Inspirational Ideas for Bedroom Decorating
Making your bedroom a space that is truly all your own can be somewhat challenging as it will take cleverness to incorporate the things you hold dear into a home space. Inspiring bedroom design involves using color, furniture pieces and artwork to customize the space while lending texture and style to the area. Does this Spark an idea?
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Furniture Pieces
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Choose furniture that holds significant value for you, like the antique nightstand that used to sit in your great grandmother's room or the grandfather clock that adorned your living room as a child. When you look at these pieces, you may be reminded of the family dinners or game nights you shared with your siblings and parents in the family room or the the pictures you've seen of your great grandmother that reveal how much you look like her. These are small reminders of the people who mean the most to you, and you can update them to fit your personal style, such as painting the nightstand or adding a new face to the clock to make them suitable for your bedroom space and to give you the comfort of home.
Color
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Painting your bedroom in the colors that fit your personality will give you an inspiring feeling each time you enter the space. If you want to be energized and motivated to study or finish reading a novel by your favorite author, a red accent wall, along with softer-colored walls like gray or cream, is ideal. If you use the bedroom for meditation and clearing your head as you try to sort out some of life's challenges or make major decisions, paint the walls purple or incorporate purple throw blankets or throw rugs into the bedroom. Use the colors you've always loved in the room, such as a neon green armchair or magenta chest of drawers, to signify that your bedroom is one place where you can totally be yourself.
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Photos and Artwork
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Pictures from your childhood, along with candid photos of you with your loved ones, makes bedroom artwork that you'll never find in stores. Enlarge the photos, and take them to a print shop to have them refinished in black and white or sepia to give them a timeless look; then house them in brass frames for customized artwork with an elegant touch. Or let your kids paint on a canvas you've provided and house the artwork in a decorative frame; the piece will inspire you to have a carefree approach to life and to find beauty in everything. Of course, prints from your favorite professional artist housed in frames that are the color of your choice are an impressive addition to the accent wall as well.
Items with Sentimental Value
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Decorate your bedroom with a few items that hold emotional value for you, and give them a new twist to showcase your decorative personality. For instance, fill a small jewelry box that belonged to an aunt or mother with synthetic flowers or potpourri to give the item a new purpose. Use strips of lace or velvet fabric from clothing you wore as a child as the borders for your bedroom curtains, and hang a collage on the wall filled with birthday cards, pictures, invitations and accessories exchanged between you and your best friend. Items like the rabbit's foot you carried on your key chain for good luck through college, or your high school class ring, can be displayed on the small shelves on the side bedroom walls to remind you of the milestones you've conquered.
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