Favorite Greens from ‘Our Suburban Cottage’

By Kate Riley March 16, 2010

Another gal pal (among many) I happened to make friends with last month at Blissdom is the darling AnNicole from Our Suburban Cottage.  After meeting her, I quickly became attached because of her exquisite sense of style and endearing personality !  Maybe it might kinda sorta have something to do with our fun night out on the town in Nashville, but she’s just a gal after my own heart.  

Today I’ve got more featured bloggers for you, so this morning, please welcome the mega talented AnNicole from Our Suburban Cottage

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“Hey y’all! I can’t believe Kate gave me control of her “centsational’ blog for an entire day.  Mwah ha ha – the power!   Fortunately for Kate I love all things green, so I’ll stick with the plan and share some of my favorite green things with you.

FLOWERS

I love flowers with a tinge of green to them like PeeGee Hydrangeas, Lily of the Valley, and Snowballs. They’re so luscious I could almost eat them…not really, but you know what I mean.

If you don’t have a great flower store nearby that offers these, try Whole Foods. They’re about $20 a bunch, and they’re fresh, lush and gorgeous.

MarthaStewartFlowers Image: Martha Stewart

 

MarthaStewartFlowers2 Image: Martha Stewart

TOPIARIES

My other love? Topiaries. I fully admit I own way too many, but I’m okay with that. Hey, some women love shoes, I love topiaries…and pillows (luh huh huv pillows – that’s another post). My favorite topiary varieties are olive, boxwood, and moss. And as for the question of real vs. fake, I would definitely have real topiaries if I could A) afford them, and B) afford to replace them when I inevitably kill them. Therefore mine are all beautifully faux.

Topiary 1

Topiary 2

PAINT

Finally, I love so many varieties of green paint. Although, most greens I love aren’t pure greens – since pure greens seem to either scream Kermit the Frog or remind me of 1980’s forest green carpet.  Therefore I love greens that are mixed with blue, gray, brown, or even gold. 

Here are a few of my favorite colors:

Sherwin Williams ‘Svelte Sage’ (I big fat heart this gray-green color)

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Sherwin Williams ‘Artifact’, a gorgeous brown-gold-green as shown in my friend’s powder bath. 

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Here also are Ralph Lauren’s ‘Cathedral Gray’ and Sherwin Williams ‘Dried Thyme’

annicole paint

RL’s ‘Cathedral Gray’ is an incredibly soothing green gray, and Sherwin Williams ‘Dried Thyme’ is a perfect darker green with just enough gray and blue in it to keep it calm. I have a friend with this in their kitchen, and it’s lovely paired with distressed and glazed cream cabinets !

Have a great St. Patrick’s Day tomorrow!

AnNicole

Thank you AnNicole for adding your favorites to the lineup !  And speaking of paint, AnNicole is doing an entire series dedicated to choosing the right paint color, so tune in to Our Suburban Cottage for the full scoop !

Stay tuned for more later today, and yours truly is up tomorrow with a list of my favorite greens in decor, including wallpaper, accessories and a whole lot more.  

Cheers friends ! 

13 comments

  1. RL’s ‘Cathedral Gray’ is also the color in my kitchen! Love it. It is a perfect green-gray! I have it paired with pink, white, and some green. It is such a neutral I feel like it works with almost any color!

  2. Great Post, AnNicole. I love those green flower choices. :) And thanks for the beautiful paint color ideas.

  3. So, seeing all this green is making me desperately tired of all our beige walls and boring same ole decor. I want couch pillows and decoration pillows on the bed and just plain COLOUR. The only problem is that my husband claims that he HATES the colour green with decorating. Everything I want to have in our apartment, he thinks is ugly. It’s frustrating, I don’t know what to doooo. And for some reason, I can’t even find a nonwhite tablecloth that isn’t ugly or way too loud (and that isn’t plastic). I don’t know what to do, I’m afraid to even consider shopping with him since he’ll probably shoot everything down. :\

  4. I love green too. I have a dining room, craft room, bathroom, & office painted in different greens. I love that Svelte Sage. YUM!

  5. love the Martha Stewart image of the numbered hydrangea filled pots I’m having a shower this spring and these could be cool as centerpieces.

  6. Green is one of my favorites as well! I gravitate toward the blue greens and the grey greens. But CHARTREUS sure pushes my buttons too!

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