Ways To Use Joanna Gaines' Favorite Color In The Bedroom

Although Kermit the Frog would say, "It's not easy being green," for Joanna Gaines, green is an easy color to love. The color is such a favorite for Gaines, that Magnolia Home — her brand collaboration with paint maker KILZ — features no less than 10 different shades of the natural color. In celebration of the 10th anniversary of her successful HGTV series "Fixer Upper" launched in 2014, Gaines purchased a lakehouse to renovate in Waco, Texas, with husband Chip Gaines. Gaines' passion for the green led her to use the color all over the lakehouse. The stellar result can be seen in the limited series "Fixer Upper: The Lakehouse" which premiered in summer 2024.

Maybe you've seen the show and are wondering how to recreate the design inspo behind "Fixer Upper: The Lakehouse," or you just love the color green but are unsure of how to use it in your home. We're borrowing some tips from Joanna Gaines in order to share some ideas that will help you green your home, with a special focus on the bedroom. Once you've mastered these design concepts, you should be able to incorporate some of them in other areas of your home too.

Joanna Gaines' shades of green tend to be inspired by nature, including natural earth tones reminiscent of pine, sage, and ocean green. While some greens may pop a bit too much on their own, these shades, used in combination with warm hued woods like mahogany, oak, cherry, or walnut, create an atmosphere of adult sophistication. Maturity, however, doesn't have to mean boring.

In an Instagram post, Gaines demonstrates the power of a neutral green as the backdrop for a desk chair and a finished floor in her library. Painting the bookshelf behind them green helps bring out the warmth in the wood and gives the whole room a sense of maturity without coming off stuffy. Where your bedroom is concerned, a bed frame, nightstand or dresser with warm wood hues offers an excellent opportunity to take advantage of a neutral green paint like a Magnolia Bespoke Green or 1905 Green, a mix of deep blue and jade green tones. With your walls as a backdrop for your bedframe, finished flooring, or other furniture, the warm hues matched with natural green tones will give your room an adult, yet interesting feel. That said, there's one shade of green to avoid painting in your home.

Any fan of Joanna Gaines knows she loves to employ plant life in her interiors. Interiorscaping is a design strategy where plants are considered like any other accent or piece of furniture might be — it's not about filling empty space so much as enhancing the space in a way that's both aesthetically pleasing and that makes sense for the room. In other words, the natural lighting in your bedroom, how different plants look in the same room together (are they all the same size, or species, and if not, do they still work in the same room?), and the level of maintenance required to keep them alive for any length of time all need to be considered.

Everything from the creative way Joanna Gaines fixes planters to a bedroom wall on "Fixer Upper" to her specific use of different plants to highlight a particular area of a room showcases how greenery indoors can enhance your lifestyle. While there are a number of houseplants Joanna Gaines keeps around the house, one of her favorites, a Night-Blooming Cereus, is basically a tiny cactus with the added natural perk of blooming at night while you sleep. As an orchid cactus, they require regular watering but aren't super labor intensive. Budding, fragrant flowers will appear on the cactus in your bedroom around 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. every night, which is a natural design enhancement that will definitely add life to your bedroom. 

While green paint, plants, and decor can all make a big impact on your bedroom, mixing and matching your favorite color into your bed sheeting can also create a delightful aesthetic. For example, a duvet with a singular green color over bed linens or pillow cases of the same color can be too much of the same. While pairing a solid green duvet, with a comforter or pillow case of another singular color, like white for instance, can also be less interesting than a mix of colors on your bed. By mixing your solid green duvet or comforter with a pillowcase that incorporates green, but in a patterned design, you can stay true to your color scheme while shaking up the other design elements. In this way, you can allow green to be the star of the show and the color that grounds the other design elements on your bed, without it becoming over pronounced and boring.

You can also play around with different textures — think cotton, velvet, or linen — based on seasonality and personal preferences. Accessorize with throw blankets and throw pillows for a more professional, tailored look. Finally, check out Magnolia star Joanna Gaines' tips for incorporating green into your home decor to learn how to make green a primary color in the rest of your home.