All you need for a more soothing home is a fresh coat of paint.

“Calming colors are said to be cool ones, including blues, greens, and lavenders.”

Consider neutrals

Those quiet luxury huessoft neutralsalso guarantee a soothing bedroom style.

Coastal bedroom design with wooden bed furniture, blue walls and wood panelling

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But you don’t have to give them up entirely.

Krane suggests moving a bit down the color spectrum to make a warmer color like red or orange work.

you’re able to tone down these hues by making them darker or grayer.

Benjamin Moore Color of the Year 2025 Cinnamon Slate

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Another way to avoid an intense look?

Use the color sparingly.

“Paint colors are usually the last element to pick,” Marceny says.

Painted painted in Skylight, by Farrow & Ball, blue-gray

Farrow & Ball

“Its much easier to find a color to match your decor than the other way around.”

“Colors online are very inaccurate,” Krane says.

“Go to the paint store and get a sample.”

Bricktone Red from Benjamin Moore

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“That always takes precedence when deciding how to paint a room.”

These 11 expert-approved picks will give you the perfect launch point to find your ideal shade.

“Its soft, muted, and warm and pleasant.

Opal by Benjamin Moore paint for bedrooms

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The touch of gray helps it stay on the more muted side.

“Bricktone Red is an unusually soft, warm, elegant, and muted hue,” Marceny says.

This very soft off-white has warming notes of peach in its undertone.

Sea Salt Sherwin-Williams

Sherwin-Williams

Nocturnal Gray by Benjamin Moore

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Rookwood Terra Cotta by Sherwin Williams

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Slate Teal Benjamin Moore

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Carter Plum by Benjamin Moore calming bedroom colors

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Bone China Blue by Little Greene

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