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The Color Green, it's Meanings and Associations

Green is a fantastic color for interior decorating because it is like the neutral color. Neutral you say, yes!

If you look in nature you will see green everywhere, and it is teamed up with every color in the rainbow and it always looks stunning!

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Green, it's Meanings and AssociationsGreen is used backstage "the green room" for it's nerve calming association, is ideal in bathrooms and bedrooms as it has relaxing and calming properties.

It is elegant and wealthy when matched up with velvets and silks.

It is not good for skin color rendition so don't use it in beauty parlors or hair salons, or even clothing stores for that matter.

Green is a color that can be used with a wide brush, and highlighted with bold accents, just like flowers poppng out from under their leaves.

Hot pink, crimson red, brilliant blue, yellow and violet.

Green, it's Meanings and Associations

Cool, Relaxing, Restful, Discreet, Security, Harmony, Calming, Steady Nerves, Severe To Skin Colour, Balance, Elegant, Sophisticated, Envy, Jealousy, Inexperience, Quietly Social, Wealth, Refreshment, Compassion, Rejuvenation, Balance, Growth, Birth, Expansiveness, Moderation, Conventional, Normalcy, Tradition.

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