Maybe a neutral cream color in that space will go less green with sunlight. I'd lose the mirror, that wall is a perfect place for a fabulous piece of art.

I rather like it but sorry it doesn't work for you.

Well, at least it is a very pretty green, and your turquoise or teal accents, should look great with it. :-)) That said, I had the same problem, although, mine turned a very ugly yukky shade of green. I repainted 3 times, before I finally have it look gray like it should.

Love the drapes in that room! Where are they from? I agree with you, it is too green. But the rest of the room is beautiful!

You could cut down all the trees? ... just kidding!

This occurrence is normal and doesn't negatively affect your homes' appearance, imo. I have a tree in my front yard that blooms with very bright pink flowers and it makes my walls look pink. The tree is beautiful and I don't worry about how my walls temporarily look.

Try to switch your view of it to be a positive thing. You have beautiful trees that make their presence known when they cast a reflection on your walls. It's a good "problem" to have.

I'm not someone who likes green paint. In fact it is one of my great 'hates'. I love the look of green in nature, but green paint is - IMHO - very ugly. So I'm with you on this one.

If you are looking to change the paint, I would start by using primer on the wall in the dining room ('cause it is turning green the most) and then purchase paint samples (small tins). I would then paint 'artist board' with each sample. Then I would move the boards around throughout the house and throughout the time of the day. Your reference point will always be the dining room wall - simply because it shows 'green' the most.

Once you've done all that work, you can then properly choose the colour of paint that is best suited to your personality/palette. I'm sorry your grey paint turned mint green. Mint is my biggest 'hate'. I would be SOOOO upset if this where my space. I would rather live with 'primer white' than with mint green.

Good luck and keep us posted.

• Check to see if your trees can be trimmed up from the ground to minimize the green bounce
• Check to see if the green bounce is from your trees or your grass
• Sometimes you can neutralize this by planting some other bush that will bounce a different color
• The mirror in your room isn't doing you any favors and doesn't appear to be of the quality of the rest of your furnishings.
• I would distract from the green on the walls by selecting a canvas more powerful than the green bounce. Do not select anything with red or purple tones as it will simply make the green brighter.

Close the curtains during those times?

Wow, thank you all for your input!

@mercurygirl - good point about replacing the mirror with artwork, I’ll check it out!

@kmorley - Thank you! The curtains are from JCP! I was thrilled to fine them, so reasonably priced!

@Erin - I do love the green trees, and grass, thankful for the view! I’m in the Midwest so we also get the white snow and I love the way that makes the house look!

@BeverlyFLADeziner - Wow, I love the way the rendering looks with the larger artwork! Thank you for putting that together. I’ll have to look into something like that!

@Kel Kel JCP has the nicest curtains! Your room looks beautiful. Paint is an easy fix.

Paint is not going to fix the issue of the green

I’m open to painting the dining room a different/darker color as well. It is separated enough from the living area where I think it could work. I love SW Sea Salt, BM Palladian Blue, colors like that, but not sure how it would look!

There are things you can do to reduce green reflection.

What is happening here is that you have a paint that is light colored and a finish that is also somewhat reflective. The colors from the trees is bouncing off the walls.

Darker colors are less reflective, choosing a paint that has a flater sheen will reduce reflection and selecting a color with more orange/red undertones will help neutralize green (but can turn peach when you don't have the green reflection (winter).

One last option is to place a filter on the window.

I really like your room and would not be troubled by the intermittent reflection of nature on the wall.

Please post follow up pics with the new rug, artwork, and completed jigsaw puzzle.

Hi!

I agree with Jennifer -You need to add a little more of orange/red to neutralize the green.

Careful with SeaSalt...it is a green-based colour. It will go MUCH BRIGHTER than what you are seeing here.

Does that wall stay green all day? If not, It isn’t just the trees turning the wall green…the direction of the natural light also is interfering. East light and North light exacerbates a color choice…add in the green trees….

Your window treatments…you could add two more panels that would help if, at the time of day that wall goes green, you pull the fabric across the window. Make sure the panels are lined.

If you use SW Sea Salt or BM Palladian Blue they are already bluegreen based colors. Adding green to blue green and you will have a different color (probably less sour apple green), but it will be green. Both of these colors tend to look much more vibrant on the wall than what you see in a small sample. I used BM Quiet moments in my bathroom. It is definitely a blue green room. It does not look gray.

Walls are huge and the amount of color seen when it goes over a huge expanse is much more noticeable than when we use it on a chair or pillow.

This feedback is great, thanks all for your comments!

@flopsycat1 - May be a while before any changes happen, but good news, the puzzle is complete! LOL

@groveraxle - the rendering looks great, maybe an accent wall is just what I need! The wall in the foreground is BM Chelsea Gray, I could paint it to match.

Using red or orange will NOT neutralize the green. This is a common fallacy to think that painting two complementary color next to each other will neutralize either one of them. Rather the colors will intensify each other--this effect is called simultaneous contrast.

On the other hand, MIXING two complementary paint colors WILL neutralize the resulting paint mixture, resulting in brown or tan. So red/green, blue/orange and purple/yellow paints mixed will become various brown colors.

But that is not going to help you. If you have beautiful trees outside, then embrace the color they cast in your house. Beverly said it best, "paint is not going to fix the issue of the green."

Maybe Lori Sawaya can weigh in here and comment.