Bedroom Design
Designing your bedroom should be the most exciting project in your house but it is usually left until last as it is the hardest room to design. Do you want it zen, cosy, eclectic or chic? It is where you can put more of your personality as it is a room just for yourself, which very few people will see.
There are key elements you need to consider when designing your bedroom, what type of bed you want - wooden or fabric frame and headboard (always fabric for us!), and do you want paint or paper on the walls?
We tend to start with the headboard and move out from there, it can create such an impact and as the bed is the focus point of any bedroom it seems remiss not to make it the star of the show. Much like when we created our own bedroom collection, the headboard was the starting point and then we moved from there. Bedside tables are hard to come by, the trend at the moment tends towards larger pieces which is great if you have a lovely Georgian town or country house, less so a Victorian terrace! So we created our scalloped bedside table with the smaller bedroom in mind, with the secret tea tray creating extra room when needed. As with all our furniture it is made to order so can be resized for the larger bedroom.
Lastly a chair - something pretty and small which can be used for a dressing table (or probably more commonly a dumping ground!) or even a relaxed reading spot.
Our latest design project saw us decorating the below bedroom. The client had the bedroom fabric from a Christopher Farr sale some years back, as well as the blanket on the bed so we used Edward Bulmer’s Cuisse de Nymphe on the walls, had the lamps made bespoke and then made sure to highlight the green and blue on the headboard with Jane Churhill’s Tassi fabric for the relaxed blind at the window. As the room is quite small our scalloped bedside table made the perfect addition.
When designing any room we always try and mix old with new, so here we have an antique Afghani rug, antique chest of drawers, vintage recovered Parker Knole chair (great for bedrooms as while being compact they remain very comfortable) with Pooky lights and shades and a suzani found on etsy.
Below is both the scheme and the finished article.
