Take into consideration blue and white, suggests Carleton Varney

I adore the classics, and you just can’t get significantly a lot more vintage in decorating than blue and white. It is among of my preferred shade mixtures for Palm Seaside living.

And the nautical combo seems particularly best for summer. It helps make me assume of deep-blue seashore umbrellas and vivid-white beach front towels.

Here’s a blue-and-white scheme for a living home that is as beautiful and calming as a day at the seashore.

Allow us start by painting the partitions a loaded sailor blue, complemented on the ceiling by delicate powder blue. All the woodwork will be glowing white.

Those people blue walls will definitely make your home windows glow. To emphasize that pretty outcome, cling shiny blue-and-white-checked fabric 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 days, you can locate roller shades in a host of what are referred to as designer hues.

I love sofas and club chairs slipcovered in white linen, perhaps with piping of loaded blue. When slip-covering with white fabrics, make specific that the chairs and sofas remaining included are upholstered in muslin or in some gentle-colored upholstery. Right after all, you never want darkish fabric types demonstrating through the white coverings. If, nonetheless, the upholstered items are dark, you should really purchase slip handles that have their very own linings.

Accent chairs can be lined 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 appear fantastic for the beach front.

Decorating these days offers this sort of a assortment of alternatives that have been unheard of years in the past. As with window shades, sisal now will come in colours, as nicely as in multi-colored patterns, much too. Chevrons, blocks, stripes — you title the style and sisal will be obtainable in patterns that perform in a range of options.

For lamps in your new living space, select ceramic bases, these kinds of as the gourd-formed classics built by Christopher Spitzmiller, one particular of my favourite producers. His lamps appear in all colours, including light-weight blue, deep blue, skipper blue and turquoise blue. What a wonderful world of colour.

We’ll also want to accent your white upholstered pieces with cushions in a wide variety of blue shades. And what about a loaded, sunny-yellow cushion or two for a little bit of sunshine?

For wooden furnishings — possibly a coffee table or stop tables — you can go with white, but you might also look at a Swedish antique piece or two.

Now, wouldn’t you appear terrific sitting in your new residing room in a navy-blue jacket in excess of a white ensemble?

Palm Beacher Carleton Varney is president of Dorothy Draper & Co., an worldwide structure organization with offices in New York, West Palm Seashore, London and White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. His new book is titled “The Draper Touch: The Higher Life and Higher Type of Dorothy Draper.” Go to CarletonVarney.com or e-mail him at [email protected] Assistance guidance our journalism. Subscribe now.