How to Make Your Bed Look Like a Store Display
by Ruby Hawk on Jan 16, 2008 with 9 Comments
Give your your bed that luxurious store display look by making it the focal point of your room.
- Choose mattress pads or feather beds to add buoyancy and softness. Mattress pads also protect your mattress from stains.
- Dust ruffles compliment bed linens, and hide the underbed area from view, an especially important factor if you use underbed storage. Ruffles can be a solid color, a bright accent color, or formal damask. Coordinate dust ruffles and curtains to give the room a subtle unity, and allow for more versatility in the choice of spreads and quilts. A department store trick: Use two dust ruffles for a layered effect.
- Buy a good down comforter, and cover it with a decorative duvet cover. This makes washing easier and gives you freedom of choice in alternating bed covers. Complement with a throw or cotton blanket in a neutral color to cover the sheets and keep the bed neat.
- Use your imagination in the choice of sheets and pillow cases. Solid colors are more versatile than prints. Rotate one or two sheets until they wear out-this saves money, storage space, and time.
- For guests, place a dryer sheet or a bar of scented soap between sheets. Remove them, of course, before bedtime.
- Choose an array of decorative pillows, and lay them on the bed, or strew them randomly.
- Decorate the headboard with a coordinated comforter, or lace panel, if you wish.
- Paint bedrooms a neutral color so you can redecorate without repainting the walls. Colors that work well together are; beige walls, soft green comforter, ruffle a soft green and yellow, and curtain a soft green. Coordinating pillows in soft green, yellow and beige would go nicely. Other colors that work well together could be; eggshell walls, burnt orange bed ruffles, eggshell comforter, curtains burnt orange, and pillows a combination of these colors.
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Lucy Lockett | Jan 16, 2008 | Reply
Good tips, a nice calming room is more restful to sleep in and pink is soothing colour for a bedroom.
Dee Huff | Jan 16, 2008 | Reply
Great ideas Ruby.
Judy Sheldon-Walker | Jan 16, 2008 | Reply
Good tips, and well written. I could almost picture the room.
lanne | Jan 17, 2008 | Reply
Great tips Ruby! You are so right about a good duvet and cover.My mother-in-law (old school German) made me a goose down duvet 23 years ago from geese that she raised. I have several covers for it, but no matter the colour….I feel like I am in a beautiful room.
lanne | Jan 17, 2008 | Reply
OH …I forgot to mention. A real duvet will last a lifetime if properly cared for.
Ruby Hawk | Jan 17, 2008 | Reply
Thanks to all of you for your interest. I love comforters and I keep them in duvet’s. I can change the color anytime I want to. I make most of mine too. I would love to have a goose down Lanne, I can imagine how snuggly it would be.
Jared Stenzel | Jan 18, 2008 | Reply
Nice tips, I’ll have to try some of them out as I moved not to long ago and haven’t tried anything but the original placement for my furniture.
Ruby Hawk | Jan 21, 2008 | Reply
Congragulations on your move Jared, I hope you enjoy your new home and decorating it too. I love to move and change my things around. Have fun.
Amos | Jan 27, 2008 | Reply
My wife keeps my bed dressed up and does a fine job but I will direct her to your article.