4 Best Colors For A Bedroom

Do you want to know the four best color palettes for a bedroom? 

I’m going to share the four that I like to use along with a lot of examples of how to set color palettes. I’m also going to explain how you can find a photo of a bedroom that you love and recreate that same look in your bedroom on a budget using color.

You want your bedroom to feel like a place that is calm and peaceful because it’s where you sleep. A lot of times, that leads us to choose cooler colors like blues and greens instead of red and yellow, which are the warmer colors. 

1. Blue Bedrooms

There are a million colors of blue. There are cooler blues and warmer blues. The closer you get to violet, the warmer the blue becomes. 

Indigo Room- Setting Color Palette with Paint and Bedding

You can’t go wrong by looking at Pottery Barn for inspiration. This room is similar to the look you will find in a PB catalog. It’s an indigo blue.

In this case, they’ve painted the walls blue. You don’t have to do that if your circumstances don’t allow that. They’ve used the bedspread to set the color palette in the room. It has a nice mix of warm tones and blues. 

If you didn’t want to paint the walls in your room, you could achieve this same look by leaving the walls white and using more of the blues in the bedding, pillows, and upholstery. Also, you can always bring in that indigo color blue in artwork.

Blue and Red Bedroom: Setting Color Palette with Wallpaper

The second bedroom is inspired by a Ballard bedroom. They’re setting the color palette with the wallpaper. 

I do love wallpaper. But my problem with wallpaper is that it’s expensive and it has a short lifespan. I think back to my childhood with wallpaper. I had a big pink and green floral wallpaper on all the walls and even the ceiling. If you put wallpaper up that has a lot of pattern, you can get tired of it pretty quickly. 

Wallpaper Art & Fabric Design Tip

Instead of papering the walls, I like to use the wallpaper in a much smaller and more affordable way. You can frame the wallpaper. Then if you get tired of the wallpaper, you just take down the artwork instead of the wallpaper. 

If you go to a website like Spoonflower and you see a wallpaper you love, you can get that same print in fabric and just get a few yards of it. That can be the inspiration for your room.

Deep Blue Bedroom: Setting Color Palette with Paint, Bedding and Window Treatments

In this third example, it’s a much deeper blue. You can see again they put blue on the walls, but you don’t have to.

They’ve used the rug to set the color palette in this room with deep blues and reds. If you couldn’t paint the walls, you could bring in a lot more of that dark blue with the bedding, upholstery, and window treatments. 

Pale Blue Bedroom: Setting Color Palette with Paint

Here’s a much lighter blue. They’ve used a lot of neutral colors to warm up the space because the blue is bright and light. They’ve used a rug that has a lot of texture and window treatments that are warmer. 

If you want to recreate this look in your room by painting the walls, you can. Keep in mind, it is much faster to change the look of a room without painting the walls. Instead, change the fabrics, artwork, and rug.

2. Green Bedrooms

The second color that I love to use in a bedroom is green. Maybe because it’s what we see in nature. Green has a calm feeling.

Deep Green Bedroom: Setting Color Palette with Paint

In this bedroom, they’ve used a deep green on the walls. They’ve broken up the color with an Oriental rug that has every color of the rainbow in it. 

Muted Green Bedroom: Setting Color Palette with Artwork

In this more modern green room, I think they’re using the artwork to determine the color palette. They’re bringing the color green through to the walls, bedding, and drapes. 

Neutral Green Bedroom: Setting Color Palette with Bedding

In this last example, the green bedding is picked up also in the upholstery. Notice the room has a lot of neutral tones to it. If you don’t want to go all in on a color, it’s a great way to incorporate some color without going to the extreme.

3. Pink Bedrooms

Pink doesn’t have to be a feminine color palette. There are plenty of more muted pinks that just give the room a soft and warm feeling.

Dusty Pink Bedroom

In this first example, it’s a pretty modern bedroom. The pink is a dusty color pink, and it’s mixed with a lot of neutrals. 

Pink and Black Bedroom

In the second bedroom, they’re using a rug with a lot of pinks in it to set the color palette. I don’t think this room looks overly feminine either. I feel like the pink is a really warm color.

This pink bedroom is a good color palette, if you want your bedroom to look cozy.

4. Neutral Bedrooms

The last color palette that I like to use in a bedroom is an all-neutral one.

Adding Texture to Neutral Bedrooms

If you want to go with all neutrals, you want to make sure that you use a lot of different textures in your room and different shades of neutrals. Use different creams and different whites. 

You can see in this case, they’ve used a rug that has a lot of texture. The wood headboard is another textural element. An all-neutral room can still feel really warm and cozy if you get enough textures in there. 

Here is another post I’ve written on six things you want to do in every neutral room, and bedrooms are no different.

What I want you to see from each of these examples is if you find a picture of a bedroom that you love, the chances are pretty high that the color has something to do with it.

If you can pick apart the elements of that room that you like, you can recreate the look in your room by finding fabric, rug, or piece of art that has the same color palette and build your room around it.