Cool, Calm and Collect…the Most Delightful Bedrooms of the Decade
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Cool, Calm and Collect… the Most Delightful Bedrooms of the Decade
Blue and White Bedroom by Kathryn Ireland
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Aqua Green and White Bedroom
Over the past decade, some of the most memorable bedrooms haven’t been the ones that followed every trend — they’ve been the rooms that created a feeling: calming, comforting but also pulled together and polished.
Brick Red and Cream Bedroom by Alessandra Branca
From layered textiles and collected antiques to soothing colors and thoughtful details, these bedrooms remind us that antiques extend beautifully to the bedroom. Red in this bedroom works by designer Alessandra Branca because she chose a muted version of the color and mixed in a lot of creamy colored curtains.
Tester Bed and Muted Colors
Tester beds create a protected feeling. The fabric muffles sound from the floors above. When designing bedrooms start with a main focal point like a canopied or poster bed and coordinate soft fabrics in muted tones of blue, green, and taupe like the bedroom above.
About All Those Pillows on the Bed
For couples, do four pillows: two for sleeping, two with custom shams for reading in bed and two throw pillows for decoration.
If the room is small, omit the bed skirt and opt for a nice bed frame. Unless the client has allergies, do high quality down comforters and pillows. The luxury of down is unbeatable in a bedroom.
Bedroom Suite in Terra Cotta and Cream
Like red, terra cotta is another color that’s hard to pull of in the bedroom. However, iin this bedroom it works because it is so subtle. It is light filled and ‘softened’ by all the fabrics.
Fabric Filled Bedroom by Albert Hadley
Pale colors, soft textures, soft focus design. Bedroom by Albert Hadley.
Kendall Wilkinson Designer Showcase Room
1. Layers of Fabrics
A beautiful mix of linens, throws, pillows, upholstery, and rugs creates warmth and comfort. Use the best quality fabrics you can manage. White shams, white comforter, white bedsheets — white cotton beautifully sets off the other textiles and still gives the eye a place to ‘rest’.
2. Colors That Create Calm
The bedrooms that stand the test of time often use color sparingly. Soft blues, pale greens, faded florals and faded, earthy tones create spaces that feel restful rather than overwhelming. The right color palette changes how the room feels.
3. The Beauty of Collected Rooms
The most beautiful bedrooms of the decade prove that meaningful rooms are rarely furnished in one place and time — they evolve. Collected over time, antiques in the bedroom tell a story and create a calming atmosphere that brand new bedroom furniture doesn’t.
The most beautiful bedrooms tell a story. An heirloom dresser, a painting collected during your travels, framed family photos arranged on the wall. These add the kind of character that can’t be purchased from a catalog.
4. Comfort Comes First
A gorgeous bedroom should also be comfortable. A high-quality mattress, boxspring, comforter, pillows and bedsheets — the best designs consider how things feel before how they look. They take into account things like whether you prefer reading or watching television in bed. Whether you prefer to have a dressing table or desk in your room. What to do when you have young children who might need to join you at night or in the morning. If you like to have morning coffee or tea in your room without leaving your bedroom.
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The bedrooms we remember most aren’t memorable because they follow a trend. They stand out because they feel distinctive and personal — not cookie-cutter or filled with pieces you’ve seen in every big box store.
A bedroom should be comfortable, personal and always pulled together. Cool. Calm. Collected. Above all, the bedroom must be designed just for you. And that is the ultimate luxury.
What is Wellness Design? Learn more about the connection between your wellbeing and your home, featured on Deirdre Fitzpatrick’s Dying to Ask Podcast. And if you’d like to dive deeper into this topic, check out my blog post, “Hiring an Interior Designer”.
June 15, 2011
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