Navy blue
Real Homes
|December 2022 - January 2023
Strong and powerful yet soothing and understated, navy is a cocooning shade that works with any scheme. Our colour guru, Amelia, shares why and how to make it work
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Navy blue gets its name from the colour of the uniforms worn by navy officers around the world. And with this comes natural associations to authority, power and safety, but also to the calmness of the sea. 'It symbolises trust and authority, and projects that an individual is understated but confident. As a colour, it holds elements of nobility and ties with the sea, giving it a reverence and an affinity to nature,' says colour psychologist Lee Chambers, (leechambers.org).

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