Blue is a classic Christmas color that isn’t seen as often as red, green and gold but still. This is a lovely color associated with winter and everything frozen and it calms down and soothes people when used in interior decorating. If you want a lovely and welcoming ambience that would hint on the winter and north and help you relax at the same time, blue can be a great idea. Here are the best color palettes with blue, choose what inspires you!
Traditional Color Schemes
Blue And Gold
Blue and gold is the most traditional color scheme just like red and gold. Being quite contrasting, it brings ultimate elegance at once and can be used in many styles and decor themes, especially in glam, vintage and luxurious. If you want to make the combo more modern and fresh, include white or creamy and use less gold.
Pairing various shades of blue with gold and white will make your blue and gold color scheme non-cheesy.
Here's how you can style a gold Christmas tree in a bold way: get blue ribbons, navy and gold ornaments and add lights.
How to decorate a gold Christmas tree? Calm down the bold color of the tree covering it with white and creamy decor and accent it with blue and navy ornaments.
This is how you pull off a refined and timeless color scheme with a touch of glam and sophistication: silver grey, light blue, gold and white ornaments and ribbons will make your tree adorable.
Navy ornaments stand out in the backdrop of a flocked Christmas wreath, and lights and pinecones make it shine. (via realhomes).
Gold and blue are timelessly elegant, and you may add white to them to make the color scheme softer.
This tree is decorated with timeless elegant using various shades of blue, gold and some natural pinecones.
You can get inspired by anything while decorating your Christmas tree, for example, this tree decor was inspired by chinoiserie.
Navy paired with metallics will make up bold and refined decor, and lights all over the tree will make it stand out.
Blue And Silver
Blue and silver is just like blue and gold, it’s timeless sophistication that screams winter and holidays. To make this color scheme stand out, you can go for some unexpected solutions like a silver Christmas tree with blue ornaments, or various shades of blue from tiffany blue to navy in one color palette. Varying the decor and pieces you are using will let you adapt this color scheme to many styles, from vintage to modern and from coastal to winter wonderland.
This is how a coastal Christmas tree can look: light blue shades paired with silver and white help to embrace the location.
How to style a silver Christmas tree? Go blues and white and such soft colors will calm down the sparkling look of the tree. (via trendir).
If you are looking for an elegant and not too traditional color scheme, you may like navy, white and silver, just add sparkling ribbons and lights and voila.
Modern glam with woodland touches? Yes, please! Navy, silverand gold ornaments have never looked so good together, and lights and pinecones top off the decor.
Here's another perfect example of how winter wonderland style can be pulled off with blue shades.
Blue And White
Blue and white are always a good idea! Being very versatile, this color combo is a softer version of blue and silver and can be integrated almost everywhere. You can make it special getting inspired by chinoiserie while decorating, introducing some silver touches here and there or sticking to lights shades of blue instead of navy. This is a beautiful and soft or contrasting and bold color scheme depending on the shades, and it can be applied to various spaces from coastal to refined vintage ones.
Such a ribbon garland can be DIYed of white and navy ribbons, evergreens and ornaments that match. (via thistlewoodfarms).
This Christmas tablescape is ultimate elegance: refined plates and silver chargers are paired with blue napkins and a stand with Christmas ornaments.
This winter wonderland Christmas tree is spruced up with light blue ribbons that infuse it with a subtle touch of color.
To make your blue and white color scheme look catchy, you can use oversized Christmas ornaments and vary the finishes and patterns.
Such delicate wintry blues and silver grey shades remind of snowy winters, ice and all frozen everything.
I love this winter nook! A cozy teepee with pillows inside is placed by the beautiful Christmas tree, and the classic color scheme of blue and white screams winter.
This sophisticated Christmas tree shows off blue, white, metallic ornaments of all shapes and looks you can imagine.
Chinoiserie is a popular source of inspiration when decorating in blue and white, and patterned ornaments and ribbon echo with it.
If you have a lightblue tree, this is how you can style it in a cool way: decorate it with white babules, snowflakes, beads and add lights and ribbons.
This fab flocked Christmas wreath looks as if it's a frozen piece. It's a flocked evergreen decoration finished off with silver and blue baubles.
This luxurious Christmas tree is styled with blue and green baubles, ribbons and branches, and the garland on the mantel matches it.
Such a lovely Christmas tree with a Scandinavian feel can be placed both in adult and kids' space as these cute sheep ornaments will excite everybody.
Winter wonderland decor can be done with addition of light blues that remind of frozen nature and add a soft touch of color.
As the room is done in blue and white, the Christmas tree is decorated in order to look cohesive, and large snowflakes and beads make it stand out.
This Christmas tree is styled to match chinoiserie in the buffet, and it's done with navy and blue ornaments and blue ribbons.
If you enjoy contrasting decor that stands out, navy and white are a perfect color combo for you, and adding lights you will accent it.
Navy always stands out in neutral backdrops, so you may rock it on flocked and white Christmas trees.
Vintage silver ornaments are beautifully paired with navy ribbon bows to make the tree chic and stylish.
Navy and white is a contrasting color scheme perfect for the holidays, and here it's calmed down with evergreens and pinecones.
Modern Color Schemes
Blue And Pink
Blue and pink is my personal favorite because I’m a sucker for pastels, and I enjoy this combo done soft. Yet, you can also rock bolder shades of both colors or go timelessly elegant with navy and blush. Whatever option you choose, blue and pink will look adorable, especially if you have flocked evergreens that will make the overall impression even softer and airier.
A couple of funny Christmas pillows in blue and pink will add a touch of fun to the space.
If you love delicate, subtle and somewhat tender decor, this idea may inspire you: pink roses, blush and light blue ornaments, snowflakes and beads look gorgeous.
If you like bold tones, consider trying navy and bold pink decor because this way your Christmas spaces will look out of the box and very memorable.
Navy, blush and white can be used to create glam and chic decor, add metallics to them, and voila! (via newportlaneblog).
Ocean blue and blush are a lovely and exquisite color scheme, and this tree decor perfectly matches the artwork on the wall.
Blush, pale blue and green ornaments become a nice backdrop for navy baubles to stand out.
If you love delicate colors, pastel color schemes are perfect for you, choose blue and blush like here or add light greens to them, too.
Navy and blue ornaments are paired with rose gold ones to create a beautiful, chic and delicate look. (via mariakillam).
Blue And Red
Blue and red are a super bold color scheme, and some of you can say it’s quite traditional but no, not as much as red and gold. If you have a coastal home, you can go for light and ocean blues paired with red, and if you need more color, stick to navy and bold red. Infuse the color scheme with gold and you will get vibrant and bold decor.
This is a modern farmhouse Christmas tree infused with bright and muted colors: green, blue, red and pink, with plaid ribbons and faceted ornaments.
Wanna pull off some glam? Get inspired by this bold Christmas tree styled with striped ribbons, oversized ornaments and beads.
This Christmas tree is decorated in a bold mix of navy, blue and red, with plaid ribbons, snowflakes and lights.
Navy and red tartan ribbons are used to support the navy, red and gold color scheme of the tree. (via typeastyle).
This flocked Christmas tree is done with light blue vintage ornaments and modern printed red baubles that make it look like a modern take on vintage.
Blue And Green
The last but not least is the blue and green color combo. If you ask me, I’d always choose evergreens paired with navy and navy plaid for a chic and elegant look with a slight moody feel but of course you can vary the shades and their intensity as you please. Such a color scheme can be used in many spaces depending on the tones and decorations you take.
This refined winter tablescape shows off an evergreen runner, a plaid ribbon, candles, pinecones and blue napkins.
Though we expect a woodland Christmas tree to be done in green, brown, orange and tan, here's how you can pull off blue and navy in such a case.
This holiday posie is made of navy plaid ribbon, evergreens, ornaments and bells and it looks very cool. (via chelseaclarke).
Blue and green are natural colors, that's why you can make this color scheme all-natural: evergreens and leaves paired with blue thistles and ribbons make up lovely decor.