Most Comfortable Bedrooms in Light Tones in Different Styles: Classical, Country, Japanese

Home reflects the inner world of its inhabitants, and the decor in the bedroom affects your well-being, work mood, even family relationships (!).

After all, sleep should be comfortable, and the color palette in the rest area should be harmonious. That is why any familiar or new design trend supports light tones in bedroom decor and their pleasant combinations.

You can make a bedroom more light and spacious by strictly adhering to your favorite style.

Design: Svetlana Chepikova, classical style bedroom

We will provide some general tips on how to use light colors to make a bedroom cozy and interesting, and maintain an elegant style.

Ideas for decorating a bedroom in light tones

White shades visually expand space, but they are cold, and they need to be combined with more pleasant warm colors. Bright accessories and wardrobes should emphasize the main light tones but not dominate.

Here are the basic rules to maintain harmony.

• Select a base light color and companion shades that will predominate.
  

As a base, use white, pearl gray, sand or beige tones. Besides the main color, one or two colors can be clearly expressed in the room. You can diversify the interior with pillows and small items of other colors – bright, dark, or even black, but avoid a kaleidoscope of bright colors.

• To make a small and narrow bedroom look more spacious, use contrasting colors for the walls. One of the options: make three walls of the bedroom light and one wall a few shades darker.
  
• Comfortable and even lighting also makes a bedroom brighter.
  

Free the window opening – let natural light enter the room as much as possible during the day. Artificial lighting should be warm. Plus, in addition to the main chandelier, it is useful to use recessed lights and wall sconces for different zones of the bedroom.

Minimalist style bedroom

• A bedroom can become brighter in any lighting if it has shiny and mirror surfaces. At the same time, the room should have both glossy and matte textures for comfortable eye contact.
  

Scandinavian style bedroom

• Light tones in a bedroom can be enlivened with lines and patterns associated with movement. For example, light fixtures and a chandelier in the shape of drops or waterfall photos.
  

Scandinavian style bedroom

Different techniques can be applied in combination, relying on a sense of proportion. At the same time, a small room can become brighter even if you change the furniture or add light sources.

Let's look more closely at design techniques for harmonious wall, floor, and bedroom decoration in light tones.

Light furniture

Light furniture visually expands the bedroom space and refreshes the interior. For example, lacquered white furniture will look expensive, even aristocratic. A set of wardrobes made from light wood such as pine, ash, or birch will fill the room with good energy.

A sofa with light fabric upholstery will also visually expand the room.

In any case, in a bedroom interior, light-toned furniture should be the basis of the style and the dominant feature. For example, if the interior is classical, it should be solid wooden or leather wardrobes.

Designer Maria Dadiani, classical style bedroom Maria Shumskaya and Anna Yavishkina, Sweet Home Design studio, Scandinavian style bedroom Apartment renovation and decoration project in Scandinavian style Light and spacious bedroom of 9 square meters

Light floor

A light floor is a universal design solution when you want to make the space freer and the room more 'well-maintained'.

In a bedroom with a light floor, there is more light and an impression of order is created. Moreover, you can use contrasting shades in the decoration – in particular, a combination of beige and brown, the most natural and comfortable.

The best options for flooring are solid white oak or ash parquet.

Light walls

By lightening the walls, you can make a bedroom much more spacious. In addition, playing with wall color, designers 'stretch' and zone the room.

The white color best expands space and allows you to boldly use bright accessories for decoration. Moreover, white walls must be decorated. Red or saturated orange paintings will look perfect on their background in a women's bedroom.

Walls with white plaster are a good basis for designing a bedroom in light tones in the Provence or Loft style.

Design: Irina Lavrentieva. Country house mansard Bedroom with country motifs of 9 square meters

Warm light wall colors can also compensate for insufficient lighting.

In addition, a small room can be 'enlarged' using light wallpapers with vertical lines or 'stretching' patterns.

Design: Svetlana Yurkova. Classical style bedroom. Wallpaper pattern makes the room look more spacious and matches the color of monochrome walls.

Light textiles and decor

The color of curtains also affects the atmosphere in the room. Natural materials are in fashion, and for a bedroom, cotton or linen curtains are perfect.

The room will be well lit and look spacious if the curtains let in plenty of sunlight.

Another rule: to visually enlarge a bedroom, choose long and light curtains. You can combine different types of curtains to achieve soft lighting and comfortable interior.

Design: Inna Velychko

Curtains and valances look elegant if they match the color of the walls or other textiles in the bedroom. The pattern on the curtains, like wallpapers, can make a room look more spacious. Evaluate the effect of vertical stripes.

Designer Svetlana Yurkova, modern style bedroom

Light curtains with a large check pattern can make a country-style room look more spacious.

Advantages and examples of using cream shades

The best way to make a bedroom as light and cozy as possible is to use warm colors.

The main color should be chosen individually. Gray wallpapers are unconsciously chosen by active people, as such colors help to fall asleep. A predominance of brown colors indicates a desire for comfort and a 'homey' character. Beige shades, especially cream, suit everyone who wants to make the environment for themselves and loved ones spacious, cozy, and express creative ideas.

Cream tones also soften sunlight and provide even lighting, reduce irritation. They blend well with chocolate, raspberry, and even bright colors.

Photos of light bedrooms where beige or beige-cream color predominates.

Classical style bedrooms Classical style bedrooms Country style bedroom

Light bedroom design can be in the spirit of minimalism, absolutely without excesses, functional or even reminiscent of classical palace interiors. The main thing is to adhere to the requirements of the chosen style in color combinations and material selection.

Style diversity and features of designing light bedrooms

• Classicism
  

Making a light bedroom in classical style and creating the feeling of spaciousness and freedom is a serious challenge for designers. After all, true classicism in interior design is expensive and timeless – natural wood colors and textures, luxurious chandelier, refined textiles, and thick draperies.

At the same time, the room can be decorated in classical canons – richly and comfortably in light beige tones with expensive leather upholstery. Here are several design solutions.

Design: Alexey Lazard. Classical bedroom in light beige tones Small classical style bedroom with expensive textiles Designer Svetlana Chepikova, bedroom in gray tones with natural wood elements and classical chandelier

Baroque style

Baroque style, or Italian classicism, also requires that interior elements be prestigious and softly harmonize with each other.

A bedroom can be decorated in a soft pink, soft lilac, or cream tone. In addition, Italian glamorous classicism welcomes:

• expensive mirrors with gilded frames
  
• plant motifs
  
• checkerered floor tiles
  
• luxurious furniture upholstery.
  

In a room designed in baroque style, everything is harmonious and nothing is superfluous. Look at an example of combining different elements of the style.

Baroque style bedroom

Country style

Country, or rural style, approves of light natural colors, an abundance of textiles, woven rugs, and patchwork mosaics. The main light tones in a bedroom should be diluted with bright, red or flowered interior items and pillows.

Cozy decor for such a bedroom will be enhanced by transparent or light linen curtains on windows and doorways, and wooden beams.

French country, or Provence, approves of the predominance of cream-white color in the interior, and also lavender, light orange, and blue colors.

Provence and other spacious landscapes themselves suggest how to complement the interior with bright accents, preserving an abundance of light and space.

Country house in Georgia, USA From the project of home renovation in California Country style bedroom

Japanese style

This is another style that welcomes natural materials and light colors. At the same time, it teaches how to make space free, rationally use area. More precisely, its second name – Japanese minimalism – characterizes it.

White, cream, sand or gray can be the base for creating a Japanese bedroom in light tones. These colors should harmonize with all accessories. At the same time, the style allows combining white color with black in a sleep area (!). That is, Japanese minimalism will allow using such strict contrast even if the bedroom is intended only for rest.

The main secret why small rooms in Japan often look spacious and free – the style provides low furniture and minimal decor.

Comodes and built-in shelves instead of wardrobes, protective screens instead of curtains, bamboo and, possibly, a sakura branch – these are the foundation on which to build such a design.

Examples of Japanese minimalism in small bedrooms

In addition, white, beige, pearl colors are welcomed in Scandinavian, French, and modern luxurious interiors. Perhaps, the luxurious and unique designer bedrooms in light tones on the photos will inspire you to make your rest area especially comfortable and individual!

Design: Svetlana Yurkova. Chalet style bedroom Country house in Georgia, USA Design: Svetlana Yurkova. Chalet style bedroom Small classical style bedroom with expensive textiles

On the cover is the design project by Svetlana Chepikova.