What Color to Use for a Large Bedroom

Wide Open Spaces

• If you love being at the beach, in a meadow or in an enormous hotel lobby, you'll enjoy the extensive, spacious feeling of a large bedroom. To capitalize on the feeling of space, choose light colors.

  White is a classic color for bedrooms, but if you choose white, blanket the room with it -- floors, lamps, bedspread, everything. Otherwise, your possessions in all their many other colors will stand out against the white and make the room look busy and cluttered.

Cool Colors Recede

• Because cool colors seem to retreat from your eyes, painting your bedroom walls in cool, light colors such as blue, green and lavender actually makes the walls seem farther away and makes the space feel larger.

Cozy It Up

• If, on the other hand, you like cozy spaces, choose warm colors for your bedroom walls. Warm colors such as yellow, orange and red actually make the walls seem to come forward, so they make the space feel smaller. And of course the warm color will seem to warm up the room.

Extreme Cave Phenomenon

• For the most extreme color scheme, you can choose dark wall colors such as brown, eggplant, deep blue and even black for your bedroom. If you have sufficient natural light, these newly chic colors are elegant and enveloping, and they are particularly striking in a large room.