Blue bedroom: choice of shades, combinations, finishes, furniture and lighting.

Features of blue in the interior

Blue, which is trendy this season, is truly loved by many designers around the world. What are its distinctive features?

• The range of shades is very wide: from cold aquamarine to warm lavender. Everyone can find the right one for themselves.
• Universal blue will suit any room: the main thing is to balance it correctly with other colors.
• Light blue does not tire, gives a feeling of infinity of space, calms and pacifies. Deep blue adds mystery, enigma and coziness to the interior.
• From the point of view of Feng Shui, the color of water and sky represents purity, stability and tranquility.

Shades of blue

Shades of blue have a wide palette, which means that the interior can be either dark, which will give the atmosphere respectability and mystery, or light – airy and refreshing.

The photo shows a rich dark blue interior in the Art Deco style with pearl and gold accents.

Festive cornflower blue with a slight shade of purple is perfect for a child’s room – for both a boy and a girl. In addition, bright blue goes well with natural motifs: house plants and wooden furniture. Creative people will appreciate a bedroom in a warm blue range. If the room is equipped with a workspace, the atmosphere will revive your thinking and fill you with energy, and at night with the lights off it will set you up for sleep.

The photo shows a nursery with a cornflower blue wall that sets the mood for the entire room.

Turquoise will refresh the bedroom, and delicate aquamarine will fill the room with light and coolness.

Color combinations

Blue, in harmony with various shades, gives effects that are amazing in their diversity. Combining it with white, it is easy to achieve airiness and spaciousness in the environment. The blue-gray combination, on the contrary, muffles the light, sets a more serious mood. A bedroom with brown decor makes a strict and solid impression.

The photo shows a blue and white interior, the airiness of which is maintained by mirrors along the perimeter of the wall.

Combining blue shades with gold, it is easy to get a magnificent bedroom with an exquisite and rich interior. A beige or cream room with sky-blue trim will create a calm, sophisticated atmosphere, while contrasting yellow and blue, on the contrary, will give you a boost of energy.

The photo shows a bedroom in aquamarine shades, which harmonize perfectly with golden elements.

One of the most win-win combinations is the blue and light blue palette. Similar shades complement each other well and do not cause dissonance.

The photo shows a blue accent wall, which is successfully set off by darker accessories: curtains, pillows, a bedspread and a chest.

Finishing options

The standard option for using blue in the interior is wall decoration. This color makes spacious rooms cozier. A dark accent wall adds depth to a small bedroom, expanding or narrowing the room – it all depends on the area of application. Wallpaper, paint, decorative plaster or wood panels are used for decoration.

The photo shows a bedroom with an accent wall in lavender color.

Blue on the floor and ceiling is guaranteed to make the room bright and original. It can unite the walls and ceiling or shade the top of the bedroom. A room of irregular shape, painted only partially, looks especially impressive: for example, an attic with a sloping roof.

The photo shows a cornflower-blue ceiling with wooden slats that repeats the wall at the head of the bed.

As for the floor, the most popular covering for a colored bedroom is dark wooden laminate or parquet, which gives the atmosphere solidity and respectability. Blue floors are less common, as they look quite eccentric. Carpet is usually used to create them.

Selection of furniture and textiles

In modern interiors, the arrangement of white furniture on a blue background remains advantageous, which not only looks stylish, but also lightens the atmosphere. A bedroom with a brown set creates the effect of a cozy and lived-in room. Often these three shades are successfully combined in a marine style.

An excellent solution would be to use blue furniture on an identical background: a cabinet painted the same color as the walls creates an interesting effect, as if dissolving into the environment. The opposite result is achieved with contrasting furniture: for example, a red and blue combination of an armchair or decor against a cornflower-blue wall.

The photo shows a spacious bedroom in a marine style with blue and transparent furniture.

The purpose of textiles in a blue bedroom is to dilute the base and give the interior coziness and texture. A good solution would be to decorate the windows with tulle, light curtains or blinds. If blue is an accent color in the bedroom, pillows and curtains of the same color will be just right here. Geometric patterned bedspreads and colorful elements look great: yellow or orange sofa upholstery, dusty pink or silver pillows.

In the photo, the headboard of the bed matches the pillows and bedspread, and the blue carpet seems to reflect the ceiling of the same color.

Emerald, mustard or orange elements look great in combination with blue furnishings.

The photo shows a bright chest of drawers in sea green and a door painted in ultramarine.

Examples of lighting and decor

When choosing a shade of blue for the bedroom, it is worth considering that in natural light the room will look different than in artificial light. It is better to dilute cold tones with warm light by installing a chandelier or wall lamps with incandescent bulbs.

The photo shows a room in a classic style in blue tones, illuminated by a warm glow.

In a modern style, spotlights in a suspended ceiling will be appropriate, and in a pompous baroque style, crystal chandeliers and sconces with floor lamps. Dark rooms decorated with garlands or stylized as a starry sky look picturesque and romantic.

The photo shows an ornate lavender-toned Baroque bedroom.

Design ideas

Let’s consider a few more interesting solutions that can be implemented using azure shades.

The photo shows a teenager’s bedroom in a sea theme, where the walls are decorated with wide white and blue stripes.

To add expressiveness to the rest room, you can decorate the headboard with watercolor stains, a floral print, photo wallpaper or a fresco, and also paint only half the wall blue: the lower or upper one.

The photo shows an unusual room with artistic painting, the palette of which echoes the carpet on the floor.

Interior styles

An elegant neoclassical interior is a balance of expensive aesthetic accessories and textured finishes. The blue color in such a bedroom should not be intrusive: for this, wallpaper with patterns, colored textiles and furniture are used.

In a laconic Scandinavian interior, indigo color can most often be seen – and exclusively on the accent wall. It goes well with white furnishings and wooden elements.

Blue is not typical for the loft style, but the stunning combination of rich cornflower blue details and orange brick make the atmosphere of a rough industrial style bright and memorable.

The photo shows a neoclassical bedroom with sea-green wallpaper with a silver pattern.

A bedroom in a summer Mediterranean style is a combination of wood, all sorts of patterns and shades of the seascape. Walls finished with blue plaster become the basis for recreating a vacation mood.

A bedroom in a high-tech style is the complete opposite of the previous approach. High-tech devices, metal elements and glass help to support this trend, and the blue shade is achieved through the abundance of built-in lighting.

In the minimalist style, dark colors are rarely used, so a bedroom in muted blue tones looks unusual, but does not lose its laconicism. The palette here is monotonous, but this does not make the monochrome room less attractive.