When it comes to wall colours, we've always leaned towards white, so when we came across a home recently online via
Skona Hem, mostly all in blue, we had to look into the idea further. It's refreshing to see a living room in a colour one usually reserves more for a bedroom. There's something calming about the colour blue, which has actually been shown to lower our blood pressure and heart rate. The lighter blue colour seems cool and expansive.
(Above and two directly below) Home of Norwegian interior designer Karina Holmen who has painted her 1800s apartment in Oslo with muted saturated colors, mostly in various degrees of blue-gray.
Even the kitchen is a blue hue.
Afraid to paint the walls but still like the idea of a calming blue. Below, from
Elle Decor UK features a blue sofa and area rug which makes the room feel blue and moody also. Kristofer Johnsson for
Elle Decoration UK.
A few other blue room examples:
How about you? Would you paint your living room blue?
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