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Finding the right green paint?

last year

I’m converting my office into a gym/office and I’m having trouble finding the right green.

I’ve swatched sherwin williams… Thyme, Artichoke, Iverness, greenfield and they all don’t feel right in the room.

I kept looking online and found ripe olive (shown bottom left in the photo)… my room faces south. I want a green that leans warm (I have warm tones in the rest of the house). Current color is kilimn beige and I’ll be changing the other walls to casa Blanca with alabaster trim.

Without buying 47 more samples… any advice?

Eventually I’d like to replace my desk, but I need to work with what I have right now. Chair has to stay as well.

Comments (11)

  • last year

    BM Historical collection has some nice greens, especially dark greens.


    Looking at your pics, the greens in the inspo pic and renderings are very greyed. I don't like either of them in your inspo/mock-up. I find greyed-greens to be depressing, both of those would make me sad every time I walked in there. But I guess as with anything it's all subjective...


    I have a bedroom painted in Fairmont Green, and I love it -- it's a fairly saturated color.


    Of your samples, I like the two on the far right (the biggest swatches) -- those seem to be more saturated based on your pic, I don't see nearly as much grey in them as the inspo/mock-up greens. Compare your two large swatches on the far right to those two swatches of green in the middle -- can you see the difference in the amount of grey in them? One consideration to help you narrow things down is how saturated do you want the color to be? (more saturated = less grey)


    Start with chips to narrow down your choice based on that, and keep sampling. Or order Samplize samples.

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    Fairmont is nice! I’ll look at one slightly darker as I want a little bit of a moody look.

    Ya - saturation is what I’m looking for- I couldn’t figure out how to describe it for. The two on the right are more my speed but they don’t look quite right. I’m also dealing with textured walls and I think that is what is also throwing me off.

    I like artichoke but it does feel rather drab in the space.

    My mom has a fan deck somewhere- I’ll do that next since the white lights at the store are absolutely not helpful.

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    "...the white lights at the store are absolutely not helpful."


    Yea, paint always looks different in your own house. It can even look different room to room in your own house, depending on the exposure and other factors.

  • last year

    Love those mossy greens! Looks esp nice with wood tones - it's the basic color scheme of forests and nature after all and I think it's in our DNA that we humans find it restful/calming.

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    I went down a deep rabbit hole. I settled on Secret Garden and I have a call with Sherwin-Williams color specialist on Saturday. Hopefully we get it all worked out and I think it’ll end up working really good. I painted the rest of the room casa Blanca.

    Second row from right , bottom.

    Looks more blue next to casa than current background.

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    On my screen it looks almost black -- I'd paint a really big swatch or even a whole wall to make sure you're going to like it that dark. Of your choices, I like the 2nd from the bottom in the last row of four -- but that's me looking at it on my screen, not there in the room with you. I can see the blue in it, though -- a very large swatch of it will bring out the blue more.

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    Here is the painted wall. The one without equipment is the better color representation.

    Next on to window treatments.

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    I like the green you chose. What are you going to do about the door and baseboards/trim?

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    Trim and doors will be alabaster. I need to cut in around the doors as well.

    Also need to figure out window treatments.

    Need privacy (I broke the top two blinds) and was thinking solid green Curtians but a print could be tasteful?

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    I wouldn't do the trim/doors in such a light color -- you've got a really dark wall, and it's going to look choppy. With baseboard that narrow, it's going to look like you forgot to paint something at floor level, especially because you have no trim at ceiling level. Actually, very light trim of any type on that green wall is not going to look right because there's nothing at ceiling level to balance it out.

    OTOH, darker trim to go well with the green is likely not going to look good with the lighter paint in the room.

    I do agree with the above poster that you could have painted all the walls green, but I'm going to go one step further and say you should have painted all the walls green. Two options to get out of the trim problem: Replace with stained wood trim or paint all the walls green.