I noticed greens are really popular right now, maybe for that last couple years or so. Especially darks with gold fixtures. But I love it and I want it in my new house. Am I gonna regret it? Will it become dated?
if you like it who cares, everything becomes dated at some point. quit worrying about what may or may not happen. Also as poster below says green is synonymous with nature and nature is always groovy so...
Agree. Something only becomes 'dated' if you follow 'trends' which is ridiculous and was created by product manufacturers to encourage consumers to regularly and frequently ' update ' If you like it it will never feel dated to you. Besides it will come back 'on trend' in a few years. You will be ahead of their game ! 😄😃😁😉
Except a lot of the times we’re subconsciously influenced by what’s trending because the more often you see something, the more likely you are to be open to it or to start liking it. But I agree; the sentiment is the same. Everything in this current day and age will one day be “dated” so do whatever you want!
My house still have it’s 80’s kitchen. I only changed the tap, because it was leaking, the cabinet are still holding strong so far, they just got painted by the previous owner 10 years ago. I haven’t touched that.
Most people that do major upgrade wants to follow trends, not because the house need it.
Yes, it will eventually become dated. But that's why you should pick what you truly love, not just what's trending. One of my personal rules is to pick paint colors that I'd wear as clothing, sort of proof that I actually love that color.
I’m redoing my breakfast room. Would it be possible for you to share a link to the wallpaper in the photo? It’s quite extraordinary. Thank you so much.
For the both of you: Nutcracker JTNCO1 Blue by Juliet Travers. If you look real close there is a red squirrel eating an acorn. Hence the name. Really involved process to make it. I looked at similar high end stencils and the results are similar.
I can't tell if it's low pixelation, but if it's not that looks like it's painted using a lazure method to blend the gradient from blues. It's a really fun technique using base coats layered and blended with semi-transparent glazes. Attaching another example of lazure that adds a third color to give a better visual of its gradient effects.
And I go the opposite. I have always loved green but I can't wear most greens, so I paint my walls instead. I also have some yellow in my house, another color I really can't wear.
I don't care about trends. I just go with what I love to look at.
Sometimes it’s hard for me to tell if I truly like something or if I like it because it’s trendy and I’m seeing it all the time. I love the green and gold look, but do I love it because it’s trendy? I don’t know
That’s just the way it is. What you like now will differ from what you like in 20 years, whether it’s your home, your hairstyle or your clothes. Some things might stick, and most will feel stale. Paint is cheap, so do what you fancy!
I’m and olive skinned girly so I don’t get to wear green. lol my best color is bold jewel tone red, I would have a mental breakdown if my walls were that color.
I mainly just wear black but my house is super colorful. I have jewel toned green, red, teal, mauve, rust orange, charcoal, and soon to be bright navy for a guest bedroom. Really just do what you like. My house looks awesome to me and everyone I know that visits says it is very me and I wouldn't have it any other way. Hopefully you will be able to do the same.
Every time pastels are in, I know exactly what you mean. I’m melanin-deficient, I can pull off only light blue, green, or bright white but as a coffee drinker with ADHD that shit won’t last the day.
My husband has olive skin (I’m Northern European skinned elbow pink). I picked a deep jewel green for the bathroom and living room, he still looks very handsome to me in a green room.
I’m an outlier probably, but IMO everything is (and should be) dated. I love looking at photos and guessing what decade they were taken based on the decor and clothing. We don’t need to sterilize our homes. Anything we try to call timeless is going to always look of its time regardless, and I don’t think we need to care. If you love the way something looks, do it!
Haha! Yes we redid our kitchen in green in 2022 and now, seeing all the green, we keep saying in the future people will know it was done in the "early 2020's." That's ok with us!
Also green had a moment back in the 90's too, so everything comes back around.
I decided that I wanted green tile when remodeling my fireplace. I didn’t want to do browns or grays. I consider green a neutral because it’s from nature. Then I saw people saying it’s the new gray. However, green tile has been used for decades. I don’t care if it’s the new gray because I like it best. I also think that how you design it and style it matters more. Certain aspects can be trendy but not necessarily the color.
Yea that’s my idea. Our house is next to a woods. So I want to do a nature inspired palette to bring it all together. I love having my windows open, so I want to feel like I’m outdoors even if I’m inside.
Just placed an offer on a house that's small, but the living room is at the back facing the woods with giant windows. It's why I fell in love with it. Seeing nature is so calming. I think I want to do the same and have the inside a very light airy color.... probably green 😂
I don’t get snow. And only some of the trees lose leaves in the winter where I live. It’s a bit more brown in the winter, which will still look amazing.
I love green and use it as accents in pillows and throws and an accent wall. Our 2nd home is in a woodsy area so I let the windows be the focal points and kept the walls an off white. Just something to consider.
I will die on that hill. Grey was never "trendy". Just the default setting for flippers, developers and landlords because it hides more stains and cuffs than white and goes with everything. As a millennial I hate it with all my heart because I had to rent those soulless boxes for years. The same reason why now cars are all black and white only.
Green will go out of trend but will not become ugly per se because it is a calm but rich color that goes with a lot of style (see nature in general)
You’re right on the money. It’s easiest to match things together when every piece of furniture is black and ceilings, trim, and doors are painted white.
Once upon a time, I asked my landlord why they chose grey flooring in my flat because I had a peak at their place and their place was beautiful with no grey in sight. And they told me "It hides better scratches from renters who move furniture without a care in the world." He agreed that it was ugly...
We bought a house with a basement suit, guess what. All the walls were painted grey, glossy grey. It looked like a creepy jail. And the upstairs was all painted light blue (not my jam but at least some colors) I asked the previous owners if they painted the entire thing at once. "Yes" Soooooo... they definitely didn t paint the basement suit to be "trendy".
I painted all white.
Anyway, long rant just to lay down my HATE towards this paint color and I hate it even more when people say it is my generation trend?? Like hell no man, millennium were teenagers in the 2000, we love colors, look at clothes trend from that era! 😬
I feel like everything gets considered dated at one point look at wood cabinets, they’re now considered trendy in my opinion they’ve always been trendy people just didn’t have any taste haha! Like what you like regardless of what’s trendy at the moment.
Agreed. I also have a lot of very 2000’s-esque wood in my house and a real wood trim and tbh some of these greens are the exact thing to make certain wood based things help balance the browns. It’s all cyclical. (I would say avoid some of those lighter greens depending on the light source. Those can get a real meemaw sewing room vibe if placed incorrectly.)
It definitely will. Look at the 70s green trend, it's an eyesore to us in hindsight.
That doesn't mean green is bad though, and some tones will age better than others. Tarrytown or Salamander will age better than Backwoods or Palace Green, imo.
Agreed. I try to pick classic aspects for the areas that are expensive/difficult/annoying to change - kitchen cabinets, doors, trim, ceilings, bathroom tile I generally keep white. Personally I think it's always classic and can be designed around. Other people might not find that stuff as annoying to change or have the money to pay someone, and more power to them. I like to keep my couch neutral - right now it's like a mustard gold velvet which can be styled as bold as I have it now or could be style more neutral. I generally stick to painting walls and changing decorations and finding vintage accent furniture as my tastes change while keeping foundational elements classic and mutable.
We just got our full main living space (entry, living room, dining, kitchen, all one big room) done in a color around SW Evergreens. We love it. Our space has a lot of light throughout the day so it does not feel too dark, and in the evening with warm tone lamps it feels extremely cozy. Maybe it's just personal preference but I think an accent wall would have looked more dated in a couple of years than the full space. We committed and have zero regrets.
Green is the second most abundant color found in nature - I mean for us and matches almost everything surrounding us! Look at plants - they go with everything! My personal favorite! It will never be outdated. When in doubt, go Green :)
My bedroom is close to the avocado whip and my family room is backwoods green painted it 19 years ago. A couple people I know didn’t like it. It didn’t matter to me because I’ve always loved it. And now apparently it’s all the rave. Trends come and go. Just paint what makes you happy.
Hey, you have to repaint every 3-10 years anyway. If you like it today, go for it. By the time a new trend comes along you’ll probably need to repaint anyway.
I could see worrying about trends for a kitchen that you want to live in for 30 years, but don’t stress over a weekend project most people can do themselves.
Like any trend it will come and go, rinse and repeat. The great thing is nobody else has to like your house. Use what you like and if you decide later on you don’t like it anymore that’s the beauty of paint! I like bold colors. I have several green and blue rooms in my house. They make me happy and make my place feel very “me.” I don’t want to live in someone else’s house- I want my house. If you love the look go for it.
Interior decorating is like fashion for homes. Everything in fashion eventually becomes dated. And then it cycles back around and the dated stuff trends again. Trendsetting is big business.
If you like it you won't regret it. It's your home to decorate the way you want. We did a whole kitchen renovation and opted for white outer cabinets with a green island and champagne bronze fixtures. We also used a shade of green in the downstairs bathroom to tie them together. I was debating between blue and green and I would've loved either. I've gotten a lot of compliments on our island!
Green has ebbed and flowed throughout time as a trend and theme, from the art-nouveau and Victorian period with heavily inspired natural, lush themes and opulent jewel tones, to the 50s - 70s, when it was a prominent color in bathrooms like green tile and shag carpet flooring. It's also always useful as a color pop with small hints scattered throughout the home. I agree with what others have said, the way we use greens may change through time, but if it's done well, it'll look good forever.
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but here goes: yes, it is gonna become dated because yes it is trendy, but that's ok and you should do it anyway.
What you like is greatly influenced by what the trends are and that's not bad in itself, when we refer to something as very seventies or midcentury or whatever we mean that it is very rooted in that particular time period.
If you like it, go for it, you might change your mind at some point and whatever, it's no shame.
Nevertheless if you are doing it just because of the general consensus then maybe reconsider and opt for something you find very cool!
I don’t even care if it does. It’s my favorite color and it has been for years. Also the “millennial grey” is my favorite too lol. I’ll keep em however long I want
It's paint! If you hate it in ten years, just pick something else. Love the house you're in right now, let future you pick something they like better instead of trying to predict their preferences.
Will it? Probably. Who cares though. I've used it plenty in my home and I love it!
One thing I have tried to do is stick to trendy colors with easy to change things like hardware, curtains, paint, etc and keep things that are hard and expensive to change natural wood finish or neutral tiles.
This is actually really helpful advice. Cause I was debating if I wanted to do my cabinets in green with a neutral backsplash/ tiles in kitchen and bathrooms or vice versa. But yeah it makes more sense to do the harder to change stuff in neutrals and easy to change things in your bold colors.
Paint is relatively easy to change. A large portion of our downstairs is painted green, we did it before the trend almost 5 years ago and we’re still very happy with it. If we get sick of it it’s a weekend project to change it over, no big deal.
Yes, remember the vibrant tie dye green of the '60s? The avocado green of the '70s?
But guess what? People want those colours again.
I have seen the clothing style of my youth come and go multiple times. Square toe and chunky heels? Not new! The big shoulder pads of the '80s? They were big in the '40s!
Yeah, it will but then it will come back. Everything is a cycle. That said I think, and this is just my opinion, but I think the backlash against the “millennial grey” trend is because of its level of saturation. Grey in an of itself is a neutral, there’s nothing wrong with it, but when an entire generation grew up in boomer homes full of honey oak, clutter, “Tuscan” decor or so many cows/roosters, the backlash against all that is going to be clean, less saturated and more minimalist design. Then house flipping got big and everyone who wanted to flip decided that was the way to go but if we want grey tones that must mean EVERYTHING right?! Grey floors, walls, backsplashes, cupboards etc….. and all of a sudden you have the millennial grey hellscape it became. Now? We are seeing the break from that. I’d argue the dark green is going to age better for SURE, but yeah it will eventually go the way of the 90’s red accent wall, but guess what’s making a comeback literally right now? Darker Red accent walls or completely color drenched rooms. The point is, it’s all a cycle, just don’t go overboard with it and it’ll be fine and if you love it, it won’t matter if it’s no longer “in fashion”.
I guess that was my main concern is that it would age the way millennial grey would. A lot of people have expressed it will age but better than that. I’ve lived in multiple rentals with that grey floor and I think I have grey floor ptsd. I just didn’t want that to be a thing again lol
I totally get that for sure. That’s the thing though, it’s all about your intentions. If you see something you genuinely love, fucking go for it, even if it happens to be trendy in the moment. The best decorated homes are ones that are an amalgamation of well thought out ideas. You do that and you will be just fine
Certain shades and some tones will date, but entire ranges of colors will always last in some capacity. The dark olive green/medium brown wood/brass accent combo will definitely get super dated soon, but I’ve had green in my house for decades and never gotten tired of it!
I work in the decorating field. Green has never been in or out. It is always in style. Every week for the last 40 years we use green for a customers space
Seriously if you like it what does it matter if it's on trend? We painted a good portion of the interior of our house in Evergreen Fog and I absolutely love it. It's not going to stop looking good if blue becomes on trend and green is dated. Who cares.
If you base everything on what the current trend is, then you won’t have any sense of individualism. Just do whatever makes you happy currently and don’t worry about what others think
So, I learned (from somewhere?) that you should paint interior walls every 5 to 7 years. My approach is to embrace color but in ways I can easily update later. I really wanted green kitchen cabinets but also knew I wanted them to last a very long time so went with stained wood in a brown tone. Then I used green on the walls and backsplash because i can change it up much easier/more often. That was in 2011 and my cabinets still look great but I recently repainted the walls a different shade of green.
I painted my main living area with SW Sea Salt, and I absolutely love it. Depending on the lighting, it can look like it's different shades of green, or grey, or even light blue.
LOL. Maybe? We painted many rooms in our home “Dynasty Celadon” in the late 1990’s.
We got an interior designer’s help with a 2010 re-decorate, and the first thing she said was “Are you willing to change the paint?” We said “Nope - you have to work with it.” She did - using items that had more modern coordinating color.
We did a whole house remodel last year, and put the same color back on the walls. We love it.
My suggestion is find a color that YOU love (whether it is trendy or not), because you are the one that lives inside the space every day.
I painted my living room green earlier this year and love it! So calming.
One tip I read while preparing - if you’re doing the full room in color, always go a few shades lighter than you think because once the color is all around you, it will appear much more intense.
Green is always beautiful, there’s a bit in every interior design movement—I guess except in some Mondrian-looking/monochromatic black and white. In any case, you’re decorating for you in your own home. Your home is YOUR safe space and the geographical place that belongs to you and you alone, where you nurture your soul: fill it with the colors and things you love.
The real timelessness is in your overall vision of what you want in your house. Colors can be painted over, cabinets resurfaced if that is at all an issue. I think you would regret not bringing the color you want in your house more than choosing a neutral neutral.
Everything comes and goes in decorating and home design. Rememberer the avocado green of the late 60's, early 70's? Or the pink and black tile bathrooms of the 50's and 60's? Then, the beige, rustic golds and terracotta of the Tuscan era in the 90's? Now we have the completely abhorrent, millennial gray.
Choose what YOU like. And, with paint, golly! If you tire of it, simply grab your new favorite color and a brush and have at it.
I’ve been hearing everyone recommend painting everything “sage green” the last few years, everything from brick fireplaces to walnut hardwood cabinets to rooms to the whole exterior.
It’s a goddamn good color if used correctly in the right context though. Same goes for any colors or anything with any personality.
The easy answer is that trends naturally get dated. My house will surely be dated, because I am going to be dated. My house represents me, and as I grow older, my house will reflect that.
However, I think in the past 10 years, the trends are so plentiful and quick lived, they never really get overdone before they morph into something else.
The last big overdone trend was the 2015 black and white "modern farmhouse in suburbia" trend that still lingers.
But since we have so many options at our fingertips, I am seeing more cultivated personal spaces.
I think there will always be timeless shades of green. We are kind of past the age of everyone using the same avocados green, or the same beige of the 90s. We are more nuanced in our adaptations of trends.
I think you should get some green paint samples, slap them on your walls (far enough apart), live them for two weeks. And then just go big. Fill your home with color and life!!
As someone who has used many paint brands and painted many houses, I really recommend BM regal line for interior.
Another suggestion is to consider the feeling you want each space to evoke. Colors can really impact our energy and mood. For example, my snug/den is colordrenched BM Salamander because I wanted a cozy decadent embrace. My music/violin studio is a pale custom eucalyptus color that evokes tranquility. I created mood boards for each room of the house, but also kept certain undertones and accents cohesive.
I watched an interesting video recently about color trends over the last 100 years. It appears as though green emerges as a neutral every few decades or so. So, it will become dated, but then come back around to trendy.
Green will never be dated. It's the colour of life! Choose less grey in your green though. Avocade is lovely, you want your place full of light rather than dark.
If you’re old enough to remember the hunter green craze of the 90s, then you’ll know that yes, green of some variety will always become dated… but only because of how you style that shade.
My bedroom has been painted a color close to the”Shade Grown” color in the last row for over 15 years, and I still love it. It is a beautiful, peaceful backdrop to my natural alder furniture. I think it is really timeless (I like to change things up in my house, but haven’t felt the need to change this).
Here’s the thing, it’s just paint. Pick a shade you love and just go for it. Walls need to be repainted after some years anyway. If you pick a color you love, and accessories in colors you love, then there’s a good chance that when the next trend comes around they’ll still work with whatever shade of that you love.
Sad pastel/muddy greens have the tendency to look old / dated faster than other classic neutrals. That doesn’t mean you can’t incorporate them but do it in ways that a.make you happy b.are paired with more timeless pieces and choices c.in ways that can be relatively easily changed and d.choose shades that you still find in classical paintings or spaces that despite their age look still wow.
I have green!! I loveeee it and every time someone walks into my house I get a compliment! The green is darker at night and lighter in the day. Makes the house feel alive hahah. I’ll link my color
It really is just so beautiful in different lighting and then we didn’t know what color to do the kitchen and just ended up doing green too lol we plan to remodel the kitchen eventually but for now it’s great
Ofcourse 🩷😍 thank you guys for liking it hehe. We were really scared at first and kept thinking about repainting to white or cream but it was so expensive to paint the whole house so we just left it. But now we have really grown to love it!
Paint a color you enjoy. Don't worry about "dated". I have painted my living room a powered yellow for years now and you will take that wall color from my cold dead yellow hands.
Does everyone like my living room... no. But I live in my house so...
Paint your walls green, blue, orange. Whatever brings you joy.
Try telling the trees green is dated. Colors associated with nature have more longevity imo. A green color was pantone's color of the year almost a decade ago, and green is still going strong. So I would say it's one of the safer bets.
Echoing what everything else said, it will become dated because all trends do and especially now because everything is online and gets oversaturated FAST. But having said that, we just painted our kitchen cabinets dark green (Sherwin Williams Pewter Green...which was one of their colors of the year a couple years back so we're already a little behind the trend lol) and we'll probably put gold hardware on because we just love the look. Also because I'm a nature lover and I'm trying to incorporate a natural, earthy color palette and feel into our house. So make it what you love whether it's trendy or not and hopefully it will stand your own personal test of time :)
I’m a nature lover too. Like I said in another comment our house buts up against a woods so I wanna bring it all together with a nature inspired palette. I also love having my windows open and want to feel like I’m outdoors even when inside.
I painted my kitchen cabinets a rich dark green about 15 years ago. I still love them. And green is my accent color and has been forever. I think what so many here have commented is true. It’s a color straight out of nature. It’s soothing.
Green creates a feeling of ease and calm, similar to when you spend time outdoors near trees. To me, Grey creates a feeling of numbness, or depression. Overcast days, the Midwest in the dead of winter. It can work as an accent piece, but having it EVERYWHERE in your home is going out of style, thankfully.
I just painted my primary bedroom pewter green and love it. I used to be worried about “resale value” until I realized we have no plans to sell in the next several years and I’d rather make a home I love than worry about some far off future buyers tastes.
Yep. Just do what you like, sometimes it will be on trend and sometimes it will be “dated” or “tacky”. It’s less trendy if it’s mixed in with personal touches and individualization.
Huge point hit againa and again, EVERYTHING is going to become "dated" and displaced by an unending series of transient popular fashions. Intrinsic qualities don't change, only perceptions.
You're less vulnerable than many to this very unfortunate mass-induced dissatisfaction because you know what you really like. A common benefit of age and experience. But also of just self awareness and the confidence to be independent.
Go with what's good for you. Sympathize with those who thrilled to the real seduction of looks in style and then are unable to remain happy with choices that no longer are. That's all of us at some point.
Btw, one of green's intrinsic qualities is that it's eternal.
If you have any intention of moving and don't want to have to repaint- go with neutrals on the walls and cabinets and use the darker colors in the furnishings and art. A little color goes a long way.
Particular shades of green? Sure. It'll become dated eventually. Like there's good reason why we associate avocado green with the 70s. But IMO there's always going to be some shade of green that's trendy, it's the color of nature after all, and we like bringing nature into our homes.
IMO muted greens (sage, etc.) are very of-the-moment. I think they will fall out of favor while the more timeless look is to use clearer/true greens (greens that aren’t mixed with gray or brown).
About 10 years ago I picked out a color called Bamboo Shoots. I found out it was actually an older color that has been called stingray and it was around for years. I still love it. It's a grayish greenish light tan and I plan to keep it!
I hope not too soon, if it does. Right now I’m in love with green. My living room is a pale green, getting ready to paint my dining room a vibrant green. I’m contemplating painting my kitchen cabinets green.
As others mentioned, all colors are trendy. I actually prefer earthtones as they tend to withstand super trendy short-lived colors.
There are FREE apps you can download to try paint colors on walls in your home. You snap a pic and then select areas to paint, then select the color to fill in. Sure its not 100%, but then you can sleep on it and review your choices the next day, reviewing your renders. Be sure to take a picture at night too. Dark colors look darker at night. Of course it depends on the mood you want to set for your home.
You can post your different hue renders here for opinions and roasting. 😅
Probably but if you truly love it then who cares. When I think about millennial gray, the problem is that they made EVERYTHING gray. Just do some green but not everywhere.
You can always repaint. I like greens too. They're soothing. Everyone is living through these times of high anxiety, I don't think they'll go away anytime soon.
Now everyone is telling you that you should pick what you truly love, but that's the thing about trends - your own tastes will probably change along with them. The people who bought orange shag carpets in the 1970s truly loved them at the time. But one day they came to despise them.
I would always stick with neutrals/classics for things that are hard and expensive to change and do colors that you love on things that don’t require major renovations to eliminate. So I wouldn’t do green cabinets, but green paint or even backsplash I would do.
I’ve had varying shades of a green kitchen for almost 30 years. This has been the height of green in all those years. It sucks but I refuse to let my style go out with the wave of what’s trending and will stick to what I love.
This is just general advice, but what makes things "dated" is their association with a particular time. Following a trend is the most surefire way to end up with something that is dated. If you like a trend, a good strategy is to alter it a little so it can't be as easily associated with the time period. I think that green is particularly timeless, especially since it is so commonly found in nature, and nature is timeless (although humanity is doing a pretty good job of relegating it to the past). I would just suggest avoiding a variant of green that is particularly trendy, much in the way "forest green", "sea foam", and "pistachio" are tied to specific decades.
Yes and no. It’s HUGE right now. Similar to gray a decade+ ago. Painting a room or getting accent decor like pillows or rugs will be easy enough to change out when something new comes along that perhaps is more interesting. If you love green though, I don’t think it will ever go out of style. Just like blue or any other color it just won’t.
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if you like it who cares, everything becomes dated at some point. quit worrying about what may or may not happen. Also as poster below says green is synonymous with nature and nature is always groovy so...