Color 101: Green Interiors

Green happens to be my favorite color, especially when it comes to interior design. For my own home, I always gravitate toward soft sage greens, blue-greens and turquoise...I've tried to be open to other palettes, but apparently, these are the colors I love to surround myself in! Green comes in hundreds of different shades, all of which have a different psychological impact on people. Here are some fun facts about the color Green:

• Green is the color of growth, nature, and money.
• It is the traditional color of peace, harmony, comfortable nurturing, support and well paced energy.
• Nature shares several shades of green with us. From bright and almost fluorescent to pale and subdued. The color green is a natural color.
• Green creates feelings of comfort, laziness, relaxation, calmness. It helps us balance and soothe our emotions.
• Hospitals use light green rooms because they too are found to be calming to patients.
• Green is the most restful color for the human eye.
• It's the universal color of nature as well as represents fertility, rebirth and freedom. (That answers the question why it's the best background for birds.)
• Bright green can be uplifting while dark green evokes a mental picture of a pine forest.
• Street signs are painted a metallic green background contrasted with white letters because the combination is believed to be the easiest to read and recognize for the human brain.
• As with most colors, green also brings forth some negative connotations...the phrase "green with envy" also gives way to guilt, ghastliness, sickness and disease.

What else do you associate with the color Green?

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