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17 Calming Colours for Your Home

17 Calming Colours for Your Home

February 18th, 2025

Little Greene

The paint colour you choose can have a considerable impact on the mood and atmosphere of your room. For those seeking to instil a sense of peace and tranquillity in their homes, explore our list of the most calming paint colours that will help you feel relaxed and uplifted each day.

From gentle greens and neutrals to soothing, sumptuous dark hues, discover calming shades in the Little Greene palette to use in your next project…

Greens

1. Gentle Green

Green is the true colour of nature, one that we feel comfortable with in the home, as we’re used to seeing it in the world around us. Invite the calming abilities of nature into your home by embracing gentle, soothing greens like Boringdon Green. This soft-toned green is a wonderful choice to use on all four walls of your bathroom, creating an immersive space where you can relax and unwind.

2. Dark Green

Deep, dark green hues evoke restful forest environments. Introduce these shades in rooms where you want to achieve a reassuring, restorative atmosphere, pairing with natural foliage and botanical accessories to create connection with the outdoors. Obsidian Green has a profound off-black hue that looks great on woodwork or panelling.

3. Green with a hint of blue

Greens that contain a hint of blue can feel very serene, infusing a room with a fresh and uplifting quality, as well as a sense of calm. Choose from the Aquamarine Colour Scales to find your perfect shade of aqua or mint green. Consider these calming bedroom paint colours to soothe your mind as you drift off to sleep each night.

4. Khaki Green

Khaki greens like Baluster from our Stone palette have a muted earthy hue that feels very natural and comforting, and can appear as grey or green depending on the light. The inclusion of grey in the formulation means these greens are easy to use on every surface in your room to create a warm, enveloping, wraparound scheme.

5. Moody Green

Livid is a deep, moody shade that sits somewhere between blue, grey and green. This is a fabulous choice of green for rooms with a more contemporary style. It provides a restful, muted green backdrop that offers real design flair, enabling you to project your personal style by introducing contemporary prints and patterned fabrics.

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Blues

6. Dark Blue

You might feel hesitant of using dark shades in case they overwhelm your space, but these hues are often some of the best calming paint colours. Basalt is the deepest shade of navy on the Little Greene colour card. Used all-over in a bedroom scheme, it reflects the shade of the midnight sky and creates the perfect sanctuary for rest.

7. Sky Blue

On the other hand, a delightful light blue like Brighton or Sky Blue captures the sense of peace we feel when we look up at the bright blue summer sky. Consider combining these blues in a double-drenched scheme that incorporates every surface in the room to create a joyful, inviting, wraparound space.

8. Muted Blue

Gentle, muted blues are one of the most timeless colour choices, loved for their warm and comforting hues that are simple to use all over. Celestial Blue is one of the oldest colours in the Little Greene palette – the perfect shade of blue to bring instant calm to your living space, or to an exterior scheme.

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Neutrals

9. Light Stone

When seeking to invite a feeling of calm into our homes, there is no better place to look than the colours found within nature. Our Stone palette comprises 36 colours based on naturally occurring pigments like Red Ochre, Burnt Sienna and Green Earth. A soft light stone hue such as Lute will sit comfortably as a restful neutral backdrop in period homes, or it can add instant character to more contemporary interiors.

10. Chocolate Brown

While it may have practical associations, shades of deep brown can be used in contemporary interiors to provide an inviting backdrop that exudes warmth, cosiness and tranquillity. Indulgent dark browns like Chocolate Colour are a beautiful accompaniment to the natural wood, rattan and stone finishes that also help to promote a sense of wellbeing.

11. Off-White

White is a staple colour choice and the perfect calm paint colour, providing a fresh, clean backdrop upon which to build your wider scheme. If a sense of calm is what you are hoping to achieve, look for shades of off-white with a warmer undertone, as these will create a gentler living environment. Silent White was formulated in the quest for the perfect warm white, with discreet yellow undertones that bring serenity and comfort to any scheme.

12. Soft Grey

Grey is another timeless shade, used in interior design for generations - a great choice for a calming paint colour. If the room you are decorating is dark or north-facing, some greys might make the space feel cold or uninviting, so it’s important to choose a grey with a neutral balance of undertones. French Grey is an authentic Victorian shade that contains a harmonious blend of blue and red undertones, providing the perfect soft grey, calming wall colour for any interior.

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Pinks and Reds

13. Earthy Pink

Pinks are warm, elegant and uplifting shades that can help us feel comforted and nurtured in our homes, the perfect calming colours for a living room. Masquerade has an inviting powder pink hue with an earthy undertone that exudes calm. This shade is simple to scheme alongside coordinating fabrics and furnishings for a soothing yet sophisticated living space.

14. Deep Purple

It is certainly possible to create a calming interior that is also bursting with personality. If you love bold statement shades, consider the deep aubergine purple, Còrdoba. With a rich, luxurious quality, this is a shade that delivers high impact. When embraced all over, Còrdoba can also feel very restful and soothing, creating the perfect setting to indulge in some self-care and relaxation.

15. Pink and Green

Apart from all-over, colour-drenched schemes, pink is a fabulous shade to combine with other colours and add design interest to your space. Inspired by calming natural colour palettes, pink and green is a wonderful colour combination to evoke the beauty and tranquillity of nature. Consider a delicate pastel pairing like Light Beauvais with Tracery II.

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Yellows

16. Warm Yellow

Yellow is the perfect paint colour to radiate positivity in your home, bringing a ray of cheerful sunshine to your everyday routine. Whilst bright, vibrant yellows can have an energising effect, softer yellows like Bath Stone will instil an atmosphere of calm. This authentic Victorian paint shade provides a beautiful warm backdrop for statement houseplants and natural wood.

17. Soft Honey

A slightly richer, honey-toned yellow like Madeleine is an alluring shade to use all-over, providing inviting, wraparound warmth. One of nine tempting warm neutrals in our ‘Sweet Treats’ palette, consider using this golden yellow in your hallway to create a haven from the outdoors. The homely ambience that this shade creates will make you and your guests feel instantly relaxed.

Request a Little Greene colour card to explore more calming shades for your home, or order sample pots in your chosen paint colours to test in situ.