Decorating Ideas if You Have Green Walls and Dark Brown Furniture

Window Treatments

• Make a small room with green walls and brown furniture appear larger by choosing the same color window treatments as the color on your walls. This makes the window treatments blend into the walls instead of creating contrast, which breaks the flow of the room. You don't have to match the color of your window treatments exactly to your walls, but use a lighter or darker shade of green, for example. If you don't have a small room, you can match your window treatments to the color of your furniture, as well as to any of the colors of your soft furnishings.

Floor

• Choose a green or brown carpet or hardwood or laminate wood flooring for a room with green walls and dark brown furniture. These flooring choices pull the look of the room together. Furthermore, by matching your flooring to your walls or furniture, you eliminate contrast, as with your window treatments. Choose flooring in a lighter shade of green or brown to make your room appear larger. However, to create a cozier space, you can choose a darker shade of green or brown for your floors.

Soft Furnishings

• Soft furnishings are fabrics used in your home and include table linens, curtains, bedding and upholstery. Choose soft furnishings in a fabric with colors that matches your brown furniture or your green walls. For example, you can decorate with throw pillows with different shades and prints in brown or green for a monochromatic scheme. However, you can create contrast by decorating with throw pillows in colors that go well with green, including red, pink and maroon, which are green's complementary colors, or colors directly across from one another on the color wheel. Another color scheme that goes well with green is the analogous color scheme, or colors side-by-side on the color wheel, such as green, blue-green and blue.

Accessories

• Decorate a room with accessories in green or brown to create fluidity in the room. Examples include decorating with green or brown table lamps, an area rug, candles, vases and bowls. As with your soft furnishings, you can add color to a room by decorating with accessories in complementary or split complementary colors. Likewise, brown furniture, especially wooden furniture, goes well with accessories such as a natural fiber area rug like sisal, woven baskets, wrought iron candle holders and wall decor. Furthermore, clear, green or brown glass vases and bowls go well in a room with green walls and brown furniture.