Colors That Look Good Together for Bedrooms

Warm and Neutral

• Colors that work well with a wide assortment of other, complementary colors are neutral and warm shades. By using neutral shades of beige, taupe, cream, eggshell and white as the base decorating colors of a bedroom, you have a variety of options available for decorating the rest of the room. If you want to keep the neutral and soothing theme going, you can opt for warm hues such as light brown or gold for the bed's comforter. By sticking with the more neutral colors, you can also add pops of color throughout the room such as a mauve-colored vase or sage green candles. Sticking to toned-down shades helps keep the calm feeling of the room throughout.

Bright and Sunny

• If you want to jazz up a bedroom and elicit a feeling of summer sun and a touch of the outdoors, opting for bedroom colors in shades of yellow, orange and white can make a room come alive. Though some people prefer to have a bedroom be soothing to help promote sleep, the alternate way of decorating a bedroom makes the room come alive through color. Bright shades and hues work well in a bedroom that receives natural sunlight, which reflects nicely off of such vibrant colors.

Shades of Blue

• The color blue can be either bright and bold or soothing and soft. Regardless of the shade of blue used in a bedroom, decorating around a base theme color of blue opens the door to an assortment of decorating styles. From nautical themes using bright blues accented with white and yellow, to powder blue with navy accent pieces throughout the room, using blue for a bedroom is one way to use color in a bedroom without sacrificing the calming effect a bedroom should provide.

Fiery and Feisty

• For those really wanting to punch up the look and feel of a bedroom, using bright, fiery and feisty colors can make the room stand out from all others. Reds, oranges, yellows and golds can be combined to make a bedroom like no other. To make such lively colors work well in a bedroom, you should have some neutral colors throughout the room as well, such as beige carpeting or even eggshell-colored walls. The reds and oranges can also be combined with a room that was once only neutral shades and is slowly being transformed into one that uses color throughout. Options for using color to change the look and feel of a room include swapping out neutral-colored items with brightly colored ones.