An apartment with cool grey walls and a blue kitchen

This beautiful turn-of-the-century apartment in Sweden has gorgeous crown moldings and floorboards, accentuated by the green-gray and blue-gray paint colors on the wall in the different rooms.

The kitchen and living room are connected to each other in an open layout and the dark blue kitchen cabinets go so nicely with the blue-gray color on the walls. Blue-gray paint colors tend to work best in rooms with warm daylight coming in so that the blue undertone of the paint doesn’t overpower the gray tones.

A living room with a blue-gray wall color, white moldings, white floorboards, white area rug, white sofa, green textiles, fireplace

Blue-gray paint color in the living room

Depending on the angle from which you look at the living room walls, you could call this color a faded sky blue, or a gray-blue. The floorboards in the living room are pretty high, which accentuates the bluish-gray paint colors on the wall, while at the same time contrasting with the warm hardwood flooring throughout the space.

The white sofa and area rug in the living room are complemented with blue and green tints in the textiles and furnishings and I love that a shade of pale blue also comes back in the art print on the wall above the sofa.

The warm wood of the TV cabinet, and coffee table, and the cognac leather on the armchair add a warm touch to the otherwise cool tones in the interior design and the wall next to the window has been used for floating shelving combined with a small home office spot.

A living room with a blue-gray wall color, white moldings, white floorboards, white area rug, home office corner

Blue kitchen cabinets and white glossy metro tiles

The blue kitchen shares an open-plan layout with the living room and has these beautiful bay windows that let in an abundance of natural light. The kitchen itself has been planned on the walls without windows or doors, to optimally use this space and includes both upper and lower cabinets, which provide a lot of storage space.

The dark blue kitchen cabinets pair up nicely with the glossy white subway tile backsplash and the stainless steel appliances and brass hardware. The blue cabinets on the top go all the way up to the ceiling, just like the backsplash does, which gives the blue kitchen a very elegant look, highlighting the crown molding in the space.

The impressive white oval Eero Saarinen dining table combined with the black &Tradition Betty dining chairs add a beautiful black and white contrast to the cool color palette of the kitchen cabinets.

A kitchen with dark blue cabinets, brass hardware, subway tile backsplash, white Eero Saarinen dining table, black dining chairs

A kitchen with dark blue cabinets, brass hardware, subway tile backsplash

Gray with green undertones in the bedroom

The bedroom has a very neutral decor, yet the gray wall color with green undertones gives the interior a sophisticated look. I love the way the rattan headboard and the white chest of drawers just seem to jump out of this beautiful wall color and the green tones in the art print above the bed complete the look nicely.

A bedroom with green-gray walls, rattan headboard, green art print, warm gray curtains

A bedroom with green-gray walls, white chest of drawers

Gray-green herringbone tiles and brass accents in the bathroom

The bathroom is fully tiled from floor to ceiling with gray-green porcelain tiles in a herringbone pattern, which looks quite impressive in the space. The black bathroom cabinet combined with the brass fixture finishes off the look of this bathroom in a subtle yet sophisticated way.