I love the classics, and you just can’t get substantially more vintage in decorating than blue and white. It is among of my beloved colour combos for Palm Beach residing.
And the nautical combo seems in particular great for summer time. It will make me feel of deep-blue seashore umbrellas and shiny-white beach towels.
Here’s a blue-and-white scheme for a residing area that is as pretty and stress-free as a day at the seashore.
Permit us start out by portray the walls a abundant sailor blue, complemented on the ceiling by smooth powder blue. All the woodwork will be glowing white.
People blue partitions will undoubtedly make your home windows glow. To emphasize that beautiful result, hang shiny blue-and-white-checked material from white rings on white-painted poles, and be confident the curtains are lined in white linen. Less than the curtains, hold roller shades of abundant sailor blue to match the partitions. These days, you can come across roller shades in a host of what are termed designer colours.
I appreciate sofas and club chairs slipcovered in white linen, potentially with piping of loaded blue. When slip-covering with white materials, make certain that the chairs and sofas currently being included are upholstered in muslin or in some mild-colored upholstery. Just after all, you don’t want darkish cloth styles displaying via the white coverings. If, nonetheless, the upholstered pieces are dark, you should get slip handles that have their individual linings.
Accent chairs can be covered in a blue-and-white print.
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You could want to bleach your floors and then accent them with rugs of a blue-and-white sisal, a appear great for the beach.
Decorating these days offers such a assortment of options that ended up unheard of decades ago. As with window shades, sisal now arrives in hues, as effectively as in multi-coloured patterns, way too. Chevrons, blocks, stripes — you title the layout and sisal will be available in styles that get the job done in a selection of configurations.
For lamps in your new dwelling space, decide on ceramic bases, this kind of as the gourd-shaped classics built by Christopher Spitzmiller, 1 of my beloved suppliers. His lamps occur in all shades, including mild blue, deep blue, skipper blue and turquoise blue. What a wonderful globe of shade.
We’ll also want to accent your white upholstered pieces with cushions in a wide variety of blue shades. And what about a wealthy, sunny-yellow cushion or two for a bit of sunshine?
For wooden furnishings — probably a espresso desk or end tables — you can go with white, but you may well also take into consideration a Swedish antique piece or two.
Now, would not you seem good sitting in your new living home in a navy-blue jacket above a white ensemble?
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Palm Beacher Carleton Varney is president of Dorothy Draper & Co., an intercontinental style and design firm with places of work in New York, West Palm Beach front, London and White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. His new book is titled “The Draper Touch: The Higher Life and Higher Design and style of Dorothy Draper.” Pay a visit to CarletonVarney.com or electronic mail him at [email protected]. Support aid our journalism. Subscribe nowadays.