When redecorating a bedroom, you want to create a room that is relaxing, stylish and luxurious, but this can be a challenge to pull off for those of us who aren’t used to doing our own interior design, and who don’t want to break the bank on expensive furniture and decoration. This article will provide you with a few tips to help you create the bedroom of your dreams, so that you don’t end up having nightmares!

To start with, colour is one of the most basic aspects of bedroom decoration, but it’s also one of the things many people forget to consider. It’s important to choose a few key colours and stick to them, instead of going mad with colour and ending up with a mismatched room. A failsafe way to make the room look stylish and co-ordinated is to decorate mainly in neutral colours and pick out two or three “accent” colours to accessorise with. Bold colours such as turquoise and coral both contrast nicely with neutrals, and you can pick these out as accents in bedding, cushions and wallpaper to tie the room together. Pastels won’t work as well, since they’ll look washed out next to the pale neutrals.

Many people focus all their attention on the most obvious part of the bedroom, which is the bed, by choosing one with an intricate frame and adorning it with fancy bedding. This is obviously important, but don’t spend time on it at the expense of the rest of the room -including the windows, blinds, curtains, and carpets. Paying extra attention to selecting items that match your colour scheme in these areas will help your bedroom look like something you planned out from the start rather than something you built around your bed at the last minute. Heavy curtains or Roman blinds are a good choice for a bedroom, as they’ll give the room a luxurious feel and the thick material will also help to keep heat in on a cold winter night.

Before you go shopping, have a look around your home to see if there is anything you already own that you can use in the bedroom. The most interesting and heart-warming accessories will be things that have personal meaning to you, rather than things you just picked up in a shop. For example, if you have nice cups that are gathering dust in a cupboard, give them new life by bringing them into the bedroom as candle holders. You can take the coloured marbles you collected in your childhood and fill entire glasses with them. Look for memorabilia and random collectibles and create your own style in your bedroom.