Cottage Paint Colour 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 colour 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 colour palette of soft, calming hues to transform your home into a breezy, bucolic retreat.

The Benjamin Moore Cottage Colour 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 Colours

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 colours. Here, Ice Sculpture CC-938 and French Violet CC-960 bring the buoyant nature of spring into the everyday. Pales and pastels like peach Crème Caramel OC-84, periwinkle Beacon Gray 2128-60, and lavender Batik AF-610 are also favourites 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 colours 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 favourite white paint colours 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 grey-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 colours 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 modest-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^® Colour Collection.

A paint finish affects how paint colour appears and makes for a powerful design tool. Here, classic wainscoting and trim in Icicle OC-60 beautifully highlight architectural detail. While the same colour, 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-grey 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 colours 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 colour contrast comes by way of a practical—and pretty—painted hallway bench in Gray Cashmere 2138-60, one of the colours in the Benjamin Moore Colour of the Year 2021 Colour Trends palette.