Cottage Paint Color Palette

Pale pink walls with a painting and a tin bucket of pink flowers on top of a console.

The rustic warmth of a cottage-style home continues to evolve. From early '90s ‘shabby chic’ to Gen Z’s ‘cottagecore,’ the cottage look is timeless.

Our cottage color palette provides a delightful mix of country living and serenity—the perfect hues for a comfy, cottage-inspired setting.

Classic cottage design includes an eclectic mix of vintage knickknacks, handmade crafts, whitewashed floors, pastoral settings, and a just-right amount of quaint. Use our cottage color palette of soft, calming hues to transform your home into a breezy, bucolic retreat.

The Benjamin Moore Cottage Color Palette

For cottage design, we love a spring-inspired palette of airy pastels and cozy earth tones for easygoing, year-round appeal.

White paneled walls leading into a misty blue room with light brown doors.

Happy Cottage Paint Colors

White paint is classic cottage.

Equally classic? Benjamin Moore’s warm White Dove OC-17, a go-to for farmhouse-inspired shiplap walls. We also love Super White OC-152 and Cloud Cover OC-25 for shiplap.

This snug cottage space glows with light and bright colors. Here, Misty Blue 820 and French Violet 1427 bring the buoyant nature of spring into the every day. Pales and pastels like peach Crème Caramel OC-84, periwinkle Beacon Gray 2128-60, and lavender Batik AF-610 are also favorites for the cheery cottage home.

Tan kitchen walls with a white armoire, white fireplace, and a red and white striped floor runner.

The Perfect Paint for Your Cottage Kitchen

Apply a fresh coat of paint to effortlessly unify an eclectic, cottage-style kitchen.

Neutral paint colors on walls always hold appeal for common spaces like the kitchen. Here, Coastal Path AF-380 is earthy and inviting. We also love Grant Beige HC-83 and Pashmina AF-100 for a warm, cottage-style kitchen.

Vintage hutches, timeworn kitchen cabinets, and rustic farmhouse furniture are easily spruced up with white paint. Here, Paper Mache AF-25, on hutch, cabinets and fireplace, keeps this kitchen fresh. Other favorite white paint colors that elevate well-loved, ‘shabby chic’ painted furniture include Chantilly Lace OC-65 and Steam AF-15.

Light mauve walls with a scenic photo hung above a tan fireplace mantel.

Home and Hearth: A Cozy Cottage Living Room

A fireplace is an organic focal point in the cottage living room. Celebrate the hearth all year round by using it as a creative backdrop for wildflowers or other garden-fresh greenery.

Cottage-style home accessories are best if they’re worn around the edges for a lived-in look. Here, a moody landscape and antique pitcher over a painted fireplace in Manchester Tan HC-81 make this cottage living room look complete.

Springtime vibes are also synonymous with cottage style; here, dusky violet walls in gray-toned Majestic Mauve 2115-60 does the trick.

A white room with a wood beam ceiling, a daybed, and a door propped open leading outside.

Cottage Bedroom Ideas

Elevate the inherent charm of plaster walls with a crisp, new coat of paint.

“When it comes to painting plaster, set yourself up for success by priming with INSL-X^® Prime Lock Plus, a fast-drying alkyd primer,” recommends Mark Ferrauiolo, a Benjamin Moore product expert.

This peaceful cottage-style bedroom layered in white and off-white paint colors adds to the room’s bright, yet warm glow. Botanical designs are innate to the cottage look. Use floral design on pillows, framed in art, and ideally, a simple vase of fresh flowers.

Light lavender walls with white beadboard and a white oversized sink.

Cottage Chic Bathroom

Keeping it simple is the best approach in a modestly-sized cottage bathroom.

Here, a vintage farmhouse sink is set off beautifully against soft Angelica AF-665. Other hues that transform a modest bathroom into a special sanctuary include Cotswold AF-150, Boudoir AF-190 and Carob AF-160, all from our Affinity^® Color Collection.

A paint finish affects how paint color appears and makes for a powerful design tool. Here, classic wainscoting and trim in Icicle OC-60 beautifully highlight architectural detail. While the same color, this homeowner opted for two different sheens—eggshell on wainscoting, and satin on window trim—for contrast.

Blue/green bedroom walls with six picture frames hung above a cottage inspired bed with white bedding.

A Guest Bedroom Retreat

Treat your guests to comfy quilts, sumptuous textiles, robin’s egg blues, and spring greens. Add depth with a wood bedframe and sleek gallery wall. This ultra-relaxing cottage bedroom reinvents the concept of ‘grandma aesthetic.’

Give any modestly-sized room an expansive feeling with walls painted in Etched Glass 626, a soft green. We also love Marilyn’s Dress 2125-60, a blue-gray that brightens up any shaded space. Use the ceiling, or the oft-forgotten ‘fifth wall,’ to add celestial blue. Here, Innocence 2055-70 brings crystal blue skies inside.

Gold/beige walls with three hats and bags hung on white wood paneling that goes three quarters of the way up the wall.

A Cottage Home Entryway

Welcome friends and family with a bright, radiant cottage-style entryway.

Combining yellow and white paint colors brings the sunshine in. Here Atrium White OC-145 highlights the wainscoting detail when paired with luminous Chestertown Buff HC-9 on the upper part of the wall.

Subtle color contrast comes by way of a practical—and pretty—painted hallway bench in Gray Cashmere 2138-60, one of the colors in the Benjamin Moore Color of the Year 2021 Color Trends palette.