How to Decorate With Cheerful Kelly Green in Your Home

Add a Pop of Art

If you'd like to dip your toes in the hue, paintings and prints featuring Kelly green are an easy way to add a bright moment of visual interest to a room.

Keep Your Rustic and Bohemian Vibes Bright

Something about rustic tiles in vivid Kelly green just really puts dreams of terracotta to rest. It's an unexpected shade for a fireplace and creates a strong focal point to gather the room around.

This room, designed by Danielle Nagel of Dazey Den, is a great reminder that if you a love of color, you aren't limited to your walls or your furniture. Use it as a jumping-off point and explore your imagination.

Add an Accent Color

The intensity of Kelly green prevents these two accent chairs from looking like afterthoughts in a more crowded room. They match the throw pillows on the crisp white couches, and the cheerful hue invites you to take a seat.

Add Color, Color, and More Color

It's green, it's red, it's indigo, too; a Kelly green foundation gives you a lot to work with. This yellow-leaning green contrasts with orangey reds and darker blues, making the desk and wall vases pop.

Using the color on all of the walls and between the ceiling beams unites the big space and lets the eye stop and appreciate the various statement moments.

Paint Your Windowpane

An arched, cottage windowpane is a geometric bastion of beauty. Don't let it get lost in the hustle. Call it out, like this kitchen does, with bright Kelly green paint. It'll make the window look even bigger than it is—and it'll make dishwashing a bit dreamier, too.

Invite Drama to Your Cabinets

Using a darker shade of Kelly green for your kitchen cabinets, shelving, and kitchen island creates a dramatic look that still feels calm. The white Carrara marble worktops and backsplash balance the richness of the green, and the oak stools add striking contrast. 

Spruce Up Your Shelving

Glossy green paint will reflect light to illuminate and open up shallow shelving, and the blue and yellow tones of this hue contrast nicely with the red and copper kitchen accessories.

Bring Youth to Older Pieces

Kelly green and well-loved wood make a perfect pair. If you have an old church pew or work bench that you want to make feel more homey and youthful, the vibrancy of this middle color can give antique furniture a second life without overpowering classic details. 

Keep the Vibes Playful

How do you design a child's room in a way that won't make you the target of their resentment come high school? Try lush, tropical wallpaper. Keep it bright and simple, like this green and white fern pattern, and it won't look dated, Plus, you'll never have trouble finding furniture to match it.

Go Wild With Patterns

As Kelly green is inspired by Ireland's greenery, tropical wallpapers are a natural fit for incorporating the color into your home. This large-format wallpaper is striking, but the simple, modern color scheme keeps it from buzzing out of focus.

If you're worried about printed wallpaper skewing too retro in your home, a pattern and color scheme that evokes freshness and life will bring the right energy.

Mix Pink and Green

Bright pink with blue undertones looks beautiful next to Kelly green, and both colors are bold enough to stand their own against the busy black-and-white wallpaper pattern. Doing the glass vanity light covers in a stand-out hue also helps to draw the eye up and gives back a level of dimension to the room that a geometric wallpaper can often flatten.

Pair Kelly Green with Gold

Gold and green are a classic yet stunning combination—think of the Gucci logo or a vintage malachite ring. They both bring richness to a room, and these Kelly green benches add color to the elevated but traditional design.