Want to decorate northwest facing living room with dark green accent colour

[Eslteacher06]

I live in an Edwardian house with high ceilings and we're looking into decorating. My husband wants a cosy feel to the living room and I thought of using a dark green colour on the fireplace wall and alcoves but I have no idea what colour to use on the other walls. I think dark green all over will make the room very dark. Or am I being mad using dark green? We don't want to use pinks and I'd rather other ideas than white.

Sooo...does anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

Maybe do a pale green on the other walls. X

Following... our living room faces west. Looking at doing similar but with F&B Green Smoke.

I have a north facing front room.. I have painted every wall in a very dark
Colour and it looks fabulous. Paler carpet, white architrave, door etc.. it's super cosy and really suits the house (Victorian)

Pic attached..

@DENMAN03 oh my that looks gorgeous! I'm quite scared of painting the whole room as I'm not good with design at all.

That looks really lovely. X

I would like that myself, what brand and colour is it please. X

Hi, it's F&B Down Pope

Pipe, not pope!

Thank you it's lovely thought it was Farrow and Ball. It looks beautiful. X

We have Paint & Paper Library Squid Ink in our NW facing Victorian living room. Looks similar to Denman’s pic above, a dark grey with green/blue tones. Not too dark (I nearly went darker but glad I didn’t). We have lots of white in the room, white fireplace, woodwork, mirror, black and white pictures on the wall, one pale sofa and have white down to the picture rail as well. So it’s not really much dark in total.

I’d go fully dark (I’m not a feature wall fan, it distorts the proportions) but dilute with white, and warm toned accessories.

sorry just to clarify, when I say dilute with white I mean have white woodwork/pictures etc,not mix the paint with white obviously!

Personally I'm a big fan of F&B Pigeon and have used it in darker rooms. I think they often look better if you embrace the fact they will never be really light and go for a strong colour.