What is a good color to paint a large bedroom with a high ceiling?

I have a bedroom that I am absolutely stumped on how to paint without it looking ludicrous. I've tried pastels, a beigey shade, a dusky purple and several others. But much as I try,I'm always aware of the walls looking conspicuously tall and ominous rising above me.


Of course I could go with white but that just seems SO stark and uninviting.


My room gets a lot of light, keep in mind.


Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!What is a good color to paint a large bedroom with a high ceiling?
Try this - paint the ceiling in a lighter color than the walls, and with a significant contrast to the wall color. Bring the ceiling paint down onto the walls for 1-3 feet - this will have the effect of dropping the ceiling and shortening the wall height. Your room will seem much more cozy.What is a good color to paint a large bedroom with a high ceiling?
play around with the Sherwin Williams color visualizer to find colors that you like. It is the best paint visualizer on the web, imho. I like how their color palette is laid out, I like that you can search by color family %26amp; color name, the ';painted'; rooms look the most realistic, and it suggests coordinating color schemes. You can literally spend hours:


http://www.sherwin.com/visualizer/





I think ';amber wave'; (# 6657) might be a great choice.





You can take a photo of your house %26amp; upload it to the makeover gallery on this website:


http://www.roomvues.com/


You can get color suggestions %26amp; for $5 they'll photoshop them onto your room so that you can get an idea of what it will look like.
Try a Wedgewood blue with white or cream trim. Dark wood furniture goes well with this. Use very full crushed silk curtains that drag on the floor. Match curtains to wall trim. An ornate antiqued brass head and footboard for your bed, and a lush Wedgewood blue/cream/white/brown bedspread, preferably in floral. No clutter, just antiqued brass vases of lush flowers.





This room will be inviting, restful, and look sooooo classy.
taupe would look real nice and inviting.
maybe a warm red
Whoever suggested bringing the ceiling colour down the walls a bit had a very good idea. You could also install a plate rail which would help break up the wall area, and make the line between the two colours on the wall look a bit more finished, It could be the same colour as the wall or the ceiling, or be slightly darker than either. If the ceiling is really high, you could probably get away with using a darker colour on the ceiling. Most people would like their ceilings to look higher which is why white is so often used on a ceiling, but you have the opposite problem. Light colours open up a space, dark colours close it in. I'd pick a ceiling colour a shade or two darker than your wall colour but essentially the same colour. That will tend to make the ceiling appear closer to you. Also consider having one wall a different colour from the other three, perhaps the wall the bed is on, and if you choose a strong colour for that wall, it can change the apparent proportions of the room as well as providing a focal point to take your eyes off the ceiling. Or if it's when you're lying in bed that the limitless heights above you seem most obvious, paint the wall opposite the bed a strong colour, and put something large on that wall like a mirror, a large piece of art or a hanging which will take up a lot of blank wall area. If your bed is low, consider raising it six inches, and putting a headboard or a fake headboard on the bed that is a little higher than normal. That could also change the apparent proportions of the room.