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Olive Colour
Greens Paint
Olive Colour is a grounded Little Greene green with a distinctly earthy note. It sits between olive and moss, giving a room depth without looking bright or glossy.
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About this colour
At #42431F, Olive Colour reads as a dark, muted green with brown undertones, so it feels warm rather than crisp. On a wall it absorbs a fair amount of light, which makes it look fuller and more restrained in smaller spaces. In a north-facing room it will appear deeper and more shadowed, with its brown-green character coming forward. In south-facing light it softens slightly and shows more of its olive warmth, especially beside natural oak, walnut, linen and darker painted woodwork. It works well where you want a colour that can sit behind patterned upholstery without competing with it.
How to use it
This shade suits studies, snug sitting rooms and dining rooms, especially on panelling or joinery where the colour can hold its depth. It pairs neatly with ochre, rust, cream and dark timber, and it gives a calm backdrop to printed curtains and tailored upholstery.
A deep olive green that feels settled and warm on the wall.
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Pairs well with
Olive Colour is a wall colour, so these are the cloths that sit against it: one of them on the curtains, the paint behind. Mixed across the houses we hold, which is the part a single supplier's book cannot do.
Crush Olive
Crush
Jeanneret Moss
Chandigarh Fabrics
Gavanti Granite
Gavanti
Malvern Evergreen
Plains & Semi Plains
Lyrical Forest/Black Earth
Colour 2 Fabrics
Ocala Stripe Grass/Chalk
Indoor Outdoor Weaves II
Bird Wooded Dell
Emery Walker`s House Wallpaper Collection
Sherwood Hunter
Dunbar FR Recycled With EcoPerform+
Honey Bee Velvet Fabric Black & Pale Gold on Olive
Honey Bee
Napoleon Bee Velvet Fabric Black & Pale Gold on Olive
Napoleon Bee
Zig Zag Navy Emerald
Cotton Prints Collection
Steyning 02
South Downs Collection
Other olive fabrics
Across the houses we hold. See all 1,903.
15 Willow
Ballantrae
Portland Stone - Dark
Neutrals
Tracery II
Neutrals
Normandy Grey
Neutrals
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Marigold Velvet Sage
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Willow Woven Sage
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Marigold Velvet Jute
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Lodden Embroidery Sage
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Wmafricvelvetwa
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Marigold Velvet Ochre
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African Marigold Walnut
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