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Colour guides · Kitchen · Green
Green has become the kitchen colour: it suits timber, brass, marble and white tiles, and it looks as good at breakfast as at dinner. The trick is choosing the right one — a green for cabinet fronts is not a green for walls.
Here are ten Mylands shades, from palest to deepest, each with the job it does best.
Updated September 2026 · by the Mylands France colour team
The short answer
On kitchen cabinets, mid and deep greens hold up best: Sorrel Green No.207, Brompton Road No.205 and Damp Leaf BH.14. On walls, stay with pale and grey-greens — Copper Green No.36, Glass BH.09, Myrtle Green No.168 — which keep the room bright.
At a glance
10 colours
The brightest
A barely-tinted water green, between mint and blue, drawn by Beata Heuman from the colour of glass. On kitchen walls it does what a white would — enlarge, lighten — while adding a freshness white lacks. It is especially handsome on a ceiling, where it lends a feeling of height.
Our tip — Walls and ceiling in Marble Matt Emulsion; with white or pale oak units it is all the colour the room needs.
The verdigris of copper roofs
Inspired by the patina on copper roofs, a pale green lifted with a touch of blue. It is the easiest wall green in the range: light enough for a kitchen short of daylight, coloured enough never to read as grey. Against a white marble worktop the effect is immediate.
Our tip — Superb across every wall of a kitchen, facing north or south: its hint of blue stays fresh without ever turning cold.
The almond green
A fresh green with yellow undertones, inherited from early nineteenth-century palettes. That warmth makes it very easy to live with: it warms a north-facing kitchen and brings blond timber to life. On cabinet fronts it gives a country kitchen without the cliché; on walls it plays off crackled white tiles.
Our tip — Cabinets in Multi-Surface Eggshell, walls in Cavendish Cream: a warm, gentle kitchen.
The first leaf
Jinny Blom drew it from the first hazel leaf of spring, backlit by the sun. A tender green, yellower than Copper Green, that works as an alternative to white for brightening dark corners — the far end of a kitchen, a larder, the inside of a dresser.
Our tip — Paint the inside of open shelving or a dresser in Sprig: white crockery has never looked better.
The classic grey-green
Reintroduced from the archive colour cards, Myrtle Green is a green tempered with grey, settled and calming. It is the green for kitchens that don't want to look 'painted green': on walls it behaves like a coloured neutral; on cabinets it ages with a soft patina brighter greens never acquire.
Our tip — Walls and cabinets in the same shade (colour drenching) with a timber worktop: the most enveloping kitchen on this list.
The cabinet green
A vibrant botanical green, made of bright yellow, umber and a touch of white — perennial grass, as Mylands puts it. It is our most asked-for cabinet green: deep enough to stand up to marble and brass, alive enough never to darken the room. With pale stone walls, it is the contemporary English kitchen.
Our tip — Cabinets in Multi-Surface Eggshell over our green primer & undercoat; walls in Limestone or Frieze.
The light forest green
Soft and enveloping like a misty garden on a summer morning, with a little blue that makes it more vibrant. Beata Heuman recommends it precisely for storage furniture, and a kitchen is the best case: on an island or a run of base units it makes a deep plinth beneath pale walls.
Our tip — Base units in Damp Leaf, wall units in Glass or Chalk: the kitchen stays light above and grounded below.
The deep green of London houses
First supplied to a house on Brompton Road, between Fulham and Chelsea, it is a deep green tempered with grey, with warm undertones. It has everything a kitchen-cabinet green needs: it turns neither blue in north light nor yellow under spotlights. On framed doors it makes a serious, serene kitchen.
Our tip — With brushed-brass handles and a white veined-marble worktop: the safest contrast on the list.
The modern turquoise green
From the FTT film-and-theatre palette, Deep Green is a luminous green with turquoise accents — brighter and more saturated than anything else on this list. It is not for the whole kitchen: it is a focal point. An island, a larder door, the splashback wall of a white kitchen — there, it does all the decorating.
Our tip — One element in Deep Green, everything else in Pure White: energy without fatigue.
The dark foliage green
Named after the Vauxhall pleasure gardens, a stone's throw from Mylands' original shop: a dark green carrying red and a drop of violet, which makes it warmer and more complex than Forest. It is the shade for evening kitchen-diners — under a lamp it turns almost to velvet. On cabinets it accepts every hardware, from brass to black.
Our tip — Colour-drench it in Multi-Surface Dead Matt, walls and cabinets alike, over a terracotta floor: the warmest kitchen there is.
Decide on the surface first. A green for cabinet fronts needs body: pale greens look washed out once surrounded by worktop, appliances and crockery. Keep Glass BH.09, Copper Green No.36 and Sprig JB.06 for walls and ceiling; give the cabinets to Sorrel Green No.207, Brompton Road No.205, Damp Leaf BH.14 or Pleasure Gardens Green No.214.
Then look at the light. A north-facing kitchen cools blue-leaning greens: prefer yellow-undertoned greens there — French Green No.187, Sorrel Green No.207 — or a stable grey-green such as Myrtle Green No.168. Facing south, anything goes; that is where Deep Green FTT-012 and Pleasure Gardens Green No.214 give their best. Our guide How light changes colour takes each orientation in turn.
Finally, choose the whites. A kitchen green is judged by what surrounds it. Stone whites — Limestone No.55, Frieze No.84 — soften deep greens; clean whites — Pure White No.1, Cotton Street No.3 — make them graphic; creams — Cavendish Cream No.120 — warm them. To go further, browse our kitchen ideas, our green schemes or all our green paints.
Colour chosen, the surface remains. These are the Mylands finishes we recommend, room by room.
Walls and ceiling
Matt, breathable and scrubbable: the reference wall finish, cooking steam included.
Every colour in Marble Matt Emulsion →
Kitchen cabinets
A discreet 15% sheen, moisture- and hand-resistant: the right compromise for cabinet fronts.
Every colour in Multi-Surface Eggshell →
Woodwork, doors and skirting
Mid-sheen and very hard-wearing: ideal on the doors and skirtings of a room that works hard.
Every colour in Multi-Surface Satin →
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