Blue bedroom: how fresh the air is

Blue Dream

Blue is the color of coolness, purity and freshness. These associations make it the favorite color of those designers who prefer to create light and very bright interiors in a modern European style. However, blue has other advantages: it calms and pacifies, relaxes and charges with optimism. These qualities have allowed blue shades to take a leading place in the palette of popular tones for the bedroom.

Is a blue bedroom simple and naive? It also happens. However, much depends on how exactly this color is used and what color partners it interacts with. Let's talk about using blue in the bedroom and successful color combinations.

Benefits of blue color for the bedroom

Blue includes many shades that are close to both blue and green. This is a heavenly color, and turquoise, and light blue, and aquamarine, and azure, etc.

The blue bedroom is relaxing, promotes relaxation and quick falling asleep;

Since blue surfaces visually move away from us, a bedroom with blue walls seems more spacious than it actually is;

The blue bedroom looks filled with clean air, so it is easy to breathe in it - this advantage should be taken advantage of when creating a bedroom for a person with respiratory diseases;

Blue is considered the color of fidelity: according to psychologists, you want to return to blue interiors. There is an opinion that the color blue in a couple’s bedroom is a “vaccination” against adultery and even divorce.

Blue is an alternative to pink for a girl's room. Light blue shades are no less delicate and light, while they, unlike pink tones, never irritate and do not create the effect popularly called “pluck your eyes out.”

High-tech or Provence - deciding on the interior style

Blue color is universal. It can be applied to almost any style. Having chosen the main color of the bedroom and selected additional ones, you should decide on the design style. Each of them has its own design laws.

To decorate a laconic bedroom, give preference to minimalism or Scandinavian style. There are no unnecessary details here, only the necessary minimum and light accents.

Decorative elements of strict geometric lines are inherent in minimalism

Like minimalism, Scandinavian style is characterized by a minimum of furniture.

Blue and blue - color accents in a white bedroom

Lovers of marine painting and everything related to water will prefer the marine style. A stretch glossy ceiling gives the room additional volume and enhances the depth of shades.

Sea, waves, clouds - a piece of paradise in the bedroom

High-tech is characterized by a cold and technologically advanced interior . Blue is the perfect color for it.

Cool blue color of the walls with interesting lighting on the floor and walls

If you are a fan of luxurious and elegant design, give preference to the art deco style.

Various textures and prints of blue shades in a sophisticated bedroom

This style is distinguished by sophistication and elegance, palace luxury.

Provence is a rustic style of home decoration. It is characterized by delicate, pastel colors and floral prints. A bedroom in Provence style is a design option for romantic natures and young girls.

Blue and lavender colors are often used as additional accents

Eclecticism involves mixing a wide variety of styles and trends. Furniture from different eras and styles is united by a common color scheme.

Using different shades of blue in the bedroom

Eco-style allows you to feel like a part of nature. Sky blue is a great color for this.

Blue color combined with mustard in eco-style

Thanks to the combination with delicate mustard color, blue looks warm and airy.

Possible disadvantages of a blue bedroom:

A large amount of blue color makes the bedroom cold and not cozy enough. The room may resemble the Snow Queen's chambers;

The blue color used to decorate large surfaces simplifies the room. With blue walls it is difficult for him to look impressively impressive. Therefore, if you want the interior to look expensive and luxurious, the amount of blue color needs to be reduced.

The main advantages and disadvantages of blue in the sleeping area

A bedroom or children's room is often decorated in light, pastel colors, and therefore blue and its varieties are often used in the design of these rooms. Despite the popularity of pastel colors, light blue has advantages and disadvantages.

A bedroom in blue tones will be airy, light, conducive to relaxation, calm and inexhaustible optimism.

Advantages.

Visually expands the space, suitable for small bedrooms.
Creates a feeling of lightness and freshness.
Suitable for children.
Pairs well with other colors and shades.
Used in many interior styles.

It will be easy to breathe in, it will look very spacious and will be able to envelop you with its tenderness.

Among the disadvantages is impracticality, especially for a schoolchildren's child. Classic blue is a cool color that may not be suitable for a particular room.

What to combine with blue color in the bedroom? "Monochrome" and "neutrality"

White and blue bedroom. The most popular solution. It's win-win and easy to implement. However, it is worth keeping in mind that a white and blue interior always turns out to be cold in winter. Often it looks “lifeless”. But there are also advantages: a white and blue bedroom is always perceived as fresh and clean, as if it had just been wet cleaned.

If you are worried about the coldness of the bedroom, at least partially replace the white color with cream, especially for large surfaces.

Beige and blue bedroom. The combination of blue with beige, as well as with shades close to it (cream, flesh) does not create the feeling of coldness and emasculation that occurs in a white and blue interior. A beige-blue bedroom turns out to be warmer and more comfortable. However, blue, adjacent to beige, loses part of its radiance - the same one that is most revealed in combination with white.

The decision, of course, needs to be made by the owners themselves. If coldness scares you, choose a beige and blue palette. If the bedroom windows face the sunny side and the room is almost always warm and even stuffy, you should turn to blue and white colors.

Gray-blue bedroom. Gray and blue are combined not in a pair, but in a trio: the third partner can be white or a very light gray-beige. Gray and silver furniture looks harmonious against the background of pale blue walls, and the gray walls are perfectly set off by blue curtains.

A cool pale blue shade should be combined with gray - it can also be called “icy”. These are related tones that do not complement each other, but seem to flow from one another. The interior turns out elegantly restrained and strict.

Gray and blue can be diluted with blue - the mood of the room will not change, but the interior will become a little brighter and more elegant.

Monochrome bedroom. A monochrome interior is one in which only close and similar tones are used. When creating a monochrome bedroom with a blue dominant, the palette also includes gray, lavender, pearl, periwinkle, lilac, light blue and other cool shades of blue, gray, and purple.

Brown and blue bedroom. The combination of brown and blue was fashionable in the 80s. This is probably why, willy-nilly, you begin to catch retro motifs in brown-blue interiors.

If you want to create an elegant bedroom with a vintage feel, consider a combination of blue and brown.

This is a natural combination of the colors of sky and earth or sea and shore. A brown and blue bedroom creates a feeling of peace and stability.

A brown-blue bedroom will calm you down, cool you down and set you up for sleep. However, you need to keep in mind that the room will turn out cold and perhaps a little gloomy. For people prone to melancholy and depression, this color scheme is not suitable. But if this particular tandem has sunk into your soul, actively dilute it with warm beige - and the room will become “warmer” and “comfortable.”

Features of the blue interior

Among the advantages of this design, the following important patterns can be identified:

The ability to positively influence the human psyche through relaxation, positive attitude and harmony;
Visual expansion of space, giving it “airiness” and lightness;
The ability to combine varieties of blue with many tones and in different design styles;
It seems to a person that the air has become cleaner and it is easier for him to breathe;
It can be used not only for an adult bedroom, but also for a children's room (color versatility).

One of the main disadvantages of the interior of a blue bedroom is that in excess quantities blue colors can give excessive “coldness”, excessive relaxation and apathy.

Therefore, it is often chosen for small spaces with access to the sunny side.

Combination of blue with bright colors

It is better to introduce bright shades into a blue bedroom only in the form of accents: bedspreads, pillows, curtains, lamps, rugs, etc. Using a large amount of rich color in harmony with blue can make the bedroom too colorful and “noisy”.

Blue and yellow in the bedroom. On the color wheel, these colors are on either side of green. They get along well with each other - both in the company of green and without it. Blue is the color of the sky, and yellow is the color of the sun. Together they create a picture of a sunny sky, reminiscent of summer and giving a good mood.

Unlike bright orange, yellow does not irritate and does not provoke excessive cheerfulness. It just sets the mood.

The combination of yellow and blue in the bedroom is an excellent choice for melancholics and lazy people. The room will charge them with energy and a cheerful mood.

The yellow-blue bedroom turns out to be cheerful and a little frivolous. If you want your bedroom to be worthy of such epithets as "luxurious", "delightful" and "elegant" - choose a different color scheme. The combination of yellow and blue is suitable for those who want the bedroom to be “playful”, “sunny”, “positive”.

A third color can be introduced into a yellow-blue bedroom - green, which is the result of mixing them. Sun, sky and plants - nature itself blesses this color scheme.

Green and blue in the bedroom. These are adjacent colors on the color wheel. Designers call this color combination an “analogous color plan.” As a rule, it is harmonious, but a third color is needed - it must be a neutral diluent (white, beige) or a neighbor of green or blue.

They often take a yellow tint adjacent to green to accompany them. Blue, yellow and green are a nice summer combination.

Also, blue and green can be combined through neutral white or sand shades. This is another summer palette reminiscent of exotic beaches.

Orange and blue in the bedroom. These are complementary colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel. It is generally accepted that complementary colors go together perfectly. However, blue and orange make a very bright, catchy, energetic pair, which is not very suitable for a room such as a bedroom. After all, the bedroom should soothe and soothe. Orange and blue, on the contrary, will cause a surge of strength and invigorate. Therefore, there should be a minimum of orange.

If the owners easily fall asleep, but have great difficulty getting up in the morning, this combination can help them readjust. You just need to increase the amount of orange just a little.

Pink and blue in the bedroom. This combination is usually used only when creating girls' and women's bedrooms. This scheme seems somewhat naive and perhaps too bright for a bedroom. But it has its own charm. Bedrooms in blue and pink acquire retro style features.

Blue girl room

Choosing a bedroom design concept

When starting to design a bedroom, you need to decide what you want it to look like and how it will fit with the rest of the rooms in the house. Will it be a room only for sleep and relaxation, or will it be for reading books, meditation, playing sports, watching movies. Depending on this, consider the necessary furniture: a chest of drawers, a dressing table, a shelving unit, a closet, a bookshelf or a home theater.

A gentle combination of white and blue is conducive to relaxation

Choose a design option: will it be a bedroom reminiscent of the sea coast, an alpine lawn or mountains. Maybe it will be a delicate floral design or a strict and laconic bedroom with a geometric pattern - it all depends on your imagination.

Laconic design of a modern bedroom

It is important to take into account both the age and preferences of the future owner of the bedroom. For a man, you should choose more saturated shades of blue: gray-blue, dark blue, blue. Combine them with brown, green, and black. Preference should be given to carpet or geometric patterns, stripes.

Bedroom for a man with a combination of black and blue

For a woman or girl, you should choose a combination of sky blue with pastel colors. Floral motifs, polka dots, and stripes would be good. Use yellow, coral and pink as accent colors.

Floral patterns and polka dots are often used in girl's bedroom decor.

For a married couple, a calm combination of blue and brown colors is suitable. You should not choose brown as your main color - in large quantities it can cause depression.

What color of furniture should I choose if the walls are blue?

Furniture made of wood or wood-like gray and chocolate colors, as well as silver, mirror and glass, are most suitable for blue walls. Beige or cream furniture will look good.

But black furniture can make a blue bedroom too gloomy. Furniture in the color of reddish, reddish and grayish wood looks rough and often unnecessary and inappropriate against a blue background.

Briefly about the main thing

The blue color is great for bedroom design in any modern style, for example, minimalism, hi-tech, Scandinavia, modern, art deco, etc., and is also good for Provence, classic and neoclassical.
It is recommended to combine blue shades with other colors: white, beige, brown, gray, green, pink, gold and silver tones.
For furnishing a blue bedroom, furniture in white, beige, brown and blue is best suited. Shades of the listed colors will also look good, for example, furniture in ivory, milky, turquoise, chocolate tones.
Wall decoration with a gradient effect will look very interesting and unusual in a blue bedroom.
You should take into account which side of the world the bedroom windows face, because... blue is a cold shade and is undesirable for northern rooms.

Blue color in the bedroom: decor ideas

Blue color is traditionally used to create marine-style interiors . The sea bedroom is serene, like the sea after a storm. A great theme for a room where you want to fall asleep and wake up.

To introduce features of a marine theme, you can combine blue with white, aquamarine, and sand. Blue and white stripes will help express the concept better. Just add a few marine-themed accessories and decor items and you can feel the sea breeze.

Another theme for a blue bedroom is winter . By combining blue with white and silver-gray, we will already create a winter atmosphere in the room, even without adding themed decor. But if the decor also matches, the room will sparkle in a new way and acquire a zest. The wall can be decorated with a winter landscape in a frame, the bed with pillows with embroidered snowflakes, the bedside stool with a fur cape. To make your winter bedroom cozier, hang an electric garland. If your soul feels cold, turn off the lights, turn on the garland and light the candles - your soul will become as warm and comfortable as during the Christmas and New Year holidays.

The main combinations used

Designers know that many shades of heaven go well with most of the color palette options: classic white or gray, softening beige, sand, green accessories, harmonious brown, etc.

It is not recommended to use dark blue itself in large quantities, which enhances the feeling of excessive coolness, and duets with bright pink or red colors.

A few more photos of bedrooms in blue:

Decor and textiles

A gray bedroom will turn out faded if you don’t liven up the color with nuances. Small accents add completeness to the design. Lamps, pillows, blankets, paintings, photo frames can be in bright colors, but must fit into the chosen shade and mood.

Fashionable accents:

Silver, metallic decor.
Gold plated elements.
Mirror surfaces.
Patterns – strict geometry or baroque.

Lush, intricately sewn curtains have gone out of fashion. It is better to choose curtains as simple as possible: sliding, roller, blinds.

Bedspreads, pillows and covers are selected according to the same principle as furniture. This is either a different color, or a tone darker or lighter than the walls. Textiles play an important role in the bedroom, so its purchase should be considered at the design stage.

You can leave “for dessert” the purchase of paintings, photo frames, lamps, furniture decorations, figurines, and candlesticks.

Lighting is an important element of any modern interior. It is necessary to decide: the nature of the light, direction, shade, shape and color of the lamps.

For inspiration, you can explore the 2022 collections from Denmark from Madam Stolz or House Doctor - the magic of anthracite or neutral grays, elegantly complemented by white vases or shades that evoke piano keys.

The charm of ancient Toile de Jouy motifs

There is one interesting, but rare direction in Provence design, which is based on the use of Toile de Jouy textiles. The blue and white palette of the fabric completely changes the idea of the Provençal style: yes, it can be like that!

To be fair, it must be said that this recognizable pattern also exists in red and white, but this is a completely different mood, and a topic for another conversation.

Charming “toile de Jouy” textiles for the bedroom

A monochrome jacquard pattern with a distinctive blue-gray hue on a creamy background, derived from vintage textiles, is now used in wallpaper and small accessories such as lampshades. Sentimental rural landscapes and pastoral scenes form the basis of Toile de Jouy's plots. Sometimes songbirds intertwine with them. Don’t be surprised by scenes with fish and Chinese houses near a pond - the origins of Toile de Jouy must be sought in Chinese painting.

How the design of a Provencal bedroom in blue tones is formed

The decision to use Provencal jacquard in the interior of the room subordinates all other design elements. We suggest several win-win solutions:

The pattern itself is present in textiles or wallpaper, but can also be repeated in furniture upholstery, curtains, and small decor.
The most effective design of the walls is to outline the panels with moldings and fill the central part of the walls with pale blue Toile de Jouy wallpaper.
If the bed is covered with a jacquard bedspread, then the fabric is used somewhere else, for example, in the upholstery of a chair.
White and blue furniture in such a bedroom will be very useful.
For everyone: in a blue and white Provence bedroom you can install a four-poster bed.

Blue and white bedroom in Provence style

Kitchen-living room

The rich and deep blue color in this modern interior is the accent color, and light gray, along with white and beige, have become the background shades. I am sure that many will appreciate this dignified interior!

It should be noted that this classic interior only benefited from the use of a delicate pearl-gray tone of the walls - in a white version this design would have looked much simpler.

Modern interiors are distinguished by conciseness and simplicity of shapes and lines. That is why deep colors and textures of materials play a special role in them. And in general, a well-chosen color scheme can change and elevate any design!

This light gray-blue interior of the kitchen-living room is clearly divided into zones

By the way, in such small combined rooms it is good to make the kitchen in light colors - this way it looks lighter and does not attract undue attention to itself

Golden decorative elements always look very advantageous in classic interiors. We offer an interesting mix: modern laconic forms, but in a classic gold design.

There shouldn’t be too many bright accent items, especially if we’re talking about modern interiors. One chair and a couple of pillows may be enough.