Hair Salon Interior — Forest-Green Accent

A two-tone scheme with one confident accent, which is what this salon suite uses — a forest-green accent wall against warm tan walls with black baseboards. Salons need the space to photograph well, since clients and stylists both post the results, and a single saturated wall gives every photo a backdrop without making the whole room dark to work in.

Yes, and in a salon it is a practical choice as much as a design one. Black baseboards against warm tan walls sharpen the room, and they hide the scuffing that baseboards take from chairs, carts and feet far better than white. They need a hard enamel rather than wall paint to survive the cleaning.

Not if the wall colors carry warmth. Gray plank flooring is cool, so pairing it with warm tan walls and a deep forest-green accent, as here, balances the room rather than letting it go cold and flat. Black stations and baseboards then tie the cool floor and the warm walls together, which is why the two-tone scheme reads as deliberate.