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Color Combo: Emerald Green and Blue

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This color combination can be very rich. It works especially well with the texture of tile: in bathrooms, kitchens, and fireplace surrounds. Since blue and green are so closely related, pairing them with an accent color like a deep chocolate brown or a golden yellow can really set off the jewel tones. Click below for more examples.

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My mother (now gone on ahead of us) LOVED to put green and blue together. She decorated her bedroom in these colors in the mid-60s. For Christmas 1968 I gave her a little wastepaper basket that looked like green and blue brocade (my older sister made fun of me for giving our mother a trash can), but when my mother died in 2005, it was still being used. I also inherited her Poppy Trail stoneware in Sculptured Grape ... the blue and green pattern of course!

posted by Fontessa on March 19th 2008 at 7:01am
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i love green and blue together especially in jewel tones. my bedroom in my parents house is pale green and sky blue- its soothing and i love it! works well with the white and brown furniture i have.

posted by Oneformybaby on March 19th 2008 at 7:15am
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Man, all of those Emery & Cie photos are so amazingly gorgeous.

posted by jennifer in sf on March 19th 2008 at 10:18am
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I love this combo, too. So soothing. And that Onda wallpaper....beautiful.

posted by farleece on March 19th 2008 at 2:45pm
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Love this. Anyone know where I could find a headboard like the one pictured?

posted by Stephanie R on March 19th 2008 at 5:39pm
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I really love this color combo but was wondering if anyone knows a good technique for laying down a blue paint color on the wall AND then applying a thin transparent green on top so I can see the underlayer. I'm not interested in any kind of faux texture. Just a uniform thin green to see the blue through??

posted by aboutpaint on April 12th 2008 at 10:28am
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Where is the headboard from? I am painfully in love with it!

posted by tortellini22 on October 12th 2008 at 8:20am
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