Bedhead and feature walls

From habitat plus - bedrooms

Whether your bed has a bedhead or not, making a feature of the wall against which the bed sits is a popular decorating strategy. Creating a feature wall helps to frame the bed and visually anchor it into the room. It means the bed looks less like it has just been plonked into the room.

An easy way to do this is to choose a bold paint colour, for example a deep charcoal with the other walls in pale grey, or rich terracotta with other walls in creamy off-white.

Or you can be more playful by using painted patterns or motifs, or a slightly outrageous or decadent Resene wallpaper.

Visually anchoring the bed against a feature wall covered by a luscious Resene wallpaper is hugely on-trend – and it’s no wonder with the enormous range of wallpapers and murals available at Resene ColorShops. Any colour, pattern, style and texture are there for the taking. Or rather hanging.

Using wallpaper is a great way to ring in the changes as trends or tastes shift. For the price of a couple of rolls you can have an entirely new look.

Painting a pattern on the wall is fun and often easy. It could be chevron stripes, vertical stripes, off-set rectangles, a simple house shape or cityscape, a swirl of bubble-like circles or stylised flowers or leaves. Inspiration is endless.

Or keep the look simple and paint a bedhead shape on the wall – a long low rectangle behind the bed, or a shorter wider one.

What about the floor?

Remember to include the floor in your overall scheme. If you've chosen a breezy, coastal look for example, try Resene Colorwood Whitewash on timber flooring. If you have a moodier scheme, there are many darker colours in the Resene Colorwood wood stains range, or for a shabby chic or Parisian look, try Resene Colorwood Greywash.

If your hard flooring is not worth enhancing, get artistic by adding a stencilled pattern on the floor – the design possibilities are endless. Consider painting a 'rug' around where the bed sits to visually anchor it.

What about the ceiling?

You spend a lot of time lying in your bed so the ceiling might be the surface in the room that you look at most. Why not paint it a colour other than white or cream? Continue your wall colour onto your ceiling for a cosy cocooning effect. Try a dark inky blue, such as Resene Blue Night, reminiscent of the night sky. Add some Resene FX Nightlight glow-in-the-dark stars and… nighty, night.

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