To answer your question (can you have too many...?), imho...no.

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Funny, I was just looking at material for my dining room chairs and realized that green weighs heavily in my downstairs color scheme. While I have distinct rooms on my first floor, they all have large doorways. Actually, not really doorways as there are no doors, just large openings between rooms. Without specifically planning to, I realize that the color scheme really carries through from the front of my house to the back. I actually want to get new chairs for my family room and wanted to totally change things up in there, but realize it probably wouldn't look right if I did (I was thinking cooler colors as opposed to warm colors).

Green has always been my favorite color so it doesn't surprise me that it shows up so prominently in my home.

not for me you can't. I love green and if DH let me I would have lots of green rooms. Right now I just have a my kitchen, Master Bedroom and bath painted green along with one greyish green bathroom

I am NOT a green paint person. So 1 room painted in green is too much for me. I also hate red paint in rooms. It looks like blood o the walls to me. But since you love green so much, it works for you.

Our previous home was all green, I loved it!

We had Nantucket gray in our old kitchen and dining room. it's a great color and reads pretty neutral.

IMO one *could* have their entire house green or any other color if that is what one likes. I happen to love green and have 4 rooms out of 13 painted green. Two of the rooms are lime green and the others are a greyed sage and a greener sage.

I did not know I liked green but I ended up with our master bedroom in Theresa's green (ok.. Greenish blue) .. Kitchen with cabinets in BM eucalyptus leaf and rosemary sprig and my mother's room walls in HC-1 Castelton Mist & Ceiling in HC-3 Greenmount Silk. My DH just commented that I did not realize you liked green so much:)

I love certain gray/greens. I have two green room: kitchen and a spare bedroom. The only color I carried over from my old house was the bedroom color: BM's Kennebunkport Green. It is just about my favorite color in the world! I still gaze at it lovingly every day. My kitchen is a lighter gray/green (can't remember the name), very soothing and goes perfectly with the green soapstone countertops.

I have a lot of green, too. A brighter yellow-green in a tiny guest room, Mesquite Green in my office/sunroom, and kitchen/family room -- which is half of our first floor -- is a medium gray green that I agonized over yet can't remember its name at the moment. In the other first floor rooms, I have touches of green everywhere. Green is just a very easy color to decorate with.

Oh, the exterior of my house is also green!

I love green too. My bedroom is a light green, my kitchen cabinets are a midtone taupy green, and my sofa is green along with a tan neutral paint in the living room that has green undertones. My bathroom is off white but I have green towels, rug, shower curtain and accents. So even if you don't have it on all the walls, you can add it in other ways. Green just feels so fresh to me, and its not cool feeling like blue. It just makes me feel good. I love being outdoors and I love to garden, so that must have something to do with it. I don't know if I would go with all green walls for myself because I really like variety of color, but I have thought about it too.

No, you can't have too many rooms painted green. If you love green. Which I do. Every room in my house (save for the upstairs, which retains its original 1940s pine paneling) is painted a soft green and I think it looks great. I love the way the color flows from room to room and pretty much turns into a neutral instead of shouting, "green! green!"

That's so funny. I was thinking the same thing. I have Wythe Blue (BM) in the bathroom off the kitchen, Milk Pail (Martha Stewart) in the kitchen, and will be painting the dining room BM Salisbury Green and the office BM Antique Jade.

I wanted to paint the outside green, too, but my neighbor beat me to it and I didn't want to look like a copycat!

DH lived in a fixer upper townhouse for awhile. It needed new paint and carpet among other things. I wish I had pictures. All the walls ended up a nice green that was the same color as the carpet. It was very soothing. It sold to the first people that came to see it before it was even show ready!

Thanks for posting this thread, OP. I was wondering this too and am happy to see so many saying no. I have 2 out of 9 rooms painted green and am contemplating a third. My master bedroom is olive green, bird room is grass green, and am considering doing the living room in a green as well.

I tell myself that if I do the LR I will repaint the bird room but ummm... probably not. :) I am lazy and the birds would throw a hissy over the change.

Thank you all for all of your responses. It really helps to hear from others when you are uncertain as to what to do. Well, I'm going ahead with my Nantucket Gray. I'm hoping that this color will transition well into my family room which is painted Hampshire Gray. Thanks again.

Such timing! I was just wondering this the other day, if my house would look stupid if I based things on green in too many areas. It is good to know others do not find this odd looking! It's such a soothing color.

I agree snookums2.

I'm another green lover and have many areas painted green and never tire of green. It's a strange question really, replace green with beige/khaki/tan and many would be aghast at the thought that a "neutral" could ever be overused.

Bumblebeez- that's a good observation!

I had mostly shades of green in my last house..and it seems I am doing it again in my new build...it is so easy to decorate around and easy on the eyes!

Interest in and availability of so many colors nowadays may make this moot ... but I have always thought that most people are either green people or blue people, leaning heavily toward one over the other, snd choosing schemes that are more harmonious with one than the other.

I know - they can be combined very successfully - but I mean preferences I've observed.

I've always been a green one, although I don't like green walls much. The exception is deep greens in a library or den with lots of polished mid-toned woods like unstained cherry and yew ... I love leafy greens and olive greens and the greens of Cape Cod shutters; I'm crazy about fabrics with simple green and white patterns like bamboo lattice and ferny things; and I love that wonderful deep dark dirty green that looks so good on the trim of stone houses.

So I'm with Mae West, who famously said, "Too much of a good thing is wonderful."

bronwynsmom- that is an interesting perspective about the green/ blue issue. I know that it is true for me. I love green in decorating but blue, not so much. I personally find it difficult to decorate around cool colors in general. My bedroom is gray wisp and I find it the most difficult room to decorate even though I like the color itself.

I agree with Bronwynsmom - I think people are either green people or blue people. I have sold a few houses and a "green" person always buys our homes. My husband's favorite color is green, and so I began decorating our home in greens, thinking he would enjoy that and would be more involved. Now married 23 years, I have come to understand that although green is his favorite color, he really could care less how our house looks! He is a 100% function person (and green)! So, I have started to change parts of our house to blue! LOL! Our kitchen, family room and mud room are all green. Our dining room and bedroom are blue! Living room is a blue gray and the masterbath is a green gray.

Okay, now here is a slight hijack for all of you lovers of green. Being a "green person" I painted my kitchen BM Saybrook Sage several years ago. I love it and so does DH (he said he was surprised at how much he likes it). I painted the cabinets a creamy white (BM Lily of the Valley) and like that with the green. Problem is that we have two and sometimes three large long-haired dogs who sometimes get past us when they are wet and shake. We also have 60-something eyes that often miss drips or dirt on the cabinets unless I put on my glasses and look carefully. DH doesn't even bother to look! Now, I am not saying I won't be cleaning, but I do want to avoid that moment of horror that I occasionally get if someone drops by and then I notice drips or something after they go and wonder what they thought if they noticed the mess. So, does anyone have any ideas of a shade I could paint the lower cabinets that would work with the sage and with the upper cabinets which will stay white (dark kitchen when lights aren't on during the day).

Thanks and feel free to ignore me if you think I should start a new thread. Just seemed that with all of us loving green, this would be a good time!

I hope it's not too much. We're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel with our basement. I've always wanted a green library, so that large room is "Drab" on all the bookcases and paneled walls. The guest room is "Green Ground" which looks so light and fresh and airy after coming in from the "Drab" hall, and the guest bath is "Pale Powder" which reads entirely watery green in this room with no natural light. I'm really loving it. Upstairs, there is so much green outside the windows, that there isn't a lick of it in the rooms. That was deliberate. But downstairs, the drab green ruled the day and inspired everything else. Furniture will not be green though. It's so not ready for prime time yet, but hopefully in a few months I'll be able to post reveal pictures.

Pirula, what brand paint are those colors? They sound wonderful!

Nevermind...I found it on F&P. Thanks anyway! :)

Cyn427, yes! And they are yums...

Yes, they are. I am wondering if Green Ground might work for my cabinets. Or Stone White or Ball Green...

:)

had to send you this link. This house used Farrow and Ball and the entire house is painted in green hues. I love the Ball Green and want to paint my kitchen that color. If green makes you happy, then I would paint it all green then, why not.

Here is a link that might be useful: House all painted green

Thanks dermnp- I love that house!