10 Green Fireplace Ideas to Elevate Your Living Room Style

A fireplace already provides a focal point for any living room, and with green added in, your fireplace feature can become absolutely unforgettable. Green just has this amazing power to bring life, a warm atmosphere, and a natural, outdoorsy feel into your home. And the great thing is, you don’t need to paint your whole room green for it to work.

A high-gloss emerald tiling surrounding your fireplace, a living wall lush with foliage directly behind it, or even just a few vines gently crawling around your opening can instantly transform the whole vibe.
These green fireplace ideas each have their own look to them, so you can choose exactly what fits your desired aesthetic.

Some will feel luxurious and ornate, while others are a tad more earthy and simple, and other ideas will give your home an air of playfulness. Whether paired with a wood that adds richness or a stone for that natural, rough texture, or a bright tile for more of a statement, greens can work their magic beautifully. So if your fireplace has been looking a little…meh recently, these inspiration pictures are a must for making it the show-stopper when anyone walks in.

Emerald Luxe: Glossy Green Tile Fireplace Living Room

A statement fireplace with an emerald green, high-gloss tiled surround is for the homeowner looking to make a visual impact. Rich, emerald-green glazed tile shimmers around your traditional fireplace. Because the tile itself offers such an opalescent sheen that catches both sunlight and lamplight, minimal added ornamentation is necessary. While sunlight emphasises a varied palette of green tones depending on the time of day, evening lamplight will give this fireplace feature a more dramatic depth.

Don’t make your supporting décor work too hard-a creamy, cozy sofa, warm wooden coffee table, and a neutral rug give your tile enough room to breathe visually and make its impressive statement from afar. Add a few polished brass accoutrements, like your lampshade or coffee table hardware, and you’ll highlight a rich, almost opulent pairing when combined with green.

Although most of us like our color schemes to be extremely precise, sometimes slight discrepancies add personality. A few tasteful books stacked here and there and one of your ceramic vessels alongside a comfortable throw blanket will add character and make this formal, yet inviting design feel lived-in.

Consider a high-gloss, emerald-green tiled fireplace with an inviting feel but not for the extreme minimalism that’s currently on-trend-for the homeowner of both design types looking for the best of both worlds and who loves their living room for evening cuddles around the fire.

Living Wall Glow: Botanical Green Fireplace Feature

Add a cozy, outdoor-chic vibe to your living room with a living wall fireplace feature. Combine nature’s greenery with the architectural appeal of your home’s fireplace by adding a living wall in its background or surrounding it carefully with assorted pots that form an enticing, abundant border.

Don’t be afraid of using too many plants-a variety in textures and leaf types from draping ivies to bold green fronds can create organic harmony. This combination looks great in rooms that have plenty of windows and sunlight, of course, but with clever selection and possibly low-light plants, most any of us could achieve this relaxing garden corner.

Use simple, muted tones and textures for the materials around your fireplace-your wall, mantel, and surrounds can take on classic black or stone elements for a calming backdrop for your ever-growing plant feature. Consider bringing your garden indoors even more by creating one or a collection of small, verdant features without commitment-like using faux greenery to drape around, placing plants upon your mantel, or using small potted varieties to create a layered effect.

Wood and neutral fabrics lend themselves beautifully to complement and connect with the abundance of green, lending a calm and easy elegance to the entire arrangement of nature indoors; and no one will begrudge a fireplace that instantly looks more inviting.

Botanical Mural Magic: Hand-Painted Green Fireplace Wall

If nature calling in terms of greenery feels a bit much for your style, you might be able to bring that organic flow into your living space using botanically-themed artwork; especially when there’s one of those classic mantelpieces just begging for your artistic touches to really embrace its architecture.

Consider a large botanically-inspired hand-painted mural behind your fireplace with soft leaves, vines, and muted florals – whether it’s an energetic depiction like a large forest or a more subdued, artistic look with single delicate branches in varying shades of green. You will bring life and whimsy to your space, without doing any painting directly onto the brick itself.

Wallpaper is an obvious substitute here with the enormous range of botanicals available but painting on the wall itself gives your art an undeniably one-of-a-kind, handcrafted appeal and feels more integrated as opposed to pasted on your wall.

Keep furniture minimal; the simple lines of neutral seating can make your mural that much more impactful, and repeating one or two colourways in your decorative accent pieces to pick out colors from your painting could easily blend the design seamlessly around the space.

Climbing Greenery Frame: Ivy-Wrapped Fireplace Opening

For a bit more an unfussy, old-school feel that isn’t necessarily vintage, vines can be your best friend.
Bring just a few real-life creeping vines to frame an opening to your fireplace and this gives it a softly organic look. In the event your own climate just isn’t right for real, creeping vines, quality faux stems and trailing plants can do the same job perfectly fine.

Combine these plants with simple-dressed fabrics for the rest of the room-such as comfortable linen drapes and seating, wood tones that will warm the fireplace’s brick-or-stone features, and a fluffy rug-and this fireplace room looks inviting from dawn all the way through dark with charming shadows cast over the leaves from side table lamps each night.

Ivy fireplace decor comes to life, the house feels like a country home from centuries past, and it is surprisingly comfortable and welcoming.

 

Emerald Craftsman: Glazed Green Tile Fireplace with Bookshelves

A warm-up by an emerald green tiled fireplace is guaranteed when paired with an equally timeless design – the cozy fireplace/bookshelf combination. In a Craftsman style design, green tiles offer unique colors, like subtle shifts and tone variation, within each glaze, and give your fireplace an authentic appearance that perfectly complements the craftsmanship of your built-in bookshelves.

Don’t be afraid to decorate by filling those bookshelves-objects can complement these shelves perfectly, such as ceramics or photo albums of friends and family, that tell a story as they nestle between books that you love.

Warm, richly toned wood like walnut or oak is an excellent complement to the varied color profile of the green glazed tiles; and a couple of sofas, armchairs, or reading chairs to sink into in a comfy cream fabric pair beautifully with green tile’s deep tones.

A bold area rug is what really ties it all together; bring an emerald design along for that uniform green look, or opt for something warmer in contrast or in earthy tones that bring out the organic appeal. Make sure it’s a room everyone wants to sit and share, perhaps during a family movie or some casual book chatting at night

Mustard Glow: Golden Glazed Tile Fireplace Reading Room

Even if you adore green’s natural appeal as much as any nature-lover, it doesn’t have to dominate every inch of your fireplace design. If you crave a cozy home that can also inspire conversation, combining a gorgeous green tiled fireplace with mustard yellow accoutrements will bring plenty of life.

Since this design prioritizes cozy comfort over minimalist austerity, consider an armchair or small ottoman upholstered in a stunning mustard tone, and scatter more mustard through cushions, lampshades, or a unique piece of framed art hanging on the wall over the fireplace.

Neutral wall colors and warmly toned natural woods can prevent the color combination from feeling overwhelming; and a good reading lamp near the fireplace and plenty of your favorite books on hand add to the overall welcoming atmosphere; all these designs just show that green’s natural warmth can transform-or be softened with, in this case-a room.

Cobalt Charm: Blue Glazed Tile Craftsman Fireplace

Just slightly of the green color, but it still adds perfectly to the multicolored fireplace feel in your house. Cobalt blue glazed tile can be the center of attention in a craftsman fireplace. The deep blue appears to be assertive, but not so much, as the glossy finishing touch keeps it dynamic.
With the tile it would match a warm wooden display of bookshelves, and be perfectly framed with the warm natural hue of wood.

Let light colors like cream sofas and a neutral colored rug surround the fireplace, it will add a relaxing element to your room. Light elements of green throughout the room by adding a framed piece of art work, few small planters and cushions on your sofa would unite the room and pull focus to the fireplace with green throughout your room.

Try not to crowd the fireplace with so many colors, otherwise all you see will be the fireplace. Use display shelves where they exist, creating a relaxed layered presentation for the room by stacking books, some ceramics, baskets and a few framed photographs, to establish an inviting feel in your home.

Terracotta Warmth: Earthy Tile Fireplace with Built-ins

Warm terracotta colored tiles in the fireplace with display shelves on either side, the naturally beautiful combination of terracotta colored tile and greenery, will bring a certain earthy feel to your home. For a home that is nature, and warm all over, surround the fireplace with terracotta tiles to introduce natural color, while accentuating green shades in greenery, artwork, a set of books and colored cabinetry with display boxes. This is an ideal combination for any home that already has wood furniture and that favors earthy tones, since green compliments the earth’s colors so perfectly.

 

Slate Blue Elegance: Muted Tile Fireplace Bookwall

For rooms who may lack natural light, or those that seem cold, this fireplace design brings warmth, and character. The subtle touch of life is perfect for rooms who desire to believe in. When brightness feels too bold, turn to the calmness of navy, or slate blue with bookshelves, this design makes your fireplace a sophisticated, yet approachable fixture in the room without being overbearing. If you do not love really vibrant colors, use muted blue colored tile, and place around the fireplace, and surround the entire feature with bookshelves.

Try display shelves adjacent to the fireplace so you can pile books there with pottery, pottery, baskets, and special mementos added to the collection. Light color furniture like an oatmeal colored sofa would provide balance to stronger colors, while a textured rug under the sofa would soften all angles within the area to achieve a more cozy feel. Weave elements of nature into your design by utilizing lampshades and baskets made of natural fibers.

 

Turquoise Dream: Bright Glazed Tile Fireplace Focal Point

 

What a great way to bring refinement and interest into your living room. Pair with other naturally subtle colors like warm greys, cream, light brown colors, walnut, and natural linen tones to lighten and refine the room while warming it. Arrange books on shelves with a few unique decorative accents, leaving some space for an effortless but charming flow.

Place the sofa across from the fireplace where its cozy appearance draws everyone to the warm glow of a fire, the entire wall comes alive with the visual interest between a book collection, a sofa, and a fireplace.

The glowing sconces beside or near the fireplace create a cozy ambiance, by emitting warm lights that beautifully illuminate the cobalt blue tile.

This living room features a fireplace which feels seamlessly incorporated with its surroundings as part of a functional book wall. Color and texture: vibrant turquoise colored glazed tile making the fireplace a striking statement in the room; perfect to adding a bit of pop to a plain room by using an out of the ordinary tile which makes the fireplace the focal point in your room.

Give Your Fireplace a Fresh New Look

You can make the fireplace the most standout focal point in the room by using any amount of green you like, if not completely. The variety of options to update your room make it easier than ever to make this the design that suits you. There is variety in everything from color, texture to modern and classic options too.

Making a decision on which one you like the best depends entirely on you! If you use the color green as a theme, or any color the like, remember that the color should never really be overbearing to be enjoyed. The fireplace design that speaks to you can be your guide as you choose your favorite textures and colors and transform it into a captivating highlight for your entire room.