
Room of the Month – Bedroom Suite
Your bedroom is your own personal retreat. Your most private place – where you go to rest, relax and restore. The perfect opportunity to let your decorating dreams take flight.
Tips for Creating the Bedroom of your Dreams
Whether you choose to do it yourself or let a design professional help you transform your Bedroom sanctuary, here are tips to insure you can make the most of your project.
Colors that sooth:
In our previous blog, we highlighted, Ultra Violet, the Pantone Color of 2018. Your bedroom sanctuary is the perfect spot to feature the jewel tone in subtle hues – whether it is a coverlet and shams in soft sapphire blue on white or a duvet cover and bed skirt accented in its calmer, more feminine cousin, lavender.
Bedding fashions and custom fabrications:
When dressing your bed, you may choose a classic solid with banding in a favorite accent color by Legacy. For a more European look consider richly patterned bedding like this gorgeous one from Yves Delorme
- Photo Credit: Legacy Home
- Photo Credit: Yves Delorme
We also offer fine bedding from Matouk, Home Treasures, Pine Cone Hill. Or coordinate your décor with bedding fabricated in coordinating COM fabrics from our extensive collections from Schumacher, Kravet, Thibaut or any other of our designer lines.
- Photo Credit: F. Schumacher
- Photo Credit: Old Biscayne
- Photo Credit: F. Schumacher
- Photo Credit: Kravet Inc
The right texture and weight create a bed that’s just right for your comfort. Add decorative layers with accent pillows and a soft throw.
Furniture with subtle finishes and soft edges:
Choose the soft touch of an upholstered headboard by Vanguard or the warmth of a wooden bed frame from Hickory Chair.
- Photo Credit: Hickory Chair
- Photo Credit: Hickory Chair
- Photo Credit: Hickory Chair
For a dresser that captures your sense of style, look to Theodore Alexander’s Morning Room Chest with its Chinese Chippendale blind fret paneled drawers set over vintage blue and white painted finish. This piece was inspired by a George III original, adds an antique character.
According to DesignSourceCT showroom manager, Alice Brash, Old Biscayne Designs, offers the widest variety of bed designs from metal to carved wooden styles.
“As with all of our fine casegoods lines, these beds bench-made one at a time. For that level of superior quality, these beds are very well-priced.”
For the person who wants to use this space as more than a sleeping spot, may choose to add a cozy chaise lounge from Century and a writing desk that doubles as a dressing table from Bungalow 5.
- Photo Credit: Bungalow 5
- Photo Credit: Bungalow 5
Now you can give yourself a spot to savor that book club selection or write a personal note of thanks to the host of that party you enjoyed so much.
Floor Covering that is soft to the touch:
Your first steps each morning should land on the softest rug. Nancy Perkins, DesignSourceCT floor covering specialist and Designer-On-Call, encourages bedroom clients to choose wool. Stark and Stanton offer a wider array of solids and patterns.
Window treatments that brighten your morning and shade your night:
Start with the right shade for privacy and temperature control. Hunter Douglas offers a full selections of options that will give you the coverage you prefer from a light diffusing sheer to a full blackout cover.
- Photo Credit: Hunter Douglas
- Photo Credit: Hunter Douglas
- Photo Credit: Hunter Douglas
- Photo Credit: Hunter Douglas
Then add softness and pattern with drapes and a topper to frame your view. Decorative hardware is a perfect way to For a touch of sophisticated elegance, check out Brimar’s clear finials. Consider this handsome coupling to elevate your window designs and turn windows from drab to fab with this glamorous square lucite hardware collection.
- Photo Credit: Brimar
- Photo Credit: Brimar
Today’s decorative trimmings options go way beyond colored tassels as seen with these Samuel & Sons bandings which can add a dramatic accent on a upholstered headboard.
- Photo Credit: Samuel & Sons
- Photo Credit: Samuel & Sons
- Photo Credit: Samuel & Sons
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