How to Decorate Your Bedroom with Neutral Colors and Not Look Boring

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Would you love a stylish and comfortable bedroom with only neutral colors?

If decorated properly, a neutral colored bedroom will be far from boring. If not decorated properly, a neutral bedroom can look very plain and uninspired.

Here are the steps for creating a neutral colored bedroom that is perfect for you.

Form Follows Function
Before decorating your bedroom, you must have a plan for how it will function.

Measure your room and create a basic floor plan for where each piece of furniture will go. Make sure that there is at least two foot of clear space to walk around each furniture piece.

Do you want more furniture than just a bed, nightstand, and dresser? Perhaps you want a chair, bench, media cabinet, desk, or bookcase.

Are there items currently in your bedroom that you can store in your closet or perhaps under your bed?

Will taller furniture allow more storage, such as using an armoire instead of a dresser?

Consider your electrical requirements to make sure there is an electrical outlet where you need one.

Consider Your Design Style
In order to find your true design style, you should look at as many images of bedrooms as possible.

One of the best places to look at interior design images is Pinterest.

You can search for neutral colored bedrooms and save the images that you like to a board that you create on Pinterest.

After you have saved many images, go back to your board and erase all of the images that are no longer your favorites.

Continue this process until you are in love with the images that you have saved, which will show your true design style.

Be Careful With Trends
Most people love to see the latest interior design trends and imagine the trends in their home.

Keep in mind that the more popular a trend or style is, the more unpopular it will become in the near future.

Having a bedroom that is filled with items in a trending design style will create a date stamp on your bedroom and make it feel out of style in a few years.

Consider creating a more eclectic bedroom that is filled with classic pieces of furniture with a few trendy items mixed in that you won't mind replacing in a few years.

Avoid Clutter
Clutter is one of the easiest ways to ruin a wonderful bedroom design.

Create organizational systems to keep your bedroom clutter under control.

Do you need a decorative laundry basket, a place to store important papers, or a place to put your purse?

Review your organizational systems every few months to ensure they are meeting your needs to keep everything organized and easy to access.

Select Your Neutral Color Palette
Consider selecting a variety of neutral colors to add interest.

For a lighter colored neutral, you can select white, off white, or cream.

For a more earthy colored neutral, consider using beige or taupe.

Gray can be either light or dark and either warm or cool.

For a richer color with more contrast, you can use brown or black.

Whatever colors you select, make sure to consider each color's undertone, which is the tiny bit of color mixed in with the neutral color.

Putting a white piece of paper next to your neutral colors will help you see the undertone more clearly.

Your brown might have a red undertone and your gray might have a blue undertone.

Make sure that the undertones in your neutral colors complement each other.

Add Some Other Colors?
Consider whether you are willing to add a few non-neutral colors to the neutral color palette of your bedroom.

Grayed out versions of certain colors, especially earth toned colors, look especially pleasing with neutrals.

Adding a few earth toned colors can complement your neutral color palette and give it a bit more life and dimension.

These colors will not be a pop of bold color, but a color companion to your neutrals.

Contrast
If your neutral bedroom feels basic and boring, adding contrast can make it much more interesting and unique.

Contrast can come in many forms.

You can have a contrast of dark items and light items.

Angular and rounded shapes contrast each other.

Different textures can contrast each other, such as a smooth mirror, rough brick, and a textural woven blanket.

Using an eclectic mix of different styles of furniture and decor can also create contrast.

Contrasting patterns, such as florals and stripes, can add interest.

Lighting that is focused in certain areas of your bedroom, instead of just one light in the middle of your ceiling, can also add contrast.

Lighting
Using more than one type of lighting makes your bedroom more interesting.

The four main types of lighting are ambient lighting, task lighting, decorative lighting, and accent lighting.

Ambient lighting is all over lighting that can come from the center of the ceiling of your bedroom or perhaps can lights throughout the room.

Task lighting is usually bedside table lamps for reading.

Decorative lighting can be a chandelier or another fixture that is beautiful even when it is not turned on.

Accent lighting highlights a decorative object, such as an art light or an uplight on a plant.

Add Softness
Rugs add softness to a room and are very functional on hard flooring, however you can also add a rug on top of wall to wall carpet.

In order to find the correct size rug for your room, see the article Rug Size Guide for a Bedroom.

Curtains can also add softness to your bedroom, but make sure to hang them properly.

See the article How to Make Windows Appear Larger for more information.

More places to add softness could be an upholstered headboard, throw blankets, pillows, or an upholstered chair.

Soft items not only make your bedroom feel cozy but can also reduce an echo sound.

Unique Items
For the most interesting neutral colored bedroom, make sure to add unique furniture and decor.

Nobody appreciates seeing the same mass produced items over and over again.

Instead of shopping at trendy furniture stores or the large home decor store down the street, find unique items that are handmade, vintage, or antique.

For handmade items, shop your local artisans, websites like Etsy, or make it yourself.

For vintage or antique items, search garage sales, antique stores, Facebook Marketplace, or Ebay.

Feel free to modify items that you already own but no longer love. A can of spray paint or some Rub n Buff #ad can do wonders!

Focal Point
Your bedroom needs at least one focal point.

Your focal point will most likely be your bed, but it might also be a fireplace or the view out the window.

Try to avoid making your focal point your television.

Make sure that your focal point is something special and draws your attention when entering the room.

In contrast to your focal point, leave some empty space on your walls so that your eye can rest and is not overwhelmed by too much stuff.

Add Natural Items
Nature brings calm into your bedroom, so decorate with a few items from the outdoors.

Stained wood is a natural element that you can use for your floors, ceiling beams, paneling, or furniture.

Natural stone can be used as decor or to top your nightstands.

For decorative pieces, you can use pine cones, rocks, sand, acorns, seed pods, fruit, or sea shells.

Wall art can be images of nature.

Plants and flowers bring nature inside your home and make it feel more peaceful.

Personalize
Make sure that your bedroom reflects who you are and what makes you special.

Personalize your bedroom with family photos, items that you have picked up from your travels, your favorite books, items reflecting your heritage, memories from your past, and reminders of what you are striving towards in the future.

If you do not own any high quality personal home decor, consider collecting items that tell your story. You can research your family history and frame documents of importance, ask your relatives for old family photos to be displayed, or visit the city where your family spent the most time and bring back an item to be displayed from that trip.

Don't Forget the Details
The small decor items in your bedroom might not seem important, however they can often make or break the overall design.

The little tray on your nightstand that holds your jewelry can be a basic mass produced tray or it can be a much more interesting vintage silver tray with a little patina that you picked up at a thrift store.

Consider every single item in your bedroom and decide if it is a special piece that you will want to keep forever or is it just something that you will get bored with in a few years and throw away.

How to Decorate Your Bedroom with Neutral Colors and Not Look Boring

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