Painting the bricks white makes this room so serene and light. The bricks provide a bit of rough and rhythmic texture, which again, keeps the room from being a real yawner.
A clean white space with a puffy duvet can feel like a luxury hotel. Also, that reading light is perfectly placed for pre-sleep literature. Again, Cormac McCarthy is not recommended. Stephen King, I cannot read anything you wrote right before bed either!