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When decorating a modern bedroom, most people start with the bedroom set. For example, 5- or 7-piece ensemble that is perfectly matched in espresso wood or white veneer. And there is nothing wrong with this approach. However, if you’re looking for a way to create your bedroom from scratch – without relying on a pre-fab bedroom set – we’ve got some great tips.

A mix-n-match bedroom can look simply stunning, and it will always be unique. The first rule of thumb, as with any interior decorating you do, is to let your senses guide you. Style guides, trends, and advice are all well and good, but it is your home, so you should have final say.

When choosing individual bed frames, dressers, mirrors, nightstands, benches, tables, curtains and other accessories for your bedroom, you want to keep color, texture and materials in mind.

For instance, if you’re going for the shabby chic look like the image above, you’ll probably want some rubbed bronze, worn or exposed wood, distressed finishes and otherwise antique-looking textures. Or, if you want to do the ethnic eclectic look, you might want to choose texturized and colorful fabrics and natural finish woods.

It can help if you have an interesting base from which to sprout your unique bedroom set ideas as well. Exposed brick, like the image above, inspires all sorts of creativity, as does an oddly shaped room or an eye-catching floor.

Designing your bedroom without the help of a bedroom set can be daunting, but you’ll feel like a true champion designer when you’ve pulled together a jumble of furniture and created a harmonious room from scratch.

Shelves offer unlimited customization. They are really a blank canvass for modern interiors, as their surfaces can be covered with any number of items. Of course, you incorporate a shelf for its functionality: to hold books, Blu-Rays and baskets of knickknacks. But there is the other side of the shelf too – its stylish side. Here are some items that you can use to dress up your modern shelf.

Why not try adding a simple vase with flowers? If you can’t get a fresh bunch every week, go for the dried variety – in the fall, you can choose orange flowers accented by earthy sticks and cattail, while your spring arrangement can feature bright pinks and greens.

If you’re looking to fill up a smaller shelf that couldn’t hold a usually tall vase, you can visit your local craft store and pick up some decorative balls. Dusted in silver or gold leaf, these various-sized balls can be used for functionality as bookends, or just for style placed strategically on a few shelves.

Decorative plates are another way to go, if you have some you’d like to show off. You don’t have to have a china cabinet to display your china. Simply purchase a plate stand and position the plate facing outwards on a central shelf to minimize the possibility of it getting knocked down.

And finally, candles are always a tasteful, beautiful way to add style to a shelf. You can add tall votive candles along the top of the shelf. Just be sure that there is plenty of ventilation and space above the candle so that there is no risk of fire, and you’ve got yourself a stunning, simple accent piece for your modern shelf.

How do you dress up your shelves?

No matter if you are moving into a new home or just updating a bedroom, a headboard can bring out the personality of an intimate environment. The proper headboard in a bedroom is like a fireplace mantel in the living room, they both create a focal point. Any properly decorated room will provide a fabulous area for the eyes to come to rest. Choosing the right headboard for your room is suggested to draw positive energy inward to help with quality sleep. Doing a little research and planning can make all the difference in choosing a headboard for your room. Not to mention, they just look great!

Creativity – For a real attention-grabber, stay clear of traditional flat panel headboards. There are incredibly unique and artistic pieces available today in wave, oval or many other shapes to bring a little creativity to the space.

Material – You will find that most headboards are made from wood or metal (two important Feng Shui elements) however, that doesn’t mean you have to over look wicker, bamboo, quilting or you can even make one with a large canvas covered with fabric.

Surroundings – Traditionally, the decor of your room is going to dictate the headboard you choose. Just because you love that contemporary black, curved headboard does not mean it will compliment your Victorian or country cottage room. Theme and color must both be taken into consideration.

Headboards provide you with a more secure feeling while you sleep, according to Taoist beliefs. It is also suggested to not hang or drop clothes from them as they are essentially pieces of art. After all, you wouldn’t hang a towel over a canvas in your living room would you?

Surround yourself with beauty, style and fashion with Coaster Fine Furniture. Being on the market from 1979, Coaster Furniture has become one of the leading manufactures in the United States producing all kinds of furniture: living room, dining room, bedroom, entertainment and kids’ furniture. This wide collection of furniture will bring exceptional design with variety of colors, materials, styles to any of your rooms.

Make a bold statement with the amazing design and urban elegance of the furniture from Coaster. Bringing traditional furniture to your home you can recreate the atmosphere of antique palaces in your own home, does not matter whether in dining, living or bedroom. On the other hand, when adding contemporary style furniture, you will create unforgettable, delightful modern urban look in your home.  Each piece in this furniture collection from Coaster is a masterpiece, which you can now make part of your room decor and your lifestyle. Coaster Fine Furniture offers you beautiful sets for the dining room with majestic tables of any form and the coordinating side and arm chairs with various upholsteries and fabric patterns. You will surely be able to find furniture for your living room area, including sofas, loveseats, accent chairs coffee tables etc. The collection of bedroom furniture from Coaster Fine Furniture will leave you amazed: various forms, sizes and finishes will make the collection an integral part of contemporary lifestyle.

These two young and energetic men are well-known in the USA and Canada. Once in America in legendary Chicago Don Raney and Jaymes Richardson established creative studio Civility Design which is famous with its original approach to the design of interior and architecture. They also performed willingly in different shows and also annually publish in numerous glossies their new interiors.

Both consumers and press like designers for the light character and unconventional decisions. In every idea they can look the sides which were not used by anybody before or were forgotten long ago.

Their interiors cannot be called affectedness but the chosen style can be seen very well in them. The classic elements are combined with rich colors and “interior cocktails” are virtuously made of the mix of traditions, vintage and designer ideas.

There is a couple of interiors created by Civility Design: any of them has its name and unrepeatable style inspired with tender passion of the Americans to the classic and at the same time aspiration to the originality. This is retro and fusion in new interpretations. Kaleidoscopic Chic. Vintage chick. Mix of vintage and classic American furnishing is never out of fashion. As a result of kaleidoscope of style of 30s and neon colors it gets the fresh and nonstandard view. 

Glamour Style of Tudors. Tribute to history with impact of English traditions on the background of liking of the Americans with the epoch of “wild 20s”. Classic must be comfortable and provide the comfort to the habitants of the house.

Today transforming furniture takes the special place in the interior of our home. Its multifunctionality allows modeling the space depending of the concrete situations and also deciding many problems for the organization of everyday life. In the folded condition this furniture is compact and can be used in the most small-sized apartments. But the owner of capacious houses also sympathize them very much.

Combining the advantages of modern designer ideas with hi-tech materials, today furniture transformers do not look much alike their forerunners. Sofas and armchairs with folding mechanisms and possibility of regulating the body position; teenager beds on castors rolling out from the wardrobe for night; computer tables at which it is possible to work sitting and standing.

Transforming tables include all models and kinds of tables which allow regulating even one of three sizes – length, width or height.

By the way of transformations all models of transforming tables can be divided into three groups:

-          with the changing sizes of the table top, the height of legs is constant

-          with the regulating height of stands, the area of top is not changed;

-          with the full transformation of all the construction.

The first group is the most numerous and various. It includes dining tables for kitchens and dining rooms. Second group is mainly coffee tables, serving tables, decorative and other ones. The third group is the transformers as they are: the same model can be the coffee table in the living room and dining table in the kitchen. In the unfolded condition many of them is not inferior to the full-fledged dining table in size.

Sometimes even the habitual cozy home becomes so boring that neither expensive décor nor custom-built furniture gladdens the eye. One wants something new, uncommon, daring and bold.

Sometimes daring decisions allow creating festive atmosphere, sometimes become the result of realization of spontaneous ideas and can also be the wonderful instrument for avoiding depression. You do not need much money or special education for this. You can try yourself as a designer – your variants of decoration will not be worse than professional.

The table seems to be boring? Purchase the piece of plastic of suitable size. You can choose any color and even order the drawing of vinyl film. Fix the plastic to the table surface and you have the new table top looking like you want.

Do not deprive the chairs of your attention – wind the legs round and decorate the backs with the ribbons. The vase with composition of dry flowers you can wind round with foil and lace.

Maybe you are tired of pastel shades and you want bright spots. The take off your light tulle and curtains of neutral color, order new one of bright textile. Don’t be afraid to play with contrasts.

Any textile in this case is a wonderful decision for changes and new accents. Use the bright rug which you considered to be inappropriate in living room and put it on the sofa. If you do not want to change the cover you can sew several pillows of satin textile and put them on the soft furniture. Bright carpets and rugs will also refresh the interior of the placement and create the bright colorful spots in the room.

The first placement where the person gets after entering the house is the hall. On the look of the hall the mood of visitors and owners of the house depends. At the same time the hall should fulfill certain functions. First of all the placements of this kind are intended for keeping the outerwear and shoes. For creating the appropriate atmosphere in the hall it is necessary to take into account some special features of this placement.

First of all it is important to pay attention on the size of hall. You should not put much furniture in the placements of small size. In this case it is better to come to nothing more than one wardrobe or rack. It is desirable to place the shelf for shoes to the hall of any size. Order will give the placement the accurate look. The choice of furniture for big halls is quite various. The sliding-door wardrobes with big mirror surfaces and built-in illumination look very well.

Second is that you should pay special attention to the lighting of hall. As a rule there is no natural illumination in such placements. By the instrumental of lightings illuminating the upper part of placements you can manage the effect of increasing the space.

Third is the color decision of placement. To avoid despondency and boring in the hall it is recommended to use warm tints for decorating the surfaces. The low ceiling can be lifted visually with the vertical stripes on the walls. Different additional accessories give the liveliness to the placement. Using the mirrors you can visually widen the space.

There is no apartment or house where there would not be some place assigned for bookstands, cupboards or shelves. From long ago till present days bookstands are considered to be the component part of interior of our dwelling giving them the feeling of respectability ad coziness.

Today many people can allow having their own library and assign one of the most spacious rooms for it creating the individual interior. Sometimes library is combined with living room or cabinet, rarely it is organized in bedroom or dining room.

If the library is in living room or hall the corner bookstands and comfortable armchair placed near them look most attractive. This unpretentious decision will turn small library into picturesque and very comfortable place.

Solid rows of books from floor till ceiling look attractive only in capacious big placements. If the room is small the cupboards with half-transparent doors or bookstands with partly closed lower part are most appropriate.

Important place in library is reading zone. Exactly there sofas, armchairs, low coffee table or high desk are placed.

Library furniture set is invariable for many years already: various close cupboards, open bookstands and shelves, tables of different configuration (for reading, writing, computer), stepladder to get to the highest shelves and of course comfortable places for sitting.

Modular cupboards allow assembling separate elements into entire system. Assembling modular sections in the row horizontally or vertically you can get the cupboard of necessary size and configuration.

Can the bedroom considered to be luxury without the wonderful bed covered with leather? Exactly such bed becomes the central place in the interior of bedroom, creating the atmosphere of presentable appearance, calmness, and comfort with its presence.

The masters have their professional secretes which are passed from one generation to another. For leather beds the skin of animals which grew in the special conditions is used. The quality of the articles depends strictly from the quality of raw materials. The following treatment is also important: currying of skin, tanning, covering with special compositions. All of them go through strict control and pass the tests for safeness. Leather beds can have different colors. Almost all substances for painting of leather have the natural base and have rich color and are very stable.

Leather bed is not just luxury. Such furniture is the sight of your status. But it is even more important that this is very comfortable, practical and very beautiful thing, wonderful element of interior. Leather bed creates in the bedroom the pleasant atmosphere and has the positive influence on your health – both psychological and physical. They are equipped with orthopedic mattresses which affects positively on the posture, allow relaxing completely during sleeping.

The nobility of forms, variety of models, wealth of stylish decisions and furnish, high quality, long service life – these are the distinctive features of leather beds.