How to Decorate with Green
Decorating Tips and Tricks
Bespoke FM
4.6 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Green is such a great color to work with in your home. It's elevates your mood and reminds us of nature. We're also sharing our favorite green décor items.
There are three studies that show the benefits of adding green to your home.
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Green paint colors
Behr In the Moment HERE
BM Storm cloud gray HERE
BM Sagebrush HERE
BM Vintage Vogue HERE
Farrow and Ball Green Smoke HERE
BM Soft Fern HERE
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Kelly's suggested green decor:
Pouf/ottoman from The Inside - see it HERE.
Malachite Hour Glass Table from Peter Brady aka Christopher Knight. See it HERE.
Gorgeous green velvet sofa from Article. Have a look HERE.
Kelly's crush is a book by Anna Quindlen "Still Life with Breadcrumbs". Get your copy HERE.
Anita's green decor:
Turkish towels HERE
Turkish hand towels HERE
Rattan chair HERE
Faux alligator tray HERE
Lattice patterned pillow cover HERE
Kilim covered upholstered chair HERE
Oriental rug HERE
Green kantha Quilt Light Green Leaf Cotton
If you don't know what a kantha quilt is take a listen to the DTT defines at the end of episode 528 HERE
Waste paper basket in a William Morris print HERE
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| 0:00.0 | Don't be green with envy. Put some green in your decor. |
| 0:12.8 | Hey everybody, it's Kelly Wilkins here with Anita Joyce and this is decorating tips and |
| 0:17.8 | tricks. Today we're talking about how to decorate with green. I love green. |
| 0:24.4 | You know, I'm not a blue girl, but green would be my equivalent to everybody else's blue or lots |
| 0:30.4 | of other people's blue. I think green is a wonderful color to decorate with and you can pop it in. |
| 0:36.4 | You don't have to go full throttle. But if you want to go |
| 0:39.9 | full throttle, we've got some great ideas and some great paints to share with you today. But green, |
| 0:45.0 | you can just add in in touches. And what's the most obvious? And I would say the easiest, |
| 0:51.3 | but some people will say not. But I think the easiest way to add green is with some houseplants. |
| 0:58.3 | And don't tell me you have a brown thumb. |
| 1:00.9 | Anyone listening, I don't want to hear it because there is no such thing as a brown thumb. |
| 1:04.8 | You can find a house plant that you can coexist with. |
| 1:07.8 | And there's your green right there. |
| 1:10.4 | Well, that's so true. In fact, I have some |
| 1:13.2 | spinach in a glass jar that someone gave me a cutting for, and so I'm growing the roots, |
| 1:19.0 | and I'm getting ready to pot that. So I'm very excited about that. But I did want to mention just a |
| 1:24.5 | few studies about the effects of having green in your home. |
| 1:28.7 | One study found a green exercise effect. |
| 1:32.0 | So participants who exercised indoors while watching a video of an outdoor space with a green overlay |
| 1:37.7 | experienced less mood disturbance and perceived less exertion than when they watched the same video with a red or gray overlay. |
| 1:46.1 | And I have a link to that particular study. |
| 1:49.0 | One other study said that spending time in natural green environments or even looking at pictures of green scenery in nature |
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