Creating a Calming Neutral Bedroom Space

Over the years neutral colour schemes have come in and out of fashion, but they always make a trusty return! Neutral colour schemes are renowned for enhancing natural light, creating an illusion of space and offering a soothing environment in which to live.

For these reasons, neutrals are an ideal choice for bedrooms to provide homeowners with a much-needed escape from the stresses of everyday life.

In this blog, we’ve explored and shortlisted the best design tips to help you create a calming bedroom space.

Zola Soft-Matte – Cashmere | Dawson – Light Grey | Kensington – Porcelain

Neutral Coloured Furniture Solutions

One of the most important factors in creating your bedroom will be the choice of furniture that you select. Fitted wardrobes, freestanding bedside tables, dressers, chests of drawers and media units all play a major part in carving out a space in which you’ll spend a considerable amount of time.

When designing a calming bedroom space, we recommend viewing bedroom furniture samples with neutral paint colours such as cashmere, light grey, porcelain, and white which cover four main tonal groups (pinks, greys, cream and whites).

As the furniture colour in your bedroom plays an important role in the overall aesthetic appearance of your space, choosing a neutral colour is paramount to creating a calm and tranquil atmosphere in which you can unwind.

Dawson – Cashmere

Choosing Neutral Coloured Paints

With paint colour also playing a significant role in how you shape your calming bedroom space, neutral paint colours can provide homeowners with design freedom. The timelessness and warmth of neutral paint colours have been widely favoured for decades thanks to their forgiving, accommodating and easy to live with sensibility. Neutral colours have a comforting and calming effect on our moods, making them perfect for use in our bedrooms.

When Dulux shared a blog on their recommended neutral bedroom ideas, they mentioned that it’s pretty hard to go wrong with beige in the bedroom thanks to its versatile, soothing elegance.

With such a wide range of paint options available on the market today, we recommend firstly considering the lighting in your bedroom. Whether it’s natural or artificial, lighting is critical to selecting the perfect neutral paint colour for your space, because the amount of light a room receives will affect the specific hue that shows up on your bedroom walls.

Kensington – Porcelain

Clever Styling and Storage

As previously discussed in our Top Bedroom Trends for 2024 blog, there has been a notable shift across the industry in homeowners who are interested in creating a multifunctional living space. With the dynamics of modern life having now changed post-pandemic, where working from home is considered the new normal, it only makes sense that the way we design our homes reflects this new trend that’s becoming increasingly popular.

For many of us who have adapted a hybrid working environment since the pandemic, it has often been the case that we’ve been using our bedrooms as our home office space for at least part of the working week. While this can be a benefit for many to enjoy a work/life balance, having a home office space in your bedroom can also have a negative impact on your mood, mental health and trying to switch off from work.

Using clever styling and storage solutions within your bedroom can help to maintain a calmer space. The use of multi-functional furniture such as a foldaway side table or desk is a great way to hide your work equipment when not in use. Fitted wardrobes also benefit from the additional internal storage space that extends to the ceiling of your room to keep your work devices out of sight and out of mind.

Kensington – Light Grey

Accessories to Complement Neutral Colour Schemes

When trying to create a calming bedroom with neutral colours it’s easy to think of just keeping the same colour scheme for everything. We’ve found that by adding some subtle hints of colour using accessories is a great way to tie the room together using plants, candles, mood lighting and soft furnishings.

Biophilic design has been a well-documented current trend for 2024, where homeowners are bringing in elements of the outside natural world into their homes. Research in this space has shown that by adding plants to your bedroom it can help to promote better sleep, reduced stress, improved air quality as well as increased productivity.

Other accessories to consider could be a natural Beeswax candle or diffuser to further complement your space and create a relaxing atmosphere after a long day.

Zola Soft-Matte – White

Mood Lighting to Enhance Neutral Colours

One final highlight to consider and as previously alluded to is the lighting in your bedroom. With the growing rise of innovative technology that’s integrated its way into our homes from video doorbells to smart kettles with Wi-Fi and voice activation, it makes sense that the bedroom is the next location for seamless smart living.

Mood lighting can be a great asset to enhance your neutral colour scheme when you need it. Many paint finishes such as the muted tones of cashmere add a natural feel to your bedroom through their warm, neutral tones, but by adding smart lighting solutions we can further boost the colour of our surroundings.

Did you know that we offer LED lighting as part of our STORI collection, including an X-Driver Wi-Fi Kit? You can take Smart control of your lighting with a simple voice command or press of a button. Controllable with both Alexa and Google Assistant as well as an easy-to-use app, Smart driver enables you to operate intelligent lighting effortlessly. You can also set up groups of lights to control at the same time or dim individual lights to set the mood, whether you require bright lights over your workspace area or softer light over your bed.

Aldana – Stone

We hope that this blog has helped you with some tips on your bedroom design journey, if you’d like to explore more check out our Inspiration Gallery to see some neutral colour schemes which have been created using STORI ranges. Feel you’re ready to begin your design journey? Find your nearest STORI retailer and let’s talk about your bedroom ideas in person at one of our independent retailer showrooms across the UK & Ireland!