When You Love Decorating With Blue (Paint Colors & Classic Inspo)

Wouldn’t it be incredible to make your whole house feel as fresh as these blue hydrangeas? If blue’s your favorite color, you’ll discover delight in a gallery of inspiration for Decorating With Blue. There are indeed endless ways to use indigo, periwinkle, duck egg, navy, denim, and teal for traditional, European-inspired, and transitional rooms. (And if you’ve forgotten what best friends blue and white are…ooh la la!). Blue is tranquil, ethereal, natural, fresh, and classic whether it sets the tone in a romantic bedroom or a classic library. Let’s peek at lovely examples of blue paint colors, wallpaper, and accessories.

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Decorating With Blue (Paint Colors & Classic Inspo)

Whether you love blue in your garden, on the walls, covering your bed, or in accents on the table, it’s a beautiful hue to adorn our homes! Just look at the serene mood in this amazing laundry room:

So good! And can you imagine committing to a favorite shade of it for a luxurious custom closet?

Decorating With Blue Boldly

I doubt it’s a coincidence we see blue used so boldly in luxurious, high end projects.

They often require a professional interior designer at the helm (holding the hands of reluctant homeowners) with the confidence and keen eye to properly get blue just right.

In the kitchen above, the cabinets are a rich moody dark navy-black. Railings can look like deep blue in certain light and soft black in a different lighting situation.

Most homeowners cannot imagine repainting their kitchen cabinets and want to get the color right the first time around.

Choosing colors demands guts!

Subtle Ways With Soft Blue

Blue can be subtle whether it’s used on major design elements in a space…

or as an accent outside of the home…

and inside:

Blue Accents Work in a Variety of Design Styles

While tone on tone is an effective color story strategy to evoke calm, layering blue in all white schemes creates interest and can lighten the mood.

Above: a blue ottoman seems utterly more practical for tired feet than pristine white.

The French country kitchen with blue and white porcelain accents and traditional style below was designed by Tina of The Enchanted Home. Blue porcelain accents play a starring role and are sold in her shop if you love the look.

Whether you lean toward Coastal Grandmother, Grandmillenial, traditional, coastal, classic, or preppy style, you likely gravitate toward blue and white porcelain as well.

Chinoiserie, ginger jars, tulipieres, and china with beautiful blue and white patterns look right at home and beautiful when grouped together in a kitchen (above).

or a living room as above.

Blue paint is also a smart way to experiment…but which blue? Help is here.

Blue Paint Color Ideas

A beautiful blue painted built-in can play a starring role when it pops against a crisp, clean white. But which blue paint? And with which white paint?

Lisa Furey painted shiplap, ceilings, walls, and trim with BM White OC-151 in the entry of this lovely coastal home above. The built-in (so helpful when an entry has no designated closet storage) is painted this beautiful blue paint color:

The deep blue also shows up on a door and is echoed in a stair runner:

Even when you have decided to paint a space white (see THIS) or blue, it can be unnerving to find the precisely correct shade. It is helpful to view photos online first, gather a handful of colors to sample, and then thoughtfully consider the options before choosing the perfect white.

When Your Preference is for Light Blue

Farrow & Ball Light Blue played a major role in this showhouse kitchen in Atlanta:

Oh my heavens, this sophisticated timelessly tranquil bedroom with soft blue and white design by Tristan Harstan!

Resources from this bedroom? BENCH: Bungalow Classic, upholstered in Cowtan & Tout. ANTIQUE LINEN PRESS: A. Tyner Antiques. BLUE GRASSCLOTH, IRON BED WITH CANOPY & COMMODE, PORCELAIN LAMPS, BED & DRAPERY FABRIC, DEGOURNAY PANELS: Ainsworth-Noah. OUSHAK RUG: Kevian Woven Arts. ACCESSORIES: Parc Monceau.

I still daydream about this room years after its unveiling in Atlanta! 

The designer noted the blues and neutrals in this romantic space recall “the tones of rain clouds, water, stone.”

Traditional Style & Blue

Notice the haint blue ceiling of this beautiful blue bedroom’s sitting room! Ready to discover more haint blue possibilities? SEE THIS!

Easiest way to see if a color is right? Order samples to be delivered to your door with Samplize (a peel and stick sheet of “paint” to stick on your wall and easily move around to other walls!).

Admiration for traditional style, luxurious textiles, and Swedish and French furniture is apparent throughout this gorgeous project.

Isn’t it interesting that when we hear “earth tones” or colors from nature, most of us immediately think of warmer golds and browns rather than cool blue?

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Blue Wallpaper & Tile Inspiration

Wallpapered bathrooms appear to be having a moment as more homeowners look for mood lifting moments.

What a classic pattern, and isn’t it incredible with gold toned fixtures?

While classic white subway tile works for the walls of just about every bath, refreshing blue makes a cheerful statement that still feels neutral.

While the floor tiles are patterned, they feel so timeless. For a painterly, bold, and blue wallpaper that could work beyond the bath, take a peek at this Rebecca Atwood wallpapered space, also designed by Smith:

Not Ready to Cover Walls or Floors With Blue?

Not sure about living with bold blue patterns on the wall? You can always start with a smaller fabric/art piece from an artist/designer you admire. For example, a custom pillow with Rebecca Atwood fabric.

A few favorite classic blue and white wallpaper patterns are RIGHT HERE.

Isn’t it surprising how striking wall coverings can be combined with standard fixtures?

While it is more common to see blue as an accent with white, blue can certainly play the starring role:

This is still my favorite cement tile, and designers love it for backsplashes, three season rooms, and more:

Does this color combination play a starring role in your own home?

Peace to you right where you are.

-michele

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