Give your your bed that luxurious store display look by making it the focal point of your room.
Choose mattress pads or feather beds to add buoyancy and softness. Mattress pads also protect your mattress from stains.
Dust ruffles compliment bed linens, and hide the underbed area from view, an especially important factor if you use underbed storage. Ruffles can be a solid color, a bright accent color, or formal damask. Coordinate dust ruffles and curtains to give the room a subtle unity, and allow for more versatility in the choice of spreads and quilts. A department store trick: Use two dust ruffles for a layered effect.
Buy a good down comforter, and cover it with a decorative duvet cover. This makes washing easier and gives you freedom of choice in alternating bed covers. Complement with a throw or cotton blanket in a neutral color to cover the sheets and keep the bed neat.
Use your imagination in the choice of sheets and pillow cases. Solid colors are more versatile than prints. Rotate one or two sheets until they wear out-this saves money, storage space, and time.
For guests, place a dryer sheet or a bar of scented soap between sheets. Remove them, of course, before bedtime.
Choose an array of decorative pillows, and lay them on the bed, or strew them randomly.
Decorate the headboard with a coordinated comforter, or lace panel, if you wish.
Paint bedrooms a neutral color so you can redecorate without repainting the walls. Colors that work well together are; beige walls, soft green comforter, ruffle a soft green and yellow, and curtain a soft green. Coordinating pillows in soft green, yellow and beige would go nicely. Other colors that work well together could be; eggshell walls, burnt orange bed ruffles, eggshell comforter, curtains burnt orange, and pillows a combination of these colors.
Good tips, a nice calming room is more restful to sleep in and pink is soothing colour for a bedroom.
#2 by Dee Huff, Jan 16, 2008
Great ideas Ruby.
#3 by Judy Sheldon-Walker, Jan 16, 2008
Good tips, and well written. I could almost picture the room.
#4 by lanne, Jan 17, 2008
Great tips Ruby! You are so right about a good duvet and cover.My mother-in-law (old school German) made me a goose down duvet 23 years ago from geese that she raised. I have several covers for it, but no matter the colour....I feel like I am in a beautiful room.
#5 by lanne, Jan 17, 2008
OH ...I forgot to mention. A real duvet will last a lifetime if properly cared for.
#6 by Ruby Hawk, Jan 17, 2008
Thanks to all of you for your interest. I love comforters and I keep them in duvet\'s. I can change the color anytime I want to. I make most of mine too. I would love to have a goose down Lanne, I can imagine how snuggly it would be.
#7 by Jared Stenzel, Jan 18, 2008
Nice tips, I'll have to try some of them out as I moved not to long ago and haven't tried anything but the original placement for my furniture.
#8 by Ruby Hawk, Jan 21, 2008
Congragulations on your move Jared, I hope you enjoy your new home and decorating it too. I love to move and change my things around. Have fun.
#9 by Amos, Jan 27, 2008
My wife keeps my bed dressed up and does a fine job but I will direct her to your article.
