Ideas, please, to brighten dull bedroom

jellie

Wedgewood blue (the paler one). One of my rooms is this colour, and it's not at all cold but is very fresh and calm. It looks lovely against the white woodwork.

Norma_Desmond

Our back bedroom is the darkest place you can imagine - it's virtually underneath a great big crag.

There was no point in even trying to make it look sunny and cheerful so we went the other way entirely and made it even darker with loads of jewel-like colours.

The walls are Moroccan red, hung with big monochrome film noir posters and we've got a day bed in there which I drape with old velvets/silks in really rich colours.


It's a small room - the only other furniture is a black laquer Chinese chest and a big bronze lamp of Mercury.

Not to all tastes probably - DH says it looks like a cross between an opium den and Pompeii at night.

I've always been mad for antiques, so it's a bit of a mish-mash!

Perhaps tone it down a little OP if you go down the 'rich colours' route!

lostinrates

There are many shades of yellow, some might be in your face, as you have found, others are as gentle as the sun rising on a summer morning. Its a beautiful colour in a west facing room.

I find blues and greens work really well for me in cooler east facing rooms. But colour is intensely personal and really the most important thing is that you like the colour and nothing else. Small splashes of colour you love on a neutral or white back ground will be more pleasant to spend time in than the perfectly in dull room in a colour that doesn't cheer YOU up.

Angie_B

Dulux Almost Oyster is a lovely neutral colour, you could team it with Perfectly Taupe as well for a bit more depth. I have this in my smallest west-facing bedroom and it is my favourite colour scheme.