Cosy Bedroom

Turning your bedroom into a cosy retreat is the best way to ensure you always have somewhere safe to relax and be yourself. After a hard day’s work, nothing beats crashing out on a comfy bed in a safe, relaxing space!

As we see it, bedrooms are personal spaces that can soothe the soul and drown out anxieties. It’s about more than good sleep - it’s about feeling comfortable and content in a place where you can be yourself without worrying.

Want to make a cosy bedroom of your own? Here are five tips for doing it

1. Get a tufted headboard

If you have a divan bed, you can upgrade the headboard without spending much money to unlock new levels of cosiness and comfort.

Tufted headboards have fabric upholstery and lots of padding, giving you something soft to sit against in bed. Sizing up a new headboard is easy - match it to the bed size (headboards are sold in the same size as beds, e.g. single, double).

Top tip - if space is limited, a floating headboard that attaches to the wall is better than a strutted or floor-standing headboard because it won’t push your bed out.

2. Hunker down with chunky knit fabrics

The finest nursery blankets are knitted, so why not harness the power of knitted fabrics in your bedroom? Not only are they super-comfortable, but you can get various knitted materials, from vegan-friendly polyester to sheep’s wool.

Here are a few ideas:

• Throw a large, knitted blanket over the end of your bed, or buy a coverlet to tuck under your mattress for a sleeker look.
• Cover chairs and sofas in knitted throws and replace cotton cushion covers with thick yarn to improve tactile comfort and visual quality.
• Put a chunky knit rug where you get out of bed. A wool rug is a great option, offering a warm, soft surface for your feet.
  

3. Decorate with delicate pastel colours

Instead of neutral colours, greys and beiges, use pastel shades to brighten your bedroom. Pastel colours will brighten your bedroom without adding lively energy - essential to maintaining the cosy, warm ambience.

Delicate pastels help calm spaces down and work miracles in small areas, making them feel more spacious and airy.

You don’t want to overdo it, so create a feature wall behind your bed in pastel colours and leave the rest of your walls white or off-white.

4. Embrace warm, personalised lighting

Lighting that improves how you use your bedroom is worth its weight in gold, and if you hook it up to an intelligent hub like Amazon Alexa or Google Nest, you can create different light modes to suit your mood and create specific ambiences.

Our favourite lighting for a cosy bedroom is fairy lights hanging above the bed, which can run up the wall and across the ceiling suspended on small hooks.  

You can upgrade standard light switches to dimmer switches (you’ll need dimmable bulbs as well) and get colour-changing light bulbs.

For a cosy retreat at night, minimal lighting is essential. LED light strips placed strategically under furniture will transform the look and feel of your bedroom.

5. Escape to the country with cottagecore

Feel at home in the countryside? Who doesn’t? Unfortunately, not all of us can live there, but we can bring it to our bedrooms.

Cottagecore is an interior design style that captures an idealised rural life, embracing vintage and distressed furniture, décor, natural materials, greenery, floral and animal prints, and subdued colour schemes.

A wooden bed frame, floral wallpaper, earthly natural tones, cosy upholstery, rope art and dried flowers are all excellent ways to add cottagecore to your bedroom.

Avoid cold surfaces like metal and glass and embrace warmer natural materials and earthly textures, including wood, stone and natural fibres.

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