Thursday, 29 March 2012

Bedroom Furniture – Designing Your Perfect Room


If you want to revamp your bedroom, be inspired with our top design tips.



Bedroom furniture can transform a plain Jane bedroom into a dazzling boudoir. And you don’t have to spend a fortune. Getting the right bedroom furniture is crucial in creating the style you want. But first you need to decide on what kind of style you do want to create. Here are some inspired ideas:

Black Velvet

Black is pretty scary an idea in any room of the house. But interior designers say if you do it right, the bedroom is the one place you can get away with. Black bedroom furniture and even black walls can create a ‘mean and moody’ vibe that is sophisticated by day and sexy by night. Mirrors, glossy lighting or reflective mirrored cushions can help inject light.

Honey, Honey

Pine bedroom furniture or soft woods are perfect for a comforting, welcoming vibe. Honey tones in bedroom furniture alongside an aubergine or lilac feature wall will help create a calm easy on the eye design.

Contrasting Colours

If you’re investing in beautiful bedroom furniture that uses dark, expensive woods then your bedroom furniture is the star of your room – paint your walls a contrasting colour to show off the furniture as the feature of your room. Contrasting colours can also inject sophistication – a black masculine room with orange accessories injects instant warmth and style.

Unwind and Relax

Stay chilled with cool greens to create a relaxing effect. Add crisp whites using linen, curtains or cushions to create an effortless, airy and calming space. Opt for pale or white bedroom furniture to keep things light.

Think Beyond the Bedroom Box

One way to really add pizzazz into your bedroom is to add colour. If you have neutral bedroom furniture and a neutral colour scheme, consider painting a feature wall (say the wall behind your headboard) a colour you wouldn’t normally opt for. Invest in bedspreads and cushions that continue your colour themes. Layering bed linen can create a luxurious feel and add texture and shade.  

Minimalist Bedroom Furniture

If you love the minimalist, designer look opt for matching bedroom furniture and go symmetrical. Matching bedside tables, lamps and cushions shout hotel-vibes for a contemporary, stylish look.

Windows

Shutters are a great touch for a bit of extra style and another good idea is privacy window films, so see what’s available on the market and spruce up your room.


Bedroom Furniture – Get it Right from the Start


If you’re going to invest in new bedroom furniture, get the basics right.

Bedrooms are more than just places for us to crash at the end of the day. They should be places where we feel comfortable first and foremost. Sure, bedrooms are about storage for all of our clothes and they are ultimately practical places for sleep. But our bedroom is the last and first thing we see when we go to sleep and get up in the mornings – it isn’t surprising that your bedroom furniture and choice of décor can impact on your moods and well being.

Whether you see your bedroom as a Parisian boudoir or just a crashing pad there’s no doubt you’ll need some essential basics: bedroom furniture for instance. You’ll need a bed, a wardrobe, a chest of drawers. Finding the right bedroom furniture will help improve the quality of your sleep. The right bedroom furniture will also help you create a space that you love – a space that’s comfortable as well as functional and stylish.

Bedroom Furniture Rules

Keep bedroom furniture to a minimum – There may be some beautiful bedroom furniture available but that doesn’t mean you should buy it all! When it comes to furnishing your bedroom stick to these basic rules:

  • Pick out key pieces – bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, bedside table – and don’t overcrowd your room
  • Add warmth with cushions, curtains and bedding
  • Keep your bedrooms tidy and clutter-free – if you buy the right bedroom furniture such as wardrobes and chests of drawers, you’ll have sufficient storage space

Bedroom Furniture: Get to Bed!

Of course your bed is the central piece of bedroom furniture – and finding a bed that offers storage space is great if you are short on space. Your bed will also set the design tone for your room so you’ll need to consider whether you want a traditional, classic or contemporary style and choose from wooden, leather, metal or divan beds as well as a selection of headboards. Once you’ve chosen your bed, you can find other bedroom furniture to complement it.

Bedroom Furniture: Key Pieces

A wardrobe and chest of drawers are a necessity for adequate clothes care and storage, and a bedside table is important for those who like to read, listen to the radio or enjoy a cup of tea in bed. If you want to create a real boudoir and have plenty of space, you can afford to indulge in a dressing table, chair, chaise longue or easy chair. Remember it isn’t just about whether your bedroom furniture will match; it’s whether it will fit in your room and whether it meets your needs as well as looking good!

Design on a Budget with Pine Furniture


If you’re looking for that wow factor but are on a strict budget, invest in some basic pine furniture and get creative!

If you love wood, but don’t want to spend a fortune, pine furniture is the solution. Pine furniture tends to be more affordable than the hardwoods like mahogany and oak that are not as sustainable (and therefore rarer and pricier) than pine. And pine furniture still offers you that honey warmth and natural beauty that wood inherently owns. If you want to have a home that screams designer flair and will get your friends green with envy, you can get that wow factor on a budget. Check out or top designer budget tips.
Pine furniture is light and neutral making it amenable and flexible for any kind of design and style. If you want to do something that little big special without breaking the bank consider:

  • Creating a feature wall – there are some beautiful, striking, bold and large wallpaper prints out there. But it can be costly to deck the whole room in wallpaper and what’s more it can overpower a room. Wallpaper just one wall as a focal wall (behind a sofa, or where your fireplace is for example).

  • If you have beautiful pine furniture, your room will be light and easy to accessorise. Treat your photos and pictures as art by hanging them in creative ways – group frames together, or choose diagonal lines to create a wall feature.

  • If you have pale pine furniture you can afford to inject some depth and darkness – opt for dramatic, dark colours in the bedroom but keep to brighter shades in your living space.

  • For beautiful one off objects, consider showing them off by putting up a couple of simple shelves to create your own art gallery. Keep it minimal and uncluttered.

  • Pine furniture is flexible so you can afford to make a bold statement in your room. You can do this either by investing in a big canvas or painting for an instant impact; spending your money on a designer lamp that adds angles and shapes to your room; or investing in a beautiful designer lampshade. Curtains are another great way to create a statement – if you’ve seen a fabric you love, make it the centrepiece of your room.

  • If you have pine furniture in your dining room or kitchen, you can inject colour with carefully chosen accessories. Coloured glassware is a fabulous way of transforming a room adding light and colour – perfect for a lively kitchen.

Indian Furniture – A Sustainable Choice


Indian furniture is more than just a beautiful choice, it’s a sustainable one too.



If you’re looking for beautiful furniture that adds warmth and beauty to your room, Indian furniture is the right furniture range for you. Indian furniture is crafted from the wood of Indonesia, notably solid Mango wood from sustainable forests. Not only does it tap into the character and spirit of the region, but it’s the right choice to make if you want to make an ethical choice about how you furnish your home.

Indian Furniture – Solid Mango Wood

The solid mango wood used to carve Indian furniture will offer a unique and ethnic character to your home. Mango wood is from the same tree that harvests mango fruit and it is common across South East Asia and Indonesia, with an extensive variety of species in Malaysia. Mango trees offer substantial resources – for their fruit and wood – growing up to 100 feet with trunks as wide as four feet. The wood used for Indian furniture is found at the centre of the tree. Mango wood is coarse with an interlocking grain that adds an individual quality to each piece of Indian furniture.

The Responsible Choice

As a hard and dense wood, the mango tree is perfect source material for crafting Indian furniture – from sturdy beds to solid wardrobes. The wood is treated and seasoned, and the greenish-brown texture is not only easy for furniture makers to work with, it finishes well retraining the diverse shades and hues that make Indian furniture so sought after. Indian furniture can capture the tradition and strength of oak or mahogany, which it often resembles – depending on how the wood is cut to reveal its different grain textures. But unlike most hardwoods like mahogany, mango wood is sustainable and always replanted once cut down. The trees are harvested first for their fruit before used to create Indian furniture, making Indian furniture the responsible choice for consumers.

Indian Furniture – For Sustainability

The mango tree is also prolific across Asia – another reason why it offers a sustainable alternative. The fruit is considered by Hindus to offer sweet, balancing and healing properties. And anyone who experiences the beauty of Indian furniture in their home will tell you about the warmth, elegance and inherent beauty in the wood and of course the styling of Indian furniture.

So whether you are looking for seating, tables or folding patio doors, choose Indian furniture for Eastern style.

Bedroom Furniture – Making the Most of Small Spaces


If you want to buy bedroom furniture for a small room, check out our top design tips.

It’s easy to think beautiful bedroom furniture will transform your bedroom. And it will. But you need to consider one key issue before you buy new bedroom furniture: space. Buying big pieces of bedroom furniture can ruin the feel of a small bedroom. But you still need sufficient bedroom furniture that offers the right storage solutions and meets your needs. Check out our top interior design tips on how to maximise a small space:

  • One piece of bedroom furniture you should invest in is a mirror – whether it is in-built mirrors in your wardrobe or individual mirrors for your wall. Mirrors help reflect and bounce light and create the illusion of a much bigger space.

  • Opting for light bedroom furniture will help – aim for pale woods like pine – to help create a light, bright space. Add colour with fabrics and accessories.

  • Lead the eye – if you continue the same flooring in your bedroom to the hall or adjacent room, the eye will naturally move to the space beyond giving the impression of more space. Visual tricks can help small spaces appear larger; always make sure the ceiling in your bedroom is a lighter shade than the walls and keep your walls light and neutral, dark colours can make the walls ‘close in’.

  • Some designers opt for tall objects to help elongate a bedroom – tall bed posts or tall bedside lamps for example – or striped paper or blinds to make the room seem taller.

  • As well as keeping your bedroom furniture light, opt for neutral toning with your décor and invest in reflective accessories such as bejewelled bedspreads to help the light bound around the room.

  • Heavy curtains may keep the light out, but they can drown a small bedroom. Blinds will help lift the space.

  • You need good bedroom furniture, but invest in good key pieces – a spacious wardrobe for example rather than lots of different storage facilities. Double up a chest of drawers to work as a bedside table so you don’t overcrowd your room with too much bedroom furniture.

  • Get good lighting – a tall vertical floor lamp for example will help emphasise the vertical effect of a room and draw the attention to its corners, making the room seem bigger.

Clever storage helps – clutter will crowd a small room strangling the space and light. Under the bed solutions can help with linen boxes to store extra shoes, clothes or linen.