Who doesn’t long for a bedroom that acts like a lullaby? If you’re sleep-challenged—isn’t everyone these days?—consider creating your own cloud chamber. Fans of all-white bedrooms use words like “tranquil,” “blank slate,” “no distractions,” and “Zen” to describe the appeal. There’s also an automatic tidy look that comes with opting for all white: a single color creates cohesion and, like a T-shirt, can stylistically go in any direction.
Too much etherealness, however, can be chilly and soporific (not necessarily in a good way). The key to a successful all-white approach is to introduce texture, slip in subtle patterns or varying shades of pale, and to accessorize with books, art, plants—or simply a wonderful view. Here are 27 standouts that demonstrate the great versatility of all white.
Under the Rafters
![white on white in rivka baake and wilfrid kreutz\2\17;s bedroom in a con 17](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/lappalainen-loft-germany-rivka-baake-and-wilfrid-kreutz-marc-krause-photo-10a-733x1100.jpg)
How to select the right white for your room? For advice, take a look at 10 Easy Pieces: Architects’ White Paint Picks and How to Choose the Perfect White Paint.
![architect sheila bonnell designed a whitewashed aerie for herself and her husba 18](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/sheila-bonnell-cape-cod-loft-bedroom-2-733x488.jpg)
Explore the whole project in our book Remodelista: A Manual for the Considered Home. Photograph by Matthew Williams for Remodelista.
![interior designer claudia zinzan, owner of one of our favorite browsing spots, 19](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/father-rabbit-white-bedroom-nautical-stripe-pillowcase-733x503.jpg)
![this metal four poster by zangra of belgium is designed so that the bed al 20](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/zangra-four-poster-villa-ibiza-algarve-joana-del-maupinto-architeture-studio-algarve-concept-interior-by-luis-cruz-of-georgina-interior-design-733x948.jpg)
![a shiplap paneled perch on the top floor of a vacation house in vega, norway, d 21](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/vega-norway-summerhaus-kolman-boye-architects-733x488.jpg)
Minimalist’s Dream
![a white platform bed and inventive art arrangement at home in a fantastic frank 22](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/white-bedroom-josenfin-haag-emily-laye-photo-fantastic-frank-733x1099.jpg)
![designer michaela scherrer entirely sticks to shades of white in her own pasade 23](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Michaela-Scherrer-Pasadena-LA-Matthew-Williams-Remodelista-1-733x1102.jpg)
![this studio oink designed plywood platform bed in wiesbaden, germany, incorpora 24](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/studio-oink-wiesbaden-apartment-platform-storage-bed-733x1075.jpg)
Bright (Removable) Accents
![white offset by jewel toned throw pillows at paris cool girl lucile demory& 25](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/lucile-demory-paris-apartment-claire-cottrell-18-733x489.jpg)
![a marble niche and bedside table in a lisbon apartment designed down to the fur 26](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/plywood-floor-bedroom-mattress-fala-atelier-lisbon-apartment-3-733x935.jpg)
![in her london victorian house, british style authority jane cumberbatch poetica 27](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/white-bedroom-jane-cumberbatch-london-rachel-whiting-photo-733x1094.jpg)
Historic White
![in an elegantly furnished kid & coe seaside rental in cornwall, e 28](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/fields/cornwall-kid-and-coe-remodelista18-733x489.jpg)
![get some headspace: in jane cumberbatch\2\17;s vacation house in olhao, 29](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/jane-cumberbatch-home-olhao-portugal-pure-style-blog-1-733x977.jpg)
![taking inspiration from shaker design, architect rafe churchill outlined this w 30](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/fields/Rafe-Churchill-The-New-Farmnouse-Remodelista-07-733x550.jpg)
Studio Apartment White
![monastic chic: a curtained bedroom in milan by casatibounsante architects. see 31](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/casatibuonsante-architects-casa-con-alcova-milan-bedroom-3-733x489.jpg)
![photographer maria hennechart\2\17;s paris bedroom—divided from h 32](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/marie-hennechart-paris-apartment-8-733x550.jpg)
![interior designer karin montgomery created a studio apartment atop a two car ga 33](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/fields/garage-studio-apartment-3-by-Karin-Montgomery-Spath-Remodelista_1-733x488.jpg)
![the white retreat in sitges, spain, was designed for a french art historian who 34](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/white-studio-apt-sitges-spain-casa-733x425.jpg)
The 36-square-meter (387.5-square-foot) vacation space, explain architects Matteo Colombo and Andrea Serboli, is all about “silence and light.” Photograph by Roberto Ruiz, courtesy of CaSA (Colombo and Serboli Architecture).
Barely Noticeable Built-In Storage
![\2\20;my husband and i maximized space by building our bed into an awkwa 35](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/700_hanway-house-01-jpeg.jpg)
![another favorite clean lined design by claudia zinzan of father rabbit fea 36](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/father-rabbit-limited-bedroom-733x748.jpg)
![a ledge and bedside shelving take the place of tables in a small paris bedroom 37](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Paris-apartment-designed-by-Philippe-Harden-2-733x513.jpg)
See the rest of the space in The Perfect Two-Room Paris Pied-a-Terre, Ikea Kitchen Included. Photograph courtesy of Philippe Harden.
![michaela scherrer\2\17;s guest room incorporates a wall of built in cabi 38](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Michaela-Scherrer-guest-room-LA-Remodelista-733x530.jpg)
For more bedroom storage ideas, take a look at Architectural Built-Ins for the Bedroom. Photograph by Matthew Williams for Remodelista.
The Paneled Chamber
![architects solveig fernlund and neil logan refurbished a brooklyn brownstone fo 39](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Brooklyn-town-house-remodel-attic-bedroom-Fernlund-and-Logan-Remodelista-733x933.jpg)
Tour all four floors in Nordic Beauty: A Brooklyn Brownstone Reinvented with Style—and Restraint. Photograph by Matthew Williams for Remodelista.
![a shiplap paneled accent wall at salt house inn in provincetown, situated in a 40](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/salt-air-house-remodelista-shiplap-733x489.jpg)
![fashion stylist/shop owner tiina laakonen\2\17;s hamptons bedroom is a t 41](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/fields/tiina-laakonen-hamptons-NY-remodelista-24-733x530.jpeg)
![uk stylist twig hutchinson\2\17;s summerhouse in the back of her london 42](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/fields/Twig_Hutchinson_Lorn_Road_Summerhouse_01-733x489.jpg)
![a paneled guest room beckons at the spruceton inn, casey scieszka\2\17;s 43](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Spruceton-Inn-Catskills-NY-room-detail-photo-by-Sarah-Jayne-Ellis-Remodelista-733x489-733x489.jpg)
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