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Why choose green blinds? Firstly because green is one of the most versatile colours you can use within your home, because it comes in literally hundreds of different tones and shades.
While a lot of colours that fall under the heading of “green” will almost immediately self-exclude as being uh, frankly kind of nasty or jarring (hospital green, slurry green, snot green… I could go on), others can be invigorating, calming, relaxing, and meditative; as well as being a great pick to support a natural or earthy theme, or to generate a sense of cohesion and flow between home and garden!
In this blog post I’ll give you some food for thought on why to choose green blinds, suggest some of the styles and themes that green blinds suit, and tell you what type of blinds can be green.
Why choose green blinds?
First up, because of the sheer diversity of shades and colours that make up the “green” grouping. Green is created from a blend of blue and yellow, which means that it isn’t a primary colour; but when a fourth colour is needed alongside of the three primaries, it is almost universally green that is used.
The spectrum of green tones runs from very yellowy greens through to those at the blue end, encompassing jade, teal, and so on.
In terms of shades, you can get very, very pale mint greens so subtle as to be almost off-white, through the the deepest, darkest forest greens; green dye is often used as the base shade of black clothing in fact, which you may already have worked out for yourself if something that started life as black faded over time, or suffered an unfortunate washing malfunction.
You can also get neon green and young, bright green shades, and different greens can be bold, rich, fresh, soft, muted, subtle, commanding, or… Pretty much any other descriptive you can think of.
Key takeaway on why to choose green blinds: green is really versatile.
What type of blinds come in green?
If you’re still trying to decide on the type of blinds you want but have already decided that they need to be green, your options are:
Roller blinds will give you the widest range of options for green colours and green-based patterns and styles.
Roman blinds are also made of fabric and so, come in any colour you like, as well as having pattern and detailing options too.
Vertical blinds come in a fairly broad range of green shades too, and you can also get different textures and finishes, as well as potentially abstract patterns or colour blends.
Venetian blinds are made of aluminium coated in a very hard, chip-resistant enamel paint, which is available in green.
Another option is to choose wooden or faux-wood blinds with ladder tapes rather than lift cords – allowing you to choose the ladder tapes themselves in green, while the blind slats can be another colour of your choosing.
What styles or themes suit green blinds?
I could probably write a novel or at least, a long-ish essay on the sort of styles and themes that green blinds go well with, because as mentioned, there are soooo many shades and types of green.
I’m not going to though, because I am middling-to-heavily confident that you, dear reader, are not going to stick around to hear Polly’s digression on the all-green rainbow.
I will, however, give you a very few suggestions to get you started, and to perhaps allow you to think up some ideas of your own.
First up, any kind of natural theme has room for one or more greens; earthy kind of themes, but particularly given how for millennials, plants are apparently the new pets, indoor-garden themes or “bringing the outside in” type of themes.
Tropical prints and so on have also become really popular in the last couple of years; the types integrating parrots and other exotic birds, ferns, palms, or fronds, and a deep but reasonably bright green undertone.
When you start heading in the direction of the bluish-greens, you’ve also of course got all of your water-based and nautical themes coming in too.
If your goal is to create a room or atmosphere that is calming and has an aura of tranquillity, green is an awesome colour for this.
In fact, one of our downstairs worker lads caused much hilarity in the staff room a couple of years ago (I mention the timeframe because we’re still poking at him about it now) by letting it slip that sometimes he just sits and stares at his green blind for a few minutes at a time to relax. It would have sounded far less weird if he’d have said he was meditating, but then we’d not have had cause to start calling him Green Gilbert either, despite his name not actually being Gilbert.
Oh and finally, I’m working from home today and my BFF’s five-year-old (hi Archie!) Who lives next door just let himself in and asked me what I’m up to. I consequently asked him what he thought of when he thought of green; so I would also like to suggest that themes or styles involving The Hulk, Shrek, and dinosaurs could all be on the cards too.
What other colours work with green blinds?
Because green is such as big colour group, my first suggestion for what other colours work with green or with green blinds, is “other shades of green.” As long as the tones of greens (as in, cool or warm respectively) harmonise rather than fight your eyeballs, graduated or mixed greens (not the salad type) can definitely work together, perhaps with another colour like a mid-beige or grey thrown in to keep everything from turning a bit Kermit.
Green and pink (Kermit and Miss Piggy?) and possibly grey works, shade-dependent, as does a crisp, clean white with green. For a darker theme that can be either bold or muted, plum shades of purple and green are worth considering, as is even black with a lime green shade; say, for kitchens or bathrooms with glossy black tiles.
Also, I’m absolutely going to start a social media beef the likes of which I am not sure that the entire English Blinds marketing department is equipped to deal with, by suggesting that blue and green of the right respective shades together can kind of be a thing too.
Should probably mention too that I personally am currently the entire workforce of the English Blinds content marketing department. But I am kind of feisty.
