Welcome family and friends into your home with guest rooms that show you care. Your guests will feel extra-special in rooms with that professional, color-coordinated polish. Consider decorating your guest bedroom to reflect a mood or ambience. Color has long been known to evoke emotional responses, so build your color palette to support the mood you want to create. Ask yourself what ambience you want your guest room to convey: comforting and welcoming, tranquil and serene, or energizing and invigorating? This can be a fun and creative opportunity for you to design a welcoming space that is entertainingly different from your master suite.
Setting a Mood The beauty and diversity of color and style in the world can both inspire and overwhelm anyone trying to design a décor theme. With so many options available, simply selecting a starting point may seem like a daunting task. Simplify that task by first deciding on the mood you want to create in your guest room then choose the color palette that supports that mood. Warm color palettes inject a sense of energy and hospitality to a room, creating a cozy and inviting atmosphere, while cool color palettes are calming and comforting, bringing a soothing and relaxing mood to your room. The Welcoming Spirit of Warm Colors Warm colors, associated with the red, yellow, and orange color families, evoke welcoming feelings and can infuse your space with energy. A powerful color, red will give your space drama, excitement, and zeal. Create joyful and optimistic feelings in your guest room by using a cheerful yellow palette. Shades of orange bring the energy of the sun, creating a spirited, tropical appeal.
Joyous and Lively Use a bright, sunny yellow color palette to infuse your guest bedroom with feelings of joy and brightness. Shades of yellow are inviting and optimistic, making them invigorating to wake up to. Using yellow on your walls instills an energetic appeal to your space, making it an alternative choice to red or orange. A color palette built around sunshine yellow walls paired with décor accents in deep greens are engaging and upbeat. For a more vibrant palette, try pairing sunflower yellow, with a richer, burnished terra cotta shade on an accent wall, giving the room a bolder appeal. Shades of yellow are inviting and optimistic, making them invigorating to wake up to.
Deep Comfort Create a comforting yet dramatic atmosphere in your guest bedroom by utilizing a bolder color such as a deep crimson. Shades of red bring energy to your room but when toned down to a more muted hue, the color can impart a cozy and inviting feeling. When paired with clean white décor, the look is minimal and contemporary. Soft and Serene Peaceful and restful, this guest room combines sage-colored walls with deeper moss green accents. The décor in a creamy white adds a light and clean essence, evoking the freshness of a new day. The sheer window treatment creates a soft light adding to the relaxed atmosphere. The addition of plants, flowers and botanical prints brings a touch of nature to this room. Together, the color palette and decor create a room that is calm and elegant. The Calm of Cool Colors Cool colors make us feel calm and renewed, comforting us with a soothing energy. Blue and green are serene, relaxing and bring calmness to a room, while purple evokes a sense of regal luxury. A popular color choice, shades of blue will bring a sense of peace and harmony to your space. Green hues contain healing and restful properties, making them ideal for rooms where relaxation is key. Luxurious and noble, shades of purple will surround your guests with a sense of opulence and wealth. Peaceful and restful, this guest room combines sage-colored walls with deeper moss green accents.
Luxurious and Regal Bring a lavish and rich appeal to your guest room by decorating in shades of purple. Purple has long been considered a noble, mysterious color and will introduce an exotic flair into your room. Create a mood that is resplendent and sumptuous by pairing walls in a deep luscious grape with accents in a vivid Subtle and Stylish Neutrals Neutral colors are subtle, stylish, and work well alone or pair marvelously with any color. Neutral color schemes create a harmonious ambience, providing your guests with a space that is calm and unified. Elegant and understated, neutrals are derived from any color family. They are colors whose vibrancy and strength have been diminished, making their color presence very subtle and complex. A guest room, for example, with a color palette of a light tan paired with a soft, muted shade of green, produces a natural, healing, and restful presence. lilac. For a more conservative feel, coordinate a saturated eggplant shade with a sandy tan to create a well-appointed guest room. Purple has long been considered a noble, mysterious color and will introduce an exotic flair into your room. These elegant and understated rooms are fresh and clean, yet conservative and sophisticated. Neutral colors work with décor from all time periods and styles making them versatile, simple to use, and easy to live with. Neutral color palettes provide the perfect background for accentuating artwork, plants, and furnishings. Neutrals also allow you to easily change your décor from season to season and to alter the mood of your room simply by changing your accent colors.
The Finish When choosing colors for your guest room, make the job easier by first focusing on the mood you want to convey. From there, you can choose the color palette that will evoke that mood in your guest room. Warm colors create spaces that have energy, cool colors bring nature s soothing elements, and neutral colors can combine with both or stand alone. Whatever mood you want to create, do not forget the finishing touches. Enhance your color scheme by adding beautiful bedding, coordinated drapes, textured pillows, and colorful throws. Together, all these elements will craft a special place for you and your guests to enjoy. Find more inspirational color and style articles in our Inspiration Design Library at www.behr.com.