Traditional cream walls accent antique furniture.
Bedroom color fads come and go, with modern shades such as citrus orange and lime green quickly falling out of fashion. Bedrooms painted in traditional colors can be decorated with vintage furnishings or updated with sleek modern furniture.
Children's Classics
For decades, parents have been decorating young boys' bedrooms in light blues and young girls' rooms in pale pinks. These traditional colors showed up first in kids' clothing but in the early 1940s the designated shades began showing up in gender-specific nursery bedding and accessory designs. Prior to the 20th century, infant and toddler colors were not categorized by gender in fashion or home decor. Pale yellow is also a soft, traditional children's bedroom color as it complements the three primary shades of blue, red and yellow hues with which many toys are decorated. The bright, sunshine color is considered a unisex shade that is used for boys and girls.
Standard Neutrals
Whether they're in model homes, hotels or standard family homes, various pale shades of off-white are among the most common colors found in bedrooms. With hundreds of creamy shades available, selecting the right neutral off-white can be a challenge. Tint plays a large role in the overall hue of an off-white color, so make sure to ask the paint specialist which colors are used to tint the base white. Shades with more parts red in the tint than any other color will take on a pinkish hue while tints with more parts brown or yellow turn a creamy color, both of which work well with warm color palettes. Tints of blue or black give the off-white a hue that works best as a neutral for cool color palettes. Pair off-white shades with opposite bedroom palettes of the opposite color temperature at your own risk, as cool off-whites can take on a greenish hue against warm color palettes and warm off-whites might look orange-ish against cool palettes.
Historical Hues
Take a cue from history for bedroom colors that have been popular for centuries. While palettes ran the gamut of available shades, several colors stood out as traditional colors throughout history. Midnight blues and deep burgundies were popular colors in bedrooms where fireplaces were the main heat source as they were less likely to show the staining left by smoke and ash. Gold was also a historically popular color as it reflected wealth and royalty. Aside from straight paint colors, many historic bedrooms were decorated with patterned, multi-colored wall papers. For decorators who want a vintage color scheme without installing old-fashioned wallpaper can instead pull color schemes from a wall paper pattern by selecting various shades of the print for the wall, the wainscoting, the baseboard and trim molding.
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