Color psychology | blue

Alongside yellow and red, blue is the third of the primary colors and is associated with the sky or water. This may also be the reason why blue is considered the color of the intangible, the emotional and the unreal. In contrast to the warm colors, blue as a cold color has a correspondingly distant and distant effect. For example, rooms decorated in cool tones appear larger than they actually are. Smaller rooms in an apartment or house are often used as bedrooms and children's rooms. This is usually because people want to be able to guarantee a certain amount of seclusion and privacy in these rooms. Blue is an ideal wall color or design element here in particular - also because blue has a calming effect and is many people's favorite color.

Blue is the color of emotion and - depending on the shade, mood and individual association - can be simply anything: loud, sad, relaxed, melancholy, vital, emotional, dreamy. The 'blue hour', 'blue Monday', 'making blue' are idiomatic expressions that associate blue with strong emotions. The blue hour, for example, is a phenomenon that occurs after sunset, when the sky is already bathed in a dark blue while the surroundings are still visibly illuminated, creating a very special atmosphere. In contrast, the blue hour is about unscheduled and unannounced absence from obligations such as work or school.

Nevertheless, blue symbolizes objectivity, trust and security and is therefore often used in the financial world. But social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter also harness the power of blue tones when used in logos and company presentations. Rulers decorated their palaces with lapis lazuli, a blue to blue-violet semi-precious stone that has been mined in Afghanistan for thousands of years and in Chile since the 20th century. Mosaics and entire columns were intended to lend their rooms splendor and uniqueness in this way. Nevertheless, there was no term for blue in ancient Rome. To this day, some primitive peoples, like the Egyptians of antiquity, still use the same term: in their language, blue and green are the same thing.

Christians, on the other hand, associated blue with the heavenly, the divine. Thus the Virgin Mary wears a blue robe in most paintings. In the art world, we are familiar with Pablo Picasso's 'Blue Period' (1901 to 1905), which established his style. The painters Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky founded the association 'Der Blaue Reiter' (also the title of a painting by Franz Marc) as a counter-movement to naturalism.

Blue has an appetite-suppressing effect, which is why the food industry largely avoids this color and often uses green instead. Green, on the other hand, stands for nature, health and ultimately also serenity and relaxation. Shades of blue and green are available in a wide range of color gradations. They can be combined very well in a room.

Design objects in blue or with blue accents have a very special aura. They not only set elegant color accents, but also add charisma and coolness. Bring a touch of blue into your home with the following design objects.