Blue walls have been found to boost productivity and creativity, while green is considered more tranquil.
Surrounded by Arsenal and Liverpool team posters on either side of the walls, the blue-shirted workers meticulously cut and stitch pieces of leather.
Dyers' Souq (Souq Sebbaghine) is the most picturesque, with skeins of freshly dyed saffron and vermillion wool hung to dry against Marrakshi pink walls and Saharan blue skies.
But for tasks that require a little bit of creativity, we seem to benefit from high ceilings, lots of windows and bright blue walls that match the sky.
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The extraordinary lobby of the palace is centered on a marble fountain supported by cherubs, while the sky-blue walls are frescoed with cotton-ball clouds, birds, garlands and idealized rural scenes.
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The Echo is a cool little club on the east side of Los Angeles, just grimy enough, with dark blue walls and a crowd that on a recent Monday night included movie stars Casey Affleck and Joaquin Phoenix, bobbing their heads to an all-girl band called The Like.
The foot-friendly furry rug makes the floor exciting. (Money-saving tip: Use a large, inexpensive sisal rug as a base, and layer it with a small version of the pricier rug you love.) Windows with wow factor: Embroidered Roman shades add warmth and contrast and function as art against understated blue walls.
The walls are painted police blue up to the wainscoting, and then white to the ceiling, which is painted black.
Blue leather booths line the walls covered with Al Hirschfeld drawings, underneath dark wood molding contrasted with a modern splash of blue light at the ceiling's edge.
One woman stayed in her hurricane-damaged home with only blue tarps for walls.
In his own apartment, the AC is housed behind a vented enclosure painted the same colonial blue as the walls.
The new store's powder blue and gold walls and velvet-upholstered chairs are inspired, she explained, by Marie Antoinette's theater in the Petit Trianon at Versailles.
Five courtyards show off blue doors against white walls, and 16th-century fountains.
The cosy, historic 65-room St Regis hotel underwent a major, 12-million Canadian dollar renovation in 2008 and re-emerged as a business traveller favourite, with marble bathroom finishes and walls sheathed in rich, pale blue leather.
Instead of the walls whispering of emerald green, claret and sky blue, they now shout luxury.
The blue pigment Mayans used to paint temple walls 1, 400 years ago was made of particles only about 50 nanometers across.
There are areas like power over Ethernet, all the little blue wires that hang out of the walls of buildings.
Full-scale walls have been built of the shaped brick and deep blue or white ceramic tile that he wrapped effortlessly around columns and curved surfaces.
There were wooden benches, beige walls, and dozens of lawyers clad in dark gray and blue.
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But despite being vanished off the face of the Earth, there were times when the walls around us would dissolve and I could see, with perfect blue-sky clarity, that everything I needed to know about the world was immediately available to me.
Conceived as a capsule for the imaginary voyage of moviegoing, the theater has a wraparound ceiling and walls made of 1, 136 fabric panels in a sensuous, vibrant Yves Klein blue, altering the viewer's depth perception and encouraging a sensation of being suspended in the space.
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The walls in that room are adorned with wreaths crafted by volunteers using red, white and blue yarn.
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The walls of the East Landing are adorned with wreaths crafted with red, white, and blue yarn, and a tree decorated with red, white and blue ornaments completes the space.
Designers ripped down dated blue-striped wallpaper, then added crown molding and a hand-painted border to the walls.
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