Blue color promotes relaxation and peace. This is a symbol of success, self-confidence, stability. Recently, blue has become the most fashionable trend in interior design.
Blue has many shades and can be either very light or very dark, almost black. Therefore, the living room in blue can look very different, depending on what tone is chosen for decoration.
The blue color is considered cold, it gives a feeling of coolness, and is more appropriate in the southern rooms than in those whose windows face north.
If, nevertheless, despite the “northern” location, you want to design a room in blue shades, add to them the colors of the warm part of the spectrum - pink, yellow, orange, red. A room in which there is too much bright light can be “cooled” by adding turquoise and blue to blue.
If dark shades are used in the living room in blue tones, they can make the room gloomy, so you should add white. The more diluted, whitened tones are used, the more tender the mood in the room will be.
Of crucial importance in an interior that uses blue is lighting. Usually one central lamp is not enough to evenly illuminate the entire room, which is why its corners can look gloomy.
Therefore, you should prefer perimeter lighting, built-in ceiling lights, or supplement the central lamp with wall sconces and corner floor lamps. In this case, the living room in blue will turn out to be light, and will give a positive mood.
Combinations
Blue goes well with many color shades. But this does not mean that this color can be mixed with anything.
For example, dark tones of any color are not suitable for complementing blue - the room will look uncomfortable, cause anxiety, a sense of anxiety. Remember also that the dark background visually reduces the size of objects observed on it, and “makes it heavier” visually.
Blue is best combined with the following colors:
- White. One of the most harmonious combinations. Especially often used in the style of minimalism, Mediterranean and marine styles. The living room in blue with the addition of white will look strictly and classically, and at the same time, you can relax in it.
- Beige. The combination of blue and beige is soft, cozy. Beige can be either very light, almost milky, or active, sand. This combination is appropriate in the marine style, in the classics and in various variations of the Mediterranean style.
Brown.
- The color of chocolate, coffee, cinnamon is perfectly combined with blue and blue shades. Living room in blue using brown tones in the furniture, in decorative leather elements looks very advantageous. Suitable for ethnic styles.
- Red. Blue with red is a bright, active combination. Red is best used only as an accent, and for balance you should add white.
- Green. Various shades of green in combination with blue tones allow you to create a classic and somewhere even conservative interior. It is always beautiful and elegant.
- Yellow. The living room in blue tones looks great in combination with yellow additions. The main thing is to keep the proportion, and not to "go too far" with yellow.
- Gray. The combination of blue and gray is classic, the modern interior, decorated in these colors, will look strictly and smartly.