Ελληνικά
Decorating with Blue
Guide for Choosing the Right Colors
1/4 Using Blue Color on Walls
2/4 Using Blue Color on Furniture
3/4 Using Blue Accessories
4/4 Using Blue Color in Professional Spaces
Blue is the color of trust and peace. It can suggest loyalty and integrity as well as conservatism and frigidity.
In color psychology, blue seeks peace and tranquility above everything else, promoting both physical and mental relaxation.
It reduces stress, it slows the metabolism.
We certainly feel a sense of calm if we lie on our backs and look into a bright blue sky.
People who choose blue as their favorite color are often patient, persevering, conscientious, sensitive and self-controlled.
In Interior decoration we use the color blue to create a sense of calmness, relaxation and order.
1. Blue Color on Walls
The paler the blue the more freedom we feel.
Of course you can also use wall coverings to add blue color on your walls.
In Feng shui, color blue belongs to the Water feng shui element.
This color is excellent for use in the feng shui bagua areas of East (Health & Family) and Southeast (Wealth & Abundance) of your home or office,
as Water energy nourishes the Wood element of these two feng shui areas.
2. Blue Color on Furniture
You can also bring the needed blue color in your space with furniture.
From gentle aqua blue to the blue-green of the ocean to the deep indigo blue, blue furniture will bring to your space the healing of the clear sky and the refreshing waters.
3. Blue Color Accessories
Except furnishing or on walls you can bring blue color with accessories, fabrics, china, lighting, blue sepia photos in frames, or a mirror (also water energy) in a blue frame.
These here are some of the best blue combination palettes:
4. Using Blue in Professional Spaces
Blue is the most universally favored color of all and therefore the safest to use.
It relates to trust, honesty and dependability, therefore helping to build customer loyalty.
Ideal for conference rooms, meeting rooms and offices.
Blue indicates confidence, reliability and responsibility.
It relates to one-to-one communication rather than mass communication.
It inspires wisdom and higher ideals but is also conservative and predictable.
Ideal for lawyer offices.
Physiologically, blue is calming, reducing tension and fear.
It slows the pulse rate and reduces appetite.
Being a cool color it creates a sensation of space.
This makes it an ideal color for aircraft interiors for example.
Blue adds strength and unity, and is therapeutic to the mind and body.
It brings harmony to the spoken word. Ideal for spaces like gyms, spa and medical care.
Blue works well for the corporate world and is often used for more conservative types of businesses such as accountants, insurance companies,
banks and other financial companies where trust and reliability are important.
Younger people see blue in general as a color relating to maturity and the adult market, unless it is a bright electric blue of course.
Too much blue can encourage boredom, manipulation or a rigid outlook.
