Do you dream of a colorful bedroom? Thanks to architect Jess Thomas we do. Her Brooklyn townhouse is filled with a lot of good ideas—see our post, the Sentimental Minimalist—but it was her pale pink-on-pink guest room that really piqued our interest. As her place demonstrates, a monochromatic bedroom telegraphs an inviting completeness and calmness. The trick to achieving the look? Use serene colors and avoid monotony by introducing a range of hues and textures: the goal is a tone-on-tone, single-color space that’s both nuanced and restful.
Above: A guest room submersed in gray at La Granja, a boutique farm hotel set in a 16th-century
finca in Ibiza, Spain. The house was transformed into a hotel by Dreimeta design studio of Augsburg, Germany. Explore the interior on Remodelista and the setting on Gardenista.
Above: A tone-on-tone setting with a dark gray washed Cotton Quilt from UK company Home Address.
Above: A study set up for napping is painted in Farrow & Ball Cornforth White and All White.
Above: Brooklyn architect Jess Thomas of Shapeless Studio enveloped the guest room in her Bed Stuy townhouse in pink. The walls are Benjamin Moore Odessa Pink matched with a Blush Linen Duvet and Blush Pillowcases with Piping from new bedding line Two Dawson. Photograph by Kate Sears and styling by Kate S. Jordan.
Above: Swedish interior stylist Pella Hedeby created this moody olive bedroom for Elle Decoration Sweden. “The grayish-green wall color is Dark Paris from Nordsjö and the Stonewashed Cotton Bed Set[ is from Artilleriet,” she tells us. Photograph by Ragnar Omarsson.
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Above: A true blue room by Swedish interior stylist Anna Marselius. Photograph by Karl Andersson.,
Above: French doors and greenery in a navy bedroom with bedding from Cultiver of Australia: a Linen Duvet Cover and Set of Two Linen Euro Pillowcases with a dark border.
Above: Another dreamy guest room at La Granja in Ibiza, Spain. The tiled floors and moody palette were selected to help keep the bedrooms cool.
Above: An open closet in a shades of black room by Pella Hedeby. Photograph by Kristofer Johnsson.
Above: Black walls and midnight bedding in an inventive setup from Ikea Denmark: The paneled wall is created from kitchen cabinet doors similar to Ikea’s Lerhyttan. The linen duvet cover and pillowcase set is the Puderviva; $89.99 for the full/queen size (it’s shown in dark gray). A Bekväm stepladder is used as the bedside table, and the sconce is the Arod, both since discontinued Ikea designs.
For more color inspiration, browse our Paint & Palettes posts.
Here are more bedroom ideas:
- Expert Advice: 12 Tips for Making a Small Bedroom Look Bigger
- Steal This Look: A Pastel Bedroom in Paris, DIY Edition
- Jackie Ashton’s 10 Secrets for a Better Night’s Sleep
