A place to get a rest, leaving all tensions of the whole day. That place should give everything including peace of mind and good sleep. Every one of us dreams of a bedroom like this. A heaven filled with music and fragrance where one can open his mind to his companion and also, sleep to have good dreams dissolving all worries in a good sleep. So, a bedroom should look like a dreamland and it should be neat and tidy. Within the limitations, it’s possible to design your bedroom in a beautiful way. Less space or less furniture are not significant factors while designing a bedroom. Let me give you a few simple tips for its interior.

If your bedroom is small

No need to feel sad that your bedroom is small or congested. To save space you can use built-in furniture. If you are renovating your home you can concrete beds with storage space beneath. Bed sheets, excess cushions, blankets etc can be placed in this storage area.

Let us provide a storage space behind headboard of bed also. Provide some cushions in a row on that particular wall. You can sit in bed and read books, instead of placing an extra chair in the room.

Fix a big mirror in one wall of your bedroom. Your room will appear spacious. Using same colour for bed sheets and curtain gives a pleasant appeal as well as making it appear spacious. Choose light colour paints for your walls.

Make shelves from floor to ceiling. You can place books, music system and CDs here. Never build shelves that project outside. It makes room appear small. Fix all shelves inside the walls. Door of that room should come in any one corner. Placing a door at the middle of wall, wastes a lot of space. For placing a door for your dressing room, a sliding door or door curtain is sufficient.

Master bedroom for your new home

Master bedroom is the most important part of a home and a newly constructed home should include one master bedroom. Normally, master bedroom is slightly bigger than other bedrooms. It should resemble a small home also.

Place a big bed in this room and should make separate shelves for placing ornaments, valuable documents, bills, dress and sandals. Provide a safe locker facility to keep money and gold. Now in posh bedrooms, people are placing a small fridge, television, music system etc.

Master switch to switch on all main lights of the home should be placed in master bedroom, near the bed. If you are able to provide a small veranda from bedroom, you can make use of it for reading newspaper or a small chat with your partner at moonlights.

Make your bedroom a reading room also

Bedroom can be used for reading books and enjoying music also. So, keep a special area for reading purposes. If you place a chair and a small table in that space, you can make use of that area for reading and writing also. You can make a rack to keep books and files as well.

Walk-in-wardrobes are best for bedrooms – a small room with a lot of shelves to keep dresses and makeup accessories. Place a skylight in the ceiling also. If you place a small door also, you can keep it closed when not in use. Place separate drawers for pants, shirts, sarees etc. While designing itself, you should have a clear idea of shelves of your wardrobe.

Seating arrangement for your bedroom

If your bedroom has sufficient space, keep an area for seating arrangements. You can place a partition or sliding door between bed and seating. You can use a little artistic mind also while designing this area. Make this area slightly low from the bed level. Use sofa set for seating. Use decorative cushions of different colours and designs for cushions to give your room a royal look.

If you can’t allocate seating place in this way, make lower part of your windows a little broader so that they can be used as seats. You can fix colourful cushions also, in such sitting arrangements. Place a small shelf near to keep books.

While buying bed

Bed is the real master of a bedroom. Beds of different types are available in market – of wood or cast iron. By accepting unique styles for your bed, you can give a special look to your room.

Size of bed depends on the likings of people and their number. King size bed having 6.5 feet length and 6 feet width is the best. If everything is same, except width of 5.5 feet, it’s a queen sized bed.

Dressing table and wardrobe

Shelves and dressing table are important for a bedroom. Make built-in almarahs. They are the best. Make desired partitions according to user’s convenience. Places for hanging sarees and shirts or areas for keeping folded churidar materials – everything should be pre-decided. It’s best to use adjustable shelves inside almarahs.

If small metal bars and pocket shelves are given to your almarahs you can hand tie, belt etc. Fix one or two pullouts to place small clothes. Reserve one such pullout for dirt clothes, giving small layers for air circulation.

If you can afford, use a dressing table with decorations. It will add royal look to your bedroom.

Place a small stool near the dressing table for doing makeup. If your room doesn’t have sufficient space for a dressing table, fix a mirror in almarah and small racks nearby to place powder and cream.

Neat and well-ordered

Clothes, ornaments, documents, books, CDs etc – a lot of things are to be placed inside your bedroom. If they are not kept in a well-disciplined manner, you will not only loss peace but also get negative energy also. So, never act as a miser while providing storage spaces for your bedroom.

If your room has sufficient space, place two drawers on either side of your bed to keep your necessary and small things. You can construct lofts also. They are shelves constructed in height. Give doors to loft to avoid dust. Using plywood and multi-wood, lofts can be arranged in steel frames. To hide the steel frames, you can use wood, OST borders, gypsum board etc.

If you are placing computer in your bedroom, use simple and stylish CPU. Shelves should be of sufficient space and size to place printer and CPU. Make rackets on one side to place DVDs. You can place books and CDs as well.

For a pleasant atmosphere

If your room lacks sufficient air circulation and sunlight, you will lose your peace. Same is the case if it retains more heat. So, while designing bedrooms, provide sufficient ventilation. Giving hook for fan at the centre of ceiling and placing bed later at any window side will take away all your sleep. Always arrange fan above your bed.

Give good ventilation to your room. Give big windows in nearby walls to reduce heat. If you are air conditioning your room, make flooring suitable for that. If so, wooden flooring is the best.

While giving light

Earlier, light was given uniform in a bedroom. But now, that trend has changed to spotting light and different lightings at different areas.

Now it’s possible to give different lightings to a single room according to our mood, also with different intensities. Intensity is varied at corners of rooms to give mood lighting. It gives a romantic feeling to your room. Most commonly used lamps are floor lamps, table lamps and ceiling lights.

To fill romance in bedroom

• In addition to pillows, place a few colourful cushions also in your bed.
• Avoid rough bed sheets and use soft ones like satin.
• Use two-layer curtain for windows - a thick curtain beneath and a net type on its top.
• Colour your bedroom with your favourite colours. But avoid using dark colours.
• Use dim lights also, in addition to normal lights to create a romantic atmosphere.
• Never experiment with dark colours for curtains. Use light colours only.
• Place a few photos of the couple on walls. It gives a fresh look to your room.
• If you build a veranda near your bedroom, it’s really nice. You can give a swing or sofa settee there. Bamboo or cast iron is the best. You can create a small garden also, if it’s in the ground floor. Provide 1-2 steps also to go to that garden. If not, place a few flowering plants in pots. 

While arranging work space

• Without disturbing the sleeping person, it’s possible to build a work space. Arrange light so that only the table will get it. You can even partition bed and work space using curtain or sliding door.
• Arrange work space behind head board. Create a lot of shelves to place books, files and certificates.
• If you are constructing a new home, instead of a table, you can concrete slabs to be used as tables later.
• Create work spaces according to person’s need.

How to spread a bed sheet

Classic and modern – there are two methods to spread bed sheets. If the edges of a bed sheet are inserted beneath the mattress, this method is called tuck-in.

Place pillows in bed and spread the sheet. Then insert the edges near the head board beneath the mattress neatly. Then give shapes to pillows with your hand. Then insert the edges of bed sheet at leg side of the bed also. Your classic tuck-in is complete.

If you want modern method, insert the other too edges of bed sheet too, inside the mattress. While folding edges, use triangle shape.

Three simple designs for your bed room

Design 1 - Room with coolness

• Instead of bed you can build platform built-in cot with a storage place. You can remove your mattress to place anything you needed. You can make use of waste materials of your construction to build this storage space. So, no flooring is needed beneath your bed.
• It also gives the effect of a small table to place your laptop to work. If you want to build your bedroom this way, you should decide during planning stage itself.
• Make your ceiling two levels to reduce the heat inside your room. Since hot air has less weight it moves upwards leaving beneath area with less temperature.
• You can fit an air hole or exhaust fan to push the hot air out. Switch on the exhaust fan first when you enter the room. Then only use normal fan.
• Use neutral colours for soft furnishing. It gives new face to your room. Canopy bed is best for your room.

Design 2 – beautiful and filled with light

• In this design, preference is given to windows to allow maximum light inside. You can give cup boards on either side of a window.
• Use cushion seating arrangements near window. A storage space is also given to keep books and shoes.
• Wall behind bed can be given a big nish with bright green colour. Above, you can give wooden pelmets with small lights inside.
• Such pelmets can be given cut-outs and thus those lights can be used as night-lamps too.
• On either side of bed, a full sized window can be given. Wooden flooring is best for this design.

Design 3 – The complete bed room

• Use indirect lighting for your bedroom. It can be done behind wooden corners of the room.
• Provide sensor light in wardrobe. Separate provisions for keeping tie, belt, shirts etc.
• Use a wooden piece to build a table in between two walls. i.e. at a corner. A simple rack is placed to keep books as well.
• Dressing area can be associated with wardrobe and spot light can be used here.
• Two layer curtains for windows to give a royal look.
• A music system, TV or computer can be placed.

Good night Sweet dreams

Now let me conclude giving you 10 tips in a snapshot to keep note while designing your bedroom. Yes, if we need to get good sleep, we need good sleeping arrangements also.

Not only for good sleep, but also for good health, we need good mattress and pillows.

1. While buying a mattress give personal preference. Also, just lay on a mattress before buying to check if it fits you.
2. Often, very people are confused with the question – what should I choose, soft mattress or rough and hard one. Mattress should be sufficient to support your body without giving it discomfort or pain.
3. Never use old mattress. Also, never buy cheap mattress.
4. If pillow is not good, you will lose your sleep. A pillow should be able to support your head and neck and it should give good blood circulation to your back bone.
5. Light colour paints are best for your bed room and good sleep. Cream, white, light pink and light blue are the best.
6. Our body clock and brain work according to light. So, you should avoid light inside your room while sleeping. If you are disturbed by street lamps or vehicles passing through the road, use heavy curtains to avoid the light.
7. Light cold temperature is best for sleep. If you are using AC, 22 degree celsious is the best.
8. It’s better to avoid TV, computer and other electronic equipments in bed room. If you can’t avoid them, disconnect them from plug point before sleeping. Electric-magnetic waves from such equipments can disturb your sleep.
9. If you have a habit of keeping mobile phone beneath your pillow, leave it today itself. Mobile radiations can affect your sleep as well as health.
10. Use echo friendly things for designing interior of your bed room. Wood, bamboo and jute are the best. They are good for your health too.

Bedroom is the heart of our home, the place where everyone find rest and sleep. if it is not designed properly, it may lead to sleeplessness and health loss. Through this article I have provided a few simple tips and designs. Hoping you have enjoyed reading!

• Written by Sandhya Rani.
• In category Interior Design and Decor.
• 11 years ago.

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