30 Black-and-White Bedrooms

Black and white are a dynamic dream team that never disappoints when decorating. Whether designing a timeless, tailored look or one that's dramatic and moody, discover how to use these classic hues to create a designer-worthy bedroom.

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B+W: A Classic Combo

What's black, white and beautiful all over? Your main bedroom, after reading through our 30 black-and-white bedroom design tips. Read on get the scoop on our favorite black-and-white paint, furnishings and fabrics, plus all our easy-to-follow DIY tutorials to color your en-suite with this pitch-perfect pairing.

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From: Erica Bryen Design

Pitch Your Ceiling

Want to dial up the drama in your all-white bedroom? Take notes from this dreamy suite from Pineapple House Interior Design and paint your ceiling pitch black for head-turning impact. If you're working with tall ceilings (lucky you!), paint the crown molding the same inky hue to create a cozy effect. For standard ceilings, paint your trim and walls the same white as the wall color to create the illusion of extra height.

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From: Pineapple House Interior Design

Embrace Abstract Thinking

Create a chic space to catch some Z’s with bold abstract artwork above your bed. A pair of oversized black-and-white brushstroke paintings bring a graphic edge to the headboard in this contemporary bedroom. Commission similar works from a local or online artist to support creatives and bring beauty to your room in one fell swoop. Or, if you feel crafty: Paint a stretched canvas with creamy white paint and let it dry completely. Apply inky acrylic paint with a standard paintbrush dipped in water to dilute the pigment. Create sweeping, exaggerated and imperfect lines on the canvas to yield one-of-a-kind artwork for your black-and-white boudoir.

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From: EDYTA & CO. Interior Design

Dot Your Eyes

Keep your black-and-white bedroom feeling airy and bright with dainty-scale polka dot wallpaper like this eye-catching option employed by Erica Bryen Design. This kicky wallcovering works as a crisp backdrop to the black headboard in this bedroom as it features ample negative space and reads as predominantly white.

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From: Erica Bryen Design

Coat Your Closet

Cloak your closet in mystery and elevate your simple white bedroom in a weekend (or less!) with a few buckets of jet-black paint and the rollers or brushes you already have in your arsenal. Apply the moody shade to the closet doors and surrounding trim to expand or heighten your closet and finish with envy-inducing brass hardware for a glamourous touch.

Highlight Your Headboard

Kick up the contrast in your black-and-white bedroom with a snowy headboard against inky walls. Designer Antonio Martins sets the bar in this well-appointed guest suite with a dapper duo that demands attention against the smoky pinstriped wallpaper lining the walls and ceiling.

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From: Antonio Martins

Frame the View

Frame the view from your bedroom with floor-to-ceiling black drapes. Secure your curtain rod to the ceiling and let the drapes kiss the floor (or puddle) for maximum drama in the space. This theatrical technique works overtime to add movement to the walls, creating an intimate and cozy feeling that all-white designs often lack.

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From: Tiffany Brooks

Cocoon the Room

Escape the day in a cocoon of coziness with floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall drapes à la the pros at Duet Design Group. This inspired main suite boasts lustrous, voluminous black drapes that shield sunlight to create the ultimate setting for undisturbed slumber. Bonus: The dark and moody drapery makes white bedlinens pop, appearing extra-fresh between laundry days.

From: Duet Design Group

Play With Pattern

One tried-and-true technique to keep your black-and-white bedroom from feeling stark? Play with cozy, homey patterns like plaid, gingham, buffalo check and windowpane. Designer Kerri Kelly uses a fine-line plaid duvet to pack modern farmhouse charm into this streamlined guest room. Follow Kelly's lead and incorporate similar charming motifs through bedding, drapes or rugs.

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From: Kerrie Kelly

Draw the Line

Add character to your black bedroom by installing a bright-white rail-and-stile wainscoting to the lower third of your walls. The contrasting combination is failproof, creating a crisp backdrop that complements your existing bedroom furnishings. Plus, it's easier to DIY than you think. Follow our in-depth installation guide in the link below.

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From: Kerrie Kelly

Paint Your Bed Frame

Make your statement four-poster or canopy bed frame the focal point in your black-and-white bedroom design with strategic use of color. The team at Hyphen & Co uses a striking black bed in this East Hampton guest room and keeps the surroundings fresh with white-painted floors and matching millwork. Follow suit with bright white walls and a moody bed in your bedroom; take the opposite approach with onyx walls and an alabaster bed frame for equally striking results.

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From: Hyphen & Co

Energize With Houseplants

Potted plants are the secret to breathing life into a black-and-white bedroom design. Put your green thumbs to work and invest in a living fiddle leaf fig or flashy majestic palm to bring lush color to any corner of your room. If your partner has put you on a strict no-buy list after yet another potted plant met its untimely demise in your living room, you’re in luck. Get the same energizing appeal in your moody bedroom without endangering trees using faux plants or flowers.

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From: Kirsten Holmstedt

White Out Conditions

Embrace your love of white-on-white interiors and outfit your bedroom with white walls, bedding, upholstery and window treatments. Then, copy the pros at Urbanology Designs and anchor your snowy suite with a singular, shapely black canopy bed plus two sculptural black bedside lamps.

From: Urbanology Designs

Add Warmth With Woven Storage Baskets

Warm up your black-and-white bedroom and create stylish storage in one fell swoop with a pretty pair of woven rattan, wicker or seagrass baskets at the foot of your bed. Here, twin oversized top-handle baskets provide a practical solution for stowing away extra toss pillows at bedtime or keeping blankets within reach for chilly evenings reading in bed.

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From: Zoe Feldman Design

Go Graphic

If you love graphic art but want to make a bolder statement on your walls than a painting or print can deliver, take a page out of interior designer Erica Bryen’s playbook. Install showstopping abstract black-and-white wallpaper behind your headboard and kick it up a notch with contrasting patterned window treatments. The key to pulling off the chic results? Balance the dynamic wall and window dressings with a simple crisp-white duvet and solid black accent furnishings.

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From: Erica Bryen Design

Barely-There Bookshelves

Give your bedroom walls and built-ins a moody makeover with a fresh coat of black paint. This technique creates a barely-there look where the bookshelves and walls blend for a chic, seamless result. Accessorize your shelves with taupe, ivory and brass tchotchkes and books to pop against the walls while maintaining the neutral aesthetic of your design.

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Border in Black

Dip your toes into black-and-white design with this contemporary approach from designer Tiffany Brooks. Nix the traditional white molding and accentuate the millwork in your bedroom with a moody paint job. Gloss or satin-finish black crown molding and window trim will make white walls appear whiter and create a chic backdrop for neutral furnishings.

From: Tiffany Brooks

Stick to Shiplap

Prevent black-and-white walls from visually falling flat and create dimension in your design with tried-and-true shiplap panels. Interior designer Cortney Bishop uses white shiplap on the walls and black shiplap on the ceiling in this bunk room, yielding charming results fitting for a kids’ space. Pro tip: Install shiplap horizontally to visually widen the space or vertically to create an illusion of taller ceilings.

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From: Cortney Bishop Design

Balance With Bouclé

Balance the sharp contrast in your black-and-white bedroom with a strategic fabric selection. Soft linens and cotton are lovely bedding choices, while a trendy bouclé (looped yarn) accent chair or headboard sets the tone for snuggling through the night.

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Trading Places

White walls and black drapes are dreamy, but if dramatic design is what you’re after, go ahead and flip that combo on its head. Paint your walls and ceiling a deep midnight black, then install ivory light-diffusing drapes and shades for shining contrast. Select white oak hardwoods or an alabaster area rug to match the creamy window treatments and bring airiness underfoot.

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Opt for Ivory + Charcoal

Give your black-and-white bedroom a homey look with a warmed-up color palette. Interior designer Amy Carman supplies the blueprint in this tranquil bedroom with a mix of ivory and smoky-black details woven throughout through furniture, light fixtures and artwork. Use the same diffused black-and-white tones to outfit your farmhouse, rustic or cottage-style bedroom.

From: Amy Carman Design

Plant Seeds of Style

Nurture style in your bedroom with a black-and-white botanical wallpaper. Follow Kerrie Kelly’s lead and install an artsy floral accent wall behind your headboard or apply the posy wallpaper on your ceiling to enjoy whimsical garden views as you drift to sleep.

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From: Kerrie Kelly

Heat Up With Cognac

Bring the heat in your black-and-white bedroom with a toasty and timeless accent hue: cognac. The caramel color lowers the contrast between black and white furnishings for a subdued and restful result. Bonus: cognac plays well with aged-brass fixtures or gilt accessories to enhance existing warmth in your boudoir.

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Create a Smoldering Entry

Set the tone for chic slumber with our quick DIY painted door project. The pros at THELIFESTYLEDCO offer ample inspiration, with a pair of arched, ember-black double doors that lead to a contemporary bedroom. Get the same look with one of our favorite inky paint colors: Tricorn Black from Sherwin Williams or Black Beauty by Benjamin Moore.

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From: THELIFESTYLEDCO

Coming of Age

The black-and-white color palette is versatile and adaptable to any interior design style with strategic furnishings. Our secret to sidestepping the innately modern look with this color combo is incorporating antique wood furniture like this beautiful burled-wood chest of drawers. Use glossy burlwood and mahogany pieces scored online to bring history and luster to the perimeter of your bedroom for traditional appeal. (Earn brownie points if you install ornate gilt frames on your walls while you’re at it!)

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From: Crystal Sinclair

Add Interest Overhead

When designing a moody black bedroom, the playful influence of a cobalt blue ceiling medallion can be just what the doctor ordered. Paint a geometric shape in a punchy neon or primary hue around your existing light fixture. This little detail adds personality overhead without distracting from the main focal point in your bedroom.

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From: Crystal Sinclair

The Cool Kid Starter Pack

Black-and-white is not exclusive to adult spaces. This winning combo is perfect for nurseries and kids' rooms as it serves as the perfect backdrop for bright toys, books and plush accessories aplenty. For this modern farmhouse kid's room, black-painted shiplap doubles as a sleek headboard that will continue to feel fresh and fun, growing with the child over the years.

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From: Ben Herzog

Highlight Your Headboard

Create a look that's equal parts clean and contemporary by highlighting graphic elements in your black-and-white bedroom with a shadowy background. An ochre upholstered headboard, geometric wall art and two midcentury sculptural lamps steal the show against a matte-black wall. Take the same approach in your bedroom design with black walls offset with a kicky fabric headboard and sculptural light fixtures.

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Marry Your Ceiling and Floors

Never underestimate the impact your floors and ceiling have on a design. Here, white oak hardwoods and a neutral grasscloth wallpaper sandwich this black-and-white bedroom with airy, organic warmth and enhance the bohemian aesthetic of the space. Follow JLV Creative’s lead and install woven grass paper to your ceiling to crown the space with interest. Pro tip: Select a grasscloth hue that mirrors the tones found in your flooring or area rug to envelop the room with warmth.

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From: JLV Creative

Take a Global Approach

Offset your bold black-and-white color palette by incorporating global-inspired furnishings and accessories. Natural materials like leather, wool, seagrass and wood integrate an organic easefulness into any space. Kerra Michele Huerta achieves just that in this tucked-away reading nook with a welcoming black leather armchair, bouclé pillow and a bone inlay side table.

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From: Kerra Michele Huerta

Strike a Balance

Decorating with a colorful pattern can be tricky because it's easy for the design to overwhelm the space. The pros at Hyde Evans Design strike a balance in this stately, traditional bedroom with elegant black-and-ecru floral wallpaper dressing the walls, windows and ceiling. Follow their lead and stick with a pared-back black-and-white color palette to tone down your wallpaper's impact for an effect that's at once both sophisticated and whimsical.

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30 Black-and-White Bedrooms

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Shop This Look

B+W: A Classic Combo

Pitch Your Ceiling

Embrace Abstract Thinking

Dot Your Eyes

Coat Your Closet

Highlight Your Headboard

Frame the View

Cocoon the Room

Play With Pattern

Draw the Line

Paint Your Bed Frame

Energize With Houseplants

White Out Conditions

Add Warmth With Woven Storage Baskets

Go Graphic

Barely-There Bookshelves

Border in Black

Stick to Shiplap

Balance With Bouclé

Trading Places

Opt for Ivory + Charcoal

Plant Seeds of Style

Heat Up With Cognac

Create a Smoldering Entry

Coming of Age

Add Interest Overhead

The Cool Kid Starter Pack

Highlight Your Headboard

Marry Your Ceiling and Floors

Take a Global Approach

Strike a Balance

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