Here are a few tips we gleaned from the inspiring spaces pictured above:
• For depth and contrast, pair mint green with similar but more saturated shades that lean more decisively in the green or blue direction. Love the combo of mint green with a grassy green (second and fifth photos above), and of course pairing mint with teal, as in the first photo, creates a lovely effect as well.
• To soften the preppy factor of mint green, choose warm neutrals like ivory and taupe and organic textures like hemp and rattan. Or…
• …alternately, you can pair mint with gray for a more tailored, classic approach. Mint and charcoal offers dramatic contrast, while mint and dove gray is a calm and subtle combo.
• Use bright, warm tones for contrasting accents: an orange vase here, a red lamp there, a pink upholstered chair.
In case you're not yet convinced, a bit of mint green inspiration from our archives:
Do you like mint green for interiors? How do you make it work in your own home?
Images: Martha Stewart, via Coco+Kelley; Centsational Girl; House to Home; Domino; Ryan Korban
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Our 1936 house has mint green wall tile paired with border tile featuring a sweet floral motif in light butter yellow and periwinkle. The walls are fine, but the floor is with sage and cream basket weave tile. It almost does not work. I like the vintage tile so much, though, that I am willing to live with the odd color combination.
I was thinking about painting my living room mint. I have always loved it. It was the color of my childhood bedroom. But I just can't decide. My couch is brown velvet, and I have a robin's egg blue chair and another chair (currently swathed in cream color fabric until I make a decision) that is waiting to be upholstered. I guess I should pick up some samples.
Minty green and apricot, one of me favorite combos. Very complimentary. My kitchen is minty green/blue and hallway is apricot..like the books on shelf on the right side.
I need that refrigerator. My kitchen accent is that color green.
Frannyglass, I'd take it a step further and get tester pots once you narrow down some color choices. Mint green a tricky one. It can be really lovely or really cold if you get it wrong and the light in the room can be so different from one section of wall to the next. I learned the hard way with this shade of green and it'd be so much easier to paint a section or two and re-do it than an entire room.
Just some unsolicited advice on this particular kind of green family.
Dunno...Martha Stewart practically built an entire career on the colour mint green. It has it's uses and moments, I guess.
love this shade in smaller doses and mixed in with deeper greens and blues. has a wonderful retro feel to it. also love it with peach--so soothing and gentle.
My kitchen accent is that color, too, since I'm fairly obsessed with jadeite.
I wish Martha would bring back her jadeite colored accessories. It's more of a lime green now.
I'm struggling with mint right now. In theory, I love it. In practice, not so much.
I spent weeks agonizing over the perfect shade of mint for my office before I finally chose Sherwin Williams' "Gratifying Green," and I HATE it.
I've been playing around with pistachio and mint greens in my house... they are so lovely and refreshing!
I'd consider some of that more seafoam-ish, no? Tomayto, tomahto, I guess... Seafoam is my current colour obsession.
i am loving all the blue green shades in the first picture.
Love minty/seafoamy greens
Three years ago I painted my livingroom mint green and I have struggled with the choice ever since. It worked for a while, paired with white and teal. But I'm ready to move on now. During the summer months when the light is strong, the walls are so minty they make me feel physically ill (strange, I know).
I painted my master bath mint green, and while it wasn't exactly the color I had pictured in my head, it has grown on me. I paired it with crisp white and gray and now I'm trying to add some accent colors. So far it's light blue or teal....