There’s perhaps no space across the home more private and personal than the bedroom.
The design of these important rooms, where we relax, reflect and rest, have the potential to hinder or elevate our comfort and sleep. This means, creating a space that feels like your own personal sanctuary of relaxation is actually good for your overall health.
So, it’s time to start ‘project bedroom’ – and we hope our collection of modern bedroom ideas can help you realise your image of the perfect space.
Modern Bedroom Ideas to Guide Your Bedroom Project
We’ll categorise our top design ideas for modern bedrooms into 5 key categories: design foundations, bespoke furniture, storage, seating and accessories.
1. Design Foundations
Having clicked on a blog promising modern bedroom ideas, you’ve likely already established that your bedroom will have a modern or perhaps contemporary style of design, but that still leaves many fundamental factors of design still up in the air.
Start by thinking about the bare bones of the room, mainly the walls, and consider the kind of modern aesthetic you’re trying to create. Will wall murals, wooden wall panelling, bold wallpaper prints, painted walls or even exposed materials like brick and concrete help you to achieve the look you have in mind?
What about colour? Explore cream and beige tones, soothing muted colours like blush pink, orange, warm yellow, purple and sage, or darker greens, blues, greys and shades of red, to find the colours that fill you with a sense of calm and serenity.
The flooring you choose goes a long way to achieving a particular aesthetic. Does your dream bedroom have warm high-quality carpeting, wood flooring (laminate, engineered, hardwood), tiles for a European or Mediterranean feel, or stone/concrete flooring for a contemporary industrial look?
If you want to create a textured look, consider patterned wallpaper, striped/floral/geometric curtains, layered headboards (or alternative headboards using rattan or bamboo screens), and reeded/fluted furniture. Which leads us to our next category of modern bedroom ideas.
2. Bespoke Furniture
When it comes to creating a luxury modern bedroom, bespoke furniture pulls a big aesthetic punch, blending function with stunning visual appeal, and providing the perfect storage solutions for your needs and physical space.
At Parker Howley, we make bespoke bedside tables (designed collaboratively with leading designer Emma Merry Styling) as well as dressing tables, wardrobes, chests of drawers and storage units tailored both aesthetically and internally to your unique needs, tastes and space.
Our bespoke furniture is made in Yorkshire UK, from high-quality, prime, European oak or American Tulipwood, and is available in plain finishes, Rubio Monocoat stains, or a painted colour of your choice. We also offer a wide range of handles (an important element of design missing from many blogs and lists of modern bedroom ideas), which though a small detail, can make a big aesthetic impact, and help you to further tailor your furniture to your visual tastes.
Of course there are a wide range of stunning wood mass produced bedroom furniture available on the market, but to mix up the materials in your bedroom design, you might also consider steel frame, metal, acrylic or rattan bedside tables (or even modern plastic stool alternatives), metal or locker-style wardrobes, storage units, and chests of drawers, and models with woven features.
3. Storage Storage Storage
No list of modern bedroom ideas would be complete without some additional storage-specific ideas (beyond furniture), because nothing blunts a room’s aesthetic impact like clutter.
Ottomans or chests at the base of your bed create a modern yet timeless look and are great for storing bed linens, dressing gowns, and anything else for that matter, to let your room design speak.
Ladder shelving, floating shelving, or bespoke shelving solutions like those we build for our customers, are a great way to create a focal point from a curated collection of your possessions.
Finally weaved rattan, wicker or seagrass baskets can make a great practical and attractive addition to any modern bedroom.
4. Seating
As adults, we tend not to want to lay on our beds to relax, so be sure to explore modern bedroom seating ideas carefully, to ensure your bedroom design supports relaxation – not just rest.
If you have the space available, you could create a seating area by a window with a comfortable chair (or small 2 seater sofa) perhaps a matching pouffe, and a table where you can read, work or watch entertainment on your laptop/tablet, alone or with your partner.
Similarly, benches, loungers and chaise lounges, in both leather and fabric finishes, can make a stunning addition to any modern bedroom with a little room to spare.
For smaller spaces, consider cocoon chairs, hanging chairs (which offer a stunning focal point) and attractive stools that can be moved around the room for different applications, from relaxing to use at the dressing table.
5. Accessories
This likely won’t be the first blog or page of modern bedroom ideas you’ve visited, and so you’ll have no doubt noticed the prevalence of accessories in these lists.
In the categories above we’ve explored the foundational aspects of your bedroom’s design, but accessorising is where the detail lies, and how you establish the character and soul of your space.
Lighting, for example, sets the whole ambience of your space. Consider low-hanging contemporary light fittings, wall lighting (one above each dressing table, and perhaps above the dressing table), and lamps on shelving, bedside tables and furniture, to create different levels of lighting and add depth to your space.
Similarly, mirrors play not only a key functional role, but play a big aesthetic part in defining your room’s aesthetic, able to both reflect light back into the room to help set the mood and make smaller spaces appear larger.
Rugs, throws and cushions add texture to any space, but are especially useful in rooms that feel a little aesthetically flat or to add warmth to spaces with tiled or wooden flooring, and exposed brick or concrete walls.
No point on any list of modern bedroom ideas makes a personal statement as powerfully as art. Wall art and wall hangings enable you to ensure your space reflects the person, or people you are, so choose wisely to ensure you create a space that you feel connected to.
We hope we’ve helped to give you some food for thought to fuel ‘project bedroom’. Contact our team today to discuss your bespoke bedroom furniture needs. Together, we’ll help realise your image of the perfect bedroom.
