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Blue sofa living room ideas

Find interior design inspiration and ideas about styling your blue sofa with soft delights like extra cushions and throws, mixing and matching with different patterns and colours, and getting the personal look you want for your home.

A farmhouse-style living room with white HAVSTA storage combination units, black KRAGSTA tables and a mix of seating.
A farmhouse-style living room with white HAVSTA storage combination units, black KRAGSTA tables and a mix of seating.

How do you style a room with a blue sofa?

One way to do it is this warm, inviting farmhouse-inspired living room filled with art, furniture, decorative objects and more. A soft, generous blue sofa with a cozy rounded shape stands at its heart. This room might be full of things but it still feels elegant and calm. Sticking to traditional-style furniture and going for a restrained colour palette – blue, grey, white and black – helps keep the look together.

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Two ESSEBODA blue sofas stand on a flatwoven VESTERVIG rug in a farmhouse-style living room together with KRAGSTA tables.
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Or maybe a nature-inspired cottage style?

This comfortable blue sofa with a classic, clean-lined look stands in a cottage-style living room inspired by Scandinavian nature. The fresh colour palette – blue, white, green and wooden tones – evokes the feeling of being in a northern forest, among the lakes and trees. The throw and the extra cushions add comfort and cosiness as well as spicing things up with different patterns, colours and textures.

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A white LUNNARP coffee table is in the middle of a cottage-style living room, with a HYLTARP loveseat sofa and BILLY bookcases.
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What colour of cushions go with a blue sofa?

Extra cushions open up a world of affordable opportunities! You can calm things down with earth colours or liven things up with a strong accent colour, for example. Patterns will have a big impact, too. And why not boost the look and feel with cushion covers made from different materials with interesting textures?

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A KIVIK 1-seat sofabed stands on a STOCKHOLM 2017 rug near EKET cabinets on a wall and a window with block-out curtains.
Two cushions with a beige/black KUSTFLY cushion cover and a dark beige DYTÅG cushion cover sit on a KIVIK 1-seat sofabed.
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What colours go best with a blue couch?

It’s really up to you and what you like, but here’s a couple of ideas. In one, a light blue sofa stands in a room with pastel colours balanced with a little brown. The combination helps create a playful but sophisticated style. The other has mostly subdued, darker colours but mixes in brighter clicks to add energy.

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A light blue VIMLE 3-seat sofa bed and a HOLMERUD coffee table are in a bright living room with yellow walls.
A HUMLEMOTT throw on top of four cushions with one dressed in a beige/striped VATTENVÄN cushion cover on a KIVIK 3-seat sofa.
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More tips for a better living room

Liked our blue sofa living room ideas? You can find more interior design inspiration here.