Bedroom Inspiration: 3 Focus Areas For Your Interior Design
At the end of the day, you need somewhere you can rest your head at night, a place that is entirely yours for you to switch off from the day and get some sleep. Your bedroom is that space in the house that offers you that respite. And when it comes to the interior design of our bedrooms, we don’t often realise how much the look and feel of our space can impact the quality of sleep we get each night. Whether you live in a city apartment and look for a minimal design with sleek lines, or you live in a house in the country where you want a cosy cottage feel, with distressed patterns and vintage accessories, it’s important to find a look that fits your personality.
Here, Booths’ Furniture brings you three things you should be focusing on when you look to update your bedroom. Let us guide you through a new interior in your bedroom and create a relaxing environment to rest your head at night, keep reading!
Colour Palette
Start with the colour palette; within this, you will be looking at the colour of the walls, how this works in incorporating your furniture. The colour palette you choose will determine the type of furniture and accessories you will have in your room. Research undertaken has shown that different colours in the bedroom can have a significant impact on the amount of sleep you are getting. For example, did you know that blue is one of the most popular colours, and is thought to slow the heart rate, as well as even reducing blood pressure – the average amount of sleep people get in a blue room amounts to 7 hours 52 minutes!
Furniture
Your bed is the focal point of your bedroom, it is the most important piece of furniture in the room, and if the bed frame is the wrong colour, it can throw off the entire aesthetics of your bedroom and can lead to the look and feel that you have worked hard to achieve being thrown off. If you have a smaller room, a Tempur Divan Bed with storage built in would be the ideal solution when looking for a place to store towels, bedding and shoes.
For children’s or teenagers’ rooms, where space is often at an even greater premium, innovative bed designs can be truly transformative. High Sleeper Beds, for instance, are an excellent way to maximise floor area by elevating the sleeping platform. This clever design allows for integrated desks, shelving, or even a cosy seating area underneath, creating a multi-functional zone within a compact footprint. They provide a safe and stylish solution for growing kids, ensuring their bedroom remains both organised and comfortable.
Once you have chosen a bed, you can then work to incorporate other bits of furniture into the space, as the colour of the bedframe will help you determine the colour and design style of the furniture you will be choosing.
Accessories
Finally, to really finish off the look and finish of your bedroom, you should look to accessorise as well as you can throughout the room. This includes looking at the little bits of furniture, including the lamp, picture frames, throws and cushions for the bed, and other little bits that are suitable for providing a stylish yet functional environment for you to get some sleep at night.
Do you have a bedroom you can lie back and relax in at the end of a busy day?
Great tips! I love redecorating our small bedroom, it’s therapeutic to me. Thanks for sharing!
Mhaan
These are great tips for the focuses of the interior design of a bedroom. I do know the furniture and accessories are important to any room. The bed and pillows can improve how a room feels. Thanks for sharing the tips.
My room is such a disaster of random, uncoordinated things here and there. It really stresses me out sometimes so I can’t wait until I have a space I can truly design myself.
Great post, my 2 daughters share a bedroom & they’ve been nagging to have their bedroom redecorated & they have chosen different colour blue shades to paint the walls. I was thinking it might be too cold looking but in reading your post that the colour blue is thought to slow the heart rate, as well as even reducing blood pressure & the average amount of sleep people get in a blue room amounts to 7 hours 52 minutes! that certainly works for me 🙂
I love this! My bedroom is my safe haven and I love being able to retreat to it each and every night. It makes me feel so relaxed and safe and that’s why I love these tips!
Great tips. My husband and I want to redo our bedroom next Spring.
The right color palette and appropriate furniture are important. These are 2 things often overlooked by people when decorating their homes / their rooms. If done right and if both factors are carefully thought out, you’ll be surprised at how the right color palette can make a small room look bigger.
A bad bed frame really can negate the good feel of a room. I have no headboard right now, I miss having one!
It’s a really good point to consider your bed as the focal point in a bedroom. Making decor choices based on your bed makes sense and is exactly how I’m going to approach my bedroom renno!
Oh my gosh… I wish my bedroom looked that perfect! Love the decor and color selection.
Great ideas!!!! We just re did our bedroom last year. Crazy how choosing the right color and a few fabulous accessories can really transform a room
This is great info. Though, our bedroom is probably the last place I even think about decorating. I would love to totally redo it.
I will admit that my bedroom has always been the last room where I have designed and made it a a relaxing place. Honestly I relax on my couch in the living room. Such a beautiful bedroom.
Color is important when redesigning your bedroom. You can’t just pick your favorite color, it would be nice to pick something that helps you relax so you can sleep better.
This is so true – I’ve actually ended up with a bit of black in our new bedroom, it wasn’t intentional to be honest, but it has worked so well. x
These are lovely ideas. I am thinking of redecorating our bedroom to make it looks spacious and relaxing.
Good luck if you do redecorate – I think decor can really make all the difference to a room. x
I definitely would like to change the color of my room. It is so outdated and needs refreshing. But yes, my room could use a makeover right now.
I hope you manage to give your room a make over and love the outcome 🙂 x
These are great ideas! I know I have not decorated our master like I should, I think I should though may help us to relax a bit more.
It really does make a difference, we decorated when we moved here and it is so much nicer than the old one we just left magnolia. x
Wonderful ideas. My bedroom is always the last thing on my mind. I focus on everything else in the house and everyone elses rooms and mine is seriously lacking.
Aw I hope you manage to get your bedroom sorted for yourself it is definitely an important thing 🙂 X
Great ideas. My bedroom is a store room
These are really great tips! We have a really minimal design in our bedroom, as we just use it for sleeping and with minimal design and accessories it’s really relaxing and offers no distraction.
Our bedroom here is so much more relaxing than our previous one it is strange how decor can help. x
Hmm…I wonder if I’ve been decorating all wrong? I start with the furniture pieces and then move to color.
If it is working for you it is never wrong 🙂 x
Why is the bedroom always the last place I decorate?? I need these tips badly…thank you for them!!
No problem at all – I really hope it helps 🙂 x
I am thinking to renovate my house… definitely will do “white” bedroom 🙂
Oh, thanks for this post, I am about to renovate our room. I am thinking closely about the color palette.
This is a great post. I have been wanting to repaint and get a new bedroom set.
After nearly 9 months of house renovations, the end is nearly in sight… And my I’ve completely redecorated my bedroom, it’s the ultimate sanctuary at the end of a hectic day.
Ekk I hope you enjoy the renovated home 🙂 x