GREEN

The clients gather in this living room during colder weather.
A window in the primary bedroom overlooks the great room. The George Smith chairs are joined by a vintage coffee table and sofas from Munder Skiles.
The double-height great room features three sitting areas, one of which is centered around a banquette that’s original to the house.
The great room’s woodwork was left its existing shade of green. The pair of armchairs are from George Smith and their pillows are crafted from a Raoul Textiles fabric.
The dining room’s fireplace needed to be rebuilt, but a portion of the wall’s original delft tiles.
“The husband loves green,” says designer Lindsay Bentis, who paired Nemo tiles in that color with Pablo pendants and a concrete sink in the powder room.
Waterworks tile and Benjamin Moore Chimichurri spice up the pantry with its hammered polished-nickel sink from Native Trails.
A curved sofa and oval ottoman bring softness in form, texture, and color to the living room. Vincent, a portrait by Frederick J. Brown, is a favorite piece of art from the owners’ collection.
Like the kitchen wall, the table base has a cerused-wood finish. Rather than a sink in front of the window as is typical, White placed the cooktop and hood there to allow the cook to take in the view.
Interior designer Lauren Grant reworked the room’s layout, making the marble-topped mahogany vanity the focal point. “Before, you stared straight at the toilet when you walked in,” Grant says.
The bedroom’s Zoffany Richmond Park wallpaper was the jumping-off point for the color palette.
The marble mosaic floor tiles in the shower are the same tiles used on the floor in the rest of the room, minus the border.
The kitchen cabinetry, which is painted Farrow & Ball Mizzle, is paired with marble backsplash tile from StoneImpressions. A walnut countertop for the island seating area adds warmth.
The 1870s house has all the classic Victorian features and was so well-preserved that the new homeowners didn’t need to change a thing on the exterior.
With its circular shape and golden tone, the showstopping light fixture from Visual Comfort & Co. plays off the Kravet dining table’s brass feet and circular cutout. The Zuber wallpaper came with the house, and Lyon and his clients wisely agreed it should stay.
Open shelving, also constructed of oak, provides additional storage.
The palette is inspired by the view of the lake and trees beyond. The barstools are from McGee & Co.
The light fixtures and sink fittings are from deVOL, and the unlacquered brass hardware is from Rejuvenation. “The brass ages really well,” says interior designer Jenny Morrison.
Graphic green Peter Fasano wallpaper lends structure to another guest room. “It has this, ‘I’m sitting in Maine looking at the trees’ quality to it,” says Pierce.
Hand-cut botanical collages by Lora Avedian, Schumacher upholstery, and a scalloped Mally Skok table by Dowel Furniture cozy up the dining area. “We spent a lot of time with this idea of what was the right level of formality,” Pierce says. “How do we have these spaces reflect all occasions?”
For the wall above the Partners in Design sectional, artist Erik Skoldberg created a custom work depicting the homeowners’ vintage Ford Bronco.
The game room centers on an 11 Ravens pool and Ping-Pong table illuminated by a Hinterland Design pendant. The wall sculpture is by Zieta Studio.
The walls in the youngest child’s room wear Schumacher’s Edwin Stripe wallpaper.
The designers gave the primary suite continuity with a sisal rug, then defined the seating area with a Dash & Albert carpet under oversize chairs covered in plush green velvet. Navy leather wraps the bases and trims the shades of the Ralph Lauren sconces flanking the fireplace.
“I didn’t want there to be an ounce of wasted space,” says designer Rhonda Everts, who tucked a powder room off the first-floor front hall.
There is a symbiosis between the traditional millwork and the bespoke color scheme that gives the living room a fresh flair while also paying homage to the house’s 1920s style. Interior painting is by Bruno’s Painting & Restoration. The original casement windows were replaced with new versions that maintain the storybook sensibilities of the house’s architecture.
Bold Versailles Wallcovering from Dana Gibson makes an energetic backdrop in the guest bath.
This step-back cabinet in the kitchen contains a substantial portion of the owners’ collection of redware.
Floral Colefax and Fowler wallpaper and upholstered headboards soften a guest bedroom.
The design team gutted the primary bath and gave it some drama with a dual vanity topped in Calacatta Viola marble.
The kitchen showcases Benjamin Moore Jojoba on the stainless-steel-topped cabinetry opposite an island of white oak and engineered stone.
Katsutoshi Yuasa’s Mizumi wallcovering for The Romo Group’s Black Edition envelops the main guesthouse’s entry hall, which features a custom live-edge table on a Lucite base.
A vintage oil painting adds to the Italian-meets-art-deco aesthetic. The honed four-by-twelve-inch marble floor tiles from DiscoverTile match the marble countertop from Cumar.
The niche tile is a one-centimeter broken-joint mosaic.
The hand-rubbed brass ceiling fixture from Visual Comfort & Co. offers a pretty gleam at the top of the room.
The owners’ affinity for green is most strikingly realized in the family room with its complementary wall art curated by Betsy Biscone Art Advisory.
In the third-floor green room, dubbed The Treehouse, a Pierre Frey paper covers the walls and ceiling.
The porch includes a much-used outdoor grill and serving area that are close to the home’s kitchen and pantry.
Austin knows the story behind every artwork in the home, but the painting in the primary bath holds a special place in his heart; it was gifted to him by a beloved client who passed away, and it’s lit 24-7.
In the mudroom, custom grass-green lockers fitted with wire mesh doors keep kid stuff organized but in view and inject a burst of color.
There’s no shortage of seating at the kitchen’s twenty-two-foot island, which was made by B&G Cabinet.
In the guest bedroom, Benjamin Moore’s Fresh Dew offers a shift from the predominantly blue-and-white scheme used in the home’s more public spaces. The bed features a Soane Britain fabric on the headboard and skirt.
The golf-course-inspired office is painted a custom shade of green lacquer from Fine Paints of Europe.
In the office, Aronson Woodworks custom made the ash-wood desk, finished in the company’s signature Claize in a bright shade of blue.
Designer Allison Mattison carried the clients’ love of blue, white, and green into the family room. “Blue runs through every room downstairs, so there’s a nice flow in terms of the palette,” she says.
In the living room, a Partners in Design sectional covered in a Scalamandré upholstery sets off the pecky cypress wall paneling.
An abaca Patterson Flynn rug on top of painted floors marries beachy and vintage Cape aesthetics, something that was important to the homeowner.
Banker’s solution for handling the “enormous” upstairs bathroom was to select a larger-than-life wallpaper by Clarence House and accent it with a shower curtain custom made with Les Indiennes fabric.
Nearby, the butler’s pantry is painted Farrow & Ball Pigeon and displays the clients’ china collection.
An America’s Cup yacht, the whaler Charles W. Morgan, and the owners’ yacht are among the vessels plying the waters of Nantucket Harbor in the dining room mural hand-painted by Segreto Finishes
Smith wanted a clutter-free and serene primary suite, so the closets and dressers are built in; builder Derek Huckel of Chōwa Home incorporated a white-washed oak ceiling to soften the space.
Connecticut homeowners Rob and Kaitlyn Lowe wanted guests to feel like they could flop down and be comfortable anywhere, including in the living room, which designer Thom Filicia outfitted with a plush sofa and occasional chairs from the Thom Filicia Home Collection for Vanguard Furniture and a pendant light from Visual Comfort.
An arrangement of photos, maps, and mementoes turns a living room wall into a kind of family portrait. “On their own, these objects could end up in a box. When you put them all together, it creates this really amazing collage,” says Filicia.
A new powder room provides a dose of drama.
The dining room’s new fireplace mantel has an authentic period look.
Architectural details, such as the dining room’s coffered ceiling and wainscoting, were either restored or recreated. William Morris wallpaper with bold cobalt and lime is paired with luxurious green wool drapes. Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams chairs in green leather join host chairs outfitted in Pierre Fray fabric.
In the family room, painted Benjamin Moore Aganthus Green, a custom sofa that doubles as a daybed sits beside a chair covered in a durable Perennials fabric.
Christian LaCroix’s lush Canopy wallpaper makes the room feel like a tropical paradise.
A lower-level guest room holds both a queen-size bed with a woven rattan headboard and a pair of bunk beds.
The Soane Britain Dianthus Chintz fabric was the jumping-off point for the main bedroom; “It took on a British meets the tropics vibe, with the vintage Maison Jansen palm tree lamp completing the look,” says Zawel.
The bedroom reading nook features a rattan console by Sharland England; the artwork is by Lorna Simpson and the vase was a score from Avant-Scène in Paris.
Remondi brought more intense color to the primary bedroom, where a Cowtan & Tout retro Asian fabric adorns the windows, and the bed wears an emerald-green throw and pillow.
In the serene dining room, the custom Dunes and Duchess table is perfectly proportioned for the space. An easy-care Bowood Tweed from Perennials covers the chairs from Eleish Van Breems Home. The drum chandelier is from Visual Comfort.
In the dining room, the Nimbus resin bubble chandelier from Oly is the star.
In the primary bedroom of architect Jacob Albert’s recently renovated condo, he painted the shelving Benjamin Moore Brookside Moss. A vintage chair sits beside a nineteenth-century French wine-tasting table, and Albert purchased the dhurrie while traveling in Jaipur, India.
The team at Bannon removed the concrete pad in the lower-level media room by hand in order to install radiant heat and polished concrete flooring. Najnigier painted the cabinetry Farrow & Ball Lichen.
The dry bar reinterprets the home’s original cabinetry, and an antique Seguso lantern found in London also nods to the past.
In the dining room, “Italian Panoramic wallcovering by Iksel Decorative Arts brings the outdoors in,” says Booth, “like a fantasy version of our East Side neighborhood.”
The same wallpaper greets visitors in the entry.
Chairs in a hue Watson calls “fresh sage” enliven the family room. For the drapes, she says, “Linen gives us texture, and the floral gives a bit of a casual feel.” The end table lamp is from Hwang Bishop.
The powder room off the kitchen also has a green theme, thanks to a rattan-inspired print from These Walls.
A boy’s bedroom inspired by the Incredible Hulk features roman shades crafted with a Sister Parish fabric, a green bed from Crate & Barrel, and an Erin Gates for Momeni rug.
Italian marble flooring, a faux-bamboo vanity, and sinuous Soane wallpaper add Old World allure to a powder room.
“I wanted the house to feel restful,” says designer and homeowner Mariel Goodson, who left the living room windows bare to enhance views of the lake. Farrow & Ball’s glossy Light Blue complements the Phillip Jeffries grasscloth.
The curved wall in the formal entry hints at the style and grace of this Stamford home. An antique gilded mirror makes a statement against a Susan Harter Muralpapers wallcovering.
Designer Elizabeth Saypol furnished the dining room with treasured vintage pieces—from the table and chairs to the chandelier that once held candles to the mercury glass collection on the mantel.
An alcove in the dining room is the perfect spot for wing chairs from Hickory Chair, custom upholstered in fabric by Kerry Joyce and adorned with Elizabeth Eakins pillows. The metal plant stand is an antique.
Entry to the home is via the living room, where an oak coffee table, natural-wood end table, and stone fireplace add a touch of rustic charm.
Green custom tile work in the kitchen is eye-catching but not excessive thanks to the otherwise neutral palette of the light-colored cabinetry, wood floors, and hemlock ceiling.
Spacious shelves provide plenty of storage.
Refreshing a mudroom bath meant swapping out the sink, countertop, faucet, and hardware while retaining the original vanity under a fresh coat of paint. Wallpaper by Thibaut adds new energy.
A once-characterless condo got a bold refresh that is both comfortable and conducive to frequent entertaining; the counter stools are from Bungalow 5, and the punchy striped fabric is from Robert Allen.
The teal outlines of the adjoining bedroom’s wallpaper are echoed in the bathroom tile.
The colors in Sanderson Design Group’s Tally Ho wallpaper informed this small guest room, which only has space for a twin bed and a Scalamandre reading chair upholstered in Jane Churchill. “It’s one of my favorite rooms because there’s lots of interest for the eye,” says Shano
A portrait of homeowner John Lambros’s great-great-grandfather, who was a patron of sculptor Auguste Rodin, hangs in the dining room. (This one is a replica—Spain’s Museo Nacional del Prado houses the original, painted by Joaquin Sorolla.)
Homeowner Karen Duffy Lambros refers to her favorite room, swathed in a Schumacher fern pattern, as the Jungle Room. “I do my video calls from there, especially on dark winter days,” she says.
House guests request their favorite rooms when spending the night on the farm.
Throughout the residence, architect Judy Larson employed traditional details such as dentil moldings and transom windows. At the request of the clients, who have young children, designer Kathleen Walsh added warmth to the architecture through her bold use of color. A striking chandelier from McLain Wiesand illuminates the living room, which is painted Benjamin Moore Caldwell Green.
Forest-green walls give the library, James Schibanoff’s favorite room in the house, a cocoon-like feeling.
The dining room walls wear de Gournay’s showstopping Abbotsford mural wallpaper. A glossy strié tea paper on the ceiling is an additional touch of glamour.
Colored prints in the library pay homage to the heroic English Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson.
“An all-white kitchen didn’t suit this house,” says interior designer Amy Thebault. “The green cabinets look like they’ve always been here.”
A three-tiered terrace, blended into the natural landscape in place of an eroded hillside, complements an existing gazebo. Adirondack chairs can cozy up around the built-in firepit for sunset viewing.
Accompanied by informal foot paths, a 360-foot stone wall follows a long arc matching the
The screen house addition at the back of the house was built in a semicircle in order to minimize disruption of the lake views from the rest of the house.
The main house is centered on a long drive and sits at the apex of curved stone walls, enhancing the sense of arrival.
Sinkin nabbed the stylish guestroom bed on Wayfair. Mirrored nightstands heighten the room’s appeal.
The den’s wallpaper is a Kirkby Design from Romo. Once again, Daher shows her talents for blending: the cubes are marble, the desk is leather-topped, and the arresting green chair wears a cotton/linen blend from Kelly Wearstler.
The kitchen was relocated to the rear of the house and reinvented with a classic European vibe. The look is a bit formal (but relatable) and gorgeous (but totally functional). Raw Urth Designs fabricated the range hood. And on the island chairs, there’s that playful green again.
The dining room exemplifies the important role of color, with its light green Brewster grasscloth wallcovering and the painterly velvet fabric on the lacquered chairs.
Homeowner May Doherty’s eye for fashion informed the choice of furnishings. But at the end of the day, says designer Jenn Sanborn, keeping thing comfortable and welcoming was key. Plush sofas and a put-your-feet-up wooden coffee table by Gabby fit the bill.
A Wesley Hall wing chair sports a playful apple-green fabric.
Bartlett prepares for a dinner party surrounded by her china and glassware collections.
Antiqued-mirror cabinet fronts lend a vintage look with a twist.
Dashes of bright green create a youthful, friendly vibe in the sitting area off of the new kitchen.
The master bedroom opens to a second-floor porch with lake views.
The stairs descend first to the bedrooms, then to the ground-floor living area and the patio.
Modernist pieces, including Italian tulip swivel armchairs, give the living room a stylish but informal look.
Kenneth Cobonpue’s Bouquet end table pairs with a vintage sofa treated to new chartreuse upholstery to create a playful mood.
An all-wood wing chair softens the master bedroom’s vibrant colors.
The master bedroom’s vintage and antique furniture is refreshed with plucky hues drawn from the wallpaper in the hallway.
The office’s light fixture is made of metal strapping sourced from old wine barrels.
The dining room, which gained seven feet thanks to the home’s addition, doesn’t have a very high ceiling, so the designer specified floor-to-ceiling windows to add a sense of height.
The hand-blocked, trellis-patterned wallpaper keeps the dining room feeling summery, while the round table softens the square room.
The kitchen strikes a balance between modern and traditional with its leaded-glass-front cabinets painted a rich green. A Dunes and Duchess chandelier in an unexpected bright red illuminates the island.
In the living room and throughout the house, paintings by Stein, an artist, enliven the walls.
The kitchen is a simple, modern, tactile marvel, with metal-trimmed leather upper cabinets and backsplash tiles of textured antique mirror.
The living room is the apartment in microcosm: all contours and texture, mixed materials, muted jewel tones, water references, and modern moments—carefully composed in a painterly way.
Green-as-malachite wallpaper revs up the powder room.
Bee drawings in the sunroom are mounted on wallpaper intended to represent the insects’ busyness.
A bold green bed stands in contrast to a bedroom’s sedate white walls.
A faux bois mirror in the powder room is the perfect partner to the Tropical Isle wallpaper from Schumacher.
A border of reclaimed wood along the base of the vent hood ties in with the kitchen’s new beams.
The chandelier came from the owners’ previous home.
A game table and upholstered chairs claim a quiet corner.
Cleaning revealed the deep green tones of the room’s original marble fireplace
Nailhead trim on the upholstered dining chairs and Conrad handwoven shades at the windows introduce an extra layer of subtle texture.
Mismatched chairs from Theodore Alexander surround a David Michael table in the dining room. “I don’t like cookie-cutter chairs,” Burke says. “I like to mix and match.
Zeytoonjian’s Bahamian roots are reflected in the Amos Ferguson paintings over the bar; elephant heads supporting the brass rail honor the home’s original owner, Republican governor Henry Roberts
The pale palette is broken only by an accent wall in green, a custom color chosen to reflect a bit of the outdoors.
The eye-catching triptych above the sofa is by Darien artist Andrea Bonfils.
The table in the eat-in kitchen juxtaposes a distressed antique wood column base with a sleek cast-iron top.
To tie the color palette together in the living room, Deb Nicoud designed a custom, hand-woven rug.
A custom bench is reflected in a mirrored dresser in the bedroom.
In a departure from the home’s cooler tones, Ouellette designed this bedroom around a floral pattern she loves.
Ouellette’s collection of art glass is housed in specially designed wall niches.
The homeowners’ dog, Chloe.
Other hues, such as the shell-pink accents, are also drawn from nature.
With an eye toward geometric shapes, Ouellette painted all of the artwork in the house.
Homeowner/designer Margo Ouellette chose a palette of blues and greens to represent the ocean and sky.
Dining room furniture features fabric from Loro Piana and William Yeoward.
Cheerful, bright colors furnish the downstairs family room.
The new family room, outfitted with contemporary pieces, anchors the addition to the historic home.
The straight lines of the upholstered master bed make a masculine counterpoint to the loveseat'€™s feminine floral.
The dining room wears playful wallpaper, a Venetian glass mirror and a silver-finish gilt wood chandelier for a decidedly feminine look. Green fabric chairs by Jonathan Adler bring it all together.
An antique lamp in the corner inspired the living room’s green accent color.
Varying shades of green bedeck the curtains, chairs, coffee table and pillows, and the apple green of a small wall nook makes an abstract painting pop.
Pomeroy designed the L-shaped banquette in the wife’s office, adding soft fringe along the bottom for a feminine, romantic touch.
Twin slipper chairs add a note of color in the living room.
Emerald-green grasscloth complements a painting reflected in a powder room mirror.
The expanded master suite includes linen-clad walls and a custom upholstered bed with a pop-up TV hidden in the footboard.
Lights above the kitchen island are kept slightly high so as to not impede the view.
The breakfast nook sounds a wake-up call with walls of tequila lime, a geometric-patterned rug and vivid toss pillows.
Salk painted the backs of the built-in shelves chartreuse to give them definition and make the books pop. The window seat is upholstered in fabric from Ballard Designs.
The dark cherry library was made more feminine with a jolt from green-lacquered walls and rich velvet accent chairs.
Waverly’s La Belle Campagne cotton toile transforms the guestroom, where a favorite portrait of an unknown woman hangs. "I just fell in love with her," says Bell.
The rear parlor offers echoes of its front-room neighbor, but conveys a more casual feel.
The chandelier from the owners’ previous home proved a perfect match for the Thomas Pheasant table from Baker. The custom chairs guarding the table’s ends wear a lush Cowtan & Tout fabric.
The living room flows seamlessly into the dining room, where the large light fixture and rich dark-blue chairs add a dose of drama.
Twin Lucille floor lamps by Oly bring an additional measure of symmetry to the open and airy living room. The lively Christopher Farr drapery fabric inspired the bold green wall color.