Your bedroom is a place where you should feel relaxed and comfortable. Choosing the right design elements for your bedroom will create a cozy atmosphere that will contribute to a restful night’s sleep. Lighting, bedding and flooring can all play a role in designing a room with the warmth and serenity to elicit peaceful surroundings. A dimmer switch is inexpensive, easy to install and will allow you to adjust the lighting for day or night time activities. Plush carpets and rugs offer soft, gentle alternatives to tile or wood flooring. Furnishings and accessories can add style as well as convenience. When you’re not sleeping, you want the room to be practical for dressing and preparing for bedtime. Keeping your bedroom free of clutter will create a calm environment and make it much more functional. You’ll find more budget friendly cozy bedroom design ideas below.
1. Do It Yourself Wall Designs
Your bedroom walls are your own personal canvas and provide an opportunity for unique expression. Painting the walls is one of the least expensive ways to redecorate and makes the greatest impact on the room’s appearance. You are not limited to a single color. Paint an accent wall a different color from the other walls or match the ceiling paint to bedding or room accessories. Be bold and add stripes or use stencils to create a design. You can get inspiration from wallpaper designs and create your own stencils from cardboard. Wall decals are another low cost way to add character to your walls. Decals are available in a variety of colors and patterns and are easy to apply. A border can be applied to the top, bottom or midway of your walls and can be found in colors and designs to complement almost any bedroom. If one or more walls in your bedroom are natural wood, coat them with a diluted wash to allow them to remain in harmony with other muted and natural tones.
2. Use Color to Effect Mood
The colors you choose for your bedroom’s décor have a significant impact on the appearance of furnishings as well as the room’s size. Color can influence emotions and effect mood; therefore, it’s important to select them wisely. Avoid choosing colors based on the latest fashions or decorating trends. It’s more cost effective to select color combinations you prefer and that reflect your personality. Try to limit the number of colors you use in your bedroom. More than four different colors will make it appear busy or cluttered. Light colors tend to make a room appear bright and airy while dark colors provide intimacy. According to studies performed on the physical and psychological effects of color, red raises the energy level and stimulates the flow of adrenaline. Yellow is cheerful, but exposure to large amounts of the color has been known to produce anger and frustration. Blues have a calming effect, lower blood pressure and respiration and produce a relaxing environment. Green also contributes to a relaxation, and shades of purple such as lilac and lavender create a restful state.
3. Repurpose Household Furnishings
It’s possible to give your bedroom a complete makeover without purchasing anything new. Remove pieces from other rooms where there may be more furnishing than are needed and place them in the bedroom. A chair from the living room or a bench from the kitchen can provide a convenient place to sit while dressing. Use a vintage trunk in place of a night stand and gain extra storage as well. Replace drab hardware on your dresser with sturdy, ornate handles and knobs from a damaged chest or bureau or shop for them at an antique store. You can stack wooden crates and attach them with screws to create a book case or storage area. Hang an old letterpress tray to display figurines or collectibles. If you have excess fabric remaining from a previous project, use it to make curtains and matching pillow shams.
4. Build Your Own Headboard
A new headboard is an easy and inexpensive way to update your bedroom. Designing and building it yourself will allow you to infuse your own personal style. You can craft a unique headboard from a piece of plywood and cover it with foam rubber and durable fabric. Add a monogram or other decorative stitching. The shape and the size of the headboard can be made to your preferences. A complete frame can be purchase at some fabric stores. All you need to do is choose a fabric, stretch it over the frame and secure it at the back. You can attach an intricately carved screen to the wall to serve as a headboard or cover your existing one with a slip cover. Headboards can be crafted from many materials such as an old door or a bookcase.
5. Craft Your Own Accessories
Crafting your own accessories for your bedroom allows you to perfectly coordinate colors with other objects in the room. It also enables you to create items which precisely match your tastes. You can paint your own art work, frame and mount it on the wall. Needlepoint a mural to create a wall hanging. Candle making is a fun and easy craft that you can use to make perfectly matched accessories that will illuminate your bedroom in a soft glow. You can use dried flowers and a large floor vase to create a floral arrangement or design a wreath for the wall. Crochet doilies for the furniture or macramé a hanging basket for a plant.
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Choosing the right design elements for your bedroom will create a cozy atmosphere that will contribute to a restful night’s sleep.
Lighting, bedding and flooring can all play a role in designing a room with the warmth and serenity to elicit peaceful surroundings.
