Chartreuse is a big, bold color. Wherever it is, it commands attention. "Look at me! I'm not yellow, not green - I'm chartreuse." So it stands to reason that using chartreuse in your decor requires a little planning. Here, some color palettes that work.
Above: chartreuse accents look fantastic with a deep, charcoal gray. Look for a gray with a good balance between cool and warm.
If you're considering painting your walls chartreuse, keeping the rest of the palette simple will help them really shine. Here, chartreuse takes center stage with lots of white, warm woods, and black accents.
Looking for something really bold? Liven up your chartreuse with little pops of red, blue, and even orange.
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1: Interiors Digital, 2 & 3. Design*Sponge
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Comments (14)
Beautiful. I've been searching for the right shade of chartreuse to paint my kitchen for over a year.
Has to be my favorite color. If you're looking for paints, prepare to do a lot of testing. I had a "perfect" color on my office wall that looked great in daylight, but went to baby poop with night lighting. If there is an ideal, much loved color/brand out there I'd love to know it
I feel like chartreuse is a colour that either looks fantastic or terrible in a space. I think choosing the right shade is tricky.
Chartreuse is my favorite color. I love pairing it with rust orange.
Happiest color ever—i love it! I have a living room wall painted this color—it is perfect year round, in different lights, and makes art stand out wonderfully.
I tried several chartreuse paints before settling on Martha Stewart MIMOSA. It's a softer and mellower chartreuse. If your room includes more wood and warm brown colors, you might like it. I tried Sherwin Williams Frolic and BenjMoor Limelight -- both were too saturated for my space.
We painted our renovated basement Sherwin Williams SW0073 Chartreuse from their Suburban Modern palette. It looks great in artificial light and every surface is a different shade. I love it.
Our house has a chartreuse accent wall defining the dining area, the rest of the place is snow white, with grey accents (curtains, lamps, our sofa). So the first color pallet. It's also very easy to interject other colors from time to time, like blues and oranges. I was originally inspired by the design sponge sneak peak when it was first posted.
Absolute favorite color. Not just in the home (throw pillows, large accent chair), but to wear. I have multiple shirts and sweaters in chartreuse and it always makes me happy. Looks great with my dark hair and eyes. ;)
I used Valspar "Garden Path" as yellow for my dining room walls and "Lake Marsh" as green for the living room walls. It's an open floor plan and the two colors look the same yellow color in daylight from the south windows, and at night my dining room remains yellow while the living room area looks neutral green.
I absolutely love these colors and give off a very warm, cozy vibe. I painted my interior door black and use alot of black picture frames which really dramatically shows off the chartreuse colors, along with the white crown moldings and trims.
LOVE chartreuse. I have been using it in spaces since I was 15! At that time I paired it with periwinkle and white, but now I'm doing chartreuse with hits of gray and other greens. <3
Just painted my bottom kitchen cabinets grey, and the top open shelving is white. Planning on getting new countertops, subway tile with dark grout, and chartreuse on the walls. This post just makes me want it sooner.
When I moved in my condo over 2 years ago, I opted for Benjamin Moore's "anis seed" (2024-20) for one wall in my kitchen. The other walls are a greyish white, counters are light grey, cupbords, table and credenza are teak. I think the wood really warms up the bold and modern looks of the grey/white/chartreuse combination.
The next shades are "citron" (2024-30) and (obviously) "chartreuse" (2024-10). I took me a while to make up my mind.
I love my pick cuz it always look good, no matter the lighting: more yellowish in the daytime and more on the green side at night.
Very lovely but only in small doses or as you'd feel like you're in the lucid meltdown phase of an LSD trip.