Greenery: 6 Ways to Bring the Pantone Colour of the Year Home

1. Bring in moody infusions
Green is the colour of nature and earth, and can bring about a healing effect on your senses and into your home. In keeping with the vibe you wish your living room to exude, zero in on the right shade. “Try a muddy-olive for a warm lounge feel, minty tones for beach-deck look, turquoise or sea-foam shades in the washroom and fern or sage shades for a sense of liveliness in the bedrooms,” suggests interior designer Sonali Vartak.

2. Go green with a feature wall
Says Shabnam Gupta, principal designer of The Peacock Life, “Create an accent wall that stands out against the surrounding planes. Remember to stay with one strong detail to ensure there are not too many areas competing for attention at once.” This is also great opportunity to experiment with visual textures. “Experimenting with laminates and wallpaper lets you bring in the desired visual fervour,” adds Sonali.

3. Create a visual flow
From the freshness of a green entrance to the pistachio walls of the living room to the jade accent wall in your den to the apple green of your room to the vivid blades of grass and flowers on the feature wall in the kids’ room, you can work in the colour aplenty.

“It is important to identify the flow and experience you want to create and then pick and choose the method and elements. Using more than two methods to infuse the same shade is discouraged. Bring in very bright or darker shades only for some select walls, niches or elements to bring across a certain balance,” advises Sonali.

4. Rush in a leafy spread
Bring in the green genies. A vertical garden in your home circles nature. “Use a bare wall in your home space or the pathway, or the tiny lobby that leads into your main home for a “live” wall. This solution works best for spaces both inside or outside your house as a green entry always helps open up the spaces,” says Shabnam.

Tip: Often it all comes down to how the plants are arranged and displayed. Try bringing in flecks of deep red in leaves and varying shades of green to break the monotony and to add layers and depth.

5. Accent home spaces
You can lend a cosy, cocoonish feel to the public areas of your home with the right shade of green … just like a slice of nature’s bounty in your home space. Optionally, use green as a visual separator. For instance, says Shabnam, “If your living room is directly connected to the kitchen, then using this colour on the walls is a great option. It creates a visual separation between these two spaces. One could also bring in a single showstopper in green like a rug or a runner to demarcate spaces.”

Tip: Choose throws, cushion covers or rugs in rushes of green. These are usually less expensive than other sizable furnishings and can be easily moved from room to room when you’re looking to shake things up.