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Blue is tranquil and peaceful, that’s why it’s often recommended for the two rooms that you tend to unwind in the most; bedrooms and bathrooms. It brings down blood pressure and slows respiration and heart rate. It has also been proven to reduce pain levels (a reason why most hospitals use blue as part of their decor color scheme).

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Bedroom: Choose warmer blues like “Periwinkle” or bright blues like “Cerulean” or “Turquoise” for your bedroom to quiet your nerves after a stressful day. Electrical or cool colors of blue, indigo and violet sedate, calm, ease inflammation, and lower blood pressure.

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Bathroom: If you use a cool, soft blue in a bathroom (or any other room), that receives little natural light, it can come across as unpleasantly chilly. You can also use the color blue to cool down a hot, sunny room. Dark blue tend to evoke feelings of sadness, so refrain from using it as a main color scheme.

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Living room: The color blue has actually been shown to lower our blood pressure and heart rate. Kick off your shoes and soothe your nerves in your blue living room. Shades of lighter blue are used toe ‘expand’ the walls of a room or ‘lower’ the ceiling if it’s too high. It doesn’t work with dark blues.

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Dining room: Blue suppresses appetite a good color for the living room then if you’d like to keep your families food intake in check. If you’re worried that you will run out of food at a party, serve the food on a dark blue table cloth.

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Kitchen: Never shop when you’re hungry because you’ll buy unnecessary and, usually, unhealthy food. If blue suppresses the appetite, a blue kitchen might help you prepare smaller and lighter meals – in other words, if you’re not that hungry, you’re not going to prepare that much food.

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Office: If blue signals the freedom of open skies, how about brainstorming in a room painted blue. Blue enhances creativity and it’s not easy to “overheat” emotionally in a ‘cool’ environment.

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How NOT to decorate in Blue: Yeah you REALLY gotta love blue to stay in this room at the The Madonna Inn but somehow this crazy blue room doesn’t make my hairs stand on edge. We know by now that the “wrong” shade of blue could make a room seem very chilly but the conclusion is that there isn’t really such a thing as “too-much-blue”. If you don’t agree, feel free to voice your opinion.

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For more info on ‘Color & the subconscious: the effect of color on us’ – Click HERE..>>

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