I adore the classics, and you cannot get considerably much more vintage in decorating than blue and white. It is among of my favorite colour mixtures for Palm Beach front living.
And the nautical combo seems especially best for summertime. It makes me consider of deep-blue beach front umbrellas and vivid-white beach front towels.
Here’s a blue-and-white scheme for a residing area that is as charming and stress-free as a day at the seashore.
Permit us get started by painting the walls a rich sailor blue, complemented on the ceiling by smooth powder blue. All the woodwork will be sparkling white.
Those blue walls will absolutely make your home windows glow. To emphasize that charming result, hold shiny blue-and-white-checked material from white rings on white-painted poles, and be sure the curtains are lined in white linen. Under the curtains, hold roller shades of loaded sailor blue to match the partitions. These times, you can come across roller shades in a host of what are termed designer colors.
I adore sofas and club chairs slipcovered in white linen, potentially with piping of wealthy blue. When slip-masking with white fabrics, make specified that the chairs and sofas being covered are upholstered in muslin or in some light-weight-coloured upholstery. Right after all, you don’t want dark fabric models demonstrating through the white coverings. If, on the other hand, the upholstered parts are darkish, you should purchase slip handles that have their very own linings.
Accent chairs can be covered in a blue-and-white print.
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You may well want to bleach your flooring and then accent them with rugs of a blue-and-white sisal, a glance excellent for the seashore.
Decorating currently offers this sort of a wide range of prospects that ended up unheard of yrs back. As with window shades, sisal now arrives in hues, as properly as in multi-coloured styles, far too. Chevrons, blocks, stripes — you identify the design and style and sisal will be readily available in patterns that perform in a wide variety of configurations.
For lamps in your new living place, select ceramic bases, such as the gourd-formed classics intended by Christopher Spitzmiller, just one of my most loved makers. His lamps appear in all colors, including light-weight blue, deep blue, skipper blue and turquoise blue. What a fantastic earth of colour.
We’ll also want to accent your white upholstered pieces with cushions in a range of blue shades. And what about a prosperous, sunny-yellow cushion or two for a little bit of sunshine?
For wood furnishings — perhaps a espresso table or stop tables — you can go with white, but you might also think about a Swedish antique piece or two.
Now, wouldn’t you appear excellent sitting down in your new living place in a navy-blue jacket more than a white ensemble?
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Palm Beacher Carleton Varney is president of Dorothy Draper & Co., an intercontinental style and design business with offices in New York, West Palm Seaside, London and White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. His new book is titled “The Draper Contact: The Superior Life and Higher Model of Dorothy Draper.” Visit CarletonVarney.com or email him at [email protected]. Support assistance our journalism. Subscribe nowadays.
