Are you talking about "green", meaning environmentally friendly? Or green as in chlorophyll? For the former, Fine Paints Of Europe or milk paint. For the latter, I like '30's green, like Benjamin Moore Acadia Green.

We're trying to choose one right now---picking between BM Stem Green, Pear Green, and Potpourri Green. The first two are on the brighter side, and maybe too bright for a kitchen....just got the samples and haven't tested them yet.

I have " Thyme Green". It is an Olympic Paint color made up in BM Matte. I love it with my creamy cabs. Pics on My Page link to photobucket. c

We have BM Saybrook Sage in our kitchen and we have creamy cabs also. Don't go by the swatch color, you have to actually try a sample on the wall.

Artemis, I used BM Pear Green for the trim in one of my bedrooms - paired it with Tequila Lime. Pear Green is pretty vivid and packs a bright punch. I won't say 'use with caution' because I threw caution to the wind with my paint colors and love how it turned out, but....PG is not subtle.

If you mean green, as in color, Farrow and Ball Folly Green. I am in love with it.

I had this color of green in my last kitchen. It was a happy warm green. It's a stronger green, but I think it would look great with cream cabinets.

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Forgot to put what it is...BM Lehigh Green

At the risk of sounding like a broken record (I've posted this a couple of other times on "green" threads), I really like BM Rosemary Sprig, but found it to be a bit too dark for my kitchen. I added white to my sample in a 3:1 ratio (green:white) and really like how it lightened it up just enough. The lighter shade on the color strip was too light and just "glowed" at me.

I will have creamy uppers (SW Antique White) and the lighter Rosemary Sprig looks like it will complement them really well--it's a warm green, but not too yellowish or muddy. Disclaimer here: my kitchen remodel is in the planning stages, so there is no paint up on the walls yet :-)

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I used Sycamore Green with my creamy cabs, and I'm not sure that I like it. I'm really not sure that I would like ANY shade of green with the creamy cabs.

What color is your granite? Flooring?

We have Ikea Adel White cabinets (as close to a creamy white as Ikea gets) with Green Mountain PA soapstone counters and both south- and west-facing windows (i.e., lots of light). We're planning to use BM Celery Salt, a very, very pale green, on the walls and white paint on the window and door trim. We haven't applied the Celery Salt yet, but the 3'x3' samples we've taped to the walls look terrific.

We have had green in our kitchen as long as I can remember.. I just love the color so much, I am hoping to use it or something close in our new kitchen.

No giggling at how tiny my current kitchen is :)

If you like it I'll look in our home book to see what color it is.

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P.S Sorry about the huge photos.. Photobucket doesnt seem to want to reduce the size of what I uploaded.

grneyesct - I do like your color if you don't mind looking up the color.

jbrig - I'm also going to check on a lighter version of Rosemary Sprig. I've been drawn to that color before but I also thought it would be too dark.

We have BM Silken Pine in our breakfast nook. It is a cool, soft, neutral grayish green and looks beautiful and calm with our white cabinets, subway tiles, and red oak floors. When I redo my kitchen I think I may use it again.

@zeebee, thanks for the tip---that's my biggest concern right now! We're going for a "bright and fresh" but not necessarily "in your face" green. Already told DH I think PG would need to be reduced by at least 10-20% white to mellow it out a bit. (Wales Green, the next one down on that chip, is too light for us but another beautiful green that could work for some kitchens---though I learned from the paint store guy that the colors on the chips are not actually related, just similar, so it's not simply a lighter version of Pear Green, as I'd initially thought.)

nollie, just to clarify, I played around w/ the colors myself and decided I best liked the one where I mixed 6 T. BM Rosemary Sprig + 2 T. white (so, 3:1 ratio). Paintted that on a posterboard and played w/ it in my existing kitchen for a while. Then I went to Sherwin Williams and had them colormatch my poster board--which they did beautifully, I might add. So I do have a sample Colors-to-Go quart w/ that formula on it, if you are interested. You can email me through the link on "My Page", next to my username, if you would like me to send it to you or post it here.

Sorry, not the best photos. The main part of the kitchen is all cabinetry and backsplash. Cabinets are White Dove.
Green is Soft Fern Benjamin Moore. It is a really soft, chalky, grayish green.

Hi there,
I have creamy cabinets and BM Spanish Olive on my kitchen walls. BM White Dove trim.

PS - Dotcomgone - I love your little breakfast nook:)

Dotcomgone - I love your Soft Fern and your breakfast nook also.

Has anyone used BM Olive Branch?

I have read on the Decorating forum that a lot of people like BM Baby Turtle. I have not tried it; I have SW Clary Sage on the wall that my fireplace is on in my family room. I really like it.

Here's the link to the Green Paint thread over on the Home Decorating Gallery. It's fun to look through all of the different greens. And you do get to see BM Baby Turtle on there too.

Here is a link that might be useful: Greens

Hey Nollie - at the time we didnt have a BM dealer in the area, we got the paint at Home Depot, it was Behr, Ryegrass. I'm sure any BM dealer can match or has something close.

Good luck on your search for the perfect green! Please let us know what you go with!

Dotcom! Love your kitchen! Especially the lighting fixtures over the island :)

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Just about any green will go with cream. Me, I'd go for something in the celery neighborhood because I'm not into earthtones. Just pick something you like, because it'll look good.

We have SW Clary Sage against our Medallion White Chocolate cabinets.

My dining room is BM Vale Mist - kind of a grey/green. T

Mine is Muralo Prairie Path:
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This is a great thread. I could really use some help from all you folks with experience with green paint -- I think I need to change the wall color in my nearly-finished kitchen.

For a number of reasons, I had to keep my old terra cotta colored vinyl floor. My cabinets and trim are BM 01 white -- very bright, and they look great with my Black Venata soapstone.

I've put BM Nantucket Gray on the walls -- it's a color I love (my daughter has it in her living room), but I don't think it looks good with the floor. Perhaps they're too much the same value, or perhaps I need a bluer green, or one that's less muddy (Nantucket Gray is one of BM's historical colors, which are not clear colors. I love them all.)

Hope it's okay if I I'm post some photos here rather than starting a new thread. As you can see, both the floor and the green walls look different in different lights. The most accurate version of the floor color is in the second picture (at least on my monitor). Unfortunately the contractor had to replace some tiles under the new range, and didn't space them well, so there's a hiccup there, but the tiles toward the left are the most representative of how the floor looks. The tiles in the next picture look darker and redder than they do IRL.
(Incidentally I am not keeping the pendents.)

If anyone can suggest a shade that they think would look BETTER in the room (perhaps not even green?) I'd really really really appreciate it:

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Hi, marytw, I don't have any good suggestions for you at the moment, but did want to encourage you to go ahead and start a new thread w/ your questions and pictures. You'll get a lot better response that way :-) Good luck; your kitchen is looking really pretty!

Sorry for posting this here -- I'll start another thread!

Marytw

Restoration Hardware Silver Sage...looks great with everything!

I used BM Meditation (Affinity line) in my kitchen and I love the contrast with my White Dove painted cabinets and trim. Its one of those colors that looks different depending on the light and time of day and I really like that quality.