Neutral does not mean beige. Five palettes that photograph beautifully, hide life's messes, and still feel like a baby lives here.
The nursery is the one room where a color decision has to survive night feeds, spit-up and years of daylight. These five palettes hold up.
Cool and clean, works for any gender, and pairs perfectly with woodland and animal prints. The grey grounds it so the aqua never reads like a swimming pool.
Softer than a pink room, and the mint keeps it from feeling one-note. Use ivory for the largest surfaces — walls and curtains — and save blush for textiles.
The most grown-up option on the list. Sage sits beautifully against warm wood, rattan and unbleached cotton, and it ages into a toddler room without a repaint.
High contrast, crisp, and forgiving in a room that gets a lot of use. Break up the navy with white trim so the space stays bright.
Oatmeal, cream and taupe everywhere, then a single saturated accent — mustard, terracotta or coral — in the quilt and one or two decor pieces. Change the accent, change the room.
Roughly 60% of the room in your dominant neutral, 30% in a secondary tone, 10% in an accent. It is the fastest way to keep a nursery from looking busy.
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