The blue color conveys calm and is very welcoming despite being a cold color. It combines perfectly with browns and earths, making it ideal for renovate furniture by painting it blueas you will see below.
Paint is one of the cheapest and most effective resources to renovate old furniture. Within the wide range of colors that can be found on the market, blue tones stand out because they combine perfectly with brown and earth. For this reason, blue is ideal both for restoring wooden furniture and for transforming melamine furniture.
How to combine the color blue?
Let’s not fool ourselves, the color blue is a difficult color to combine but there are some compositions that do not usually fail:
- Light blue combines with browns, earths and the entire range of grays, as well as white and black.
- Intense blue can be combined with light green and pistachio, orange and gold.
- Dark blue stands out especially with white, yellow and pink tones.
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Inspiring ideas to renovate furniture by painting it blue
Light and turquoise tones bring light and a romantic touch. As proof of this, you only have to see the before and after renovating the following chest of drawers.
Although the drawer handles and the gold tone of the moldings have been kept, the change has been spectacular. Now it looks even lighter.
On the other hand, after seeing the change in the next dresser, it’s hard to believe that it was the same one. On this occasion, a grayish blue tone has been chosen and the drawers have been decorated with stenciled flowers (in this link you will find a video tutorial on how to paint with a stencil).
The chest of drawers has gone from having a sober style to a romantic one. On the other hand, the fact of maintaining the wooden top has been a success to reflect the quality of the furniture.
An intense blue has been used in this renovation of a wooden sideboard.
The fact of having chosen a glossy finish typical of the oriental style makes its new appearance more consistent with the original handles.
The change that has been made in the following piece of furniture is simple but very effective.
The blue color with which its interior has been painted not only makes it appear lighter, but also provides visual depth.
On the other hand, if I had to sum up repainting this chest of drawers in one word, I’d be damn sure it would be “elegant.”
Navy blue is ideal for more masculine environments. On the other hand, if you want to give a navy touch to any piece of furniture, you just have to combine this tone with white.
In the following renovation of a wooden piece of furniture, a geometric composition has been made with different shades of blue and other colors.
Thanks to this change the sideboard has updated its original appearance. If you like this style, you can find many more ideas at this link with 35 ideas to renovate dressers and sideboards.
Another option to renovate furniture is to paint the drawers with a gradient of tones.
In this case, the gradient has been very subtle, the rise in tone between one drawer and another is barely noticeable, but it is enough to give the furniture a much more youthful air.
Curiosities of the color blue
Did you know that blue is the favorite color of most people? Perhaps you do not know some of these curiosities about the color blue:
- It symbolizes perseverance and dedication.
- It is usually the favorite color of neat people.
- If you do not differentiate the color blue from yellow, it is because you are tritanomalous.
- Blue is the color of fidelity, for this reason brides usually wear something blue.
- It represents positivism.
- The color blue is related to science and sports.
- Many women’s names derive from the color blue, such as Celestina (Spanish), Urdina (Basque), Seline (English), Sinikka (Finnish), and even some masculine names such as Douglas (Celtic).
Do you like blue? So I hope you’re 7 ideas to renovate furniture by painting it of this color inspire you and encourage you to give a second life to the old furniture you have at home.
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