You might want to go to the link below where I posted a sample of how to use design seeds to develop flow for a house. Then you can go to design seeds and search for color palettes that include your blue color and select one to use for your house.

Here is a link that might be useful: How to apply design seeds

I'm not sure about flow, but I have been practicing Annie's design seed method over the last couple of weeks.
Since these are color schemes I'm considering, I've got a wealth of fabric and photos posted on my Pinterest. Just last night I posted Jonathan Adler's needlepoint pillows in this color scheme.

Last week I used Chip-it to pull the colors out of a
Jonathan Adler fabric.

And this is a design seed palette that Annie did awhile ago that may pick up on your colors.

Don't know if htat will help, but maybe some you can pull out to start working with.

edited to try to get photos posted

This post was edited by mlweaving_Marji on Mon, Sep 23, 13 at 23:42

Well that only half worked
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edit again for pictures

This post was edited by mlweaving_Marji on Mon, Sep 23, 13 at 23:52

Nice, mlweaving!

Thank you Annie and mleaving! I am fascinated by design seeds and am amazed at your ability to pick rooms based on the palettes Annie!! I tried too but didn't get very far!

Thank you mleaving for those color combos...how very pretty! I do love the mustard on these palettes.

I see that a calm, sane way to do this would be to perhaps paint the three rooms in varying shades of grey and then add the pops of color.

Will it be crazy for me to say have the foyer in this teal/blue, the living room in a pale gray and the dining in a vibrant mustard? the three rooms are in a row. As you enter you see the living room first and beyond that the dining room.

I am afraid it will be choppy, but I have always dreamed of a vibrant dining room!

I would think about making the foyer the more neutral of the spaces, and adding color to the LR and DR. And be careful with mustard...if it is too bright it can go uncomfortable. Yellow colors are the hardest to get right, so be sure to paint a sample on the wall before deciding.

Unfortunately, we just finished painting the foyer as is evident from the picture above. Our house is an old custom home and since our foyer is so clearly visible from every room we figured it would be nice to have a pop there. Almost like a feature wall.
I hear you about the mustard! So perhaps a neutral wall and mustard drapes?

Abi1, we have a somewhat similar situation here. It's not exactly the same, but ... we just painted a short hallway a rich purple. No pictures, but try to picture all this....

The hall connects a mudroom/laundry room (gray stone floor and a kind of beige/mushroom-y color) on one end to a family room on the left side of the other end and the kitchen on the right side of the other end. The floor in the hall and kitchen are a rich, darkish color with orange undertones, as are the stained doors at the ends of hall to the mudroom and, at the other end, between FR and kitchen leading to the pantry.

The FR had already been painted in a warm color with - yes - kind of orange undertones. I don't know the color, wheat, maybe (?) It actually goes very well with an oriental carpet in tones of pale sage green and pale rose. Perhaps the FR color has pink undertones. The color is not nearly as intense as the purple, but it's in no way a pale or pastel either.

To my eyes, the purple hall and orange-y colors of floors, door, and FR walls coordinate very well together. The stain on floor and doors is of an intensity strong enough to work with the purple.

But what also ties the purple to FR & kitchen are "pops" of color. In a window in the FR that can be seen from hall and kitchen is a piece of Shona sculpture in a rich purple stone. On the other side of the doorway from hall to kitchen are niches, three on each side of the opening, that hold pieces of glass. We painted the niches in the same purple as the hall, and, from the kitchen, you can see the niches (of course), part of the hall, and the piece of sculpture.

To continue with "pops" of color and to balance the purple niches on one side of the kitchen, I hope to find things like towels, potholders, and small rugs with purple in them, maybe also some window treatments; these would go on the other side of the kitchen. If successful, they will lead the eye from that side of the kitchen to the niches to the hall to the FR with its stone sculpture. Or so I hope. ;)

Also, there are two framed prints in the mudroom of purple grapes. I hope to find a rug for the room that has purple in it. If I find one, I could use it in both mudroom and kitchen, and, ideally, find a coordinating runner for the purple hall.

Another thing: hanging on one wall of the hall is an antique crazy quilt. It takes up most of that wall, so the purple acts like a border, rather than as a large block of color. The quilt is bound in a maroon velvet and consists of pieces of silk and velvet.

On the other wall of the hall are three framed Chinese figures, in silk, backed by now-faded maroon, and framed in black.

So the purple hall, while dramatic, is almost only a backdrop for various pieces of art that work together. Or so I hope, once again. ;)

One more color theme: the kitchen trim is a soft green that has gray in it I think. (The kitchen walls are an off-white of sorts.) The oriental carpet in the FR also has soft sage-y/gray green. The grape prints in the mudroom have inner mats that are marbleized, with one of the colors a green. And there are green grape leaves, too. Finally, a large oriental carpet in the kitchen has gray-green in it, and the tablecloth has another soft green in it....

purples and greens. It'd be nice if towels, potholders, and rugs could have purples and greens in them, too.

Sorry for the very lengthy description! But one more thing: two of the objects in the kitchen's six purple niches are glass birds. On the far end of the kitchen, where I hope to place purple or purple and green rugs, towels, etc., is a large framed print of a bird. The purple Shona sculpture is an abstract bird and, in the window on either side of it, we've hung two stained glass windows with peacocks as the central motif. Finally, we have three paintings, all by the same artist, two in the FR and one in the kitchen, each of which has a different bird in it.

So...purple hall works with its floor and door color, with the kitchen floor color, and with the FR color. The kitchen's niches and the FR's bird are purple.

The purple also works with green, and there are greens in all the rooms connecting to the hall.

Purple hall's drama is muted by large pieces on it, so it's not too overwhelming. The purple is more of a border than large eye-killing blocks of color.

Finally, there's a theme (birds) than connects kitchen through to the FR. I should mention that that theme was entirely accidental. I guess I like things with birds in them!

I hope this lengthy description gives you a few ideas.

"I see that a calm, sane way to do this would be to perhaps paint the three rooms in varying shades of grey and then add the pops of color."

Forgive the direct question, but why, when you've said you're not a fan of gray, would you paint three main rooms in your house gray?

I'm sorry, I misunderstood...I thought from the picture that we were seeing into the LR from the foyer.

No, you can do the mustard on the wall if you wish, just be careful of the shade. For example, this one is a golden mustard tone which is warm and welcoming

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[Traditional Dining Room[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/traditional-dining-room-ideas-phbr1-bp~t_722~s_2107) by Montreal Photographers Leona Mozes Photography

This one is starting to go more acid

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[Modern Living Room[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/modern-living-room-ideas-phbr1-bp~t_718~s_2105) by San Francisco Interior Designers & Decorators ADEENI DESIGN GROUP

Here they used the gray with the mustard in the drapes and a softer gold tone on the walls

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[Contemporary Dining Room[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/contemporary-dining-room-ideas-phbr1-bp~t_722~s_2103) by Carlsbad Interior Designers & Decorators Klang & Associates

If you look at greys, I'd look for a warm tone --into the greige. I recently saw that BM Nimbus was one of Candice Olsen's favorite paint colors. I just saw a photo of it in a room and think that might go well with your colors. I have BM wish in a room and it plays very well with blues and darker wood tones. It would be a lighter shade, but it has a lot of life and a richness to it. You might like that if your room tends to be darker. I don't think it would be any darker than what you have now -- just softer and richer.

Would you consider green for your DR? Emerald green -- the jewel tone. It could be in chairs, perhaps an accent wall if not the room. Played up with some gold in fixtures, hardware or accessories. if you really want jewel tones, you might add a touch of a rich purple or ruby red somewhere.-- and some crystal (chandy, bowl, vase -- something that sparkles). We had a neighbor who did a DR in emerald green (walls, carpet, velvet chairs and drapes) and it was gorgeous -- bold, rich and different. Not something I would have ever thought without seeing it.

Mustard would be a hard color to get right. I'm not a big mustard fan anyway and I see it as a casual color while I like DRs to be more sophisticated if not more formal.

I'm thinking that a less saturated blue like Alfresco might be a nice way to go in the dining room, giving you your more vibrant space. Then something calmer in the living room such as BM silvery moon.
Tie it all together with trim that isn't quite as stark as white. Maybe BM PaperDoll.
Then if you're inclined toward more formal windows, a cross dye silk dupioni might be a great way to bring in the mustard in a really subtle way.
Foyer

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[Paints Stains And Glazes[(https://www.houzz.com/products/paint-prbr0-br~t_505) by Montvale Paint & Wall Coverings Benjamin Moore

Dining room

Drapery silk dupioni

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[Paints Stains And Glazes[(https://www.houzz.com/products/paint-prbr0-br~t_505) by Minneapolis Interior Designers & Decorators Martha O'Hara Interiors

Trim -Paper doll

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[Paints Stains And Glazes[(https://www.houzz.com/products/paint-prbr0-br~t_505) by Montvale Paint & Wall Coverings Benjamin Moore
Then you could do something great like that Kravet fabric for your dining chairs for more mustard

edit to add foyer color

Here is a link that might be useful: crossdyesilk

This post was edited by mlweaving_Marji on Tue, Sep 24, 13 at 10:51

For the balance of your rooms, I'd recommend that you use the intense blue ONLY on accessories and accents, like you see the orange used in the pictures below, combined with neutral colors on the main furnishing items. That way in the future, if you tire of the blue, you can change out the accessory items and create a whole new appearance.

I'd also recommend you combine the blue with an equally bright green for some rooms to vary the appearance.

Reading ideabooks and articles on Houzz about layering color and pattern and came across this photo. thought of you. I could see your Adriatic blue in the center foyer between these two rooms where the color is a bit calmer and more subdued.
I pulled this from the article "punch up a room with color..." linked below

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[Traditional Entry[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/traditional-entryway-ideas-phbr1-bp~t_741~s_2107) by Norwich Architects & Designers Smith & Vansant Architects PC

Here is a link that might be useful: [Gorgeous-Blues-and-Striking-Yellows[(https://www.houzz.com/magazine/gorgeous-blues-and-striking-yellows-stsetivw-vs~219828)

This post was edited by mlweaving_Marji on Wed, Sep 25, 13 at 8:58