A pale color seems ideal for the bedroom — it's not nearly as big of a commitment as, say, painting the kitchen or living room, and it'll be a welcome, low-key dash of cheeriness when I wake up in the morning. Here's a roundup of options from Apartment Therapy and around the web.
1. Purple haze — From House to Home.
2. Gray-green — A room designed by Lynn Nigro, via Lonny Mag.
3. Light blue — From I Suwannee, via Apartment Therapy.
4. Pale yellow — From Style at Home.
5. Soothing gray — From Apartment Therapy.
6. Mint green — From Centsational Girl, via Apartment Therapy.
7. Pretty in pink — A room designed by Katie Lydon Interiors, via Apartment Therapy.
Images: As linked above.
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Mine's the same color as #2. It's lovely!
About to paint my room the same color as 7. Glad to see it works so well!
I just painted my bedroom something similar to #2. I'm really liking it! It makes the room look so much larger, too.
My bedroom looks a lot like #2 as well. The paint is Benjamin Moore Palladian blue at a 75/25 mix of color to white. The addition of the white makes if feel airy and ethereal and the walls recede. Love it.
Wow! That pink is gorgeous.
#2 is the subtlest, but I love the tone on tone with the mint walls and green beds in #6.
Our bedroom walls are pale, pale gray---almost white. Irish Mist by Behr, I think. I was initially a little disappointed by them, but then we added an accent wall and I love them now!
http://thenestinggame.com/2011/05/16/summer-nights/
My bedroom is approximately the same color as #1, and it does look great with just about everything: even the golds and oranges that we have everywhere. They make it look a little bit grey.
But my heart yearns for a deep teal. I like the dark cocoon feeling. Though, since we're in a basement with barely a window, the lilac is a good alternative.
hey you #2s! what paint brands/colors are you using? i want that gray-green!!
I have a very dark bedroom with minimal natural light (only one north facing window with a 3-story building next door) and I went with an approximation of #2 as well: Canvas by Ralph Lauren. Very soothing, opens the room up, and doesn't make it seem like a horrid dark cave (interestingly, white made the room much darker and drearier). Depending on the time of day, the walls can be green, gray, blue or putty. LOVE it.
Lilac is my fave color and my room now was painted almost the same as #1 and its true the effects are so gorgeous...
#1s -- what color/brand is it? I've been looking for a shade like that for so long!
These look much more polished and pretty than plain white walls.
My bedroom color looks identical to #1, and I have dark grey linens as well. It looks beautiful! I used Duron Minute Mauve.
I am definitely a white walls person, but if I did add color, it would be pale pink. One of my favorite homes ever used the palest pink as a neutral throughout the house and it was magic. Go for it!
These all look so restful!
Of course, the same paint color # will look different rooms depending on your light.
Should have been "different in different rooms."
Dunn Edwards Mist Spirit (DE6302)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spins_lps/5682140519/