Specifics of finishing in blue color
The color blue symbolizes freedom and integrity. From a psychological point of view, it should be used by individuals engaged in heavy mental work. Blue shades help to concentrate, remove anxiety and unnecessary emotions, and extinguish unpleasant thoughts.
It is important to know that the abundance of dark blue colors can cause depression. The light blue color scheme, on the contrary, encourages communication and gives a positive attitude.
To prevent the room from looking gloomy, it is recommended to dilute the blue color with white. Designers advise choosing cool colors for rooms whose windows face south. To brighten an interior decorated in blue, use light-colored curtains.
Current color combinations
Heavenly shades have a positive effect on a person’s mental state. In addition, they make the interior light and airy, weightless and detached. Blue wallpaper is a harmonious background for original furniture and stylish decor. You can remove monochrome with the help of successful color combinations.
White is considered the best companion to blue. This combination is suitable for any room. This is an ideal option for small rooms, where it is possible to visually push back the boundaries of the internal space.
To create a cool interior, you should use a combination of blue and gray shades. To complement this design, decorators advise choosing a number of bright accents.
- The combination of sapphire and ruby wallpaper looks impressive, where blue is the base color and red is the accent color.
- The combination of blue and green evokes associations with nature and brings fresh notes to the atmosphere of any room. The tandem of a pastel blue tone and a shade of green apple looks most impressive.
- The coldness of the blue range can be removed by using yellow and orange colors. This combination creates a real summer clearing in the room, giving a lot of positive emotions.
Choosing wallpaper for a girl's nursery
When choosing wallpaper for a girl’s nursery, you need to choose a material that can inspire and surround its little (or not so little) owner with comfort. This means that preference should be given to a more delicate palette and be sure to take into account the age of the child.
After all, what would be relevant for a preschooler is inappropriate in the room of a 14-year-old teenager.
The most preferred colors for a girl's room would be:
- Peach is a cozy shade that becomes an ideal choice for rooms where there is not enough lighting;
- Pink is a very positive and harmonious color, filling the space with fabulousness and dreaminess;
- Yellow is an invigorating tone that promotes the development of mental abilities;
- Light green and calm green have a positive effect on vision and easily create a cozy atmosphere;
- Lilac is an excellent choice for romantic natures, promoting the development of their creative potential;
- Beige is a neutral shade that becomes an excellent background for accent decoration of one of the walls;
- Orange - its muted version is a good choice for sedentary girls, as it will recharge her with vigor.
Preschool girls will most likely like the idea of decorating a room using a fairy-tale or cartoon plot.
Compositions based on flowers can decorate a girl’s room at any age. At the same time, bright and large prints are usually used only as accents. Whereas small bouquets can be used on all the walls of the nursery as part of the shabby chic style or Provencal design.
In addition, for a girl’s room, especially over 11 years old, ovals, polka dots, patterns in the form of diamonds, stripes and checks can be used. With the help of such prints you can visually change the boundaries of space, which is important for very small children.
If the renovation is being done many years in advance, or for a middle or high school student, preference should be given to plain wallpaper that does not distract attention from lessons. Here you can play on interesting textures, or a combination of them.
In addition, as an excellent addition to a monochromatic finish, you can cover one of the walls with photo wallpaper to suit the owner of the room.
Living room
Any shade of blue will fit into the living room. However, it is important to consider the following nuances:
- A dark palette, which is not appropriate in rooms of modest dimensions, will look extremely impressive in the living room, especially if you organize high-quality lighting.
- It is important to choose wallpaper so that it harmonizes with the color of the furniture facades.
- Ornaments and patterns on blue should be chosen based on the area of the room. The more spacious the living room, the larger the drawing should be. But niches and projections should be left monochromatic.
- Wallpaper in blue tones fits organically into any trend of modern style. They are also appropriate in neoclassical interiors. However, in this case they must be combined with gold-plated parts.
- Plain dark blue wallpaper will beautifully emphasize the sophistication of light furniture interspersed with the same blue in the upholstery.
- The tandem of a basic blue tone with another color that matches it according to the principle of compatibility looks unusual.
Wallpaper for children of different sexes - creating a pleasant atmosphere
If you have boys and girls of different ages, then different rules apply. A seven-year-old boy will not like the paintings that his 12-year-old brother chose. What to do and what can be done in such situations?
When buying wallpaper for a children's room of mixed-sex children, you should adhere to the following strategy. It is advisable to explain to your elder why wallpaper in aggressive colors or with a scary image will be harmful to his little brother/sister. Perhaps it is worth agreeing on compromise options - not choosing a canvas with drawings, but turning your attention to geometric patterns, appliqués, or even solid shades.
Solid colors for children of different sexes
To please the youngest, you shouldn’t cover the surface exclusively with “children’s” patterns. The elder should understand that this room is also his territory. The ideal solution is zoning the room, where everyone has their own place, which fully corresponds to age and hobbies.
Bedroom
The bedchamber in heavenly colors is an oasis of bliss and peace. Blue wallpaper in the bedroom should be combined with golden or light beige textiles. A similar color palette was often used to decorate the boudoirs of aristocrats at the end of the 18th century.
For those who like Provence, designers advise taking a closer look at light shades, combining them with white furniture, a snow-white ceiling and milky curtains.
Fans of modern interiors can decorate a bedroom in a high-tech style, using only blue undertones: from dark to light. It is recommended to add plastic and glass elements, metal parts and chrome fittings to the resulting environment.
If you combine rich cornflower blue wallpaper with rugs, curtains and bedspreads in light colors, you will get an interior in the Scandinavian style.
Children's
Blue wallpaper is appropriate in a nursery for a child of any gender. They make it easier to go through adolescence and help achieve success in school.
Recommended companion colors:
- White,
- Gold,
- Beige.
If you want something extraordinary, then you can cover the largest wall with dark blue photo wallpaper depicting a night metropolis, and decorate the rest of the room with blue and light blue striped wallpaper.
For your baby, you can add yellow and green accents to the calm shimmer of the ocean. These can be dummies of the sun and palm trees, or images represented by a chicken-colored carpet and a canary-colored bedspread.
What wallpaper should you not put in a nursery?
At first glance, vinyl wallpapers have a lot of advantages over paper wallpapers, because they can withstand stuck chewing gum and plasticine, painting with felt-tip pens, and car racing on the wall surface. However, for a nursery this is not the best option. Moreover, not even because of the myth about the toxicity of their decorative PVC layer.
High-quality wallpaper undergoes certification, during which it is tested for safety, which means it does not emit any toxic substances.
The disadvantage of vinyl coverings is different - just like acrylic-based wallpapers, they should not be used in children's rooms due to poor air permeability. If conditions of high humidity are created in the room and it is poorly ventilated, their coating can become home to fungus or mold, which are very harmful to health.
Kitchen
Blue wallpaper has a number of advantages:
- Practicality;
- Variety of designs;
- Excellent compatibility with other interior elements;
- Ability to reduce appetite.
Therefore, they are ideal for kitchen locations. However, if there are children in the family, then it is better to choose light colors, because small children eat poorly anyway.
The blue color is “friendly” with wood. Horizontal wall decoration looks incredibly stylish when the lower part is lined with wooden panels, and the upper part is covered with wallpaper in blue tones.
Wallpaper in a room for teenagers
During this period, it is better to entrust the child to choose the wallpaper design himself, but at the same time, of course, the choice must be justified, and you should try to dissuade him from extreme decisions. There is no need to settle for too gloomy wallpaper in dark colors, especially if it uses a large amount of black.
The children's room should have a bright, joyful mood, and this will be helped by decorating the walls with wallpaper in pleasant colors, with optimistic images on them.
Choosing curtains for a blue interior
Below are the main recommendations:
- White curtains or tulle help add light to a room with dark blue walls.
- Yellow curtains made of thick fabric will add richness to the blue wallpaper and also refresh the decor.
- The color of the curtains is influenced by the color of the walls and the pattern of the wallpaper. The ideal option is a combination of yellow or golden monograms and tulle curtains in a beige palette.
The photo of blue wallpaper shows that they can create any mood. Therefore, they can be used in various rooms. The main thing is to choose the right shades and color combinations.
Types of wallpaper
When choosing a material, you need to pay attention not only to its aesthetic characteristics, but also to its composition, which should be as safe as possible for the child’s health.
Often the baby is given the smallest room in the apartment, so the environmental friendliness of the material plays an important role.
Paper wallpaper for children's rooms
Paper wallpaper is a great option for a children's room. They are environmentally friendly and safe, and come in a wide variety of colors. The disadvantage of the canvases is their fragility, so the wallpaper will have to be re-pasted frequently.
Although, considering that small children love to draw on wallpaper, and teenagers love to cover it with various posters, this drawback is not significant.
Non-woven wallpaper for children's rooms
Non-woven fabric is a more expensive and, therefore, durable material for decorating walls in a nursery. Due to the content of textile fibers, non-woven wallpaper has good strength and excellent air permeability.
By choosing a material option designed for painting, you can update the children's room every year, eliminating any shortcomings that have appeared.
Acrylic wallpaper for children's rooms
Acrylic wallpaper is one of the latest innovations in the finishing materials market. Foamed acrylic on a paper or non-woven base forms a clearly defined relief, thanks to which the wallpaper not only has a decent appearance, but also perfectly hides surface imperfections.
Acrylic wallpaper is resistant to damage and can easily withstand wet cleaning.
Textile wallpaper for children's rooms
Textile material is a good solution for a nursery in a rustic or classic style. It is better to glue such wallpaper in the room of a teenage child who has already passed the age of being interested in “rock painting” and can appreciate the beauty of the coating.
Natural silk fabrics are quite expensive, but you can choose a more economical option from artificial varieties.
Liquid wallpaper for children's rooms
Liquid wallpaper contains substances such as fragments of cotton, mica, and tree bark, so the material is not capable of emitting harmful substances. The main advantage of liquid wallpaper is its soundproofing properties.
In addition, they are easy to restore - in case of severe contamination or damage, they can be easily restored with fresh solution.
