Blue

Graft Sideboard Welsh's understated, livable Graft collection includes this storage-stocked credenza in gray laminate with a solid oak frame.

Tip: Focus on the shape of the room, the existing windows and daylight, and the flow of the space.

A Finnish family created a delightfully creative home on a DIY budget of just $4,000. Note the geometric pattern dancing across the cabinetry and the witty blue "socks" on the chair. (Pin)

NOTE designed the wood blue-gray wall covering in this bedroom. A chrome Bestlite BL6 wall lamp by Gubi hangs near custom-made curtains, created using fabric by Astrid.

Mr. Porter 'Working Bags' Shoot.Everything other than the brown leather briefcase gets the color blue treatment.

Ross's White Lies table is made of blue-painted Carrara marble.

Serving set by Mazama Wares, in a lovely midnight-blue speckle.

Rendered in a soft blue, this Blue Fern print features intricate charcoal line work.

Here, Louekari's Siirtolapuutarha pattern appears on an eight-inch vitreous porcelain bowl.

Another view of Fairway cottage #11. I like the blue carpet but Bill and his wife Suzanne told me they don't. I think it's quite smart with the yellowish walls and loads of natural light.

From above and below, the blue foam models of these unused Dutch buildings form a beautiful landscape suspended in mid-air.

"I always play with perspective," Dam says. "I love that a simple line can look like it is both going in and out of an illustration, depending on how you choose to look at it." Pictured is the House A4 print.

Modern cabinet finger pulls in bright and shiny chrome dot the drawers in this sleek kitchen in Venice, California.

AbEx painter Barnett Newman's signature mark was the "zip," narrow strips of paint that demarcate color fields while adding a visual jolt of electricity. This cotton tablecloth, woven in Mexico, features a similar (though much more subtle) motif. ($109 from Diario.)

The Kumina design was also featured in the Dwell and Marimekko Contest, though not in this blue colorway.

In all, it took the ceramic company—Royal Tichelaar Makkum—5 years to produce the 33,000 floor tiles 46,000 wall tiles. Each tile is the traditional size for a Dutch tile: 5.11 inches (13 cm) square.

'Eden' archival blue colorway by Alexander Girard.

In the garden room, Juhl's 1957 Japanese chair lies next to a sofa table and a built-in bench, designed for the house. The blue upholstery matches Anna Thommsen’s carpet.