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Dark Green Paint for Game Room?

6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago

I painted this room white but now feel that it looks too sterile. I love the idea of dark green walls but am having a hard time pulling the trigger on it, I am afraid it'll make the room too dark. This is an upstairs game room/office, not a main living space. When our baby is older it will also be the play room. I do not want it to look like a dark/cave like media room, just a pretty space that happens to be where our TV is.

I have been looking at Benjamin Moore Gondola Ride, Glidden Deep Forest Pine, Sherwin Williams Hunt Club, and Behr Rainforest.

A) Should I even go with a dark green?

B) Has anyone had luck with any of the paint colors mentioned above?

C) Are there other paint colors (same family or lighter) that I should look into?







Thanks!!

Comments (16)

  • 6 years ago

    Light green looks awfully nice with blue as well. I can't think of any specific greens, though.

  • 6 years ago
    How about you go with the same shade as the flowers in your drapery dark green will make it like cave and it won't go with your furniture I did my bedroom one time dark green and believe me it wasn't that easy to change the color
  • 6 years ago



    I think dark green would look fab.

  • 6 years ago

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  • 6 years ago

    Some talk much about a gallery wall, and seems your wall pieces could be assembled on the wall near the plant. What about a soft green near the curtains - too many items on the walls?!


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  • 6 years ago

    Thanks for the feedback! I have considered light green but I have two other rooms upstairs that are light greens so I was hoping for something a little different. I see pictures of dark green rooms that look fabulous, I'm just worried this particular room will get too dark?


    Below are a couple of inspiration shots I have been admiring. I'm not going for as modern of a look as these but I love the color schemes. Maybe the paints I'm looking at are darker than these?



  • 6 years ago

    Dark painted rooms can be warm and dramatic BUT you need to insure the lighting is right.

    You currently only have overhead lighting....when multiple lighting sources are usually recommended...floor lamps,table lamps and sconces can all add to the feel and look of a room. Please consider adding lighting before repainting. Another option, add a colorful area rug on top of your carpeting and more stuff that you love on the walls. Maybe paint the inside of your bookcase the dark color of your choice.

  • 6 years ago
    Many years ago, we had an old house with a front parlor, lots of beaten up woodwork, and very little money. We painted the parlor dark green, in a gloss finish. The woodwork as well. It was beautiful!
  • 6 years ago

    I think Threers has the right of it. I think dark green would be great if the lighting is right.And what times of day do you plan to use the room? If you will be using the room mostly in the evening, you want the color to look good under indoor lighting, so you may need to add additional lamps to pull off a dark color (or choose a not-quite-so-dark color that works with the current lighting). If you are going to use the room during the day relying on natural light, you need to consider the exposure. If the window is north-facing, or shaded, dark colors will look darker, so you may need to choose a lighter-colored paint to get the same effect you would get with a darker paint in a south-facing room.


    I just painted my bedroom, with north- and east-facing windows, with Behr Juniper Berries (a bit bluer than what you are looking at, but similar in darkness to Rainforest). I like it, but I was going for a little bit moody. If I remember, I will take a pic for you when I get home.


  • PRO
    6 years ago

    What about one dark green wall to start. Use it as an accent, for one of your walls that has dramatic art or drapery!

  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    I agree with others. See what you can do by decorating and, if you're dying to paint, do one accent wall. Once I'd been inspired by a photo to paint my home office dark purple. Beautiful color but when I was getting close to finished, the walls started to feel like they were closing in on me, like a fun house room. A good lesson: looking at one wall in a photo doesn't represent how it feels to be surrounded by the color. In my case, I repainted everything a light purple. ;) FWIW, if you want to take off the sterile edge of white, you can always do a nice sage green or other color that's not dark.


  • 6 years ago

    If I were to do an accent wall, it would make sense to do the wall with the TV. But we are considering re configuring the room and putting the TV on the long wall (it's a rectangular room). The TV would then be about where the large framed map and two small paintings are now. This is the same wall as the entrance door. Is it bad to have an accent wall as a long wall and the wall with the entrance door? And if I do an accent wall, should I leave the rest of it white?

  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    I would find a medium dark green/blue and paint the whole room. I think it will be stunning. Be sure to add lamps as suggested above--you can use them in the daytime as well as after dark. Don't be afraid of the coziness of color!


    ETA: I think the Gondola Ride would be wonderful.

  • PRO
    6 years ago

    I have a dark green dining room, but it's not painted, it has tone-on-tone wallpaper.

    I've used light curtains to keep it from being too dark, plus it's usually used at night and dark green and candlelight compliment one another nicely.

    I don't particularly like rooms painted in most dark colors. It's just very hard to get any "depth" to the color. They end up looking very flat. That's why I like the tone-on-tone stripe (you can see it best under the window behind the plant stand.

    I would not like dark green for a child's play room. It also looks best in rooms with warm wood - my DR table works very well with the dark green as it is a gorgeous antique "bleached" mahogany.

  • PRO
    6 years ago

    Green would be great