Tuesday shall hereon be referred to as colour combination day, Hurray! Each week we'll look at a different colour combination, colour theory (sometimes backing up why the combination works) and different approaches to painting your walls or furniture:
This weeks colour combination as you may have guessed I have a soft spot for: Grey and Blue
There's just something calming and beautiful about the combination. Also in the UK in particular it's considered an unusual mix in terms of decorating. This weeks focus is more on decorating than on furniture but I think an electric blue piece could really pop out from some really nice charcoal or silver walls.
Just check below to see how beautiful the results can be:
I just love the way the graphic electric blue artwork pops, and makes a huge statement without being particularly big! When going for this look remember to limit your palette, Grey, Blue, black and silvery white, or even pure white. This will stop the pallet being muddied and looking misguided.
This room uses grey/charcoal furniture and focuses on using blue as the backdrop for the beautiful pieces of furniture. Once again though you can see the use of the limited pallet, Blues, Greys, Blacks and Whites or creams.
Once again we see the limited palette above, notice the use of different blues in each room but they always go nicely with the grey. My suggestion would be the darker one of the colours are the lighter the other colour should be, i.e. here we have a navy blue so this is then paired with a silvery grey. Although in my opinion, electric blue works with charcoal as well as silver, this is due to electric blue being a vibrant middle ground colour.
Below we have an example that in my opinion does not work as well as the others, can you guess why?
Yep, muddied Palette, whilst yellow and blue are complimentary on the colour wheel for this look to work you need to keep the palette as simple as humanly possible. Here the yellow and inconsistent wood tones remove the impact of the blue against the grey.
Quick Note on Colour Theory for Blue and Grey
The simple truth is that whilst blue appears on the colour wheel, grey is considered to be in the centre, meaning that most colours if paired with grey alone should look good. This is due to grey being a faded version of black which lets face it goes with anything!
However the way we perceive colour means that brighter colours will usually look 10x better than a darker colour.
This is always dependant on shade and percentage of that colour in the room
This weeks colour combination as you may have guessed I have a soft spot for: Grey and Blue
There's just something calming and beautiful about the combination. Also in the UK in particular it's considered an unusual mix in terms of decorating. This weeks focus is more on decorating than on furniture but I think an electric blue piece could really pop out from some really nice charcoal or silver walls.
Just check below to see how beautiful the results can be:
I just love the way the graphic electric blue artwork pops, and makes a huge statement without being particularly big! When going for this look remember to limit your palette, Grey, Blue, black and silvery white, or even pure white. This will stop the pallet being muddied and looking misguided.
This room uses grey/charcoal furniture and focuses on using blue as the backdrop for the beautiful pieces of furniture. Once again though you can see the use of the limited pallet, Blues, Greys, Blacks and Whites or creams.
Once again we see the limited palette above, notice the use of different blues in each room but they always go nicely with the grey. My suggestion would be the darker one of the colours are the lighter the other colour should be, i.e. here we have a navy blue so this is then paired with a silvery grey. Although in my opinion, electric blue works with charcoal as well as silver, this is due to electric blue being a vibrant middle ground colour.Below we have an example that in my opinion does not work as well as the others, can you guess why?
Yep, muddied Palette, whilst yellow and blue are complimentary on the colour wheel for this look to work you need to keep the palette as simple as humanly possible. Here the yellow and inconsistent wood tones remove the impact of the blue against the grey.
Quick Note on Colour Theory for Blue and Grey
The simple truth is that whilst blue appears on the colour wheel, grey is considered to be in the centre, meaning that most colours if paired with grey alone should look good. This is due to grey being a faded version of black which lets face it goes with anything!
However the way we perceive colour means that brighter colours will usually look 10x better than a darker colour.
This is always dependant on shade and percentage of that colour in the room
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