![]() It’s no surprise that a wallpaper design inspired by a floral meadow featuring a seemingly unending blue sky punctuated with billowing clouds has become my most popular wallcovering to date. Peacocks have been a recurring theme in my work over the years and usually get a touch of electric blue to echo their iridescent chest plumage. I’ve painted many wallpaper designs centred around a palette of blue, from a watery pond with lotus flowers to a graphic rendering of peacock feathers in deep blue. It’s fair to say it’s my most commonly used colour. I wear it, paint with it, design with it and decorate with it. When not wearing bolder colours myself I tend to wear blue, and it’s often navy as it feels classic and failsafe and can be kinder and chicer than black. Rather, it’s perennially there, whether we’re talking clothes or interiors. It’s just not one to fall in and out of fashion. Unlike some other colours, blue will never tire or date. ‘It’s my granniest print,’ he says of the design, which is based on a watercolour. The floral wallpaper and the ruched blind channels 1980s decorating styles in this bathroom that Matthew completed for a client. Take a blue – any blue for that matter – and the chances are you might just have the perfect shades right under your nose. When creating a blue-based colour palette for an interior refresh, you might not need to look very far for inspiration. I love all these tones but none more so than the deepest indigo blues and sapphires through to Klein Blue and electric blue for a brilliantly bold statement. From French blue to cornflower you can tread very gently and dip your toe in the water, through to azure and aqua for actual watery shades with a more vibrant thread. The scope for using blue in the home is huge. It’s easy and polite, without being boring, and a harmonious colour to live with. It’s an expansive colour we see in nature each and every day so, as a familiar tone to our eye, it’s no wonder we are naturally drawn to it. It’s got that feel-good factor and its possibilities are endless. In a similar way to green, blue is a colour I associate mostly with nature, and specifically summer. With so many positive connotations and associations, it takes me instantly in my mind’s eye to crisp blue skies and glistening deep blue sea. ![]() Who can possibly not feel happy thoughts when thinking of the colour blue? I wonder. Away from the perils of purple, I’m back in my happy place when it comes to blue.
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