40 Beautiful Bedroom Paint Colors to Help Elevate Your Space
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The power color holds in design is immeasurable. Each shade deployed throughout your home tells a story and expresses your own personal decor style. And within the bedroom, the color scheme needs to promote rest and relaxation while being energizing enough for those mornings when you need help getting out of that cozy bed. Selecting the right calming tone or mood-boosting color scheme can be a challenge, though. A shade too dark may make a smaller apartment bedroom feel a bit cavernous, whereas a loud, electric color can make more spacious rooms feel too overwhelming.
The key to picking the best bedroom paint color is to take time and test how different shades look and feel within the room. It's important that you love the color both in daylight and nighttime; try placing a few swatches throughout and living with them for a few days to see how they work within the space. Once you've spent ample time with the color, you'll have a better idea whether or not it's the one for your space.
Need a little more guidance? We asked top designers for their go-to bedroom paint colors—including the best white paint colors. Whether you’re looking for a shade that embodies tranquility or one that adds a dramatic edge, you’re sure to find the right color in one of these 40 beautiful bedroom paint ideas.
Airy Lavender
According to Renvy Graves Pittman's decorator playbook, lavender is an underutilized neutral that exudes romance and tranquility. Pale lavender walls bring a sense of serenity to the sprawling bedroom at her Bel Air estate. Club chairs and sofas covered in solid purple fabrics (Manuel Canova) carry the shade throughout the room with ease.
Sandy Beige
Designer Miles Redd pulled inspiration from the breathtaking landscape and lively community for the interiors of this historic Block Island retreat. In the primary bedroom, sand-painted grass cloth walls “give them texture but feel beachy and old-fashioned, like they’ve always been there,” says Redd.
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French Green
Verdant shades and traditional English style sing throughout Esther Cayzer-Colvin’s Wiltshire manor house. French green walls complement the dramatic canopy fabric dressing Cayzer-Colvin’s bed (Christopher Clark Workshops) which happens to be a copy of the V&A’s Garrick Bed.
Sea Blue
Eastern and Western aesthetics artfully meld together in this well-traveled Delaware beach house by designer Mona Hajj. The antique Syrian drawers and the floral drapery (Osborne & Little) create visual interest against the soothing blue walls in the guest bedroom.
Luxe in Neutrals
Watery blues and warm yellows bring the neighboring sea inside the walls of this South Carolina bedroom. Designer Amelia T. Handegan painted the room's walls Sandy Brown by Benjamin Moore. The bergère is in a Fortuny cotton paired with curtains in a Larsen wool. The tester bed is by Niermann Weeks.
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Slate Blue
Dallas-based designer Meredith Ellis found color inspiration for a secondary bedroom at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House in the vibrant blue rooms of Mount Vernon. Benjamin Moore's Providence Blue provided a strong base for a mod wallcovering by Leah O’Connell Textiles and modern artworks. Accessories from OKA further add to the room’s well-collected appeal.
Ballet Slipper Pink
For this London rowhouse bedroom, designer Gary McBournie needed to find a wall color that complimented the owner's series of 19th-century framed seaweed presses. Enter a muted blush shade that illuminates the collection displayed across the walls and flawlessly ties in the rosy tones of the floral canopy fabric (Lee Jofa). The bed linens are by Prates.
Faint Aqua
Leontine Linens founder Jane Scott Hodges used Pierre Frey’s Mortefontaine fabric to inform the color scheme of her dramatic boudoir in New Orleans. The faint aqua and sky blue tones in the floral fabric are repeated on the bedroom walls and glossy trim. The paint colors are Oval Room Blue and Light Blue, both by Farrow & Ball.
Whisper of Peach
Relaxed peach tones warmly envelop the primary bedroom in this New York pied-à-terre by designer Robert Passal, providing an approachable backdrop for distinguished art pieces. An oil painting by Cynthia Packard glows over the flared-headboard bed by Dmitriy & Co.
Satin Eggshell
While the rest of the rooms in her 18th-century Charleston, South Carolina, home burst with color, designer Ceara Donnelly decided to keep things neutral in the primary bedroom. The silky walls (Slipper Satin by Farrow & Ball) cast a warm glow over the towering canopy bed (Luther Quintana Upholstery) and proper settee (Soane Britain). The chandelier was found at Guinevere Antiques.
Brittany Blue
Bubbly blue walls (Brittany Blue by Benjamin Moore) spark creativity in the office area of this Bronxville bedroom by Carrier & Co. Flora drapery (Holland & Sherry) frames views of the home's bountiful gardens. The raffia-and-bronze-gilded desk was designed by Carrier and Company for Century.
Chalky Gray
With striking lucite-framed prayer scripts (Lucky Fish Gallery) acting as the room's centerpiece, architect Ken Pursley opted for a chalky gray shade (Hardwick White by Farrow & Ball) to cover the walls. The custom bedding is made from Perennials fabrics with Rogers & Goffigon trim.
Ivory
In this airy Bronxville, New York bedroom, crisp white tones accentuate the room's vaulted and coffered ceiling. Matouk linens dress an upholstered winged bed (fabric, Fermoie) with a painted wood frame. The window sofa is by Lee Industries.
Big Sky Blue
In this Montana bedroom, designer Palmer Weiss railroaded Pierre Frey’s Indo-Persian medallions across the guest bed. The botanicals are hand-colored copper engravings, circa 1840. On the walls, a serene sky blue shade allows the luxe textiles and artwork to really shine.
Earthy Red
This red accent wall in a suite at Crosby Street Hotel in New York, designed by Kit Kemp, creates a rich backdrop for the room's exaggerated floral headboard. Pastel blue nightstands balance out the room with a pop of coolness.
Sunny Yellow
In this Montana guest room by designer Palmer Weiss, an ochre faux-bois wall finish byWillem Racké “speaks to the rustic setting in a fresh way,” says designer Palmer Weiss. A patterned linen valance (Peter Fasano) crowns a Federal-style bed. Sconce, Visual Comfort. Drapery fabric, Holland & Sherry.
Soothing Sage
In this Georgia bedroom, designer James Farmer picked up a sage-green shade from the ikat pattern used on the tester and Euro shams (Schumacher) for the walls.
Snow White
In this Montana bedroom by Palmer Weiss, creamy white walls echo the winter landscape outside, while a four-poster hickory-log bed with a woven rush headboard (Rusticks) balances delicate Ottoman-inspired florals (Robert Kime). Bench upholstery fabric, Clarence House.
Polished Powder Blue
In this suite at Claridge's in London, varying shades of powder blue on the walls, trim, headboard, and curtains create a sophisticated, tranquil atmosphere.
Terra-Cotta Red
In this Manhattan apartment designed by Chiqui Woolworth, warm terra-cotta-colored walls (Thibaut) and archival English fabric (Scalamandré) enliven the guest room.
Sarah DiMarco is the Assistant Editor at VERANDA, covering all things art, design, and travel, and she also manages social media for the brand.
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