Accent Light-Blue: Home Interior Design

Today's all about light blue. It's an amazing range of tones. All excessively calming. And they carry a multitude of associations. You can imagine a setting in Greece, something coastal or beachy, some old distressed blue wooden furniture found in a country barn somewhere, or even something South Western towards the turquoise end of the range. It's very versatile thematically, isn't it. As with most color, I prefer injections of it. Not all over the place, but just a pop of light blue here and there. And fortunately it's the perfect color for that. Where red for instance may be too powerful even in small doses. And green may get minty or look too deliberately chosen. Light blue has a funny way of seeming natural and acting neutrally even though it's not neutral at all. Perhaps it's the universality of it. Sea, sky, etc.

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Home Interior Design With A Light Blue Accent Color. I love this blue chair. This image so perfectly demonstrates how just a little touch of blue changes everything and enlivens a room.

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Home Interior Design With A Light Blue Accent Color. Here's another blue chair. This time an old wooden one. These chairs immediately bring character to an otherwise neutral space.

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Home Interior Design With A Light Blue Accent Color. Think I want this table. Love it. It's kind of antique in shape, but the blue punches through a little bit of modernism. It's really nicely proportioned as well. The color fits beautifully in the space I think.

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Home Interior Design With A Light Blue Accent Color. Another shot of the table.

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Home Interior Design With A Light Blue Accent Color. Some light blue on the wall would also be great. At first I thought it was art, only to realize it's a chalkboard. Either way I love the use of this color in big patches on the wall.

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Home Interior Design With A Light Blue Accent Color. Another way to go is to use the color sparingly here and there in the details. This image I really love because it's so subtle, yet here and there you can pick up the light blues. In turn they create a kind of latent subconscious tonality within the space.

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Home Interior Design With A Light Blue Accent Color. Some light blue accessories now. Blue chandelier and blue lightbulbs. It doesn't take much to activate these spaces in the mood of the color. And anyone can pull this off on short notice or with a minimal budget in their own space.

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Home Interior Design With A Light Blue Accent Color. You could also just use a light blue centerpiece. This one is gorgeous. It's actually white but with that Tiffany blue ribbon it becomes subsumed in the tone.

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Home Interior Design With A Light Blue Accent Color. A blue pillow is another easy thing to add quickly to bring some life into your space.

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Home Interior Design With A Light Blue Accent Color. Who doesn't love old wooden country boxes? This one is perfect for the theme.

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Home Interior Design With A Light Blue Accent Color. Now, if you're feeling a little more adventurous. Go find an old piece of furniture and get the paint out. This cabinet would look great in most situations.

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Home Interior Design With A Light Blue Accent Color. Even patterns look great in light blue. I doctored this rug pattern a little, but it would be a great one to throw on the floor in your living area. Particularly on a dark or black floor I think.

Getting Rustic In The Bedroom

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The idea here is pretty simple. Given that most of the blog readers here are urbanites. And particularly New Yorkers. Here's an idea to mix up and balance your everyday experience and life. As while we're constantly surrounded in computer screens, cell phones, modern buildings, electronic signs, monster advertising graphics, and slick modern contemporary design. Wouldn't it be nice to go back to your apartment and have a completely non modern experience?

You can still keep it clean, but a little rustic goes a long way towards feeling comfortable. Here are some basic elements for a bedroom for instance.

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Home Interior Design, A Rustic Bedroom. I really love this image because it shows that you don't need much space to pull off rustic. It's just a studio but it looks great. This is something everyone can pull off. Even with a tiny apartment.

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Home Interior Design, A Rustic Bedroom. This is one of my new favorite things. It's a hanging bed from Anthropologie. Rustic, but not too heavy looking. Great for small spaces.

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Home Interior Design, A Rustic Bedroom. Here's another bed I like from Anthropologie for your rustic bedroom retreat. A little more classical, but still old fashioned. And still not heavy looking.

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Home Interior Design, A Rustic Bedroom. A little simpler option for your bed is simply to recreate the headboard. This is a simple DIY headboard made out of some old wood. Looks great. Especially with those antique pillows.

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Home Interior Design, A Rustic Bedroom. You're probably going to need a secondary piece of furniture to hold the theme. And it's always nice to have a chair in the bedroom. So here's a nice comfortable burlap one. Now, if your bedroom isn't big enough, this is still a great piece to have. Floating around in a studio for instance.

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>Home Interior Design, A Rustic Bedroom. Accessories always help. I like these burlap baskets from Pottery Barn. Really simple. You can keep some spare linens or whatever in them.

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Home Interior Design, A Rustic Bedroom. Maybe a lamp too. This one is mercury glass and burlap. Also from Pottery Barn.

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Home Interior Design, A Rustic Bedroom. And lastly some candles. I like anything that's numbered for no apparent reason. The more completely you address different scales, the more you'll get the feeling of the theme across.