Do your bedrooms share a paint colour, and should en-suites match?

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Are all your bedrooms the same paint colour or different? If you have en-suites, do they match the bedroom colour? I have no idea what is a current look.

When we bought the house, it had garish colours in each bedroom. After much renovation, we are ready for paint- mainly neutrals and possibly very pale green or blue in the bedrooms. DH thinks each room should be different, I think differently. Any tips appreciated.

Ours are different but that’s mainly because DC chose what colour they wanted their rooms decorated. (The colour scheme of DS’s room is not to my taste but it’s his bedroom, not mine.)

I also don’t think a bedroom and en-suite need to match either. Our bedroom is painted a warm
pinky plaster colour (in fact, it’s a dupe of Farrow and Ball’s setting plaster) but the en-suite bathroom is mostly blue (because we fell in love with some gorgeous navy blue tiles). I don’t mind because both rooms make me happy.

Same as pp, the bedrooms are based on each child’s preference and furniture. I don’t see why they need to match. The important thing is that the colours work for each room they are in. All rooms have the same flooring but different colour and type built in wardrobes.

These days I would at least ensure the colour scheme was coherent, maybe with one or two colours running throughout, with different accents.

Just doing a whole house redecoration and have decided to use a neutral colour throughout because I have massive decision fatigue and CBA to think about it anymore. However, the bathrooms will be slightly more exciting as I do like a nice tile.

Bedrooms are different colours because all the same is boring.
En-suites are decorated to complement the bedroom colour - not the same but in the same or complementary colour palette.

No and no for me. Bedrooms different and ensuite contrast.

No, our bedrooms are all different colours and none of the en-suites match.

What’s the advantage of matching them? Generally speaking the only people who see bedrooms are those sleeping in them, so why would they need a common “look”?

I think it’s important for children to get a chance to choose the colours for their own rooms, and personalise their spaces.

I should have said, we don't have children so colours are just to suit DH and myself. We do need to do the entire house too, but starting with bedrooms. DH would also be happy to leave it all stark white- the same as the mist coat on the plaster, but I find it too clinical.

It's currently fashionable to have all rooms painted the same colour and a "cohesive style". It looks great on Instagram, but it's not for me: as with everything it's all just personal taste.

Personally, I like rooms that have been individually thought out with regards to purpose, lighting and the feeling I'd like to have there. For example, my kitchen diner is a scandi white(ish) box with big windows and a pale blue kitchen, feels airy and contemporary and I love sitting in there in the day as it maximises the light. Whereas, my living room is cosy, with warm paint colours, carpet, rugs and where I want to watch TV in the evenings.

I don’t think either is right or wrong tbh. I’m currently trying to decide whether to paint my hall the same colour as my living room (Dulux Timeless) or go with another off white.

You could always paint everything white or off white for now while you’re reno-ing and revisit in a few months/years when you have more capacity for decision making!

The upstairs is all the same simple neutral although the rooms have different colours ( one pastel blue and one orange ) through the soft furnishings -

@BrickPoster You could always paint everything white or off white for now while you’re reno-ing and revisit in a few months/years when you have more capacity for decision making!

That's the problem, it already has been white for FAR too long now! 😆

I do different colours but they suit each other if that makes sense

Ours haven't changed from the decor they had when we moved in, but when I come to redecorate the biggest factor will be the compass point of the windows. So front bedroom gets cold north light, so will be warm colours. Back bedroom is south facing with lots of sun so will get a cooler scheme. Small front bedroom gets east, west and (mainly) north light so will be rather more challenging, but it'll be a study so not necessarily a "sanctuary" type effect.

If I were you I'd get testers of colours I liked and paint sheets of paper and try them all round the walls, see how it looks at different times of the day. And I would focus on one room at a time, rather than trying to do them all at the same sort of time.

Ah, I see, that does make a difference.

In which case you can please yourself.

If you are desperate to add some colour but keep it unified I would pick a complimentary palette or different tones of the same colours.

I have lived in a house where every room was painted the same colour - it was a litte monotonous.

Do people not live in the bedrooms? The bedrooms are decorated in accordance with who uses them and what for.

My daughter's room is pink and blue with mermaids on the walls.
Our room is sage green, beige and burgundy with fairy and mushroom decor.
The remaining bedroom is used as an office/craft room and is bright yellow with a bee-theme (busy bees, worker bees etc.)

We don't have any ensuites.

Ours are different. Our room is a warm off white (NOT magnolia) and very grown up and neutral, en suite is a pale warm grey stone tile. Spare room is dark green and pink. My little boys room is navy and the small bedroom which is my office is pink and teal. We also have a dark green downstairs toilet, floor to ceiling navy living room and the stairs is sage green and black woodwork. I had no idea I had so much green until I wrote it down!!

All different colours for our bedrooms and no ensuites. Both bathrooms are sunny yellow. BR 1 chalky dark pink (formerly white with blue dots wallpaper); BR2 pale blue (chosen by DD), BR3 warm ivory - same as when we arrived, due for an update.
I would consider the following:
What colours/style are your bedding, if not all white? (e.g. do you have manly, rugged tartan or whimsical floral or ...)
Are you keeping the existing curtains/blinds? What colours/style are they? If going for new, I recommend chosing these first and then chosing paint to match.
What sort of furniture do you have?
Do your beds have headboards/frames in a colour or style?

Our bedrooms are all completely different. Two of them have photo wallpaper on at least 1 wall.

Every room in our house is a different colour. I've never considered what is fashionable or wanted to have a theme. Just gone for what we like.

My whole house is painted the same colour, White plastered walls! People say it’s too clinical but I think it looks fresh and light.

I don’t think rooms have to match though!

@ImImmortalNowBabyDoll Do people not live in the bedrooms?

No one lives in the other bedrooms as I already said up thread. Not the point of this thread, but we bought this house whilst I was still having rounds of IVF and assumed/hoped we'd have a child or 2. Sadly, we have no living children and never will, so other than guests staying, its just DH and myself here.

Yes but DS is 16 and DGAF so long as his playstation is there and DD is an insta interiors addict with a weirdly precocious love of warm neutrals so what can I do? 😂 I also have quite a lot of "big art" so I'm thinking if I just paint everywhere neutral it gives me more flex on where all that can go and the furniture will all just go with everything.

We're currently doing a major (DIY) renovation on a cottage that hadn't been touched for decades. Neither of us like white or neutral tones and couldn't live with somewhere all the same colour. We're also maximalists with lots of interesting (imo!) stuff. We bought all new bedding to complement the colours we'd chosen.

So far we've got -

F&B De Nimes (blue) for our bedroom (bed 2) with coral and olive accents/textiles/rug.

F&B Yeabridge Green for bed 3 with turquoise and red accents/textiles plus jute rug.

The main bedroom is used as a TV room and is going to have vintage teal/black Art Nouveau wallpaper on all walls with 1980s red patterned curtains and a colourful antique Persian rug, plus other red accents.

Our family bathroom will probably be a saturated yellow (I'm in the process of collecting wallpaper/paint samples). The star of the show is going to be a crazily patterned, colourful London Basin Co basin which I bought at the start of the project as I couldn't resist it!

It all sounds a bit mad, but we're decorating for us so choose what we love. The rest of the cottage colour palette is a bit more cohesive (lots of Edward Bulmer pink shades - including Pompadour, Nicaragua and Jonquil) with the other colours we've used as accents. For example, in the Nicaragua snug we have a Yeabridge Green fire surround.

When we've had en suites, we've usually decorated them in a colour that tones with the attached bedroom, but not the same, iyswim, so for example a bedroom that was a light olive with F&B Setting Plaster (pink) accents had a bathroom with Setting Plaster walls etc.

@LibertyLily I'd love to be bolder with colours so shall look through your choices, thank you. I'm just worried about it looking as manic as when we bought it.