Bedroom Color Ideas

Are you looking into repainting a bedroom, or remodeling a few rooms in your home? Then you have reached the right place where we will describe to you all the different types of colored paints that will go with your rooms.  If you're making a little girls room, then make sure you get a bed canopy for girls that match the color, and even linens in a young boy's room will need matching sheets.

Bedrooms are typically low traffic area rooms that do not require as durable of a paint as other more high traffic area rooms. Appropriate paints for bedrooms are flats, eggshells or soft sheen's. Since the human eye can distinguish about 7 million different colors, this can make finding the right color pretty daunting. By knowing the basics of colors such as the color wheel can really help you in deciding on what type of paint color to use. By knowing more about colors you will be able to come up with many different bedroom coloring ideas.

Primary Colors

• Red

• Blue

• Yellow

Secondary colors

When you combine the primary colors together you get secondar colors.

• Orange
  

• Green
  

• Purple

Tertiaries

When you combine each secondary with its neighboring primary, you get six tertiary colors, and the 12 spoke color wheel.

Rule One: Family is always welcome. Most colors look great with shades from the same family as themselves (Reds go with other reds, greens go with greens, ect.).

Rule Two: Next door neighbors are friends. You can use colors from next door on the color wheel for example in case of red, that's orange and violet. These are called analogous schemes.

Rule Three: Opposites attract. Every color has a natural complement on the opposite side of the color wheel. These are complementary color schemes as warm colors have cool complements and cool colors have warm complements.

Every Color has a temperature, it is either warm from the red/yellow side of the color spectrum, or cool from the blue/ violet side of the spectrum. High intensity colors are pure and bright, while low intensity colors are quiet and subdued.

A bedroom is a personal and private space, that provides a creative place where our creative individual tastes are shown. As a bed room is someones own private space, there is less flexibility with regards to style, and color among the bed room space.

Cool Colored Hues

Hues provide a popular color choice for a bedroom with a quiet, muted feeling. They tend to be more relaxing and comforting colors which would go ideal in a bedroom. Cool colors such as blues and greens will provide a soothing feeling that will add to the relaxation of a personal space such as a bedroom. Cool colors do not only put of a soothing relaxations, but they also provide a visual effect to make a bedroom space appear larger. Choosing colors that are adjacent to one another on the color wheel for a bedroom scheme allows for a well blended bedroom space.

Neutral Colors

Another very popular color choice for a room is a neutral color. Neutral colors allow the occupant to inject a dash of unexpected color throughout the room. Neutral colors allow for easy rearranging of accessories as well as seasonal decorating within a bedroom. With neutral colors in a bedroom, color schemes, textures, interesting bed linens, window treatments, floor coverings and wall coverings can be maximized with a neutral color.

Color Schemes

Color in a bedroom can enhance it in many imaginative ways. Schemes such as painting accent walls, stenciling and ceiling treatments are a few ways to turn a nondescript bedroom into exciting wall coverings. My painting your bed rooms doors, closets and molding will allow will allow contrasting paint colors. Textured paints and glazes is a great way to decorate your room and show of your creativity.

Bedroom remodeling is fun, and it offers you a change to show of your creativity and individuality. Your local paint supply store will have folders, pictures, and paint samples that can assist you in making your decision. They may also provide you with all the information that you need such as the right painting supplies and procedures to get the job done right.

Helpful Tips For Painting a Bedroom

•   Choosing the right color is an important step. Choose the best color that will fit with what is already in the room, or buy new things to go with the rooms new paint color.
• Guest rooms are best off with soft relaxing tones of paint.
• For master bed rooms, encouraging the same theme in the bathroom as the rest of the room helps.
• To pull of clean color combinations, you must have clean lines by masking off carefully. Color coordinate your drapers, linens, and throw pillows to complete the theme.

1. Protect all furnishings, move all furniture away from walls and cover everything that is not being painted up with drop cloth or plastic.
2. Paint the trim of the room first by using a two inch paint brush with an angled tip. Start in one corner of the room and work your way around. Paint the trim around the room, windows, baseboards, and also paint the walls in the corner of the room where the roller cant reach.
3. Use a roller and roll the paint over the walls. Roll in long motions from the top to the bottom to create a nice even finish.
4. Add a second coat of paint ofter the first coat has dried thouroughly, going through the same routine and you did for the first coat.
5. Reassemble the room, after letting the paint dry over night.