You want a new look for your bedroom because you’ve gotten tired of its current style. Great idea, right?
But you want something inexpensive. Something nice but affordable without wrecking your savings.
How can you achieve this?
Here are ten ways to upgrade your bedroom design using what you already have but enhancing the space with other elements and features to give it a near-brand-new look.
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Ten Ways to Up Your Bedroom Style
1. Paint
A new coat of paint does wonders for an interior space. Choose a relaxing colour scheme that evokes a calm or vibrant mood. Use charming colours that arouse high-spirited feelings. Set the mood of the room by painting the focal wall a different color from the other three.
2. Headboard
If you don’t have a headboard or just have an okay one, change it to something stylishly different. Use a creative headboard idea that will make the wall it’s placed against the focal point of the room. From a gallery of framed pictures to large wall art, the focal wall you create sets a good starting point for decoration.
3. Wall Decal
If you don’t have (or don’t want) a headboard, use an elaborate wall sticker (wall decal). Decals used in place of headboards make a good statement. They are bold and attractive enough to draw instant attention to the bedroom.
4. Bed Cover/ Bedspread
Add some drama to your bedroom with this feature. Choose a vibrant and colourful ethnic blanket, a plush red quilted velvet with a contrasting pile of throw pillows, or wide damask throw, neatly laid or stylishly thrown across the bed (looks great on platform beds without side panels).
5. Bedside lamps
Beautiful bedside table lamps are enhancing. Their shades come in numerous styles, shapes, and sizes. The styles and materials you choose must be unusual, especially if you plan to create something extraordinary. Add figurines, mementoes, framed pictures (small), a table clock (vintage-inspired or digital), etc. and the like on the table and around the lamp.
6. Footboard bench
These make great additions to the bed and will effortlessly make the room look stylish and make a bed look dignified. Whether you choose an Ottoman bench, a simple bench with a cushioned seat, or a carved wooden storage chest that you picked up at a garden sale.
7. Window treatment
Lovely drapery, wooden blinds, and bamboo shades are transformative, but you should choose based on your bedroom décor. For example, a traditional theme calls for classic window coverings: drapery, brass rods, padded period pelmets, swags, and valances. A modern setting works best with wooden blinds and shades, fabric sliding panels, or decorative vinyl window stickers.
8. Area rug
Placing a runner rug on each side of your bed is a picker-upper to a drab room. Make sure it’s nice and colourful so that it conspicuously stands out against the floor finish (or covering).
9. Artwork
Wall art in all forms can tie every feature and theme in the room together. It can be a colourful painting that ties in with a couple of colours in the bedroom, vintage-inspired black and white hand-drawn artwork, a wall-hung tapestry (faux is fine), or a cluster of framed pictures and illustrations.
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10. Accent furniture
Make your bedroom beautiful and versatile; add accent furniture. An occasional chair and a round-top side table will do the trick of raising the bar in the bedroom. You can relax and read a book without lying down or sitting on the edge of the bed.
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Let Your Bedroom Décor Reflect Your Personality
Remember. Only add décor items that reflect your personality. Make them aesthetically pleasing things that make you feel comfortable in your surroundings. Let your stylishness show through your choice of bedroom accents: unusual bedside lamps, wall hangings, vases, throw cushions, a rag rug, chairs, and bed cabinets. You can find unusual pieces from Estate sales, car booths, and garage sales.
If you can comfortably afford it, you can also upgrade the bedroom style using many of the above-mentioned upgrade ideas. All the items need not be bought at high-end stores. Expensive doesn’t necessarily translate to stylish. It’s the way they are all put together that creates the aesthetics and makes the statement you desire.
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