Home Style: Bedroom

The most intimate room in the home. The walls hold the cosiness of togetherness, passion, and long evenings of conversation watching the sunset. Or else - filled with solitary, proud, and lucid dreams. In my view, the most serene, most subdued in terms of colour, and the least cluttered, most unencumbered room in the home.

Many things pleasant to the touch - pillows and cushions, a soft floor covering. Curtains falling lightly, multi-layered, draped and gathered, tied back with a kitsch ribbon. The book currently being read, a favourite, on the bedside table or right there on the rug on the floor. And of course the central object - the bed - large, wide, comfortable, not too high, and not enclosed by heavy canopies.

Here you can permit yourself to drop a few items of clothing, step out of high-heeled shoes, and mess up the hairstyle so carefully arranged that morning. While a large wardrobe - ideally a large fitted wardrobe - helps to keep a woman's extensive wardrobe in order and hidden from curious eyes.

Artificial lighting is presumably important in the bedroom - wall lights with reflecting beams, floor lamps, little bedside table lamps. The main purpose of all these light sources is not the complete and even illumination of the room, but the creation of atmosphere.

If romantic floral patterns, regal swirls, bows, or fringes are at home anywhere, it is in a lady's boudoir.

Illustrative materials used from http://www.livingetc.com/