From all colors dark blue is more often connected with concept of beauty. Since the most ancient times it is popular all over the world. Dark blue - is the color of eternity, connecting the present with the past and the future. Magicians and wizards used to dress dark blue color. In the middle ages people in blue, knew true. In Ancient Egypt pyramid from within was colored in dark blue color. The Buddha and Krishna are also of dark blue color. In myths dark blue color is a divine color; it is a color of mysteriousness and value.
From the psychological point of view, dark blue color associates calmness and peace.
Dark blue - is the most popular color of “cold” scale. Its expressive possibilities are really inexhaustible. It, as a rule, associates with the sky and the sea; it possesses ability to transfer both lightness of clouds, and calmness of the cloudless sky, and a deep gloom of night. Color of the sea depends on the sky, depth, time of day, weather conditions and even features of a sea-bottom: it fluctuates from dark blue-violet shades to pale aquamarine.
Two shades of dark blue are considered as cores. Light blue (blue) - color of the sky, refreshing cool, height, freedom, peace. It is color of carelessness, pensiveness and romanticism, it calms, radiates reliability, but thus, looking at it, it is impossible to concentrate. It is color of “quiet emotionality”; it gives the chance to be outside the limits of a society, it expands space.
Dark blue (indigo) possesses the properties similar with blue, but as its intensity is high its influence on the person is much stronger. It is a symbol of consciousness, depth, and internal source of life. This color is very much appreciated by Japanese and Chineses. But tending black, it gets a grief shade, leads to depression, and causes oppressing action, anxiety, excessive gravity, grief, grief.
Dark blue color is strict and mysterious; its presence in interior always gives refinement and nobleness to a room. But because of coldness its use in an inhabited interior is very uneasy problem. In excessive quantity it can even lead to depression. Therefore skilled designers counterbalance its warm tones: red gives interior expressiveness, yellow - freshness, and peach - luxury and elegance. Mixing it with yellow, we receive green shades, and with red - violet.
Orange - is a complementary color to dark blue. It is organically combined with white and dark brown. If it is the deep dark blue it is necessary to combine it with the same deep shades of red, brown, green and white.
Thanks to the calming influence dark blue color is often used in bedrooms interior- the most silent part of the house. After all images, which are matched by dark blue color - late night, silence, darkness, a fairy tale…
It approaches as primary color for sitting rooms, where it can vary in various shades: from dark blue in a carpet covering to dim blue in drawing of wall-paper. “Blue sitting room” calms and weakens after the working day. If with a bedroom and a bathroom all is clear and unequivocal, in dining room prevalence of dark blue color is not always good.
Physiologists prove that dark blue color reduces appetite, so if you are wishing to grow thing, you can use this color in your kitchens interior.
If the hall premise is small or narrow, there is a reason to paint it completely in purely blue color. It will give to space of a hall lightness and unusual cleanliness.
Blue color is recommended for office interior as it will help to settle down conflict situations.