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Bedroom pink has changed sides: it is no longer the colour of little girls' rooms but of grown-up bedrooms that want warmth without beige. A powder pink, a plaster pink, an earth pink — these are neutrals that have blushed, not sweets.
Here are ten Mylands pinks, from pink-tinged white to deep old rose, with the white that goes with each.
Updated September 2026 · by the Mylands France colour team
The short answer
For a bedroom, the easiest pinks are the powder and plaster pinks — Kensington Rose No.22, Gentleman's Pink No.221, Soho Pink No.266 — which behave like warm neutrals. For a more enveloping bedroom, an old rose such as Bloomsbury No.267 or a brown pink such as Covent Garden Floral No.270.
At a glance
10 colours
The pink white
The lightest of the pinks: a white that has taken a suspicion of pink, so little that you take it for a warm white until a pure white is set beside it. It is the pink for those who don't dare pink — it gives a bedroom a late-afternoon glow and flatters every complexion, without ever looking coloured.
Our tip — Walls and ceiling in Palmerston Pink, woodwork in Maugham White: the gentlest bedroom there is.
The lilac white
A white with a pink-mauve undertone, cooler than Palmerston Pink — the pink leans towards lilac. It suits bedrooms you want both soft and fresh, and it is superb in morning light. With pale greys and pure white it turns almost pearly.
Our tip — With Early Lavender on a door or wardrobe: two barely-there mauves, very refined.
The petal pink
A fresh pale pink, named after London's oldest perfumer — the colour of an old-rose petal. It is the first 'true' pink on the list, but a restrained one, without sugar, that stays elegant in a grown-up bedroom. It likes pure whites, which keep it fresh, and grey-greens.
Our tip — Woodwork in Pure White and a headboard in Damp Leaf: pink and green, the classic pairing.
The powder pink
Our most asked-for bedroom pink: a powder pink with a peach undertone, so pale it remains almost a white, so warm it transforms the light. A bedroom in Kensington Rose always seems lit by a sunset — which is also why it is the best pink for a dark or north-facing bedroom.
Our tip — Woodwork in Maugham White rather than pure white: the contrast stays tender.
The plaster pink
From the archive, a peach-apricot pink stronger than Kensington Rose — the colour of freshly smoothed plaster. The 'gentleman' in the name says the intention: a pink for men's bedrooms as much as women's, warm, earthy, without sentimentality. Superb with dark timber, leather and brass.
Our tip — Colour-drenched with white linen sheets and a dark timber floor: the plaster bedroom.
The mauve pink
Despite its name, a greyed pink more than a lilac: a pale, powdery old rose, with just enough mauve to be fresh. It is the 'greyest' pink on the list, the one closest to a neutral — and so the easiest in a bedroom already full of colours, fabrics or pictures.
Our tip — Ceiling in Osterley, a lilac white, to carry the shade upwards.
The pink-beige
A greyed, light-to-mid pink that reads as a pink beige: the neutral that has blushed. Soho Pink is our most versatile pink — it makes bedrooms, living rooms, hallways — and it has a rare quality: it looks different at every hour, pinker in the morning, more taupe at night. With blond timber and off-white it is perfect.
Our tip — Woodwork in Holbein Chamber, a rose-tinged white: a monochrome, warm bedroom.
The peach pink
Designed by Beata Heuman and named after her grandmother: a warm peach pink, more orange than the ones above, the colour of a cheek in the sun. It brings a cheer the powder pinks lack — the pink of a bedroom that wakes up in a good mood. It likes the deep greens and blues of the same collection.
Our tip — A door or wardrobe in Thunder or Forest: softness and depth, side by side.
The old rose
A mid old rose, greyed and brown, named after the quarter of writers and painters between the wars. It is the pink of enveloping bedrooms: deep enough to dress four walls, soft enough to fall asleep in. Under lamps it turns the colour of old velvet.
Our tip — Ceiling in Fitzrovia, a pink-tinged neutral, and woodwork in Bloomsbury too: the pink cocoon.
The deepest
A deep brown pink between old rose and brick, the colour of a dried rose — our darkest bedroom pink. It is for bedrooms you want truly enveloping, the ones where colour replaces curtains. By day it is restrained and a little grave; at night it lights up like a red without a red's force.
Our tip — Colour-drenched in Multi-Surface Dead Matt, white sheets and warm lamps.
It is all in the grey and the brown. A sugary pink is a red paled with white; a grown-up pink is a red paled with grey or earth. Every pink on this list belongs to the second family — which is why Soho Pink No.266 or Bloomsbury No.267 make men's bedrooms as well as women's, and why Kensington Rose No.22 passes for a warm white in most visitors' eyes.
A north-facing bedroom switches off cool pinks and brings out warm ones: prefer Kensington Rose No.22, Gentleman's Pink No.221 or Mormor Zaza BH.17 there. A south-facing bedroom warms everything: fresh pinks — Floris No.27, Osterley No.25, Pale Lilac No.246 — keep their freshness there, where a peach pink might turn orange. Facing east, golden on waking, a bedroom suits every pink; facing west, it makes the deep pinks glorious in the evening.
A bedroom pink is judged with its woodwork: a pure white (Pure White No.1) keeps it fresh and graphic, a warm white (Maugham White No.2, Holbein Chamber No.7) melts it into a monochrome whole. And pink likes a green or blue contrast somewhere — a headboard in Damp Leaf BH.14, a door in Observatory No.34 — to stop it turning to sweets. See also our warm whites, our pink schemes and all our pinks.
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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