel" in this Restoration Hardware pic: http://www.restorationhardware.com/r...007&navCount=3

I had white trim, furniture was a mix of white trim, birch, and some matte black pieces. It was very relaxing, soothing The kitchen was painted a light blue, like this "seafoam": http://www.restorationhardware.com/r...013&navCount=3

It's pricey, but if I ever paint again , I want to get the low-VOC paint, better for your health and the enviro, fewer fumes, etc.

The program I am using is Photoshop CS2. What you do is select the area you want to change, using the lasso tool. Play around with the color balance settings, hue/saturation settings and the curve settings. It takes a little time to match a specific color but it can be done.

I hope these work

Choices, choices.... Let's vote. Whichever gets the most vote, Marie-P has to paint her apt that color. hahaha.

Benjamin Moore makes a software that does that without Photoshop and much easier (if you don't already have it and know how to use it) for 10$ last time I checked. We used it when we painted my sister's house, and I really liked it. You can also do their presets for free.

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I think SwampWitch and I have watched all the same home improvement shows -- she said just about everything I had in mind!

That matte-gloss-matte-gloss alternating stripe idea creates a really beautiful effect, and it looks easy to do. You can also do subtle stampings with gloss paint -- carefully spaced fleur-de-lis, or random leaves, or whatever you like.

Doing just one or two walls as accents, or maybe doing one darker wall and the rest a lighter shade, allows you to choose your color with a little more abandon -- you can afford to go a little deeper, because it's not covering such a wide area.

You're so lucky to have the option to paint! In every apartment I've ever lived in, I would have been evicted for such a thing!

In one place where that bleak whitescape was really getting to me, I used fabric to add some color:

a. found cheapcheapcheap fabric in a big loose cabbage rose print

b. sewed the selvages together (flat lap seams)

c. fabric-glued some grosgrain ribbon on to cover each seam

d. stitched an open-ended hem at the bottom

e. staplegunned the top edge to a length of what I think was called a furring strip (thin flat wood about an inch wide)

f. wrapped the fabric a half-turn to cover the staples

g. used just a few small nails to tack the strip of wood up on the wall just below the ceiling (working from under the fabric)

h. then slid another piece of furring strip into the hem at the bottom, to weight it and make it hang straight. Looked right nice, if I do say so myself!

If I ever do it again, I think I'll pleat the fabric as I staple it onto the top strip... that way I won't have to mess with the ribbon, because I can hide the seams in the pleats.

Green is my favorite color, by the way... excellent choice!

I'm a don't paint the apt person. Mainly because I hate to repaint it when you move. My son's ex-gf "helped" him decorate his apt, but she never received permission to paint it. We get to undo that this weekend before he moves.

Rather than put the money into paint and supplies, what about putting the money into things you will be able to take with you - accessories, drapes.
We just moved my daughter into her apt - solid white walls. Her furniture has black-brown wood, with beige cushions on the chairs & sofa. Her 8 bucks a panel drapes from Target go with her 10 dollar thow from BB&B. Green candles, plants, apples, and a B&W photo of the Chciago river with the river tinted green are some of the green accents.
If she get tired of the green, if will be easy to replace the green with another color for a new look.

You could do something like I did. I painted my walls blue, but it was boring, so I went nuts!
Pics: (I don't have any of just the walls)



The background is baby blue, then I painted a darker blue, aquarmarine, & sea green on there randomly. It really makes the walls "pop" & all those colors enhance each other.

That's my advice to add!

Originally Posted by ladycat

I really like that green but I like bright colors! or maybe like a sea green or sage?

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My parents' living and dining room is sage green while the kitchen is like a wine color while their bedroom is a beige-ish. I love sage green though! Lol, my wedding colors were sage green and light pink! It looks great on a lot of things. I think that smaller rooms' colors look brighter than larger rooms.

Go green!

My bedroom walls are green, and i have a dark seagreen feature wall!

darn, I don't have photoshop.

can you try it with the following color?

Hue: 45
Sat: 110
Lum: 95

Red: 136
Green: 148
Blue: 54

Sorry I'm not a lot of help in "green" - its one color we do not like! We like blues/creams/rose/dark beiges

I'd just go to Home Depot or other stores and pick out a few sample strips and hold them up to the wall to see which shade you like.

Also you don't want too dark cause when you leave the apartment you HAVE to repaint the walls white. Better check with your landlord before you go painting the walls!

While its nice of you all to help with colors - you are forgetting she is in an apartment! Its not her own place to repaint. DH says that IF you get permission from the landlord to repaint and he has to apply more then one coat to cover the color you WILL be charged for it in your security deposit.

I have another suggestion tho - are you willing to invest in some fabric and just measure out how many yards you need and cover a wall with fabric?

I had a 15' x 13' front room in one apartment I lived in that was painted a dark bluish-green with a gray undertone. Hard color to describe, but when the sun came through in the late afternoon it looked like you were floating underwater - it was so peaceful.

I just painted the office in my new place with an ice-aqua, looks nothing like hospital colors. It's nice and calming.

Originally Posted by watchcaddy

This kind of green?

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I once got my dad to paint my bedroom this color!! I love green!!!

My mom painted our kitchen back at my old home with her a GORGEOUS shade of country green!!! I absolutely love it!!! Just make sure that you use a good base coat/primer under it! Green can be a gorgeous wall color if done properly!!!! I plan to have another room in our hosue painted that same shade of green because i love it sooo much!

My dad has two walls in the living room green, one tan and one dark red. Looks good Don't forget that you can always change it if you don't like it!

I agree with a previous poster about saving your $$ and getting a less expensive paint. I always buy Glidden at Home Depot. Their flat paint is only $17 (versus Sherwin Williams $34) and it has low odor and great coverage.

We painted our hallway Glidden Zen Mist, which I highly recommend. This is a very nice green with yellow tones. On the same card, Sassafras Tea is also awesome. I painted our teeny tiny bedroom sassafras tea and it looks fabulous with the pink carpeting!

The only way to know for sure is to get lots of paint chips and see which one you like with your lighting and furniture. Also, since you're in an apartment, maybe you should just paint only one wall? That way you'd have less to repaint white when you move out.

Good luck!

And be careful if you are allowed to paint the wall. Some paints/colors will have to be covered over with Kilt before you can repaint them white or the color will bleed thru!

I'll contact my landlord before doing anything.

If I remember correctly, my lease says that I need permission to paint walls in a dark color. I'm hoping the color I choose will be alright and I wont have to repaint when I leave.

GK means Kilz, with a Z -- great stuff. And yes, if you can get approval on your color so you can leave it when you go, that would be great -- be sure and keep your leftover paint so you can do some touchup when you move out.