10 Easy Ideas to Transform Your Bedroom into a Cozy Sanctuary
10 Brilliant Ways to Turn Your Bedroom Into a Warm and Inviting Space
Your bedroom should be a sanctuary. After a long day, coming home to a cozy bedroom is essential. Spending some extra time to make your bedroom seem more comforting can make a huge difference in feeling recharged and ready for tomorrow.
Here are some easy, simple ideas for making your bedroom feel like a cozy retreat.
- Layer bedding: Your bed is the focus of your bedroom. If your bed looks, uninviting, it will throw off the mood for the rest of your room!
Don’t stress, it’s easy to create a cozy bedroom by layering your bedding!
On top of a comforter or duvet cover, add a quilt or throw blanket at the foot of the bed.
Use multiple different textures in your bedding. This will create visual interest. for instance, if your comforter is made of smooth cotton, use a throw blanket that is chunky or knitted. Using different textures is visually appealing and inviting.
- Throw pillows: A couple throw pillows are essential to completing the look of your bed. Choose pillows with interesting textures. Fluffy, knitted, or velvet pillows are perfect for creating a cozy bedroom vibe.
Usually an odd number of pillows looks best (either 3 or 5, for instance). If you’re not sure, on color, pick earthy or neutral colors, as these will match almost any color scheme.
Tip: using different size, color and texture pillows can help give virtual interest to your space.
- Warm lighting: Lighting will really impact the atmosphere of your space. Warm lighting helps signal to your body that it’s time to relax and unwind. The easier way to add warm lighting to your space is through incorporating a lamp or fairy lights with warm toned bulbs.
- Layered lighting: On top of using warm lighting, using multiple different light sources really helps you control the mood (and brightness) of your space. Having a bedside lamp, fairy lights, and larger floor lamp, allows you to choose the atmosphere – and also increases the functionality of your bedroom.
Tip: Pick a lampshade with diffused fabric that softens light further.
- Add a rug – If you’re feeling your bedroom seems cold, adding a rug can really make a huge difference.
A fluffy or soft rug can especially help the space feel welcoming.
A white rug is versatile and will complement virtually every bedroom space, making it a great choice if you ever want to change your bedroom color scheme.
Tip: One large rug that’s big enough for about a foot of the rug to extend under the front legs of your furniture will cause your space to seem bigger! Alternatively, multiple smaller rugs will break up the room and cause your space to appear smaller.
- Reading nook or window seat: Creating a designated reading nook can really create a completed look to your space, and create a cozy bedroom atmosphere.
Using a small rig will help differentiate the reading nook form the rest of your room.
Draping a blanket over the back of your chair or placing a small throw pillow on the window seat will help the nook look completed and inviting.
7. Use different textures: It’s helpful to use different fabric textures in your space to create visual and physical warmth. Different fabrics also create visual interest.
Cozy spaces should feel inviting to touch – using a balance of smooth cotton, cool leather, with chunky blankets, and a fluffy rug all help the space feel lived in and invite interaction.
- Oil diffuser with seasonal fragrances: Don’t underestimate the power of using calming scents to make your bedroom feel relaxing.
It’s often overlooked, but an important part of making your bedroom space feel comforting is the smell of your space! Using an essential oil diffuser, scents like Lavender, frankincense, and sweet orange are naturally calming.
Alternatively, get a few candles to create the same effect.
Plants also help soften your space by adding visual interest and making it feel less ridged. Plants can give life to an undecorated or cold corner of your room
- Add in greenery: A few plants can bring life and clean air into the room, creating a natural and calming environment.
Tip: If you don’t have much space, consider hanging pots to decorate your walls.
Add wooden elements: Adding natural touches of wooden furniture adds an organic element to your space that compliments virtually every color scheme.
Adding wooden shelves, especially if you decorate with books and plants, can really help to create a welcoming feel to your room.
Thanks for reading!
Making your bedroom feel like a space you can relax and recharge is really about adding different textures and elements to your space.
It may take time to find what feels right to you, but it’s incredibly relaxing once you create a bedroom that feels like you! After all, your bedroom is the place you start and end your day, so take the time to make it feel like home!
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