Your bedroom renovation. A chance to make your bedroom better. Not just to make it look better. Bedding, lighting, storage, and how you use your room all play a part in your bedroom renovation.
Pick the Right Colour Palette
Small bedrooms with limited natural light can look larger by using pale cool coloured walls such as soft white, light grey or pale blue/grey wash tones. These colours do not appear to make the walls recede as much as soft warm tones would but can make a larger bedroom appear more contained and help create a restful environment. Avoid using stark white in bedrooms with limited natural light as these can look flat and cold. Instead use warm off-white colours or even muted, earthy tones to create a more pleasing and restful ambiance.
Layer Your Lighting
A single ceiling light does not have the ability to create a great bedroom environment. By fitting a dimmer switch to your main light and then adding bedside lights as well as low level lights to feature areas around the room such as an alcove, you will be able to create the perfect mood. For further information on light and how it can affect your sleep quality visit the NHS Every Mind Matters website.
Fitted or Freestanding Storage
Fitted bedroom wardrobes are generally the best form of storage for small bedrooms as they make use of the corners, wall space and even ceiling space which freestanding furniture cannot. Bedroom Renovations is covered in more detail at thekitchenrefurbishmentcompany.co.uk/bedroom-renovations.
Choose Flooring for Comfort and Quiet
Engineered wood flooring and LVT offer a more stylish and contemporary alternative to traditional carpet flooring. However, during the winter months, the cold flooring can feel rather harsh underfoot, so it is worth adding a large rug next to the bed.
Plan Layout Around the Door and Light
The bed should be placed away from the door, so you don’t get knocked by it when waking up in the morning, and also to avoid being woken by direct sunlight coming in through the window. Draw a simple floor plan of the room and mark where the door and the window will be, before choosing and purchasing any pieces of furniture.
Design choices that create the best bedroom mean you can continue to enjoy your bedroom long after the renovation has been completed.