The beautiful marriage of green and brown
By Never teh BrideI’m not all that big on brown, unlike The Beard who looks good in and likes all things brown and brownish. When people started combining brown and colors very much not brown, I balked. Baby blue and brown? Pink and brown? I eventually learned to like those combinations, but green and brown still struck me as being too much like a tree or a meeting of Girl Scouts and Brownies.
Inhabit’s line of pillows and bedding really helped me get behind the marriage of greens and browns. I came to realize that deep chocolates and bright limes could come together in harmony with nary a nature scout in sight. In fact, I now think the combination evokes the calmative character of nature without drawing too much on nature itself. I’m not making an effort to live out of doors, after all, so I don’t want to invite all of the outdoors in.
A meditative touch of Mother Nature’s grace here and there…now that is an entirely different story.
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:23 am
As with so many combinations, it’s the shades that really make it work or not, as the case may be. Lime and chocolate has long been a favorite combination of mine…and not just because I look awesome in both colors! The two shades bring out the best in each other, I think.
July 23rd, 2008 at 3:54 am
So I’m guessing you were an early adopter of the combo
Personally, I look horrid in darker browns, though I can do latte-type colors. It’s something about my skin, I think.
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:16 am
Mr. Henry’s favorite household object is a mid 19th-century Baluchi kilim. Against a liver-colored field, it has deeply saturated madder red, indigo blue, and a marvelous bluish green that gives all the other colors life.
The vibrant liver color is achieved by mixing red and blue dyes. Green provides balance and harmony.