A change of season is the perfect time to consider a bedroom update. These projects from the ELLE Decoration archives make the case for a comforting scheme that layers rich colour palettes with lustrous textiles, cosy furnishings and low lighting to create a stylish cocoon you’ll want to hibernate in all year long.
The Stockholm apartment with a fairytale feel
This Stockholm apartment is a lesson in creating cosiness within a building with daunting proportions. Studio Lawahl created an intimate feel by layering vintage furniture, tactile rugs, mid-century lighting and ceramics by local artisans. In the bedroom, they made a custom teak bed and upholstered it in velvet from Romo, while Michael Anastassiades’s ‘Philosophical Egg’ pendant lights and a large artwork by William McLure, which was commissioned specifically for the room, add a little drama.
The coastal home that went to the dark side
A collaboration between architecture firm Woods Bagot, interior design studio Hecker Guthrie and stylist Simone Haag, this Melbourne home embraces the dark side, with an inky colour palette and materials like limestone, charcoal-stained timber and ash-grey marble. The black timber panelling in the bedroom creates a cocoon-like feel, while Rodolfo Dordoni’s ‘Tatlin’ bed for Minotti and bedlinen from Abode in Melbourne are tactile additions to the room.
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A bold blue bedroom in Milan
An ‘optical game with blue and fiery red walls, furnishings and curtains,’ is how interior designer Luciano Giorgi describes his vivid Milan apartment. Colour drenching the bedroom in a rich glossy blue and using Dedar’s ‘Blazer’ linen for the curtains, headboard and bedspread immediately creates a cave-like feel to the bedroom. A ‘Patroclo’ lamp by Gae Aulenti for Artemide sits on the late-19th-century bedside table, while on the wall hangs White Surface, an artwork by Enrico Castellani from 1969.
The expertly layered bedroom in York
This bedroom suite in the home of Lee Thornley, founder of Bert & May, has a ‘sexy, adult’ feel he says, thanks to the foresty green that cloaks the walls and ceiling. A handsome wooden bed from West Elm adds textural difference, while layered throws and bedlinen from The White Company make for a very stylish nest.
Tactile textiles rule in this California bedroom
There are few things more inviting than a luxurious velvet bed. This supremely stylish bedroom by Hommeboys features a custom bed upholstered in Dedar‘s ‘Plushy’ velvet and dressed in linen bedding from Cultiver. The curtains made from vintage Turkish Suzanis, a vintage Moroccan throw and Turkish cushion inject the scheme with a dash of pattern while the walls, painted in Portola Paints’ ’Roman Clay’ plaster finish, are the perfect contrast to the rich tangerine bed.
Cosy meets California cool in this bedroom
Soft textiles abound in this inviting bedroom designed by Frances Merrill, founder of interior design studio Reath Design, for clients in California. She cleverly used a bespoke quilt by Farm & Folk to create a padded headboard, which perfectly complements the ‘Phillipsburg Blue’ paint by Benjamin Moore on the walls. Bedding from Parachute, and a throw and cushions from Hawkins New York complete the look.
The bedroom that brings the outdoors in
This bedroom scheme was inspired by the beauty of the treescape outside the windows. Using a palette of ochre, chestnut and rust, designer Caroline Milns of Zulufish upped the toasty factor by layering Caravane bedding with a wool blanket from Hay and cushions from Holmes Bespoke.
Touches of velvet in a Berlin bedroom
This bedroom in a Berlin home by Bosko Studio is a sophisticated take on a primary colour palette. Leaning into muted shades of charcoal, oxblood and mustard, designer Kasia Kronberger elevated the scheme with luxurious textures. Dedar’s ‘Tiger Mountain’ velvet in ‘Fauve’ is used on a window seat as well as the cushions, while Dedar’s ‘Amoir Fou Metallo’ wallcovering is paired with Little Greene’s ‘Bronze Red’ paint. The bespoke Japanese-inspired platform bed was made from ebonised oak.
Dark florals and moody metallics in a London home
This bedroom has a touch of gothic romance thanks to House of Hackney’s ‘Midnight Garden’ fabric, which is used on the headboard and cushions. Osborne & Little’s ‘Fresco’ wallcovering in ‘Rust/Ochre’ adds a metallic glint, while the bedspread is another House of Hackney design: ‘Anaconda’. The bedside lamps have ‘Kilimanjaro Bronze Tall Drum’ lampshades from Lampshade Barn.
A kid’s room with panache in California
This supremely cosy room by designer Heidi Caillier is proof that kids bedrooms can be stylish. She paired the ‘Jenny Lind’ bed from Crate & Barrel with a West Elm cabinet and an ‘Auckland Quentin’ armchair from Anthropologie to create a playful room that’s just a little bit grown up. The floor lamp is from Restoration Hardware, while the blue wall lamp is the ‘AJ’ by Arne Jacobsen for Louis Poulsen.
