Remodeling Your Room? Start With The Bed

 

Redesigning a house is always a challenging and exciting prospect. It is one of the most life changing experiences you can have as a young couple looking to furnish your first home, or even as a second or third home owner. It tests your ingenuity like nothing else can. Most people hire an interior decorator to draw up plans and estimates, but you can easily remodel your home yourself with a bit of imagination and smart budgeting.

Or you could be looking to remodel just your bedroom for now. It might seem like a daunting task at first – where do you begin from? But it helps to break it down a bit – let’s start with the bed and its surrounds.

Here’s how you remodel the bed:

* Change the bed frame.

Have you considered that the bedroom would look and feel much classier if you changed your bed? We’re talking about getting a new frame that underlines your personal design aesthetic and offers a new dimension in spatial use. If you are aiming for a vintage look to your bedroom, you could opt for a wrought iron bed, or even a dark oak one. Those looking for minimalist inspiration can opt for a slim stainless steel frame. A new trend is to try ‘shabby chic’, in which the bed frame is often obscured by a slightly overhanging, soft mattress and many fluffy pillows. The point is, you need to understand your own design motivations before you decide on the bedroom remodel, and start from there.

* Get a mattress topper.

Another way to remodel the bed, is to make it even more comfortable than it is. You might already have invested in a cosy mattress, probably a latex or memory foam one. If you haven’t, now is the time to get it. Once the mattress is bought and installed, look for a good mattress topper in Dubai’s leading mattress stores. The mattress topper sits like a layer atop the mattress, and over which you tuck the bed sheet. The topper is meant to provide additional cushioning to the body, as well as protect the mattress from contamination (from bodily fluids, dust, insects like mites, etc.) The topper can be purchased online as per the mattress size and your choice of colour, texture and material.

* Get fresh new bed linen.

Nothing enlivens a bed more than crisp new sheets, a cosy comforter and soft pillows. Buying new bed linen is not the problem – buying the right colours and materials is! Most people buy bed linen based on the colours they like and whether a certain pattern or design appeals to them. However, it must match – or starkly contrast – the colours of the room and also blend well with the rest of the room’s furnishings to create the pleasing effect you are aiming for. Look for bed sheets and pillow cases in matching sets, and comforters that either offset the most dominant colour or creates a striking contrast in terms of design or colour. Bed sheets and pillow covers with higher thread counts are recommended – these retain their structural integrity despite years of use, and also resist pilling despite several washes.

* Make other additions.

Now that the bed has been sufficiently redesigned, it is time to turn your attention to other elements. Look for design inspiration to highlight the bed space. It could be something as simple as elevating the bed on a raised platform, and adding a gorgeous chandelier light overhead. Or attach nightstands on either sides of the bed, and add reading lamps and drawers to both. Further, have a floor rug to highlight the bed a bit more, or even a gorgeous headboard in a quilted pattern.

We hope these simple tips will prompt you in the right direction for your bedroom remodel. You can come up with your own design inspirations – browse through ideas from mattress and bed linen stores, or architectural design magazines, or even online forums. We also urge you to make your purchases from leading mattress and furnishings stores online, for safe and reliable delivery even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage on. Best of luck!