Holy moly. :) Just try the fabric in the space before committing to redoing the chairs with it? And a straight fabric thing at the end of the bed isn't a permanent fixture either. Green goes with everything and is considered a soothing colour by most so great for a bedroom. If you can't decide between the two of you, flip a coin. ;-)

The darker shade of engineered wood though? That wouldn't work in my old(er) house. The morning light hits my surfaces just so, showcasing daily dust. A dark floor would drive me batty. :)

Thanks so much for the input. It makes sense.

I like bed runners. :-) Green is my favorite neutral. So, obviously I'm biased, and would ask your beloved if he'd be okay with trying the green bed runner first, like Tartan suggested.

Add a houseplant (spider plant, maybe?) on a nightstand, and see if he likes the green. :-D

Hi Pamela-

There is green and there is green.

Actually, all the shades go with black and white,

Think of how well all the shades of leaves and plants go so nicely with a white house and a black wrought iron fence and a glossy black door.

However some people have animadversions to certain of the green shades.

Maybe it was their aunt's split pea soup.

Or those chartreuse golf slacks from yesteryear.

Maybe that is the issue with your husband's desire to avoid green.

I would take a piece of the curtain fabric and either take him to a paint store or bring home lots of those paint chips in all sorts of greens, or look at them on line and see what he can tolerate.

Can we please see what the curtain fabric looks like?

Can we please see what you would like to make the chairs out of?

I think that you can make the chairs out of one fabric and make throw pillows out of the other if they are different scale, and use a clever trim to unite the two.

e.g. a black and white trim on a green cushion and vice versa.

Depending on what the curtains look like, you could do a green trim, or green and black, or green and black and white trim on the edges and bottom of your curtain, with a curtain tie back with a tassel in green black and white.

Go on the Scalamandre website and your salivary glands will never be the same.

Don't buy there though, your children won't have an inheritance. It's just for inspiration.

Also, depending on what your style is, if you are less formal, you can knit a throw for the foot of the bed with fat circular needles and multiple strands of black and white and a couple of shades of green.

Then buy yourself a pom-pom maker from Michael's or JoAnn (the craft store) and go to town!

You can also knit yourself some gigantor pillow sham covers for the bed in decorative style like an Aran sweater (for just one side, you can use fabric for the other.)

What do you mean your bedspread has pom-poms?

I remember years ago, everyone's parents had white bumpy bedspreads that were supposed to be colonial or American style and were called Thomas Jefferson but I don't know what he had to do with it. They had fringe on the bottom , but I don't remember pom-poms. Maybe we weren't that fancy.

"Go on the Scalamandre website and your salivary glands will never be the same.

Don't buy there though, your children won't have an inheritance. It's just for inspiration."

Lol! Love that, @loobab So well said.

Btw, I'm picturing a chenille bedspread. :)

Thanks for all of the help. I am going to take pics tomorrow and post

Some pics of bedroom components
Flooring
Duvet cover
Drapes and molding

Gorgeous panelling detail and your flooring doesn't look dark to me. More mid-tone. Any pics of the traditional green fabric you were considering? I gather from the pic closeups, the bed isn't set up? The curtain fabric reads contemporary to me but who knows if my screen is rendering all the details and colours correctly.

The flooring that you see with drapes is the old laminate. There is a separate pic of flooring.

I am trying to post more pics but it won’t take them?

The flooring pic I see shows mid-tone wood on my monitor. To me, this is dark flooring:

Hi Pamela-

I love your molding! The bedspread is lovely too.

So here is the question.

Does your husband want to avoid the green because he wants to avoid green?

Or because he wants to stay with the more contemporary look that the curtain patterns have?

Re: photo, you can add a comment with an additional photo of your green fabric.

When I try to add a comment with my photos the ones that I posted come up and it won’t let me into my pics?

I agree regarding the flooring - ours is more mid tone than dark. I think he wants black and white because he can’t envision the green.

I started a new discussion named opinions wanted 2 and the other pics are there

New photos of chairs I would like to cover with green fabric- the fabric- light fixture

I'm not sure about the dark curtains in all this? Green sounds lovely though

I agree - I have decided to change up the curtains