Living room in blue tones: a combination of shades in the interior

Blue is an intermediate color between blue and white. This is a cold, calm, elegant color scheme that has more than a hundred different shades - from very light to very rich. The interior design of the living room in blue tones can be simple or luxurious, sparkle with precious stones or have a simple finish.

Psychological perception, color features

This color is associated with innocence and reverie, altruism and loyalty, spirituality and aristocracy. It has a calming, relaxing effect on a person, disposes to rest, slows quickened pulse, relieves excessive arousal after a hard day's work.
The interior blue color creates the impression of purity, coolness, freshness. Therefore, its bright shades are preferably used in spacious rooms, with large windows facing the south or southeast. In more narrow rooms, with small northern or north-western windows, blue is allowed, but only the brightest options in combination with various warm colors are acceptable.

     

Blue in the interior should not be in excess - then it can cause depression, depressive mood.

     

Blue and other colors - combinations

Light blue shades should be properly combined with all others. Often there are the following options:

  • gray-blue with dahlia;
  • turquoise with pale yellow;
  • dusty blue with red-brown;
  • azure with pearl;
  • bright blue with biscuit;
  • pale cornflower blue with purple;
  • bluish silver with bronze;
  • lilac blue with spring green;
  • ultramarine with pebble gray;
  • schmalt with milk white;
  • flower blue with chocolate;
  • heavenly with yellow-orange;
  • turmolin blue with saffron;
  • aquamarine with mulberry;
  • mint blue with honey;
  • pacific with amber;
  • dark blue with ocher;
  • denim with purple-black;
  • pastel-blue with snow-white;
  • indigo with sand;
  • bell-shaped with dawn-pink;
  • gray-blue with beige.


    

The interior should not be made of the same color - it looks boring, but you should not allow excessive multicolor. Ideal - one or two basic colors, plus one for small color accents.


    

Popular stylistic color directions

There are many design trends for the blue interior:

  • classic or neoclassic - natural materials (wood, natural stone, ceramics), symmetrical arrangement of furniture, contrasted with a blue background. In the neoclassical style is selected functional furniture, decorated "under the classics";
  • Loft - a spacious open-plan space, plastered or brick walls, furniture "antique". Blue color here will emphasize coldness, seeming uninhabitation of the room;
  • High-tech is an abundance of gray and bluish metal, glass surfaces, and it is emphasized modern furniture, which is most noticeable if the hall is combined with a kitchen. A huge TV in the middle of the wall will make the interior complete;
  • Japanese - modest and minimalistic. The decoration is the simplest, on the light blue floor there is a reed mat, as a decor we choose a tall narrow aquarium with strange fish, a decorative fountain, elegant floor vases;
  • Baroque - “rich” carved furniture, upholstered with expensive fabrics, luxurious and plentiful decor. Stained-glass windows in blue-blue shades, heavy curtains, numerous paintings in frames, candles in gilded candelabra or their imitation are welcomed;
  • sea ​​- everything that is in any way connected with the sea is acceptable here. Photowall-paper with the image of seascapes or the underwater world will suit; a sofa styled as a steamer, a papier-mâché sailboat on a shelf;
  • Provence - blue is combined mainly with white, pale yellow. The fireplace, curtains in a small flower, paintings or photographs depicting lavender fields, bouquets of cornflowers or bluebells will perfectly fit into the situation;
  • minimalism - suspended ceiling, painted walls are made of the same color, the floor is darker. A few pieces of furniture merge with or contrast with the walls;
  • Empire - all the walls of the pale blue color scheme, the floors and the doors are dark, the furniture is arranged mainly diagonally. The decor of the room is very luxurious, elegant, noble. On the ceiling and walls a lot of stucco with gold.


    

Surface decoration

How and what this room will be decorated depends on its area, destination. For the living room, which is combined with the kitchen space, a balcony, you will need to organize a competent zoning, including using color.


The ceiling is the lightest, preferably snow-white - so the room seems to be higher, and the floor is dark, so as to visually create a stable support for the legs, furniture. The walls are covered with blue wallpaper: vertical stripes are suitable as a picture - if you want to make the room taller or horizontal - to expand. Small floral ornament, intricate monograms, imitation of pebbles or bricks looks very good in this color. Decorative plaster on three walls and photo wallpaper - on one, especially if they are made under an individual order, will give the room a unique character.


    
The floor is covered with laminate, light boards, linoleum, including pale blue, painted with paint. Floor ceramic tiles with patterns are rarely used - it is too cold, even with a carpet. If it is decided to make a podium for space zoning, its color is made contrasting with the main floor covering.

    

Furnishings

With the help of comfortable furniture is organized a place to sleep or daytime rest, work, or your favorite hobby. Guest area settles on the couch, next to the table, usually - in front of the TV. If the room is combined with a loggia, warmed balcony, guests are accepted there. When the hall is combined with the kitchen, it is separated using a bar counter or a narrow rack.


When the walls are pale blue, the furniture is made brown, white, yellow and vice versa. But it is not recommended to perform the entire headset in light blue tones. It looks good huge sofa upholstered in bluish kozhzamom, the same chair, window drapes. The rest of the furniture is a wardrobe-wall, a dining table and a desk, chairs, is yellow-brown, of any wood color. Partially or fully glass furnishings will give the room airiness, which is most important in small rooms, shiny metal surfaces that reflect light well, will also come in handy.


    

Lighting

In addition to the central ceiling lamp, individual illumination is needed for each logical zone. The light in the area of ​​the "sofa" part of the room is made adjustable brightness, abundant lighting is required in the area of ​​the desktop.
The closer the room, the more it should be covered. When the light blue color in the room design is more than 50-70%, lamps with a warm luminous flux are used, otherwise we will allow cooler light.


    
If the ceiling has several tiers, the lights are placed on each of them or on one. The LED strip around the perimeter of the ceiling will visually make the room wider, higher, and placed along the baseboard will allow you not to stumble on corners when moving around the room at night.
The shape, design of the lamps is chosen for a certain interior style - a multi-track or completely flat chandelier on the ceiling, a carved floor lamp or a lamp on the rail, a sconce, stylized kerosene lamps or neat light boxes with a pattern imitating "windows in summer". When there is a mirror in the room, it is arranged so that the reflected light of the lamps does not blind the audience.

If there is a luxurious decor in the living room, each element is highlighted separately to draw attention to it.


    

Accessories, decor, textiles

Textile materials, interior draperies in pale blue tones are produced by any modern company, but under the blue walls, floor coverings are selected, carpets, curtains are of warm tones - golden, light yellow, chocolate, orange. Soft cushions contrast with blankets or are made only two or three tones darker, lighter. A carpet for the living room is preferably large enough - its edges should not reach the walls by about 10-20 cm. This will allow to combine furniture with it, but visually not reduce the space.


    
There is not much need for decor, with the exception of some expensive interiors, where not only several huge paintings, mirrors in luxurious carved patinated frames are present in the same room, but also abundant stucco molding, intricate shuttlecocks on each drapery, etc. nice to be, just a couple of photos on the mantelpiece, several diverse trinkets on the coffee table, one or two potted plants on the windowsill, a dry bouquet in a floor vase.


    

Conclusion

The light blue color scheme looks great with both "adjacent" colors and diametrically opposed. The real design of the modern hall in blue tones is soothing and refreshing. This color will perfectly decorate the living room of a city apartment, private house.

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