Get out of your neutral zone and add some color with our colorful bedroom furniture and decor DIY projects.
If bold and colorful describes your personal style, your bedroom should reflect that.
Embrace bright, beautiful bedroom colors with simple projects it’s possible for you to accomplish in a weekend.
Credit: Jason Donnelly
DIY Bedroom Art
Art is an easy way to introduce color and personality to your bedroom.
Create DIY nature-inspired wall art by framing sculptural leaves fromplants like monstera,croton, and areca palm.
Use two pieces of plywood for leaves that won’t fit in a book.
Credit: Nicolas Gourguechon
Attach the leaves to art paper using double-sided tape, and frame.
Colorful Bedroom Furniture Update
Grab someremovable wallpaper in a colorful patternto quickly update bedroom furniture.
This dresser boasts a vibrant floral pattern on its lower drawers.
Credit: Jason Donnelly
To apply wallpaper on a dresser, remove the hardware and measure the drawer fronts.
After cutting the wallpaper to size, peel off the backing and press the paper onto the drawer front.
Use the edge of a credit card to smooth out any air bubbles under the paper.
Credit: Jay Wilde
DIY Ribbon Bedding
Update basic bedding with ribbon for a pretty color pop.
Add a decorative border topillowcases and sheets, or create a striped design using ribbon in coordinating colors.
When attaching ribbons to fabric, either stitch or use iron-on adhesive tape (not both).
Credit: Jason Donnelly
DIY Nightstand Project
Swap your traditional bedside table for this DIY floating nightstand.
The wood cube is easy to construct with a few simple cuts and a pocket-hole jig.
A painted plywood backing supplies a perfect pop of color.
Credit: Annie Schlechter
To apply, start with acompletely dry, clean wallwith a smooth surface.
Custom Bedroom Seating
Create colorfulbedroom furniturethat doubles as storage with this DIY tufted bench.
A hinged lid reveals hidden storage for throw blankets and pillows.
Credit: Jacob Fox
This abstract design is easy to make with spray paint.
Hang the DIY wall art above your bed for a contemporary statement piece.
Easy Velvet Headboard
Fashion a fabric slipcover to quickly bring new color and style to your headboard.
Credit: Jason Donnelly
We chose brilliant blue velvet for ours and slipped it over aDIY headboard crafted from plywoodand upholstery foam.
Two-inch button blanks covered in velvet and attached with E6000 adhesive introduce extra texture and dimension.
Painted Barnwood Headboard
Add color and texture with aDIY headboard made fromreclaimed barn boards.
Credit: Adam Albright
Cut a piece of plywood to desired size (ours fits a queen bed).
Gently clean the boards with a damp cloth, but don’t scrub or sand away the weathered character.
Cut boards as needed, and nail them to cover the plywood.
Credit: Adam Albright
When dry, we taped off boards and created color blocks using a blue spruce hue.
Thesoothing shade works perfectly in a bedroom, and the color blocks add a modern touch to the piece.
Screw the headboard into studs in your wall, or hang it with wood cleats.
Credit: Adam Albright
DIY Ombre Duvet
This DIY duvet cover gains high style thanks to aneasy dip-dye technique.
Start with a 100-percent-cotton white duvet cover.
Prepare three large buckets of Rit brand liquid dye.
Credit: Adam Albright
Mix equal parts Royal Blue and Navy Blue.
Create three color intensities by diluting with water.
Stitched Bedroom Pillows
Subtle stitching adds colorful designs to a plain pillowcase.
Credit: Adam Albright
With the deepest-intensity dye left over from our duvet project (previous slide), we dyed two shams.
Use all six strands of the floss for more visible stitching.
DIY Striped Pillows
DIY pillow ideasare a simple, affordable way toadd color to a bedroom.
Credit: Adam Albright
For this project, fan-fold a purchased white cotton pillowcase, then dip one edge into the liquid dye.
We used a mix of Rit’s Royal Blue and Navy Blue to coordinate with our duvet.
Let dry and heat set according to the manufacturer’s directions.
DIY Geometric Dresser
Thispreviously plain white dressernow proudly wears an eye-catching geometric design.
For either a new or an old dresser, remove drawers, then prime and paint the drawer fronts.
Use a straightedge, a pencil, and painter’s tape to block off a geometric pattern.
Try alternating directions or flipping the pattern upside down on adjacent drawers, as we did here.
We used three tones of the same color and applied them randomly inside the tape lines.
When dry, reinstall the drawers.
First, we used spray primer and blue Rust-Oleum spray paint to freshen the old brass base.
