15 Best Dark Green Paint Colors to Use in Your Home

Designer Nate Berkus opted for the dramatic Great Barrington Green to adorn this powder room’s four walls. This dark green paint color, with its slightly cool undertones, softens the gilded hardware and geometric stone sink.“The homeowners didn’t want the home to feel stark—they didn’t want to live in a gallery,” Berkus says.

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To counter the sprawling mountain views in House Beautiful‘s 2024 Whole Home, designer Anne McDonald chose to paint her snug (a culturally British-style space designed for coziness and two people maximum) in Ash Grey by Farrow & Ball. This intimate space is ideal for winding down with a book after a long day.

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Slightly more blue than its Caribbean Teal counterpart (further down this list) Benjamin Moore’s Mediterranean Teal is perfect for those who don’t want to choose between green and blue. Designer Anna-Wooten Loggins of A. Wooten Interiors was tasked with infusing this Atlanta home with personality, so bold colors (that weren’t too overwhelming) were chosen to warm up the formerly stark space.

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In this formal sitting room just off the home’s primary suite by Mark Williams Design, a cool-toned dark green paint color offers a soothing vibe for starting your day. To keep the sitting room relaxed, they used warm textures and colors oak planks, natural limestone, and a rich green wall color that reflects the courtyard outside. Shop a similar shade below.

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Designers Miggy Mason and Roisin Giese painted this bar area in Amazon Green by Benjamin Moore to make it pop in an open-plan kitchen. The saturated dark green paint color in a high gloss finish also covers a rolling ladder for accessing hard-to-reach items, allowing the functional feature to blend in.

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A dark green paint color infused with a bit of black is the ultimate shade for creating a not-so-cookie-cutter bathroom. In this space, designer Mark Lavender of M. Lavender Interiors used a glossy version of Benjamin Moore’s Black Forest Green and paired it with a clover pattern from Scalamandré on the mirrored wall.

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Make your mudroom stand out with walls painted in deep emerald green. In Juan Carretero’s upstate New York home, the designer used Sherwin-Williams’s Country Squire paint on the walls. He outfitted the rest of the mudroom with black-and-white tiles, vintage iron dice stools, and a writing desk.

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If you want to walk into a room and immediately feel as though you’ve entered a spa, use matte moss-green paint. Incorporate plush accents for a true oasis. In this space, Arent & Pyke added a painterly room divider and relaxing lounge chair. Shop a similar dark green paint color below.

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For a dark green paint color that’s borderline black, go for a deep clay green paint. It can instantly set a moody scene, as it does in this breakfast nook designed by Nicole Hollis. Shop a similar shade below.

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A rich green can work in a variety of spaces—from a seaside bedroom to a glamorous bar. Film exec Ricky Strauss’s Los Angeles home features the latter, with a brass-wrapped bar and high-gloss green paint on the walls and ceiling. Shop a similar shade below.

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Set a royal foundation for your living room with walls painted in a dark teal, as designer Garrow Kedigan did in this traditional space. The mix of blue, gray, and green offers a moody yet calming ambiance.

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A slightly richer take on a traditional green, dark basil green makes an excellent choice for a library or kitchen. Here, designer Melanie Turner used Farrow & Ball’s Calke Green to give the library new life.

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Practically a neutral, deep hunter green can add some edge to a white kitchen or powder room. Designer Lynn K. Leonidas used the color on this kitchen island, making the perfect backdrop for handcrafted leather barstools.

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