Tired of the monotony of your bedroom? Award-winning interior designers Melanie Lissack and Lucy Wilman can give your bedroom a fresh twist…
Pick A Calming Colour
If you’re struggling to sleep, your mattress might not be at fault. To achieve a better sleeping schedule, colours are game-changers.
‘Colours like pale greens and pinks, muted colours, beiges and warm whites create a pleasant and subtle tone. With the right lighting in the room, it will still be very cosy, very inviting and a safe place basically,’ suggests Lucy.
Colour-picking also depends on the light in your room.
‘If your bedroom gets a lot of sun, go for a shaded white or a shadow white or a warm neutral with undertones of pink or brown. If the room is quite dark and it doesn’t get a lot of natural light, then embrace the darkness and transform it with rich, deep shades so it resembles a luxurious hotel room,’ says Melanie.
No Workout Equipment OR Office Area (If Possible)
This year, bedrooms are also offices and personal gyms. That shouldn’t be the case if you’re redecorating.
‘Incorporate a storage solution that also doubles up as a desk and can be folded away at the end of the day. String furniture is fantastic for thin, skinny framed shelving units where you can incorporate a desk and then switch it out for a shelf or magazine rack,’ says Melanie.
For Lucy, this can be fixed with partitions like curtains or nets.
‘Have them in a white or pale colour dropping from the ceiling so you can still have the sunlight coming through. When you pull that across, although you can still see the office or your bed, there’s still that sense of separation.’
Choose A Fitting Wallpaper
Scared your room will look like a ‘70s disco club? The solutions lies in the details. A patterned or simple wallpaper should fit other elements of your bedroom theme.
‘Wallpaper, for me, is very personal,’ says Melanie. ‘Choose a design that you love, rather than a trend, and won’t want to get rid of it a year down the line. It should feature a colour that also exists in the room.’
Says Lucy: ’A really nice way of doing it is having it to the back of the bookshelf and maybe in the panels of the door because it then means that you still got these little splashes without it taking over the whole space.’
Make Use Of Every Space
For most people, living in London means sleeping in a tiny room. How can you make your bedroom feel bigger? That’s Lucy’s speciality.
‘If you’re in a rented place, getting a slightly higher bed can leave you with more storage underneath,’ she says.
Shelves can do the job too: ‘Put them up to the ceiling because they’re always out of the way and shove any item away,’ she says.
Storage issues are also common. ’Incorporate shelving, wall mounted units, built-in bookcases and buy a few nice storage boxes that are attractive to look at,’ says Melanie.
Focus On Small Decorations
Small changes make a bedroom feel welcoming and inviting.
‘Use cushions of different sizes and fabrics on the bed and also use throws and quilts to layer the end of the bed. I also love little details in a bedroom like a small jam jar filled with a posy of garden flowers on your bedside table to add scent,’ suggests Melanie.
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