Color Guide: How to Use Teal

megangbush Teal is my favorite color. My wedding colors were teal and aged gold... I LOVE the kitchen with the teal, gold, and red as well as the living room with navy and teal. Very nice!

franki7 Teal is my "go to color"....,it really does "work" with every color. franki

mrsben You certainly have me sold on the colour. LOVE IT! :)

amycocotis Teal works with virtually all metalics! I'm dreaming of a teal dining room. :)

kennedytarheel the front door to my stone home is deep, rich turquoise.....it pops from a block away!

Bette I really respond to the cool teal and the warm woods. It's so comforting.

Elizabeth Hagins Interior Design Great article on teal. I've been asked if such a deep color is wrong for a small room...no is the answer. I used it in this small study and it just enhances the cocoon-ish feel of the space.

lovesmesomepitbulls I am really enjoying this Color Guide series and am learning a lot. Thanks!

flick We have just refurbished our kitchen and the colour scheme was partly inspired by our Denby Coast/Azure crockery, which is predominately a beautiful teal colour. Cream cupboards, coral wall tiles, teracotta-look floor tiles, lots of stainless steel and soon light blue/teal industrial style light-shades. Our house is 50s so it's pleasing to hear there's a midcentury-modern edge to using this colour!

jdevine I'm crazy for Teal too! We just moved into our newly renovated home, I've got lots of teal, turquoise, taupe & white and I love it. I'm working on window treatments now.

nfeldmus I loved all of those rooms! Teal was my inspiration for my new mid-century ranch. The color is so soothing when paired with neutrals. It was the jumping off point for the rest of the home. I kept my front door color a strong brown red, and I love the pop against the wall color when the door is open.

mrsben Question: Re the flooring in the third picture (by Busybee Design) which appears to be a Hardwood. Do you have access to its specs or what it might be? Thank you.

Liz Williams Design This is a dining room I designed with a dark teal wall color I custom mixed. It goes great with the gold dupioni silk drapery treatment and matchstick roller shades. It is a wonderful place to entertain!

tsingtaomama I once moved into a house with a kitchen that had hickory cabinets and pale taupey kitchen counters and floor. The sellers had painted the kitchen white and the whole thing was so pale and washed out. I hated the cabinets. Then I painted the walls a deep peacock teal and the change was amazing. The pale wood cabinets looked lovely against dark teal walls. When we moved, the house sold very quickly -- peacock blue kitchen and all.

outstanding Great use of color, I plan on a new project, incorporating B&W Toeil fabric, with turquoise wall behind bed, with other walls & ceiling soft beige.

firephly We have a dark brown sectional and have found some lovely pale teal curtains (very light shade).. I need some help deciding what colour to use on the walls, any ideas? :)

Bette @firephly, like another commenter on this post did: she said she took from the colors in her dishes. Your dishes, or a favorite rug will have all of these colors. Look at colors in fabric.
Also if you have a darker brown sofa, I would suggest some stronger teal to meet the value of your couch.

mandutd I've just done a feature wall (chimney breast) with a wallpaper which is black and silver with a very bright bluey teal blossom look.ive come to a stand still has to what colour to put on my other three walls.any suggestions from anyone would be very much appreciated?

mrsben @mandutd: As a thought, if you like the colour of the flowers you could consider: taking a sample of your wall paper and have the dealer colour-match the colour in paint BUT request that the 'paint be half-cut'. (ie: Colourants reduced to 50%.) This should result in giving you a lighter and softer colour of the teal-blue with the same undertone.

On more than one occassion this method has proven to be successful when choosing a co-ordinate when I've been in doubt like yourself. Hope I've helped. ºÜº

middleofnowhere Would it be crazy to paint my sunny kitchen with walnut table and Aqua Sky Eames chairs, peacock blue with light green cabinets? Will probably have white quartz countertops and cork floors. Crazy? Or crazy good?

hicbri i want to paint my bedroom walls teal, dark, beautiful. i have grey print curtains, dark cherry furniture, brushed nickel hardware. i have two sets of closet doors, white, bathroom door, white, and bedroom door. i would like to paint the closet doors to tone it down, but have no idea if this would work. any ideas? thank you

pamarama Love this site! Just moved to Costa Rica and I have teal tile in my kitchen and one bath...so many ideas and color options to choose from.

cathybarnes What is the brand and name of the paint in the office above?

shazam410 Thank you so much for the teal info. I have a drab tan and brown furniture, with kinda aquamarine walls and purple accents. I am sick of this color scheme and recently purchased a teal and gray area rug to inspire me. I have lots of teal accents to work with too plus I sew. How about mixing some light teal waxed with gray for furniture finishes and throw in some white? Please advise?? also have an ugly art deco brick fireplace

Marcia I moved into a "white" house so I started with teal curtains to add color. I've since painted the walls taupe (or Weathered Oak by Valspar) but still have teal curtains, a gorgeous teal velvet chair I found on Amazon, teal pillows and accents, and threw in a couple of peacocks (because it's also kind of a peacock blue). I LOVE TEAL!!!! The chair and stool on the right were Goodwill finds ($5 for the chair, $3 for the stool) and painted, of course, teal and covered with fabric with teal, sage, purple, brown, all the colors in my rooms in a chevron pattern. The book shelf was also a Goodwill find and painted light turquoise (didn't want TOO much teal, if there's any such thing!). I'm taking suggestions for a new living room rug...my couch and love seat are tan or mocha. I've thought about adding some green, maybe in a chevron pattern....

rita29 I am planning to use teal (peacock teal) as an accent wall...any suggestions on what neutral colorto have on the remaining walls? The color of my furniture is ivory if that helps. Any suggestions or decorating tips will be appreciated! Thanks :)

Marcia The color I have on my walls works great with the teal or peacock accents...as I mentioned above, it was Weathered Oak by Valspar and it's a taupe color, or even the next darker one on the swatch, Manor Stone which I used in my entry way. I've added some pictures but it's kind of hard to see the colors but you can see the weathered oak against my ivory fireplace mantel and peacock artwork that might give you some idea. The last 2 are the darker Manor Stone. Good luck!

rita29 Thank you so much Marcia! I love the Manor Stone. I tend to pick up so many color swatches and then get so overwhelmed when its time to make a decision. Thanks again :)

Marcia I did exactly the same thing before painting my rooms...I still have hundreds of color swatches! But a friend at the local hardware store paints houses on the side and she recommended the weathered oak and I was really happy with it...but I agree, the darker manor stone would work great with a teal accent wall. And you're welcome! :) Now I just have to do my trim...that's NEXT winter's project!