Blue is the only color which maintains its own character in all its tones.
Raoul Dufy
A Blue Living Room Can Be Many Things
Blue is an incredibly popular color. Looking at it promotes the best of feelings, as it reminds us of the sky, and the sea, it’s relaxing. It’s also highly reminiscent of royalty and power.
Did You Know Blue Is Recommended for Hospital Walls to Promote Healing?
This revered color promotes relaxation, wellness and, you heard it right, healing. It’s popularly recommended for hospitals and even schools to promote positive feelings and good attitude in students.
Let’s see the effects different shades of blue can have on the living room – the part of the home where we spend the majority of our free time.
Pastel Blue for a Sweet, Cottagecore Effect
This inherently gentle shade makes for a homey, warm living space. It’s perfect for cozy tea parties with your dearest people.
Paired with plenty of white, some soft patterns, and wooden streaks, this blue can turn any living room into a safe space.
Mix-&-Match Bold Colors for a Youthful Living Room
This cerulean blue adds an electric and youthful vibe to the living room. Paired with the equally as strong shade of yellow, it makes for a space that promotes creativity and high energy.
The decision to bring these hues into your living room is a bold one, and if you make it, you can say these colors also reflect your personality.
Hot & Cold
Matching the blue with the warm palette, especially the reds, makes for an incredible contrast that’s sure to make your living room unforgettable to anyone who sees it.
What’s the Deal With Royalty and the Color Blue?
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This hue, literally named royal blue, brings a particularly regal charm to the living space. Paired with the right shapes and decoration, it can make a living look as if it belongs in a royal palace.
An interesting fact about this shade is that it was reserved for royalty in the distant past when people were limited to purely natural sources when coloring fabrics.
Blue was incredibly costly and difficult to produce, so it became a hallmark of high status.
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Appropriately, this hue works best with various shades of gold.
Navy Blue for Modern Edge
Navy blue brings a modern look to a living room, all the while adding the depth that some popularly modern hues are missing.
Paired with fun shapes and the color white, it’s sure to make the living room look fresh and stand out.
Dimmed Hues for a Clean Look
Grayish and denim blue hues combine modern with elegant and refreshing. If you’re after a clean, open, and fresh look for your living room, these are the hues for you.
They promote peace and relaxation, and can even give your home the beachy vibes if styled appropriately.
Blues and Greens for Emerald Opulence
Blue and Black Don’t Work? Or Do They?
Mix Your Blues
In theory, this is something that shouldn’t work, though as we can see in the living room above, it has the potential to be gorgeous.
Pair With Black & White
This combination of colors adds modernity and works great with the Art Deco interior style.
What Does a Blue Living Room Entail?
A blue living room can mean blue walls, blue furniture, a blue corner, or even dominant details in this color. It may as well mean blue everything like in the picture below.
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A Singular Blue Streak
One way to introduce blue into your living room – especially if you aren’t open to fully committing to the color theme – is to bring in a striking, blue detail.
Blue Seating
Do blue walls seem a bit much to you? Keep the walls traditionally grayish or white, but do bring in a blue seating set.
Treat Yourself With a Blue Reading Nook
No color is probably as appropriate for a reading nook as blue. It’s the color of serenity, wisdom and spirituality.
It adds an additional air of relaxation and coziness to a bookish corner of a living room.
Blue Accent Fabrics
Blue will stand out no matter the role you give in in your living space. Whether it’s a single armchair, a curtain, or a set of throw pillows, it’s sure to dominate the room.
Paint the Walls Blue
The simplest and the quickest way to achieve a blue living room is to transform your walls.
Much like in the picture below, you may keep your decor and furniture in traditional hues, and living room walls will still add enough blue color to make up for everything.
Blue Fireplace
The fireplace is that detail that elevates the home to another level of elegance. If you put the extra effort to match its color to the rest of your living room space, it’s sure to turn heads.
In Conclusion
The blue living room is certainly a choice – an expensive and daring one.
However, if you commit to styling it well, you have a chance to create a unique living space for yourself, with all the positive effects of this universally beloved color.