Your bedroom design is crucial — a well-decorated space can significantly enhance relaxation and promote better sleep. Whether your room is compact or spacious, it should exude a sense of personal sanctuary, achieved through carefully chosen colors, textures, and furniture. Regardless of your design style — farmhouse, modern, rustic, boho and more — this roundup of the best bedroom ideas will help craft your dream retreat.
Incorporate Soft Black
Take a risk with dark shades, whether it’s bedding, furniture or paint colors. Sherwin-Williams’s Web Gray in a flat finish completes this restful space, designed by Candace Shure. “The richness was exactly what the room needed to create that moody vibe,” Shure says.
Decorate Open Shelving
Ebony-stained shelves flank this bed and complement the bedroom’s main focal point: a stunning Japanese screen. Designer Victoria Sheffield replaced original upper cabinets with wood shelves to showcase treasures like vases and dishes.
Turquoise trim
This bedroom features a soft turquoise design with a grey trim on the bottom half of the wall followed around the entire room, contrasting with the crisp white upper half. Hang a large painting on the wall above the bed to create a calm and tranquil space.
Earthy shades
Deep forest and elegant olive combine with earthy shades of saffron, sage and terracotta in this wonderfully cosy bedroom scheme that’s giving us major autumnal vibes. Layer up crumpled linen and chunky throws for softness and warmth. Don’t neglect the walls either: graphic prints will give you the kind of natural balance that every serene sanctuary needs.
Modern lines
White is the perfect foil for a pairing of yellow and pink, allowing the colours to sing out. A steel-blue upholstered bed acts as a cool contrast. Soft plaster pink works to sooth any brash tones for an overall calming bedroom.
Soothing pink & grey
If you ever needed proof that pink and grey are a match made in heaven, then this is it. A stunning fabric depicting a mass of blowsy peonies provides a gorgeous backdrop for a bedroom scheme. Bedlinen and throws in soft, muted colours ensure the wallhanging has maximum impact.
Put an Reading Chair in the Corner
Create a designated spot for cuddling up with a good read, like this striped armchair sitting in the corner. To complete this cozy bedroom, designer Nellie Howard Ossi brings in soothing cool tones, like green and blue patterned curtains and floral bedding.
Serene uplift
A bedroom should be all about comfort, so invest in a tufted twist pile carpet for a fabulous feeling underfoot. This tan-brown carpet is the perfect colour to lift a neutral, pared-back bedroom scheme. The combination of lush greenery (plants can also enhance the quality of your sleep) with grey and burnt orange soft furnishings, is the perfect finishing touch to your bedroom sanctuary.
Cover Walls in Paneling
For a modern farmhouse feel, install white wood paneling all the way to the ceiling — which works particularly well when paired with exposed beams and ceilings. To elevate the vintage-inspired look, Liz Williams Interiors adds a taper candle chandelier and canopy bed.
Think Shades of Blue
Popular in the bedroom, blue is symbol of calm, serenity and tranquility. Make your personal oasis feel more soothing with a shade of blue, from teal to navy.
Choose Timeless White Bedding
Reminiscent of a luxe hotel, this all-white bed looks bright, clean and polished. To add a dose of color, Morse Design adds a geometric area rug.
