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A child's bedroom needn't be candy pink or baby blue to be a child's bedroom. The loveliest are those that grow with the child: a soft, slightly old-fashioned colour that suits a cot, a seven-year-old's bed and a fifteen-year-old's desk, and lets the toys, drawings and books provide the colour.
Here are ten soft Mylands colours for a child's bedroom — powder pinks, sky blues, tender greens and butter yellows — that tire neither the children nor the parents.
Updated September 2026 · by the Mylands France colour team
The short answer
For a child's bedroom, choose a pale, powdery colour rather than a bright one: the pinks Palmerston Pink No.243 and Gentleman's Pink No.221, the blues Morning Blue No.32 and Lambeth Walk No.210, the greens Glass BH.09 and Copper Green No.36, the yellows Floral Street No.147 and Hurlingham No.181, the lilac Early Lavender No.260. In Marble Matt Emulsion, washable and almost odourless.
At a glance
10 colours
The barely-pink pink
A pinkish white, so pale one hesitates to call it pink — the colour of the inside of a seashell. It is the child's-bedroom pink that never dates: soft over a cot, discreet behind a teenager's bed, and it warms morning light without ever looking "princess". With white and pale wood it is perfect.
Our tip — Walls and ceiling in Palmerston Pink, woodwork in Pure White: the softest nursery.
The peach pink
A pale pink leaning to peach, warm and a little old-fashioned in the best sense — the colour of a gentleman's shirt, hence its name. It has more presence than Palmerston Pink without being sugary, and its touch of orange makes it possible for a boy as well as a girl. It is superb with deep greens and blues.
Our tip — A bed or wardrobe painted in Eaton Square on Gentleman's Pink walls: the pairing that grows up well.
The sky blue
A clear, soft sky blue, the colour of a summer morning — the child's-bedroom blue par excellence, and one of the most cheerful. It enlarges a small bedroom, it calms, and it goes with every toy. A touch of warmth in its make-up keeps it from being cold, even in a north-facing bedroom. On the ceiling too, for a sky.
Our tip — Ceiling in Morning Blue, walls in Pure White: the bedroom has a sky.
The calm grey-blue
A pale, greyed blue, calmer than Morning Blue, the colour of a hazy morning sky. It is the blue to choose for a child's bedroom that must also be a room for sleeping well: less cheerful, more restful. It grows up particularly well — it is already a grown-up blue — and it is very handsome with dark wood and white.
Our tip — For the bedroom of a child who finds it hard to fall asleep.
The water green
A barely tinted water green between mint and blue, ethereal and crisp. It is the freshest colour in this guide, and one of the most neutral: neither pink nor blue, it suits every child and every age, and it makes a bedroom a bright, calm place, like a room by the water. Superb with white, pale wood and rattan.
Our tip — Glass on walls and ceiling, Beata White on the woodwork: the bedroom that breathes.
The greyed tender green
A pale, greyed green, soft as a sage leaf, warmer than Glass. It is the green of a country-house child's bedroom: soothing, a little old-fashioned, and perfect with floral fabrics, painted wood and linen. It never looks cold, even in a north-facing bedroom, and it suits three-year-olds as well as thirteen-year-olds.
Our tip — With a bed painted in Sorrel Green and floral curtains: the cottage bedroom.
The primrose yellow
A pale, creamy yellow, the colour of a primrose, cheerful without being bright. It is the yellow that can go on all four walls of a child's bedroom without tiring anyone: it gives sunshine to a north-facing bedroom, makes an east-facing one dazzling in the morning, and goes with every blue, every green and every grey. A good-mood colour.
Our tip — For a north-facing child's bedroom, with white and touches of a proper blue.
The soft yellow-green
A pale yellow leaning to green, the colour of a spring shoot or a faded lime. It is calmer than Floral Street and more original — neither yellow nor green, exactly between the two — and it makes a fresh, cheerful child's bedroom that looks like no other. It loves white, pale wood and touches of pink.
Our tip — With touches of Gentleman's Pink — a cushion, a chair — the most springlike pairing.
The grey lilac
A pale grey shot with mauve, so discreet it passes for a white until a white is set beside it. It is the child's-bedroom purple for those who don't like purple: the softness of a lilac with nothing candy about it, and a calm particularly suited to sleep. It grows up very well — it is also one of our favourite grown-up bedroom greys.
Our tip — Ceiling in Osterley, a pinkish white, so as not to break the softness.
The peach white, for a neutral ground
A warm, faintly pink white, the colour of a shell, for those who want a bright child's bedroom without the cold white of a hospital. It makes a soft ground for coloured toys, patterned curtains and a painted bed, and it stays warm in a north-facing bedroom. It is the colour to choose when you don't want to choose — and it is lovely.
Our tip — Kensington Rose on the walls, a door or bed in Morning Blue or Sorrel Green: the colour comes from the furniture.
Our schemes in which one of this guide's shades plays the lead — or a supporting role.
Three principles. Pale rather than bright: a bright colour on four walls excites and tires; a pale one soothes, and lets the toys, books and drawings be the bright colours. A colour that grows up: a candy pink has three years of life, a powder pink fifteen. Every colour in this guide was chosen to suit a cot as well as a sixth-former's desk. Colour on the furniture: a bed, a wardrobe or a door painted in a stronger shade — Sorrel Green No.207, Eaton Square No.232, Proper Blue No.67 — gives soft walls character, and can be repainted in an afternoon when the child changes their mind.
A north-facing child's bedroom prefers warm colours — Floral Street No.147, Kensington Rose No.22, Gentleman's Pink No.221, Copper Green No.36. A south-facing one can take the coolest — Glass BH.09, Morning Blue No.32, Lambeth Walk No.210. An east-facing bedroom, bright in the morning, is handsome in yellow or tender green.
Marble Matt Emulsion on walls and ceiling: washable — finger and felt-tip marks sponge off — low-VOC and almost odourless, so the child can sleep in the room the same night. On hard-worked walls, tougher Multi-Surface Dead Matt; on painted furniture, eggshell. All our products are water-based and low in VOCs.
To go further: which finish for a bedroom?, our pinks for a bedroom, our blues for a bedroom and our bedroom ideas.
Colour chosen, the surface remains. These are the Mylands finishes we recommend, room by room.
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