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The Two Versatile Colors to Use in Your Home Décor

The Two Versatile Colors to Use in Your Home Décor

 

The timeless White, and the calming Blue are the two versatile colors to use in your home décor. You can use them separately or pair them together. Use them for the façade of the house, external murals, or internal living spaces. Let's see how you can incorporate the colors to freshen up your home, and give it a contemporary modern interior design style.


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The Two Versatile Colors to Use in Your Home Décor

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1. WHITE HOME DECOR

Trends come and go, but white would always remain the most versatile, classy, and timeless color option you can do in home décor. White is illuminating, minimalist, simple, clean, and pure. The color relaxes, and awakens senses. White complements every interior design style, and home décor trend. It can change the vibe of the whole space, and give it the perfect base for every color scheme, texture, and flooring. All white house interior is never a dull theme and would always make your space look sophisticated, elegant, and classy.

Add white in all furniture and accents throughout the home, and you would see how it makes your space look beautiful, and serene.

 

If you want to make a space look bright, make white your base color and use it in big pieces such as sofas, bedding, tall curtains, and large sized rugs. Currently the most popular wall paint color choice is white. You can safely go for complete white home décor accessories. White marble table top can serve as a great focal point of the room. Keep the rug a light white hue, solid and plain in design. Bring some interest to your space with a large size wall art in solid whites or neutrals. Skip small art paintings.

Then, if you want to introduce bright colors, accentuate the space with an accent color in small décor items and accessories such as cushions, pillows, throws, accent chairs, vases, and sculptural pieces. White walls would unite with wall art to lift up the whole space with tiny talking chirpy accent colors added here and there. Skip small plants again, and place a large green plant in the room in a textured white planter near natural light source.

The idea to skip plenty of small pieces, and going for bigger items in less quantity is to keep the space clean, organized, and minimal.

 

For the contemporary modern look, combine white walls with warm neutrals, and tactile materials such as wood, textured fabrics, marble, and metal. Focus on the nature inspired trend to create a cozy ambiance. Wooden furniture, and black or gold accents would give it the contemporary character.

White, and black accents are characteristic of modern décor.

Then, combine warm neutral color palette such as beiges and greiges in white room décor, with not more than one or two accent colors such as pinks, blues, greens, yellows, or oranges.

 

Popular White Paint Colors:

For white paint color inspiration, check out finest whites and neutrals by Sherwin Williams, and their ashy "Pure White".

More popular white and off-white paint color options from Benjamin Moore; I liked their grounded “Acadia White”.

Atrium White” by Dulux.

Trending “Whisper White” by Behr. (given in sequence in image)

These whites are nature inspired paint colors. The best thing about these colors is that these are not stark white so you can easily coordinate any colors with them into your current home décor theme, or achieve the white rooms of your choice.



2. BLUE HOME DECOR

We saw that the color of the year 2022 was green in all hues, tones, and shades. The trend dominated because nature came inside in full swing. But there are also those people who choose blue home décor. For them, good news is that blue has been favored by many critics among 2022 color trends. Blue color sometimes gets overlooked, but you can bring it into your home design with minimal effort.

Blue is a very easy color to pair up with whites, and neutral color palettes.

Blue is breezy, refreshing, and relaxing. Light hues give the home calming and awakening effect, and dark hues evoke night time vibes. It is a versatile color that complements many color palettes and interior design styles such as traditional, modern, bohemian, glam, and art deco.

 

For a fancy glam style, go for a dark blue hue, and complement it with light neutrals and textures such as velvets, golden fabrics and accents. Art deco is another fancy architectural style of geometric and stylized patterns. In it, blue is often the dominating factor that is combined with soft creams, and beiges for a decadent look.

 

For a breezy, light and bright feel, complement light blue walls with natural textures and hues such as wood, cane, jute, cottons and white linens, pillows, and rugs. Go for wooden furniture or a tan ottoman to bring lively warmth to the space.

You can achieve this look with an already chosen blue paint color of the year 2022, Dulux – “Bright Skies”. The color would give your space the airy and refreshing vibe it promises.

 

For the contemporary modern home décor, combine dark blue hues with neutrals such as whites, greys, and beiges to bring warmth into your home while keeping it elegant. White or black accents would be a modern makeover into your current design style. You can always introduce a large wall art with a pop of blue color as the statement piece if the rest of the space is neutral themed. It would serve as the larger than life home décor, and make your interior design stand out. Or if you want to use blue home décor accents, keep your walls white.

One of the wall colors with blue accessory décor can be “Candlelit Beige” by Dulux.

 

Popular Blue Paint Colors:

Check for blue paint colors by Sherwin William - “Dew Drop”, and “Stargazer”.

More blue paint colors by Benjamin Moore – “Ocean Air”, and “Baltic Sea”. (given in sequence in image)

Don’t worry if you choose a dark hue, because these are all blue color things in nature. So you are guaranteed to have the calming vibe in your home.

 


Conclusion

White is always your safest and best choice in home décor. A white home also increases real estate value. Blue is another versatile option that has been favored a lot recently throughout the world.

You can use whites, or blues hues in almost all interior design styles or just to update your current home appearance. If you use a monochromatic color palette, that would also give your home a contemporary modern finish. The colors are perfect with neutral palettes, and tactile materials. It would be your token of serenity, elegance, and sophistication in your living spaces.


That's all for today. Let me know your thoughts in the comment section below. I'll see you soon with plenty topics lined up for you. Bye.

 

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Comments

  1. I love blue and white together and separately!

    Jennifer
    Curated by Jennifer

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    1. thanks for visiting my page Jennifer! :)

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  2. White can always be elegant. Thank you for sharing this lovely post. Enjoyed reading ☺️

    Pastor Natalie (ExamineThisMoment)
    Letstakeamoment.com

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  3. I do like the white home decor style, it's so classic! x

    Lucy Mary

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    1. It is right? I love it too. Thanks for reading Lucy. <3

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  4. two beautiful shades for a home. i love white home decor because it feels so airy and bright.

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    1. I so love white too especially living spaces. Thanks for visiting my page, appreciate it! <3

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  5. Love this! I'd really like to have mainly white home decor in the future, I think the look it gives is so great! I never knew it added real estate value though, that's so interesting! Thank you so much for sharing x

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    1. A certain aspects do add to the value. Thank you for reading this. :)

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  6. I’m absolutely loving the white home decor at the moment, I think it’s very sophisticated and timeless! I’d never really thought of adding blue also but after reading this, I defiantly think I’m going to give it a try. Thank you so much for sharing this with us lovely, it’s a real great post! Xo

    Elle - ellegracedeveson.com

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    1. thank you for reading this Elle! Lovely feedback. I hope you enjoy trying these out. <3

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  7. I like blues and white too. Our house is currently all white as haven’t been living here that long. But we are looking to add a bit of blue in one of the rooms 😊 I think it’s a really calming colour. Thanks for sharing.

    Jade MumLifeandMe
    Http://www.mumlifeand.me

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    1. thank you for visiting my page Jade! I gave the link for blue color options. Hope you check that out and find something of your liking, plus the neutral blues I gave. <3

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  8. I like your directions. I'm not great at decorating but I appreciate home decor that gives us a sense of spaciousness and calmness. I'd go definitely with white and pick a shade that's right between blue and green, that's my favorite color.

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    1. that woudla lso be in the blue paint category. I did include a blue green though, but if you click the links i gave you would be able to come up with your choice of color. Thanks for reading Vanessa! <3

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  9. I am a fan of white decor because it is so versatile. It is also easy to bring in pops of color like blue if you do have white walls and other decor.

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    1. my favorite thing about white is that it brightens up spaces and is an eye opener. You're so right! thanks for reading. <3

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  10. I just adore white in the home, always makes a space feel open and clean! Plus, you can mix and match so many colour combinations with it, I especially like the combination of white and grey, especially for bathrooms.

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  11. Wonderful post! White is a timeless color and makes a space look minimal, clean, and even bigger. I’m looking forward to redecorating and adding more white for a simple yet classic look. Blue is also such a calming color. Thank you for sharing!

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  12. White, it's your blank canvas and so much more. Timeless too. Add blue, especially in a light filled room and it's classic, calming and nautical. And what about that shade of white in 'whisper. I like it

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  13. I have both these colours in my home, white to brighten and make the place looks bigger, blue for a calming colour and yes grey floors lol :)

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  14. I totally agree that dark blue can give a glam feel when used right! Love this post!

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  15. Wow, I didn't know that green was the color of the year. This is interesting to know and the decor. Thank you for sharing!

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