When you're designing and styling your dream home, there are very few rooms that are more important or exciting to tackle than your bedroom. Your bedroom is your sanctuary—an oasis of calm and comfort where you feel completely at ease. It's the room where you do most of your dreaming, sleeping, lounging, and thinking, and should be designed with this in mind.
Bedroom styling is a little bit more of a delicate art form than it might be in other rooms in the home. It's all about striking a balance between creating a space you visually love and one that functions well for your lifestyle. To learn how you can do just that, read on for our ultimate list of bedroom styling tips...
1. Set It Up for Sleep
Sleep is something that many Australians struggle with. But it's also one of the most important things your body does. It's the time when you can rest, which is essential to your mental, physical, and spiritual health.
If you want to make sure you're getting enough shut-eye, then your first port of call will be setting up your bedroom so it's conducive to this goal. You need to have a bed that's just the right size and style. Ensure your sleeping arrangements are almost minimalist in their approach, free from clutter and distractions. Creating a sleep sanctuary for yourself is an important act of self-care.
2. Finding the Right Light
One of the best ways to create ambience in a room is with lighting. You'd be amazed about the wonders some subtle tricks of light can do for a room.
For bedroom lighting, we recommend something soft, like a lamp with a low watt bulb. You can play around with different colours and strengths. Even the lampshade you choose can have an effect on how the light looks.
3. A Section for Reflection
Mirrors are a great addition to any room. They create the illusion of space and light, and they're of course useful too. The bedroom is one place where you'll want to make sure you've got a great quality and stylish mirror.
Whether you're checking out how well your new skin routine is working, giving your date-night outfit a final once over, or simply taking the time to take a good look at yourself, a mirror is one of those bedroom essentials you'll always find yourself needing.
4. Feng Shui For Success
Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese philosophy of arranging living spaces to create balance with the natural world. If you're looking for bedroom ideas or indecisive about where to place your furniture in your bedroom, then this can be a good system to consult.
Teachings of Feng Shui have much to say on the subject of the bedroom. They state your bed is a representation of you as a person, and its placement is important. You need to have a solid wall behind your headboard for support and make sure to have space open on both sides of the bed for those sleeping there.
5. Love to Lounge
How much time do you spend sitting up in your bed each evening? Most people don't fall asleep immediately when they go to bed. Instead, they spend time chatting to their partner, reading, or getting lost in a film.
It's funny, then, that headboards aren't something that we always think to test out. The bedhead, in many ways, is as important as your pillows, so you want to make sure you've got one that's both chic and supremely comfortable.
6. Create a Cocoon of Comfort
Your room is probably the place you retreat to when you've had a bad day or simply want to unwind. Sleeping isn't the only thing you do there, and you need to make sure that's it's comfortable for its other purposes as well. Some of these will be sitting and reflecting or relaxing.
To make your space as comfortable as possible, you should add in soft touches like throws, blankets and cushions. You want entering your room to feel like you're being wrapped in a warm hug from an old friend.
7. Choose the Colour Carefully
Since you spend so much time in your room and it plays such an important role in your life, the colour you choose for it is going to matter—a lot. While it might be tempting to choose something flashy or trendy, you're better off choosing a colour that's subtle and that you know you're not going to easily tire of. For the bedroom, pale pinks, greens, and earthy tones are all great choices.
8. Simple and Stylish Storage
As we've said, one of the challenges of interior design for the bedroom is striking the balance between style and suitability. Pioneering British textile designer William Morris once said "have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful" and this is a quote to live by. But we also believe that objects can be both.
Take storage solutions, for example. It's possible to have objects that are used for storage but also look like beautiful standalone design pieces. You can have the best of both worlds in your bedroom.
9. Keep Your Friends Close
When you're about to go to sleep and when you first wake up are two of your most vulnerable and unfettered times of the day. When you're in these states of mind, you want to be able to grab onto the things that matter most. Your favourite book, your journal, your lucky piece of jewellery.
That's why having a perfectly positioned, sturdy, and timeless beside table is so important. You need storage beside your bed so you can have easy access to these things when you need them most.
Bedroom Styling Made Simple
The art of bedroom styling can be tricky to master, but with these tips, we hope it's made a little bit easier for you. We hope your journey of creating a beautiful bedroom is as pleasant as the finished result. Explore our full bedroom range today!
