11 Gorgeous Purple Bedroom Ideas With Color Matching

This gallery shares gorgeous purple bedroom ideas in a variety of layouts and design styles. Purple bedrooms can really make a statement and transform a room into a lovely escape you’ll love. These expert interior design tips can help you find the perfect balance between incorporating purple elements such as a duvet, nightstand, lamp, artwork, and a throw blanket to make your space cozier.

Why Choose Purple for the Bedroom

Whether you’re looking for traditional elegance, modern, contemporary, or inspiration for a teen or child’s bedroom, you’ll find plenty of purple options below. Touches like fresh flowers can brighten the space. The color purple is often associated with royalty, power, and wealth. In the past, purple dye was both hard to acquire and hard to produce, making purple-dyed items very expensive.

Because of this limitation, only the upper class and the royal family were able to afford such luxuries as purple curtains, bedding, and flowers. During the Elizabethan Era, the Sumptuary Laws forbade non-close relatives of the royal family from using the purple color, making it even more exclusive.

Nowadays, purple dye and purple-colored materials are more easily acquired and do not have the same hefty price tag. You can now use the “color of the royals” without breaking the bank and even incorporate it into your interior design through purple furniture or accessories like pillows and throw blankets.

Some people are a bit intimidated by using purple, but with the right combinations and hues, you’ll be able to achieve a very elegant look in any space, whether it’s adding statement artwork or a lush throw blanket on the bed.

Purple is created using the combination of the two primary colors of blue and red. Using different pigment shades can get drastically different color outcomes. These wide variety of shades all fall under the category known as purple, which can be artfully integrated into your interior design plan. When matching purple, it’s important to determine at which range of the color your shade is located. You will want to discover if your purple has more red or blue tones or if it is a true purple with equal parts.

Once you have determined your purple color’s undertones, you can find the colors that best complement it, like coordinating nightstand lamps or a beautiful duvet cover. For instance, a reddish purple shade can match its red base color well. The same goes for purple shades matching their blue base color. Most purples will generally match well with black or gray, while shades of purple such as lilac or lavender can match with paler forms of blue. Additionally, fuchsia shades can pair with pink.

The Rococo style furniture and decoration in the image above gives this all-purple room a soft, feminine appeal. The room evokes a very luxurious feel as well, as it uses heavy fabrics and gilded furniture. Satin and velvet were used in the space, even combined with white lace for that very feminine vibe. This bedroom uses mainly Lavender and some hue variations in combination with creams to help create a more balanced look. Carefully chosen artwork and a warm throw blanket complete the design.

Purple Color Bedroom Palette

There are many purple hues/shades, so the possibilities of using this color are endless. Some of the most popular purple color varieties are:

• Lilac – a soft/pale violet color inspired by the color of Lilac blooms
• Lavender – another flower-inspired purple shade, a bit more vibrant than lilac
• Mauve – dark purple variety with a more neutral undertone, named after the mallow flower. Popular in contemporary designs, it is a great accent color without being too vibrant. Lighter varieties of mauve can also function just as well as beige and other neutral colors.
• Wine – a dark, deep & bold purple variety derived from the deep color of red wine.
• Mulberry – a representation of the mulberry fruit, this color is another deep color with a stronger red-violet undertone.
• Grape – closer to the blue spectrum, this purple variety evokes a sense of elegance and luxury.
• Plum – representation of the plum fruit, this color is another dark & deep purple variety.

With the variety of hues and shades of purple available, the right mix, interior design strategy, and thoughtful selections of items like duvets, nightstands, and lamps, you will be able to create your dream purple bedroom. Below are some examples of purple bedroom ideas for your reference.

This room uses lavender paint for the walls and blush pink for the bed frame, headboard, and bedding.

Color Recommendations For Different Purple Shades

Shade of Purple	Complementary Color	Accent Color	Trim Color
Purple	Soft gray or silver	Cream or light beige	Bright white
Lilac	Pale green or mint	Light yellow	Off-white or ivory
Lavender	Soft blush pink	Warm taupe or light brown	Pure white
Mauve	Dusty rose	Dark charcoal	Light gray
Wine	Olive green	Burnt orange	Warm white
Mulberry	Teal or turquoise	Golden yellow	Eggshell white
Grape	Sage green	Deep gold	Light sand
Plum	Deep forest green	Metallic silver or gold	Cream or soft beige

The table above is a quick reference for choosing complementary colors, accents, and trim shades to use with specific purple-hues.

This contemporary bedroom looks very elegant and luxurious despite the simplicity of the furniture forms used. A carefully chosen nightstand, lamp, and other decorative elements enhance the overall interior design. The room features a combination of furniture styles and a variety of wood finishes. While the furniture uses neutral-colored fabrics like beige, taupe, cream, and white, the mauve-painted wall adds a very subtle accent, making the space look more lively without overpowering the rest of the elements.

Lilac wall paint combined with mint green shades is an appealing combination. You can also pair lilac with other pale green shades with excellent results. Bring in light yellow accent colors and bright white trim for a cohesive design.

This gorgeous classic Rococo revival bedroom features a burgundy-based color scheme combined with silver and gold to add to the elegant appeal of the space. The wall paint is a deep burgundy color to set a serious mood, while the door windows and frames, as well as the flooring, are white to tone down the dark wall color. The bed is a four-poster silvered rococo style bed with conch motifs and heavy burgundy velvet drapes. It has matching pearlescent white nightstands and gold table lamps to match the faux columns painted in silver and gold. The spacious bedroom also has a generously-sized sitting area with a sofa and oversized ottoman, with burgundy upholstery. The sitting area is framed with a pastel pink traditional style area rug, which almost occupies the whole floor area of the sitting area.

This bedroom features an interesting combination of lilac and black paint on its walls, contrasting with the soft, all=-white furniture pieces used in the bedroom. This creates a unique look and a bold contrast between the finishes. The black-painted wall also helps make the white furniture pieces pop out more, as well as accentuate the pale wood engineered flooring.

American cherry wood flooring gives this space a very classic appeal, while the plain white walls and contemporary furniture pieces adds a more casual touch to the look of the space. The bedroom also features and dark plum and silver accent wallpaper, cherry wood furniture pieces combined with white laminated pieces, as well as a vibrant silver and purple quilt on the bed.

While the other bedroom examples rely on paint and fabrics to achieve the purple tone in the room, this contemporary bedroom uses lighting instead to achieve the look. The small bedroom space is all in white, but it uses purple LED lights to give the room a purple tone, as the white readily absorbs the purple light.

This is a very simple yet elegant bedroom. It uses simple white-painted furniture pieces combined with neutral-toned mauve wall paint for a soft yet feminine vibe. It also has white sheer curtains to soften the look and light cream carpet for the flooring.

This small feminine bedroom combines cream and purple to create a contemporary-style design. Lavender-painted walls are combined with cream carpet flooring for a light background, while the furniture pieces are laminated in a glossy cream color.

The bed sheets are also in purple to match the color of the walls, and it also adds a darker grape-colored throw and white pillow to add more texture. Purple bedroom ideas that match the decor and bed linens can create a cohesive design style without costing a lot of money.