Our bedroom is huge.
It’s not finished (I still need to have the trim painted and I want patterned drapes!) but I already love it.
Normally, my challenge in a room is to get the functional pieces in a small room without junking it up too much. Big rooms are the opposite.
It’s tempting to try to fill up a big room like our bedroom, but once I got the main pieces in place I realized it felt so peaceful. It’s pretty much always clean, I didn’t want to mess that up. The new challenge was to create coziness in a bigger space without adding a bunch of extra stuff.
1. I focus on pairs.
Whether our room is big or small, I’ve always found that having a pair of twin nightstands, a pair of twin lamps and a pair of twin decorative pillows works wonders.
I used to try to shop my house and make a mismatched pair of surfaces and lamps work, but my room turned into a hodgepodge weird space that never felt put together. I’d just keep the door closed when people were coming over. I was breaking House Rule #56: Twins, Not Friends.
- Floral block print pillows (under $20 for 2!)
- Blue block print pillows
- Iron upholstered bench
- White lamps
- Wood nightstand (50% off) and this (under $140)
- Whipstitch shade lamp
- White dresser or similar from wayfair under $250
bed (target)
bed (similar)
sofa: purchased from the previous owners, see image down below
carpet: read more about it here
rug: I LOVE this rug, I have it in 2 rooms: under $350
lamp: I invest in nice lamps
2. I LOVE my main pieces.
House Rule #40 is Hate the Sofa, Hate the Space.
And what it really means is, if you hate the biggest piece of furniture in whatever room you are decorating–dining table for the dining room, sofa for the living room, bed for the bedroom–you’ll work a lot harder to create a room in the style you love because you’ll try to “hide” the piece you hate.
Ask me how I know. 🤣
We are lucky today!!!
Even ten years ago, when I purchased my bed, it was WORK to find a decent looking bed for under $1000. Today? There are amazing looking beds for just a few hundred dollars! Once you find something you love, you can enjoy it for years and years, especially if you choose a timeless silhouette and neutral fabrics. Which is why I went for a wingback bed in black velvet.
Our dressers are classic Jenny Lind style, our sofa has a name: camel back. The coffee table is about ten years old, a simple marble top on metal legs. (this would be a great alternative for under $200.)
3. I mix textures and patterns.
This is what brought my room together. I had to stop fighting that big pattern on the sofa and be brave enough to pair it with a tapestry, broken stripe, chevron and block print. THAT’s when this room came together. This big empty space needed prints: House Rule #85 Pattern Fills a Room.
Here you can see the sofa in the living room when the previous owners lived here.
- Linen Duvet Cover (we have this on every bed in our house)
- Hawthorne rug: I LOVE this rug, I have it in 2 rooms: under $350
- Blue pillows
- Brown pillows (under $20 for 2!)
- Cotton black and white blanket (we have 3 of these, they wash up great!)
- Long lumbar pillow cover: into the woods mint
- Striped throw (sold out) I like this option and this option
A simple, beautiful bedroom isn’t empty. Yuck.
It’s edited on the regular.
It’s intentional.
And it’s designed to work for the people who live there—not just look good in photos.
I’m able to keep my bedroom under control because I purposely HUSH it at least once a year.
Now I’m to the point where my bedroom hardly needs hushing (but my closet does!). 🤓
Want to HUSH your bedroom with me? I’m doing it TODAY!
Join me and the Cozy Minimalist Community for the third annual House Hushing Challenge.
This challenge takes place within the Cozy Minimalist Community and our private Facebook group. You can join for $18 a month or, use code HUSHED to save $30 off your first year in the group.
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