If you follow Carrie This Home on Pinterest, you’ve seen me pin A LOT of inspiration for blue paint colors.
When we first bought our house, almost every single wall was white.
Very bland. Very boring. Very much in need of life.
So we picked a tan paint color called Dune and loved it. We used this tan color in several rooms in our house and it gave the life we were looking for.
Well, for awhile at least.
Here we are six years later and every time I sit in the living room I feel like I’m drowning in a sea of beige. We have beige walls EVERYWHERE.
Pinterest wasn’t around when I originally picked paint colors so I had almost zero inspiration/ideas for cool paint colors.
I set out online {and to every local store that sold paint} to find some inspiration my new living room color.
It was so hard for me to pick a color. I literally spent hours and hours looking at colors. I had about a gazillion paint color sample strips taped to the walls. After tons of searching I decided I wanted to paint the rooms a navy blue.
I wanted a deep, rich blue color like this from Our Fifth House. I love the richness of this bold blue color and how the white accents pop against it. We also have cherry wood colored furniture and this picture convinced me that a navy blue would work with our current furniture.
I was in love and ready to make a commitment with navy blue.
On the other hand, my hubby wanted a color that was lighter.
So we compromised. We picked Thunderhead from Valspar. It was lighter than what I wanted and darker than what The Hubby wanted. Right smack in the middle.
Marriage is all about compromise, right?
Now that the painting is done I can say without reservation that we picked the right color. I love it!
We decided to use the awkwardly shaped wall in front of the stairs as an accent wall. I love the personality this color adds to the room!
One of my favorite parts of this color is how it highlights the crisp white mantel and the lovely guitars.
The new blue paint also added a lot of life to my foyer.
{Maybe I should just call this my foyer-wanna-be-area since I really don’t have a foyer!}
What do you think?
This post linked to Inspire Me Please, It’s Overflowing, Give Me The Goods Monday, Home Stories A to Z, Whimsy Wednesday, Whatever Goes Wednesday, Work It Wednesday, Link Party Palooza, and Serenity Now.
I love the bedding! Can you share where you purchased?
The bedding is from a picture from another blog, so I’m not sure what the exact source of that bedding. I did a quick search and I found some options that look similar to the one in the picture, and you can find them (aff link) HERE. I hope that helps!
Those paint colors and interior designs are so pretty. I really like your idea of planning your living room.
The blue is so pretty Carrie! And I love how it works so well with your other neutral colour!! Nice change:) Thanks so much for sharing it at Work it Wednesday this week!! Hope to see you back tomorrow:)
~Krista from the happy housie
Thank you, Krista! I’ll try to link up again tomorrow!
instant character! love the way it brings out the fireplace tiles, and the guitars really pop against it!
Thanks! The guitars sort of blended into the background with the old color, so seeing them pop out against the blue really makes me happy!
I’m loving the pop of color! It really adds so much. On top of that, I really love the idea of hanging the guitars on the wall. Very cool!
I agree–the guitars are so beautiful, so why not use them as part of the decor! Thanks so much for stopping by, Holly!
Super cute! I love what color can do in a room! Great job! Thank you for sharing at Give Me The Goods!
Amber @ Dimples & Pig Tales (soon-to-be Averie Lane)
Thanks Amber! Give Me The Goods is always a fun party!
That is exactly what your room needed. I love it! I am about to do my first navy blue room, and I am a little freaked, since saturated colors aren’t usually my thing… but your post is inspiring!
I’m so glad this was inspiring! What really inspired me was seeing Our Fifth House’s paint colors. She uses a lot of saturated colors but they all looked awesome so I finally got my courage up to try it. I hope your project turns out well–I’d love to see it when you’re done!
Looks great! I also like the how the blue in the foyer draws your eye into the kitchen red. They look very similar in tone which is great!
It’s funny–I didn’t think much of how the blue in the living room would look compared to the red in the kitchen! I’m happy with the way it turned out and it’s nice to hear that others like it , too! Thanks so much for stopping by, Kim!
You’re right, the blue adds so much life! Love the color! 🙂
Thanks so much,Christy! I admire so much of your work so this compliment means a lot to me!
I love this color! I thought about going dark in our guest room and couldn’t do it. Dark colors scare me a little but it looks amazing in your living room! Great Job.
I’m a lot like you, I love dark colors but I’m scared to use them. This project definitely helped me get over that fear!
Love this color! It made your room look awesome!
Thanks Corey! I love your sense of style so I know I did a good job if you like it!
I love that blue! Such a great choice. I feel like I’m drowning in a sea of beige sometimes too, but I have such a hard time choosing colors. I might have to put this one in our house somewhere.
We’re really happy with our choice, too. It’s a really happy shade of blue so if you decide to use it I hope you’ll be as happy with it as we are!
I really like that shade of blue! It looks really good!
Thank you Kalyn! It’s such a happy shade of blue 🙂
I love this color! This is similar to one of the colors we’re going to make our master bedroom. We’re going with an indigo and grey combination. We, too, disagree on colors very often. Your compromise is certainly no compromise! Your transformation is lovely and has really ‘updated’ your living room. Well done!
Thank you, Terry! Like you the next room on our list is our master bedroom. I was so happy with this color that I might do something similar for the master bedroom. An indigo and grey combinations sounds like a great color!
Looks Awesome! Love the color in your space!
Thank you so much!