Color Combo: Green and Gray

"Although you sit in a room that is gray, except for the silver of the straw-paper, and pick at your pale white gown; Or lift one of the green beads of your necklace, to let it fall; Or gaze at your green fan printed with the red branches of a red willow; Or, with one finger, move the leaf in the bowl -- The leaf that has fallen from the branches of the forsythia beside you... What is all this? I know how furiously your heart is beating." - Gray Room by Wallace Stevens

We love this poem by Wallace Stevens, which eludes to the emotional charge that color can have. (To read it properly formatted and not condensed into paragraph form for our blog post, click on this link.) A few gray-green rooms and rugs for you:

Marilyn and Peter's Loft

Chelsea Rugs from the Rug Company

Aesop Store by Studioilse

Thomas O'Brien Rug for Safavieh

Photo: Living Etc

Designers Guild Durbar Hall Rug from the Rug Company

Club Room by Studioilse

Top Photo: Scales Banquette from Emery & Cie

Comments (9)

I love Wallace Stevens. Green and gray is nice, too.

http://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/wallace_stevens_2004_9.pdf

posted by swanroad on June 13th 2008 at 3:51pm
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Does anyone know who makes the pendant light fixtures in the very first picture?
thanks

posted by Tricoquine on June 13th 2008 at 10:45pm
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I'm using similar colors in my house. It's nice how they can look gray in some light, green in other, and the different color reflections highlight some of my accessories differently - I have a photo of some stones on sand taken at the beach, and have noticed different details standing out when the wall color looks different.

posted by oceandreamer56 on June 14th 2008 at 4:39am
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I love this color combo, so calming especially since grey is my favorite color!

posted by Signe on June 14th 2008 at 2:25pm
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I love it. What a restful palette.

I've been poking around and looking at furniture online and Oka Direct (in the UK) has lots of a sort of greyed finish wood.

It looks fantastic.

Burnt Oak
http://www.okadirect.com/furniture/dining/dining-tables-1/arthur-table-burnt-oak.html

posted by Valerie on June 14th 2008 at 5:30pm
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Beautiful palette, one of my faves.

It is "alludes", though (as in "allusion"), not "eludes" (to avoid or escape), fyi.

posted by Leonore on June 14th 2008 at 7:23pm
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Tricoquine: Same place as the thing that man is about to fall off of:
http://www.emeryetcie.com/en/what/lights/that-hang/chandeliers/accessories/corollas/definition/index.htm

You could probably make your own with tin snips and thin metal.

Scroll down here to see butterflies made out of beer cans:
http://asunews.astate.edu/NewandUsed07.htm

More of his art can be seen (and purchased) at this gallery:
http://www.morganlehmangallery.com/dynamic/artwork_display.asp?artistid=19

posted by TRUE BLUE on June 15th 2008 at 7:23am
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I have always been a huge fan of this color scheme. In fact, I love gray with almost anything...almost.

posted by Jennae @ Green Your Decor on June 17th 2008 at 6:09pm
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The stairs are so pretty! These colors together seemed strange, but I'm beginning to accept it!

posted by amelie de lune on November 9th 2008 at 8:30pm
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