We spend a lot of time in the living room every day. The whole family gathers here and meets with friends. Therefore, the guest room should be cozy and very comfortable. To create a calm, relaxing atmosphere in the room, it is recommended to use shades of blue. Psychologists have come to the conclusion that this color has a beneficial effect on the human psyche, calms and helps to distract from bad thoughts. After a hard day at work, it is ideal to spend time in the interior in cornflower blue tones.
Blue ceiling in the living room
Blue sofa in the interior
Blue living room in eco style
Blue textiles in the living room
Room in blue tones
To make the main room comfortable to be in, its design needs to be thought through to the smallest detail. There should be blue color in the living room interior, but in moderation. If the finishing materials, furniture and accessories are only in heavenly shades, then the room will turn out boring.
A room in blue tones is an ideal place for rest and relaxation
Blue living room in colonial style
Blue living room is bright
Blue photo wallpaper in the living room
Therefore, to make the guest room design beautiful, you need to find the perfect combination of blue with one or more colors. The choice of color palette depends on the interior style, area and location of the room. For large spaces, deep blue or calm green colors are suitable. But there should not be too many of these shades, otherwise the room will turn out gloomy.
For small rooms, you should choose a combination of soft turquoise with another light color. This combination will make the room visually larger and fill it with air. There should be one thing in the room that is heavenly in color: either furniture, or textiles and accessories, or finishing materials.
Blue living room with pattern
Blue living room in Mediterranean style
Blue furniture and decorative pillows in the living room interior
Blue living room with flowers in Provence style
Designers and psychologists about the features of blue living rooms
From the point of view of experts, the interior of a living room in blue colors is always filled with tranquility. Everything in it seems pristinely clean, and the atmosphere is full of serenity. This is explained by the special naturalness of the color, associated with the sky, air, clear water and eyes. In general, this spectrum evokes only positive emotions and creates a positive mood, and blue brings with it the listed qualities to any room, and not just to the living room. This is the answer to the secret why psychologists advise that one of the rooms of the house be decorated in a blue palette.
blue living room design
Trendy shade in the interior of the 2020-19 season
This season, both on the catwalk and in interior design, the color of the summer sky predominates. The most fashionable shades are sky blue and misty. These two colors are suitable for creating classic, rustic and Mediterranean interiors.
Another trend this season is bluish with a metallic sheen. It will go well with gray, white, black. These colors can be used to decorate Scandinavian and English interiors, and they are also suitable for rooms in loft and modern styles. The beautiful azure color never goes out of style. In modern projects it is combined with pink, yellow or lilac.
Blue corner sofa in a bright living room
Blue living room with stucco
Blue living room in eco style
Blue living room with paintings on the wall
Blue furniture in the living room
Blue living room in a marine style
New gray wallpaper designs
The year two thousand and twenty-one pleased lovers of gray colors with wallpapers made with motifs of flowers and plants, figures and animation.
There will be enough natural color in the room if you take advantage of interesting proposals from designers regarding the design of the space with fragments from an exotic jungle or, conversely, a dear birch grove.
A riot of colors on takeoff. The interior becomes exclusive when fragments of bright colors, made with iridescence, are intricately intersected against a gray background. It feels like they were simply spilled accidentally, with chaotic harmony.
The image of any ornament on gray wallpaper also remained popular this year, only very updated with new compositional solutions.
Gray wallpaper imitating knitting makes up a unique pattern combination. This is especially typical for the Scandinavian style.
- Fabric images of all kinds and shades, skillfully decorated with characteristic features, were not left out.
- In these cases, the sophistication of the decor of textile wallpaper in a gray palette of shades is simply amazing.
- In addition, they are additionally valued for their qualities that allow you to create a cozy environment, drowning out unnecessary noise effects, and retaining heat.
Neoclassical motifs, executed on a noble gray background, are perfect in cases where you want to realize your dream. The selection of textured finishes, perfectly combined with noble gilding and plant fragments makes the room aristocratic.
We select harmonious color combinations
The palette of shades of blue is rich and interesting, but it does not go well with all colors. A living room in blue tones will turn out stylish if you use one of the following colors to decorate it:
- grey;
- white;
- beige;
- yellow;
- pink;
- red;
- blue;
- orange;
- black.
In the design of any room, this color can be combined with yellow, red, brown, and blue. Find your ideal combination, and then the living room will turn out cozy.
There are many room design options. Cornflower blue can become the background color of the walls and ceiling. Or the background may be one of the named colors, and accessories, textiles, and some pieces of furniture will be in blue tones.
Blue living room in an apartment
Blue textiles in the living room
Blue furniture in the living room
Combination with gray
To create cool, calm rooms, you can combine bluish and gray shades. In a room in gray-blue tones there is a feeling of freshness and coolness. This color scheme can be chosen for rooms facing the sunny side.
A living room in gray-blue tones should have large windows that are not covered with thick curtains. If little light enters the room or the windows are blocked by trees, such a living room will turn out to be too gloomy. The walls can be painted in a calm turquoise, and furniture and textiles can be chosen in gray-blue tones.
Gray-blue combinations in the living room interior
Living room in blue tones
Blue sofa in the living room
Blue living room in the attic
White and blue room
A living room in white and blue tones has long become a classic. Such projects are chosen for spacious rooms in large Baroque houses. White carved furniture and a leather sofa will look beautiful against the background of walls of a calm bluish color.
For the window, you can choose curtains made of flowing blue silk. Such a room must have a cabinet with a glass door and a crystal chandelier.
Blue living room in country style
Blue living room in a studio apartment
White and blue living room interior
Using beige in the interior
A living room in beige and blue tones is a classic and popular combination of two colors. The walls and floor can be beige, and the ceiling can be bluish - this will create more space in the room. This living room will be decorated with blue upholstered furniture and a wardrobe with brown fronts made of light wood. The combination of this color and beige can be used to decorate a small guest room in a city apartment.
Blue living room interior
Blue rustic living room
Blue upholstery in the living room
In yellow and blue colors
For those who miss the sea and sun, you can use yellow and azure blue to decorate your living room. This combination is more suitable for the kitchen, but if you want bright colors in the design of the guest room, do not deny yourself.
Lovers of the sea, sun and summer should decorate their living room in yellow and turquoise. This interior will be warm even in winter.
Blue, yellow and white colors in the living room
Blue living room with yellow accents
Warm yellow and cold azure combine perfectly and will complement each other. To decorate the walls, you can use companion wallpaper in yellow and turquoise tones and select furniture and textiles to match them.
Pink and azure - a bold decision
These colors are most often used to decorate children's rooms, but the living room can also be decorated in this way. You can combine wallpaper of two colors and choose furniture in neutral white or beige.
You can also choose a pale bluish tint for decorating the walls, and choose the same calm color for the furniture. The living room, decorated in pastel colors, will be comfortable. To make the interior more interesting, you can glue photo wallpaper with a large flower to one of the walls.
How to combine red with blue
Red and turquoise are an unexpected and very interesting combination for a guest room. A rich scarlet color would be ideal for a calm blue with a gray tint.
A living room in red and blue tones will look stylish and unusual. But many people think this option is too bold.
Decide on a bold renovation in this room: make a checkerboard red-blue floor, you can choose a blue color for painting the walls. If the living room is connected to a balcony, then you can make a bar counter from the window sill and place high red chairs on it. Other small objects in such a room should also be scarlet.
Ideas for a black and blue room
A modern interior in black and azure colors will look elegant. If the room is spacious, you can make turquoise walls and suspended ceilings, choose designer black furniture.
To prevent the room from being dark, you can decorate it with accessories made of steel or silver.
Blue wardrobe in the living room
Blue living room in French style
Blue in interior design
The bright blue color of the living room can be complemented with a calm blue. This popular combination is used to create marine-style interiors.
Blue wallpaper in the living room interior will be an excellent base color. You can put light brown laminate on the floor and put up a wooden wall from Ikea. The interior decoration will be a large sofa and thick blue cotton curtains. Photo frames, flower pots, vases, figurines - everything should be in blue colors.
Blue living room in the house
Blue living room plain
Dark blue living room
Blue walls in the living room
Orange and turquoise: a riot of colors
To create a bright room that will not soothe, but invigorate and energize, you can combine orange with turquoise. The background in such a room will be sky or azure, and with the help of orange you just need to place accents.
In such a room, orange can be one wall, several pieces of furniture, a carpet, flower pots - and no more. It is better to abandon the idea of painting all four walls orange in the guest room. Loft lovers can make a brick wall with a fireplace. A blue sofa and blue wooden furniture will look beautiful in such an interior.
Blue living room with orange accents
Evening living room lighting
The interior of a blue living room in the evening requires special lighting
. Since blue itself is the direct personification of cold, you should not enhance this effect with the same lifeless glow of night lamps. Lighting in combination with main lighting lamps will help not to disturb and sufficiently illuminate the color beauty of the room. The latter can be ensured by a powerful ceiling chandelier with lamps emitting warm spectrum light.
There are no special frills for spot illumination. It can be standardly built into the ceiling along the perimeter of the walls. In this case, the lamps will illuminate background surfaces well. Instead of halogens, you can use blue LED strips and blocks.
crystal chandelier with candlesticks in a living room decorated in blue
Choosing a room style
Blue color is quite universal. It can be used to decorate residential premises in any direction. Blue color is ideal for interiors in the style of:
- classic;
- Provence;
- neoclassical;
- country;
- shabby chic;
- Mediterranean;
- Scandinavian;
- English;
- modern;
- Chinoiserie.
The main thing is to combine it correctly with other shades and not make a mistake with the choice of finishing materials, furniture and small details.
Blue painted walls in the living room
Turquoise living room
Blue living room in ethnic style
Blue living room in minimalist style
Classic interior
For a room in a classic style, wallpaper with a vertical pattern or floral print is suitable, and you can also paint the walls in a bluish color. Dark laminate will go well with them. Furniture for such an interior should be made of solid wood.
Blue accents in the living room interior
Blue ceiling in the living room in a classic style
In a classic room, blue-blue textiles will look good: curtains, high-pile carpet, pillows on the sofa. The room will be decorated with floor lamps and sconces with lampshades of a pleasant blue color - there should be several light sources.
Provence is always in fashion
Turquoise is one of the main colors of this style. It goes well with olive, lilac, pink, yellow. For such a room, artificially aged blue wooden furniture and matching cornflower blue cotton curtains would be suitable.
Such a space should have a lot of azure-colored ceramics and textiles. Pillows can be decorated with embroidery and lace.
Blue living room in Provence style
Country style room
A lot of natural wood is used to decorate a rustic guest room. Furniture, ceiling beams, flooring - everything is made of solid wood. In such a “natural” interior there must be azure, blue and green colors.
A bright blue rug with a geometric pattern will look good against a dark wooden floor. You can choose ceramic products to match it.
Shabby chic: room decoration ideas
This style and Provence are similar in many ways. For a room in the shabby chic style, finishing materials and accessories in pastel shades are recommended: delicate pink, cornflower blue, purple, olive.
For such a room, blue curtains with a large rose pattern are suitable. A turquoise, artificially aged wardrobe, cornflower blue curtains and carpet will look beautiful. Pink color predominates in these interiors, and turquoise is just a beautiful addition.
Mediterranean style
To decorate such interiors you need to use a bright blue-blue palette. There should be a lot of turquoise, azure, and rich blue.
Ash white or cream paint is suitable for walls. You can put a white laminate on the floor; checkerboard tiles in blue tones will look beautiful. This style is characterized by the use of a large amount of ceramics and natural textiles.
Scandinavian style room
The interior of a Scandinavian living room should have a lot of blue, blue and white colors. But the use of bright colors is also encouraged: red, yellow, green.
White wooden furniture will look beautiful against a blue wall. But you can choose light finishing materials, and make the furniture and accessories bright.
Real England
A lot of natural wood is used in such interiors. Some people find them gloomy and boring. But even in a classic English interior you can add bright colors. If at least one wall is covered with wallpaper in a small blue checkered pattern, and a dark blue carpet is placed on the floor, the living room will be transformed. You can complement the interior with pillows in pillowcases of the same color.
Blue living room in English style
Modern room
When decorating such a room, you need to use natural materials and choose a calm color scheme. Shades of blue would be appropriate here.
For a living room in Art Nouveau style, blue-blue curtains, floor tiles, and upholstered furniture are suitable. You can decorate it with blue and white wall plates and porcelain figurines.
Blue ceiling in the living room
Blue living room with partition
Beige and blue living room
Creating a chinoiserie style
This living room is created in the spirit of Medieval China. Therefore, its walls should be decorated with blue wallpaper with red or pink flowers. Surfaces should be draped with natural silk with the same pattern.
Vases and dragons made of jade and turquoise would fit perfectly here. Against the background of brown furniture, such little things look especially impressive.
Rich blue walls in the living room
Living room-library with blue coloring
For book lovers who have living rooms with enough space to triple not only book storage systems, but also cozy reading corners, we present several interesting design projects. For example, storage systems built into the space around the window, a comfortable seat with a soft backing and bookshelves became the highlight of the interior of the original living room. And not the least role in the popularity of such furniture ensembles is played by the dark blue color of the structure, which is continued in the decoration of the walls of the room. In contrast with the brick-red poufs and the window seat, the blue color looks even deeper and more luxurious.
Another similar interior is the living room-library, which, among other things, also serves as a dining room. The blue-gray color of wall decoration and book storage systems looks calmer and not flashy. Against such a background, both wall decor and book spines look expressive and bright.
The dark blue color of the bookshelves, which adds nobility to the living room-library, turns into brighter colors of upholstered furniture and its accessories. Despite the abundance of bright books and decorative elements, the living room looks restrained and elegant, all thanks to the special color scheme for decoration and furniture.
In a classic living room with a “non-classical” dark blue background, this color becomes an accent color. Against the background of such a deep shade, the snow-white stucco molding that decorates the ceiling cornices and decorates the fireplace looks great. And the most beautiful armchairs in the Baroque style look very expressive, thanks to the dark blue frame of the book storage systems.
Furniture and textiles for the guest room
Depending on the chosen style, different furniture and textiles can be selected for the blue living room. Upholstered furniture upholstered in silk or velvet and decorated with prints is suitable for classic interiors. A simple soft sofa and wooden furniture coated with matte paint fit perfectly into a loft or Scandinavian interior.
The choice of textiles in blue and turquoise tones is huge. In stores you can find pillows, towels, table runners, bedspreads, and all kinds of curtains. And don’t forget about the carpet – it will make the room even cozier.
Green-blue wall in the interior
Blue accents in the living room
Light blue living room
Blue doors in the living room
