51 Best Bedroom Paint Color Ideas for 2024

Blue-gray painted beadboard sets a welcoming tone for this pattern-filled guest bedroom. Gingham draperies, linens, and throw pillows serve up classic country house charm.

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Wall Paint Color: Smokestack Gray by Benjamin Moore
Draperies: Max Humphrey Collection; pindler.com

A painted V-groove half-wall echoes the ceiling and does double duty as both headboard and art ledge. To give the new pine floors the feel of an old country home, they were coated in a neutral color and spaced out with nickels to create gaps and imperfections. An old wood dresser repurposed as a nightstand adds contrast against the all-white surroundings.

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Wall Paint Color: Wimborne White by Farrow & Ball
Floor paint color: Agreeable Gray by Sherwin-Williams

You can never go wrong with blue in a bedroom, so why not blue on blue for an ever bigger win. Choose two shades on the same color card and you’ll be sure to have complimenting hues. For a classic look, use the darker color on the trim for the look of a tailored frame. Some paint stores will even mix your chosen color with white to give you varying saturations of the same hue.

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Wall Paint Color: Needlepoint Navy by Sherwin-Williams

In this Michigan lake cottage, sunny bedding, sky blue window treatments, and accessories like the electric green lamp shine against light gray bedroom walls. Playful elements like the set of vintage trunks and tiny Swedish blue-and-white birdhouse lends a collected, welcoming vibe.

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Wall Paint Color: Smoke Embers by Benjamin Moore
Linen curtains in “Waterfall Blue”: fabricut.com

For this new-addition bedroom, the homeowner sourced pine similar to the original section of the house for the floors and shiplap walls. Painting the window trim a rich green draws attention to the handsome architectural detail.

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Wall Paint Color: Lehigh Green by Benjamin Moore

The same soft pink—yes, pink—on the walls, doors, and trim in this soothing guest room casts a warm glow. “It’s like being surrounded by a Delta sunset,” says singer songwriter Holly Williams. Varying the finishes—eggshell on walls, semigloss on the trim—ensures it from feeling too flat.

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Wall Paint Color: Intimate White by Sherwin-Williams

In the “Captain’s Room,” homeowner Stephanie Watts painted the wall and ceiling all the same dark paint color for a truly cocooning effect.

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Wall, Ceiling, and Trim Paint Color: Muddled Basil by Sherwin-Williams

You know that old trick about pink lightbulbs offering more flattering light? Well, the same goes for a soft pinkish-orange paint color. Here, in this bedroom by designer Heidi Caillier, an earthy lamp base, clean-lined sconce, indigo bedspread, and modern moss green nightstand offset all things rosy and ruffled.

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Wall Paint Color: Setting Plaster by Farrow & Ball

Playing off the warm wood beams and brick wall, homeowner Amy Whyte painted her attic bedroom a rich cocoa brown, then layered pairings of more browns and deep blues.

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Wall Paint Color: Pine Cone Brown by Benjamin Moore

For a cocoon effect in the main bedroom, homeowners Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge of Beekman 1802 painted the frames and interior backings of a gallery of photos the same verdant shade as the walls and woodwork. The original pine floors and white bedding help offset the strong color.

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Wall and Trim Paint Color: Calke Green by Farrow & Ball