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Bedroom Decor with Metal Beds: A Style Guide

Posted on 12 February 2025 7 November 2025 by Antony
Bedroom Decor with Metal Beds: A Style Guide
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Table of Contents

Metal Beds, Embrace Minimalism Bedroom Decor
Metal Beds, Vintage Inspired Bedroom Decor
Industrial Chic Bedroom Decor: A Guide to Urban Elegance
Bohemian Bedroom Decor: A Free-Spirited Haven
Scandinavian Bedroom Decor: A Guide to Hygge

Metal beds offer a unique blend of durability, style, and versatility, making them a timeless choice for any bedroom decor.

Here are some ideas to create a stunning and enduring look:

Metal Beds, Embrace Minimalism Bedroom Decor

Minimalist bedroom decor is a design philosophy that embraces the principle "less is more." It focuses on creating a calm, clutter-free space using essential elements, clean lines, and a restrained colour palette.

The core elements are to keep it simple with essential bedroom furniture only such as a bedside cabinet perhaps a dresser and a bed which would have minimal design and perhaps a low profile frame. Minimalism is too add interest without any clutter as negative space is regarded as a design element.

Colour Scheme

The minimalist would place emphasis on tone-on-tone and monochromatic palettes such as white, beige or light greys.

Time Living City Block Metal Bed Frame - Grey.
Pictured: Time Living City Block Metal Bed Frame - Grey

The Block is a robust metal bed frame purposely designed for longevity. With its simple design featuring clean straight lines on both the headboard and the low footboard, which would be regarded as minimalistic.

Remember, the key to minimalist bedroom decor is to create a space that feels calm, peaceful, and inviting. By focusing on essential elements and eliminating clutter, you can create a bedroom that's perfect for relaxation and rejuvenation.

Metal Beds, Vintage Inspired Bedroom Decor

Unlike minimalistic bedroom decor, vintage inspired decor tends to be the exact opposite combining elements from past eras to create a nostalgic, romantic, and lived-in atmosphere.

Vintage inspired has a focus of antique furniture pieces like brass beds, ornate dressers, and weathered wood nightstands.

Colour Scheme

Soft, muted colour palettes featuring cream, dusty rose, sage green, and powder blue. Floral patterns in wallpaper, bedding, or artwork.

Birlea Bronte Metal Bed Frame - Black.
Pictured: Birlea Bronte Metal Bed Frame - Black

If you are looking for a bed with a timeless vintage appeal, look no further. The Birlea Bronte is a magnificent steel bed, purposely designed to last. Its appeal offers both style and durability. The Bronte features a modern approach on the well-known Victorian style.

Industrial Chic Bedroom Decor: A Guide to Urban Elegance

Creating an industrial chic bedroom decor involves blending raw, utilitarian elements with cosy, modern touches to achieve a balanced and stylish space. Inspired by converted warehouses and factories, where exposed brick, metal accents, and large windows create a unique and edgy atmosphere.

Colour Scheme

Greys, blacks, and browns as base colours to embrace the raw, unfinished look of industrial metal.

Exposed brick walls, if you're lucky enough to have exposed brick walls, embrace them! Otherwise, consider faux brick wallpaper or paint techniques to achieve the industrial chic look.

Flintshire Cilcain Metal Bed Frame - Bronze.
Pictured: Flintshire Cilcain Metal Bed Frame King - Bronze

The Flintshire Cilcain Metal Bed Frame is a stunning piece of furniture featuring an authentic industrial style with a pipe fitting design. Both the headboard and the footboard include the steel piping details, which are representative of the Cilcain.

The key to successful Industrial Chic is balancing the harsh industrial elements with comfortable, livable touches to create a space that feels both edgy and welcoming.

Bohemian Bedroom Decor: A Free-Spirited Haven

Bohemian style is all about embracing individuality, creativity, and a global perspective. It's a celebration of textures, patterns, and colours, creating a space that's both eclectic and inviting. Layer different textiles and patterns. Moroccan rugs, macramé wall hangings, embroidered pillows, and patterned throws in rich colours and varying textures.

Colour Scheme

Earth tones like terracotta, rust, and warm greys with natural whites and creams as base colours.

Time Living Inova Metal Bed Frame - Ivory.
Pictured: Time Living Inova Metal Bed Frame - Ivory

Inject an elegant feel to your sleeping sanctuary with this metal bed frame. With a delicate look, this dreamy piece of furniture features a matching headboard and foot end with curved decorative bars and numerous circular finials, embracing individuality with elegant shapes.

Scandinavian Bedroom Decor: A Guide to Hygge

Scandinavian bedroom design emphasises minimalism, functionality, and a connection to nature. It's inspired by the concept of "hygge," which emphasises comfort, cosiness, and contentment.

Colour Scheme

Stick to a light and airy colour palette with shades of white, grey, beige, and soft pastels. These colours help to create a calm and inviting atmosphere and a connection to nature.

Storage

Opt for functional and stylish storage solutions like open shelving, under-bed storage, or minimalist wardrobes. Keep clutter to a minimum.

Lighting

Maximise natural light by using sheer curtains or no curtains at all. Keep windows unobstructed to let in as much light as possible.

Choose simple, functional light fixtures in materials like wood, metal, or glass. Pendant lights, floor lamps, and wall sconces with clean lines are ideal.

Decorative Objects 

Add a few carefully chosen decorative objects like ceramic vases, wooden bowls, or woven baskets to enhance the Scandinavian aesthetic.

Bedding: Layers of simple, high-quality textiles:

  • Multiple pillows in varying sizes and neutral tones
  • Crisp white sheets
  • Light quilts or duvets
  • Textured throws
Birlea Soho Platform White Metal Bed Frame.
Pictured: Birlea Soho Platform White Metal Bed Frame

The Soho is extremely practical and stylish making it an ideal addition to the main bedroom, or smaller sized rooms. The bed frame is easy to assemble and benefits from having a low stature, ideal if you need to place your bed under a windowsill or have a low ceiling.

The Soho also allows you to store items underneath the bed frame enabling you to make the best use out of any available space in your bedroom. Its minimalist design allows you to create your own bedroom design.

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