Decorate with Blue - DTT Classic

Decorating Tips and Tricks

Bespoke FM

Design, Arts, Leisure, Home & Garden

4.2 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Blue is one of the most popular colors people use in decorating, and it is calming and peaceful. There's lots of reasons to use blue in your room, so we're going to talk about how to do it and share some of our favorite blue home décor items. Anita's Blue Decor: Farrow and Ball Lulworth Blue paint ⁠HERE⁠ Benjamin Moore Water's Edge paint ⁠HERE⁠ Benjamin Moore Hale Navy paint ⁠HERE⁠ Benjamon Moore Blue Note paint ⁠HERE⁠ snow leopard blue jay fabirc ⁠HERE⁠ gable damask blueridge fabric ⁠HERE⁠ bandar marine fabric ⁠HERE⁠ Rifle paper co. Loloi Kismet Amphora rug ⁠HERE⁠ Handwoven Haven Indoor/Outdoor Rug ⁠HERE⁠ Have you been wanting a consult, but haven't pulled the trigger? Now is the time to sign up for a consult with Anita and Kelly. The prices are going up June 1, so you'll want to get in on the old pricing!! Find out more ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠ We participate in the affiliate program with Amazon and other retailers. We may receive a small fee for qualified purchases at no extra cost to you. Anita's bedroom rug ⁠HERE⁠ Anita's bathroom rug ⁠HERE⁠ Tribal collection on Etsy has pillow covers from Thailand ⁠HERE⁠ Safavieh throw 50x60 duck egg blue with chartruese pom pom fringe ⁠HERE⁠ European flax linen curtain - Ocean ⁠HERE⁠ Cotton Velvet Curtain - Ocean ⁠HERE⁠ Russel and Hobbs toaster ⁠HERE⁠ Russel and Hobbs tea kettle ⁠HERE⁠ blue mixer ⁠HERE⁠ Spode Italian dishes in blue and white ⁠HERE⁠ Pinterest blue monochromatic rooms ⁠HERE⁠ Kelly’s Blue Decor: Hexagon tray in navy & gold ⁠HERE⁠ Frontage House Beautiful hand painted garden stool ⁠HERE⁠ Blue Peony bowls & snack plates by Caskata ⁠HERE⁠ Room & Board’s Banks Lagoon upholstery fabric ⁠HERE⁠ Wovn Home 100% textured blue linen drapes ⁠HERE⁠ Blue fireplace glass ⁠HERE⁠ Paints: Cerulean by Behr ⁠HERE⁠ Hague Blue by Farrow & Ball ⁠HERE⁠ Sea Serpent by Sherwin Williams ⁠HERE⁠ Naval by Sherwin Williams ⁠HERE⁠ Fabric: Pyne Hollyhock in indigo ⁠HERE⁠ Check out Serena & Lily for inspiration on getting neutrals with hints of blue right ⁠HERE⁠ DTT defines Eight-Way Hand Tied Kelly's crush is this Electric Foot Callus Remover - ⁠HERE⁠ Anita's crush is the book - Suzanne Kasler: Timeless Style Hardcover -⁠HERE⁠ Need help with your home? We'd love to help! We do personalized consults, and we'll offer advice specific to your room that typically includes room layout ideas, suggestions for what the room needs, and how to pull the room together. We'll also help you to decide what isn't working for you. We work with any budget, large or small. Find out more ⁠HERE⁠ Hang out with us between episodes at our blogs, IG and Kelly's YouTube channels. Links are below to all those places to catch up on the other 6 days of the week! Kelly's IG ⁠HERE⁠ Kelly's Youtube ⁠HERE⁠ Kelly's blog ⁠HERE⁠ Anita's IG ⁠HERE⁠ Anita's blog ⁠HERE⁠ Are you subscribed to the podcast? Don't need to search for us each Wednesday let us come right to your door ...er...device. Subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts. Just hit the SUBSCRIBE button & we'll show up! If you have a moment we would so appreciate it if you left a review for DTT on iTunes. Just go ⁠HERE⁠ and click listen in apple podcasts. XX, Anita & Kelly DI : 12:54/21:56 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	Feeling blue today?
0:44.2	Hi, it's Anita Joyce here with Kelly Wilkins, and this is decorating tips and tricks.
0:47.9	Today we're discussing how to decorate with blue.
0:56.2	And blue is one of the most popular colors for people to use in decor, and it is one of my personal favorites. So I am so excited to be doing this episode, and thank you, Kelly, for suggesting it. Isn't that strange?
1:03.2	The girl who claims not to be a blue girl suggested this episode. But hey, I don't really decorate
1:09.3	with blue, as you all know, but I wear blue. I like blue.
1:13.6	I can appreciate blue. And I know that 45% of males have blue as their favorite color and 35% of
1:20.3	females. Blue is very popular. And in color psychology, blue is said to promote feelings of reliability, responsibility,
1:31.4	and calm.
1:32.0	So who can argue with that?
1:33.4	All good ways to feel.
1:35.8	And also, there's an interesting science of blue.
1:38.6	Do you know what the science of blue is, Anita?
1:40.7	Well, I'm not really sure what you're getting at, but let's do it.
1:43.1	Well, when light shines on anything, such as, in our case, I'm not really sure what you're getting at, but let's do it. Well, when light shines on
1:45.0	anything, such as, in our case, perhaps a piece of furniture, the item absorbs every color in the
1:51.3	spectrum, except one color, which is the color that you see. And because blue has a very short wavelength,
1:58.8	therefore is the easiest color to see. So I wonder if
2:02.8	its popularity is in that it's not only calming to your emotions, but it's also just really easy
2:09.6	for your body and your eyes to discern. Lots of interesting things about blue. It is shown to
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