The Perfect Dark and Moody Green Paint Color

We like to play musical chairs with our upstairs bedrooms, especially the one in the front of the house. Sometimes it’s the guest room, sometimes it’s one of the boys’ room (if they’re not sharing a room), sometimes it’s the play room. However, this time, the room is officially once and for all a guest bedroom. There’s no changing it anymore, because we just gave it a full on makeover and we love the way it turned out!

The front bedroom has always been our favorite in the house. The size, the sloped ceilings, all that natural light first thing in the morning. Dreamy. We actually moved upstairs and made it our bedroom for the first year we had our kids so we could be closer to them. It’s just an all around great room, which is why we’ve been dying to give it a little makeover for a while now.

We knew we wanted a moody color in there to start with. We’re branching out this year and playing around with color (we’ve already painted two other rooms in our house!), specifically craftsman-inspired colors like rust, green, mustard yellow.

We settled on green for this room, and not just any green but a dark, moody green. So began the hunt for the perfect paint color. We knew we could go dark in here because of how much light it gets, so we weren’t worried about any color possibly being too dark. We were game for anything.

The winning paint color is Vintage Vogue by Benjamin Moore. It is a true moody green through and through. It never reads as black or navy or anything other than green, which I love.

The entire room feels so cozy now. We have lamps throughout to make sure whoever is staying in there has enough light, because it is much darker now. White reflects and bounces light around, while a deep, dark color does not, so at night time, it is extremely dark (which we both love).

We did this room in eggshell and it took about two coats since the walls were already white. We love how the creamy white trim pops against the green, and the dark brown blinds and wood furniture really fit in with the whole craftsman vibe we have going on in there.

Everything in the room is something we already had in our home. We didn’t purchase anything but the art on the bed wall. The rug has been in every single room in our house at one point, the bedside tables used to be in our living room, the antique dresser has also been in pretty much every room in our house, the bedside lamps used to be in our bedroom and then the living room, and PJ redid the lamp on the dresser a few years back (it used to be a dated thrift store lamp).

We love how the light shines through so brightly first thing in the morning. It feels like a very special room to be in at all hours of the day.

Don’t the stained doors look so good with the white trim and green walls? They stand out so much more than they did when the room was white. We love a white room, and we still have a lot of white walls in our house and always will, but we really want to lean into the colors of arts and crafts homes in our house, and this bedroom felt like the perfect opportunity to do that.