Green over Grey

We are a leading North American design firm with our head office situated in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and a branch in Toronto, Ontario. We undertake work in Montreal, Quebec, Calgary, Alberta as well as across Canada and the United States. Our focus is on the creation of spectacular and eye-catching green walls either inside or out. Vancouver is surrounded by the ocean, mountains and forests. You don’t have to go far to discover natural green walls growing on cliffs next to the sea, near waterfalls or on old-growth rainforest trees. This amazing region has inspired us to bring nature into the cities. When deciding on a name there were certain things that we hoped people would envision when they heard it. We wanted to portray the ideas of nature and city. When one walks around urban centers today, although there may be parks and tree lined streets, there are many buildings that are simply concrete structures which lack colour, diversity and pizzazz. If colours are used they are usually single-toned, boring and monotonous. Colours can be interpreted differently but we felt that the colour grey (or the color gray in American spelling) gives the feeling of cold and boring things, such as "a grey winter day". So for us grey represented dull and repetitive things. Green, on the other hand, gives the feeling of nature, fresh air, healthy living and things that are good for the earth. Green plants provide oxygen and filter the air we breathe as well as being nice to look at. In today’s modern society people like how plants look but many don’t want to have to look after them and end up getting plastic or silk plants. Although they may be nice to look at, they don’t serve the same function that living plants do. At Green over Grey™ we look after the plants and you reap the benefits! The word ‘over’ was chosen for a number of reasons. The first reason being that we personally choose health and beauty ‘over’ dull and monotonous. Second, we come and give your living or working space a green make-‘over’. And finally we are physically covering ‘over’ an unexciting wall.