Methodology: All colors are from Valspar, a major paint manufacturer whose products are found at Lowe’s Home Improvement. Field color–the largest expanse of color–is always the first one listed. If the house looks identical in every picture, except for colors, it is. This is intentional. The reason: so that you can scroll down the screen and easily contrast colors without extraneous features influencing you. Colors: This exterior paint scheme is light and cheerful, mostly due to the Irish Paddock field color and the high contrast of the Du Jour trim.

Irish PaddockDu JourPale Pastures

The controlling idea is to keep all four colors relatively within the same range, for a pleasant symphony of hues that evoke a mountain cabin or hostel. Colors: If the idea of painting your house green makes you nervous, this is a safe way to go about it.

Slate GreenSag HarborLunar GlowGold Coin (door)

Colors: Use yellows sparingly.  It doesn’t take much yellow to make a statement.

Dark Green 5Dark Green 4 (trim)Apple 3Olive Grove

Colors:

Fiddlehead FernBetsy’s Linen (trim)Mild EvergreenAmbrosia Mist

Colors:

Pine GreenSweet SlumberBelle Grove SorbetSpearmint Haze

Colors: This is a very blue-green, still in the Dark Forest Green family, though. What makes this paint scheme so unusual is the addition of the trim colors that have a pinkish tinge.

Capital GreenPolished IvoryGreen WaterOatlands Upholstery Red (door)

Now, onto the lightest grouping of green house paint color ideas. This one is Lime Sherbet. With white trim, this green would be fairly shocking, even hard to stomach. But with a trim in the same general color grouping, you can make this work. Colors:

Lime SherbetLa Fonda Grassy Knoll (trim)Prairie WillowSea Cover

Will you ever get tired of this color? Perhaps. But you’ll have fun with it before you change it out. Colors:

Green GalaItalian Ice (trim)Delicate Frost (at base of pillars)

Colors: If green can ever be called happy, this is the happiest form of this favorite color. Field and trim colors both radiate, combining to form a house that you’ll be happy to come back to every night.

Backstroke.Paradise Green (trim)Morning Zen (base of pillars)