Blue Living Room – 26 Inspiring Blue Living Room Ideas

To create a blue living room, you don’t necessarily have to paint your walls. We love this clever trick of framing architectural features instead. Keep your walls white and paint your doors and architraves, window frames, built-in storage and crown mouldings. You can be as vivid as you like with your choice of blue without overwhelming your living room.

Pictured: Walpole™ No.42 paint at Mylands

An ombre wall is a really impactful idea if you’re decorating with a tight colour palette. This living room wall mutates from a deep ocean blue through to a turquoise and finally a barely there white-blue. But no DIY here; an ombre-painted feature wall is very much one for the experts.

Pictured: House Beautiful Darcy Sofa Bed at DFS

An inky blue-black used on panelled walls has something of a serious quality that is reminiscent of academic spaces like libraries or offices. It makes a nice choice for reading nooks, and as you can see here, can be coupled with black without looking too heavy or dark. This effect would work best where there is ample natural light.

We love the idea of using a single colour to create a cohesive gallery wall. To prevent it from looking too uniform, vary the size of your artwork as well as the thickness of the mounts. You could experiment with different woods on your frames too – deep blues work wonderfully with pale wood frames.

Pictured: Gallery Wall Selection at Desenio

If you go for wallpaper in the living room, remember that busy patterns and bright colours can be overstimulating in large quantities. Opt for a single feature wall or a panel of wallpaper for a striking effect that doesn’t take over the whole room.

What were we saying about paring back a blue living room? It’s not necessary. This is decorating at its most joyful, with an abundance of colour, plush materials, and over-the-top features. Note that this room benefits from a lot of natural light, which helps to lift the dramatic indigo blue on the walls.

Pictured: Stone Blue at Farrow & Ball

Colours that sit on opposite sides of the colour wheel, or complementary colours, have a high contrast between them that creates a bright and vibrant colour scheme. For blue, its complemented by warm reds, oranges, and yellows. As you can see here, the combination creates a sunny and cheerful living room.

Pictured: Accessories at Habitat

Deep blues can feel wonderfully opulent, which make them a great choice for an Art Deco-inspired drinks corner. These tones fall on the coolest side of the colour spectrum, so use accents of brass, burgundy or ochre to warm up your space.

For a retro look, team shades of blue with dusky oranges and pinks to tap into a Seventies style. Metallic accents and bright accessories stop this combination from looking dated.

Pictured: Ziggy Sofa at Sofology

It’s not all green in the countryside. This bright and playful shade of blue finds a happy home in a traditional setting that has all the markers of a quintessential country pile – oversized ginger jars, mismatched artwork, sink-in squidgy sofas, and colourful ikat cushions.

Pictured: Lulworth Blue at Farrow & Ball

A dark blue-grey on your walls can be elegant, but it can also appear a bit flat, especially if you go for a matt finish. Metallics are your antidote here as they can add a bit of shine and bounce light around a room. We love this clever strip of gold paint that frames the skirting boards and fireplace.

Pictured: Knoxville Grey at Benjamin Moore

Dial up the intensity of a brightly coloured wall and embrace maximalism with framed artwork and photography in an assortment of colours. Pops of colour throughout this interior designer’s living room in Nottingham ties the look together.

The bright and sunny colour palette used in this living room was surely inspired by the ample natural light streaming in from those fabulous windows. Blue makes a natural pairing with peachy pinks, and we love an unexpected pop of deep green.

Pictured: Country Living Charlbury Sofa at DFS

The colour of cloudless skies and sparkling seas, blue was made for Mediterranean interiors. If you want to create the look and feel of a Greek villa or Italian palazzo, pair your blue shades with warming accents of sunshine yellow and earthy ochre and pick up Mediterranean design features such as shutters, stone floors or terrazzo tiles, painted wood furniture, and plenty of plants.

Saturated colours are very effective at drawing the eye, so they’re usually used on feature furniture or details you want to highlight. Here, an all-over saturated colour palette (the blue on the walls, lilac upholstery, and pop of deep green in the plant) creates an intense and rich living room – a perfect colour palette if you want to create a vintage feel.

Pictured: Ercol Favara Sofa, Marino Armchair, and Romana Highboard at Furniture Village

Blues and whites lend themselves to a living room full of sunny seaside references, but too heavy a hand when decorating thematically can look kitsch. These pleated blinds have a subtle wave pattern for just a touch of ocean influence.

Pictured: House Beautiful Ripple Blue Pleated Blinds

This sophisticated living room is full of texture – the panelled walls, cool marble table, plush velvet sofas, low pile rug – and yet still appears understated thanks to a modest colour palette of just four colours.

Pictured: Cricket Sofa at Sofology

Colour has been proven to impact our mood, productivity, and even our quality of sleep. Pale blues are particularly effective at calming and soothing a busy mind, so go light in your living room if it’s used for peaceful relaxation rather than entertaining. You can see how effectively stronger colours (like that fabulous peacock blue sofa) stand out against a uniform pale backdrop.

Pictured: Longacre™ No.102 at Mylands