decorating ideas for master bedroom

Decorating Ideas for Master Bedroom

The décor of the master bedroom in your house should represent you. It should offer you a feeling of comfort, rest and relaxation. Here are some great ideas you can use to decorate your master bedroom.

You always have something in mind when you think of your 'own' room and how you want it to be. When you finally get it, you don't know how to go about realizing all those thoughts in your head, because you want a little bit of everything. Now, people will tell you that a master bedroom should spell class, elegance, charm, and sheer magnificence; but in effect, it can look exactly how YOU want it to look. At the end of the day, you are the one who is going to crash in that room, wake up in there, work into the wee hours, just sit and enjoy a movie, or simply spend some time in silence in there. So eventually, it is your choice, your ideas, and your personality that will reflect in the room. We are here to help you make this choice; don't hesitate to try out what you like.
Choosing a Decorating Style for a Master Bedroom
Before you take a look at the styles with which you can decorate your master bedroom, you should at least have a basic idea about what your choices are. Here's how you can figure them out.
  • What is your personality like? Are you a vibrant person or do you think the lesser said the better? These aspects of your personality usually show up in the way you design the space you live in.
  • Have you seen something you like? While going through an interior design magazine, often you like certain elements of a room, or the way an entire bedroom has been done up. Make a note of these things, or if possible, keep a scrapbook of these things you like, and combine them when you decide to do up your master bedroom. You could also draw inspiration from the way some of your friends may have done up their bedrooms.
This isn't much, but these two aspects are usually enough to help you decide how you want to go about decorating your bedroom. Give it some thought, and while you do, here's a little help from us. INDEX
MODERN Decorating Style
Exactly as described and depicted in the images above, a modern decorating style boasts of sharp edges, stark colors and minimalistic design. If you want to follow it to the last detail, take a look at the two images presented above. Look how stark they are with their black and white colors, and how, in each room, that dash of color has livened up the entire room. Also, the wall murals and additional accessories such as the lamps, the chandeliers, the books, and that gorgeous white pot contribute to this look without taking away anything from it. If this style is too strong for you, it can be softened with your choice of color and accessories. However, make changes in keeping with the definition of the modern decorating style, if that's what you truly want.
RUSTIC Decorating Style
The rustic decorating style is also known as the cottage decorating style, and can also be defined as a part of the Mediterranean decorating style. As the images depict, this decorating style exudes warmth through and through. With the use of wood in its original form, this style is clearly reminiscent of a countryside cottage. If this is how you like your rooms, it is a great decorating style to choose for your bedroom. However, it must be pointed out that this style, particularly with its beams and heaviness of structure should be avoided in smaller rooms. Again, it can be toned down by eliminating the beams and using lighter wooden colors in a smaller room, while you still remain true to the decorating style.
TRADITIONAL Decorating Style
The traditional style could be derived from the traditional décor of any country. Here we speak specifically of the British colonial style, and elements of the traditional style with a slightly modern twist, as depicted in the images above. Notice the rich gold color and the elaborate framework of the furniture. Also make a note of the chandelier and the vintage lamps in both images. Finally, the gorgeous wallpaper in the second image is yet another significant element of the traditional decorating style. This style can be modified to include different colors, but mainly in warmer tones to maintain its integrity. You may opt for gray with ivory to strike a balance. If you are someone who likes elaborate designs and an overall grand appearance when you enter your master bedroom, this is the perfect design style for you.
ECLECTIC Decorating Style
As you can see, eclecticism is all about combining different decorating styles that define your unique one. This style allows you to get the best of most worlds, as it allows you to fuse two or more design styles to create one that becomes extremely specific to your taste. So a traditional style bed with a contemporary bedspread or wallpaper behind the bed, with some modern art above it, or Chinese lanterns - all of these can be beautifully combined to define your style. Because it is so easy to combine styles with this one, most people tend to choose this decorating style for their houses and rooms. You can create this style perfectly, and guess what? Both of you (if there are two of you) get to have what you want in the room, without any arguments!
Enhance Your Bedroom With...
Agreed that every master bedroom may not have space for a chandelier, but for one that does, a chandelier works wonders to add to the décor of the room. Pick a style as per the overall decoration of your room, and you won't be disappointed. With the variety of styles available nowadays, making a choice is in fact going to be difficult. A chandelier is probably not something you will switch on everyday, but its mere presence in the room is going to alter its overall appearance and make it look grand, even if it is the simplest one you have chosen. Don't be apprehensive about adding one to your room; you will marvel at how your room looks after you add one in there. Yes, headboards are usually part of a bed, so the idea is to choose a bed with a dynamic headboard. When you do so, you automatically reduce the amount of work decorating your room requires. When chosen wisely, a headboard can add a lot of character to a room. Even if you can't afford to buy a new bed, you can make one as a separate entity and put your bed against it. For instance, the concept of having old door shutters as a headboard is very popular. You could have a panel of cushion above your bed that functions as an extremely comfortable headboard. You could even have a panel running from floor to ceiling and you definitely will minimize the number of other accessories you will use to decorate your room. Consider this option and see the magic it works into your room. Whether it is a table lamp or a hanging lamp, every bedroom needs one; and the variety in each style is immense. Right from hanging Chinese lanterns to an elaborate chandelier table lamp, you can choose exactly what you like, or what your decorating style is like. Ethnic lanterns are also great choices when choosing lamps. With their rustic effect and their ability to fit into any décor style, lanterns make the perfect choice if you are looking to add something different to your room. Finally, if you don't want lamps at all, how about getting candle stands of different heights and lighting up candles of various fragrances? Adds to the romantic mood too! Not only are curtains a necessity in any room; with the right choice, they beautifully enhance the décor of a bedroom. Of course, you will have them around your doors and windows, but they can be used even otherwise. How? Behind the bed to enclose its sides partially, or if you have a four-poster bed, to cover it up. From heavy curtains to string curtains and sheer curtains, the variety is great, and the choice, dependent on where you are using them. For instance, you will use opaque or a combination of opaque and sheer curtains for your windows. Behind your bed, you may use any type of curtain you like, but if you are using curtains around a four poster, sheer or light curtains would be appropriate. Here, you could even use string curtains of different colors to add the right amount of color to your room! Create a focal point by using the right types of curtains in the right places. Another essential in a bedroom, mirrors can be used for practical as well as decorative purposes. Tall mirrors can be placed on the floor, and smaller ones can be mounted on walls in multiples to create a focal point. Mirrors with distressed wooden frames, with stained glass work, with vintage wrought iron frames, or ultra modern mirrors with etching can make it into your bedroom. In fact, if your room is a little small, strategically placing a wide mirror can add a lot of depth to your room and give it a larger appearance. Finally, do up a wall with some wallpaper or a texture paint, and place a mirror on this wall to make it a highlighting point in your master bedroom. Mirrors, like lamps and other accessories, can add a lot of dynamism to a room. Pillows and cushions of different sizes covered in a variety of different colored covers can give your room that burst of color it may be lacking. On the other hand, if your room is already too bright, you can tone it down by using neutral-colored cushion covers. Throw some cushions on your bed, a single cushion on a lounging chair, or a few on a rug on the floor, just in front of your bed or a little nook in your room. These add oodles of pizzazz to the room, particularly if you use slightly jazzy, sequined cushions or heavily beaded cushions. Go monochromatic or contrast in ways never thought of before; either way, the effect on your room is going to be dramatic, all in the right amount! Just like cushions, rugs add a spark of color to a room. In fact, in very spacious rooms, the use of rugs reduces the span of a large space and makes it look cozy. Depending on the space available, you may try rugs, not only of different sizes, but of different shapes too! Oval rugs are gorgeous, and when placed asymmetrically, say on one side of a bed and partially under it, these look simply amazing. Use rugs as a base on which you can set up a cozy seating arrangement, such as two chairs and a small coffee table, or with a few cushions and pillows thrown on them. In such cases, rugs end up being much more useful than they appear. Try them out and you will know how! In rooms that can accommodate desks, these not only serve a very useful purpose, but also provide a break from the usual furniture you see in a room, i.e. a bed, two nightstands, and a vanity. Ornate desks against a window with a beautiful view, with lamps hanging above and a gorgeous vintage chair, or modern desks with clean lines against a plain wall, are equally perfect for rooms designed along those lines. If space permits, a few shelves above the desk where you can keep your books, a few picture frames, and other bric-a-brac, will do the trick and take care of the decoration of one wall in your room. Desks don't have to be large and elaborate; even a small desk with a simple chair can look as perfect as an elaborate one. No wall in any house is complete without some artwork or accessories on it, and the master bedroom is no exception. While picture frames of the family are most commonly found in every master bedroom, you can try other elements of wall art too. For instance, wall-mounted vases with dry flowers or potpourri, or an arrangement of mirrors, or small canvases painted in different colors, or bookshelves of different shapes, are all great accessories to mount on a wall. In fact, if you don't want to go so far, just paint a strip of a particular wall (horizontally if the wall is narrow and vertically if the wall is wide) in different colors or with some pattern, and you really don't need to put up anything on that wall then. You can put up decals and even murals, and your room will get a major transformation from the mundane. With all these ideas, you are definitely more than equipped to revamp your master bedroom! Add in other elements like plants, pots and vases, and wind chimes or wall hangings, and there is no way you cannot transform your room into the little haven you want it to be!

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