Color Chart: The Joys of a Dark Blue Home

Our monthly bid asks: How bash you bring colour into a luxury home? Dark bluish is simply a crowd-pleaser—and complements astir immoderate shade, writes Jill Krasny

Brooklyn, New York | Sotheby’s International Realty – Downtown Manhattan Brokerage

Ever announcement however immoderate homes energize you portion others marque you much relaxed? The colors successful a plan strategy whitethorn beryllium a factor. 

Whereas citrus shades thin to jolt you awake, bluish tin assistance soothe the caput and the body, and whitethorn adjacent little the bosom rate. The adjacent installment of our bid connected colour successful luxury location plan takes a person look astatine a perennial favorite: chill and calming acheronian blue.  “Blue is simply a crowd-pleaser,” says Lisa Shaffer, the main enforcement and originative manager of Lisa & Leroy, an interior plan steadfast based successful Washington, D.C. “If you inquire clients to sanction their favourite colors, bluish ever hits the apical three, each time.” For 1 thing, it evokes the wonders of nature, similar a wide bluish entity hanging supra San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.

Pacific Heights, San Francisco | Sotheby’s International Realty – San Francisco Brokerage

A thoughtfully rebuilt Victorian successful the city’s Pacific Heights vicinity conjures akin images with its moody bluish exterior. The surrounding homes are subdued capable to marque this 1 the prima attraction, says Shaffer, “but it’s the crowd-pleaser due to the fact that it’s interesting.” 

The outer paintwork easy accommodates the contrasting reddish of its beforehand door, she says, not to notation the agleam flowers successful planters. It could adjacent enactment a boldly painted garage. “The colour is precise casual to adhd a punch to, particularly successful this tone,” she says.

Pacific Heights, San Francisco | Sotheby’s International Realty – San Francisco Brokerage

A spacious room successful a three-storied condominium, besides successful the Pacific Heights area, features a classical but modern bluish and achromatic colour scheme. Going each achromatic mightiness person felt excessively sterile successful specified an unfastened space, Shaffer says, and the acheronian navy makes a crisp connection nether the marble countertops and higher cabinetry without being overwhelming. 

And wherever the room feels pleasingly airy and bright, the property’s color-drenched maestro chamber is enveloping and warm, acknowledgment to the green-toned bluish of its walls. “By coating the ceiling, they person brought it down a spot and created a backdrop for the cream-white furniture,” says Shaffer of this jewel-box effect. “It’s making the country a batch cozier.”

London, England | United Kingdom Sotheby’s International Realty

A contemporary mews house successful the bosom of Marylebone, cardinal London, manages to consciousness some play due and caller acknowledgment to its gray-blue exterior. “This is conscionable a large illustration of paying attraction to a colour instrumentality and however shades either complement oregon opposition with each other,” says Shaffer, who finds the opposition with the orangish brickwork appealing. 

“I besides emotion that everything is painted successful the aforesaid color,” she adds. “It makes it consciousness similar a larger space, but besides conscionable truly blase and new.” This is helped by the spiky greenish palms successful the model boxes, which support things modern.

Ocean Hills, Bermuda | Rego Sotheby’s International Realty

Blue is simply a communal colour successful coastal properties, but seldom utilized to specified bold effect arsenic successful this standalone condominium successful the Ocean Hills vicinity of Bermuda. It astir blends successful with the sky, portion subtly contrasting with the turquoise of the oversea beyond. 

Though the colour lends itself to this beachside setting, it besides plays good with the structure and railings, and the orange-toned teak inside. “It’s not conscionable astir the architecture of the house,” Shaffer says, noting the inspired selection, “but however it sits with each these earthy elements.”

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