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Blue is the colour most often recommended for sleep, and the most often chosen badly: too bright, it wakes you; too cold, it chills the bedroom from autumn on. The blues that truly calm carry a little grey or green — they look like a morning sky rather than a summer one.
Here are ten Mylands blues for a bedroom, from the mistiest to the deepest.
Updated September 2026 · by the Mylands France colour team
The short answer
For a bedroom, prefer misty blues and grey-blues — Morning Blue No.32, Lambeth Walk No.210, Hawksmoor No.112 — which calm without chilling. For an enveloping bedroom, a deep, faintly violet blue such as Observatory No.34 is the gentlest on waking.
At a glance
10 colours
The blue-tinged white
Barely a blue: a white that has taken on the colour of the morning sky. It gives a bedroom the freshness of an aired room without making it a blue room, and it stays very bright — it is a white first. The right choice for a south- or west-facing bedroom, where a warm white would look too yellow at the end of the day.
Our tip — Walls in Walpole, ceiling and woodwork in Pure White: the freshest bedroom in the house.
The morning blue
Our purest pale blue: a clear sky blue, soft and luminous, with no grey to dim it. It makes a bedroom that seems open to the outdoors, and it has a rare quality for a pale blue — it doesn't turn cold in the evening, thanks to a touch of warmth in its make-up. The blue of children's bedrooms that grow up well.
Our tip — Superb with blond timber and warm whites; avoid cold grey, which makes it sad.
The mist blue
A greyed pale blue, like Morning Blue seen through mist. It is the most restful bedroom blue in the range: coloured enough to be a colour, grey enough to fade when you close your eyes. It carries white linen and dark timber beautifully, and suits a north-facing bedroom as well as a south-facing one.
Our tip — Walls, ceiling and woodwork all in Lambeth Walk: a cloud of a bedroom.
The grey-blue
A pale blue-grey with a green undertone, named after the architect of London's great baroque churches. It has the restraint of a grey and the softness of a blue, and it is perhaps the most 'grown-up' of our bedroom blues: it doesn't say 'blue bedroom', it simply says calm. Very handsome with brass and unbleached fabrics.
Our tip — A headboard painted in Eaton Square on Hawksmoor walls: two blues, one spirit.
The pale blue-green
Between blue and sea-green, the colour of a glass pebble polished by the sea. That green undertone is what makes it so liveable in a bedroom: it never chills, even facing north, and it flatters pale timber and rattan. A bedroom in Notting Hill has something of a seaside house, without the cliché.
Our tip — With Cotton Street woodwork and a door in Bridge Blue: the summer bedroom par excellence.
The soft blue-white
A very faintly blue-grey white, softer and greyer than Walpole. It is the ideal white for a bedroom you want bright and fresh with no risk of colour whatsoever: on the card you take it for a white, on the walls it refreshes. Excellent on a ceiling above a stronger blue.
Our tip — A Greenwich Time ceiling above walls in Lambeth Walk or Bedford Square.
The mid blue
A true, luminous mid blue, named after London's finest Georgian square. It is more assertive than the pale blues on this list, but its grey always holds it on the calm side. In a bedroom it makes a magnificent ground for whites — sheets, woodwork, ceiling — and turns porcelain blue in the evening.
Our tip — Woodwork in Charterhouse, a cool white that keeps it fresh; ceiling in Greenwich Time.
The mid blue-green
A softened teal — greener than Bedford Square, deeper than Notting Hill — remarkably balanced. It is the bedroom blue that pleases most people: neither cold nor sweet, and it takes floral fabrics as well as plain linen. In north light its green keeps it warm.
Our tip — The headboard wall in Bridge Blue, the other three in Notting Hill: depth without darkness.
The Scandinavian blue
Drawn by Beata Heuman from the façades of her home town: a mid-deep blue, grey and a little green, with the softness of eighteenth-century Swedish interiors. It is deeper than the blues above but keeps plenty of light, and it ages with a patina few blues have. A bedroom in Stockholm is a successful winter bedroom.
Our tip — With Beata White woodwork and a Chalk ceiling: the Beata Heuman palette complete.
The night blue
For an enveloping bedroom: a deep blue-grey sliding towards violet, the colour of the sky an hour after sunset. Its hint of violet makes it warm — the deep blue gentlest on waking, and the most beautiful under a bedside lamp. Paint the ceiling too; a half-painted dark bedroom never works.
Our tip — Colour-drenched in Multi-Surface Dead Matt, white sheets and warm lamps.
The science is on our side: blue is the colour most associated with calm, and blue bedrooms are where people report sleeping best. But not all blues are equal. A saturated blue — royal, turquoise — stimulates; a greyed blue soothes. Almost all our bedroom blues carry grey or green, and that is deliberate.
A north-facing bedroom chills pure blues: choose green-undertoned blues there — Notting Hill No.213, Bridge Blue No.222, Hawksmoor No.112 — or a deep violet blue such as Observatory No.34. A south- or west-facing bedroom takes candid blues: Morning Blue No.32, Bedford Square No.229, Walpole No.42. An east-facing bedroom, golden on waking, suits every blue on this list.
A bedroom blue is judged with its woodwork and ceiling. Pale blues like clean, cool whites — Charterhouse No.4, Cotton Street No.3, Greenwich Time No.8. Deep blues prefer a warm white — Maugham White No.2, Holland Park No.5 — that stops them looking black. See also our deep blues compared, our colours for a north-facing bedroom, our bedroom ideas and all our blues.
Colour chosen, the surface remains. These are the Mylands finishes we recommend, room by room.
Walls and ceiling
Matt and enveloping: the finish that makes a bedroom calm, with no glare under the bedside lamp.
Every colour in Marble Matt Emulsion →
Colour drenching (walls + woodwork)
For a cocoon of a bedroom: walls, ceiling and woodwork in one colour, in dead matt.
Every colour in Multi-Surface Dead Matt →
Woodwork, doors and skirting
Wardrobes, a painted headboard, skirtings: a discreet sheen that cleans.
Every colour in Multi-Surface Eggshell →
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