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That green kitchenette is beautiful

I painted my ugly kitchen cabinets that color! It looks great!

I am getting discouraged seeing all this green. I know home design has cyclical trends just as fashion does, but when I chose my new apartment's colors a couple months ago- green being the main accent color- because I thought it was a little different. I don't see many homes with green...or at least I didn't until now! Now it's even plastered all over the Pottery Barn catalogue :( Oh well, I guess that's the way it goes...

FatalFlower - You're just ahead of the trends.
;-)

Perhaps a similar effect could be had by using crackle paint on portions of the wall(s).

I would not want to see a whole house that color---unless it is down the lake or beach maybe---depends on the style of the house. Combined with a lot of white might be ok.

Anyone have suggestions for similar paint colors?

I see this trend as sort of an antidote to bright orange. I think it goes in cycles. Bright orange subsides into palatable categories for everyone, bright green seems new and uncompromising, but oh, not that orange again. Lighter, darker, and more muted shades of green on the spectrum always seem to be popular at some times and outdated at others. This is probably also a response to the hunter and sage greens of the recent past, the retro avocado and mint, and the pear, the apple, the very close to citrusy yellow-green, and even gliding up to it in turquoises, building up to the punch of absolutely green, no wimpy neutral natural color. That color green is not even leafy, it's like a crayon. It's a t-shirt color; as a home color, not such a big fan.