A rich, earthy green

Olive is a very earthy green originally used in panelled rooms. It’s best suited to darker spaces, where the richness of this colour really comes into its own. For this reason, it looks most at home when paired with a traditional neutral such as Off-White or Old White.


As featured in a new edit of colours exclusively curated by Liberty. Discover richly pigmented Farrow & Ball colours and Liberty Interiors Fabrics in timeless combinations of colour and print, including:


Olive & Poppy Meadowfield, Pewter Blue



All Liberty Interiors Fabrics from our edit, including Poppy Meadowfield, Pewter Blue, can be purchased directly from Liberty. All Farrow & Ball Curated by Liberty paint colours are part of our Archive collection, which may be made to order. Therefore these products, including our limited-edition sample pots, are non-returnable.


Recommended Primer & Undercoat: Dark Tones


Complementary white: Lime White

Rated 4 out of 5 by from Great earthy green to use on window trim American colorist Ellen Kennon recommends using green somewhere in every room as a natural grounding color. She especially advocates using an earthy green as window woodwork trim because it brings the outdoors right into your indoor rooms, whereas white window trim colors tend to create more separation between the outdoors and the indoors. For that reason I chose F&B's Olive as my window trim for my campervan to bring the colors of nature inside. It's a lovely rich yellow-green that also coordinates with my duvet cover. I must say it did not cover as well as some other F&B colors I have sampled, taking more coats to adequately cover.
Date published: 2021-11-29
Rated 5 out of 5 by from An warm elegant green We put this on the walls of our large south west facing kitchen. The decorator likes this paint as he says it has good coverage and quality. This is now the third room he has painted for us using F&B paint. It is so restful a colour and not as 'in your face' as the computer generated colour looks. A colour card is much truer. Like other F&B paints the depth of colour changes with the changing light of the day and artificial light at night. From pale green in bright sunlight to a deep warm green and I am so glad I finally found the colour that brings the kitchen together.
Date published: 2013-11-20
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