In your home, your bedroom is your sanctuary. It’s the place you go to get cozy, relax and fall asleep, so it’s no surprise that you’re looking for the best ways to create the coziest atmosphere possible. Fortunately, there are many ways to do this. In fact, we’ve come up with nine essential tips to ensure your bedroom is the ultimate cozy retreat, from decorating with cozy homewares to incorporating warm, natural tones and textures.
If you’re looking for better ways to sleep, making sure your bedroom has the right vibe will set the scene perfectly. Many rooms in your home have a function. For a bedroom, it’s a place to hibernate and recharge. Using our top tips below, you’ll create the most comfortable space by adopting simple design elements, lighting, accessories and even scents. Ultimately, it depends on your unique tastes, but each tip can be tailored to your wants and needs and, most importantly, what makes you feel comfortable and warm.
1. Use Ambient Light
There is nothing particularly comfortable about the bright lights emitted by harsh white light bulbs. If you’re trying to stay awake and alert, these work great in your office or kitchen. If you are looking for a warm atmosphere in your bedroom, heat bulbs are the perfect choice. As part of our natural circadian rhythm, a warmer tone is more relaxing and helps us fall asleep.
If you’re looking to get even cozier, turning off the lights in the master bedroom and instead relying on well-placed lamps, string lights or electric candles can create a soft, warm setting. You can also consider using Philips Hue lamps, smart bulbs that offer specific Ambiance Kit packages to create the perfect mood lighting in different rooms in your home. In addition, they are interchangeable without you having to get up from the comfort of your bed.
2. Introduce plants
Indoor plants will not only enhance your home, but they will bring nature and tranquility to your room while naturally filtering the air in the room for optimal relaxation.
With a whole host of benefits, introducing plants into your bedroom should be a no-brainer. Whether it’s aloe vera to reduce indoor air pollution or lavender to promote better sleep, their scent and color will bring a sense of calm to your inner sanctum. There are also some plants that can prevent mold, because there is nothing cozy about having mushrooms on your bedroom walls.
Whatever plants you choose, just make sure they are safe to keep near your pets if you have furry family members.
3. More pillows
The Modus Operandi of a pillow can also be comfortable. They are soft, welcoming and cuddly, so decorating your bed with them or placing them on any soft furniture you might have in your bedroom will add an extra level of comfort to your bedroom. Natural tones for your pillows are a perfect idea to continue the calm theme, but if an art pillow or a pastel color looks appealing to you, then these are great options.
There is nothing cozier than losing yourself in an abundance of pillows where you can enjoy the softness of a feather-filled squish. But make sure you find the best pillow for your sleeping style and needs.
4. Carpet
Comfort doesn’t have to stop at the top of your furniture, as a soft, plush rug that can add extra texture to your floor is essential. Whether you want to cover a rug, add softness to a hard floor or work to bring as much warmth as possible to your bedroom, rugs can provide a solution.
However, we recommend choosing a plush, high carpet, such as a tufted or sheepskin rug, to provide extra cushion under your feet. They’re also a great way to bring a warm tone and texture to your room, which we’ll talk about in more detail below.
5. Warm tones and textures
Stepping away from the decorative aesthetic for a moment and diving into the general atmosphere of your room, the best way to create a cozy atmosphere is to invite warm tones and textures into your space. There are different ways to approach this and it depends entirely on what makes you comfortable.
For warm tones, you can choose darker shades to bring a more dramatic shadow effect to your bedroom and make you feel as if you are in a cocoon. For this, we recommend deep reds or navy blues. You can also choose a lighter, more natural warmth where your tones and textures are soft and earthy. For this, we recommend warm whites and soft pastels. It’s an individual choice, but choosing the right colors goes a long way in creating the overall mood of the room.
6. Add wood
Another great way to add warmth to your bedroom is to incorporate wood. A popular trend for this, especially for bedrooms, is to create wood paneling along all of your walls or on a single feature wall. Besides being a perfect way to breathe new life into your room and hide less-than-perfect walls, it adds charm and depth to your bedroom that can make it even cozier.
There are different ways to use planks, depending on the aesthetic you’re going for: from squares to strips to planks and slats. Depending on your style and the layout of the room you have, you will determine if the panels are right for you. Alternatively, you can simply choose to add small aesthetic touches of wooden lamp bases to your bed frame without making a drastic change.
7. Incorporate Illustrations
Art has the power to completely change your mood. If you find a piece of art that evokes a feeling of warmth, comfort and serenity in you, hang it on your bedroom wall. Wallpaper can also be the perfect way to decorate one or more walls if you find one that matches your comfortable aesthetic.
Take for example a cloudscape with the sun setting behind the mountains, or a calm, still body of water with the clouds reflecting in the sky. The choice of artwork will be unique to you, but can add a lot to a simple wallpaper or painting.
8. Blankets
We’ve talked a lot about adding warm tones, textures and elements to your room that will make you feel cozy, but what’s more about being cozy? Like the pillows you may or may not have doubled up on, lying in a bed full of blankets, whether on top, wrapped, or simply placed luxuriously, is the ultimate home accessory for a cozy bedroom.
Choosing the softest materials like cotton, cashmere and fur will give softness and real warmth. There is not much that brings more comfort than being wrapped in a blanket.
9. Soothing scent
Finally, infusing a calming scent into your room, if you’re not sensitive to scents, is a nice, relaxing way to feel good. For this, you can burn essential oils, either using an oil burner or a diffuser, in scents such as lavender, bergamot, ylang-ylang and sandalwood.
If you’re looking to create a sweet-smelling bedroom without using chemicals, we’ve got 7 natural tips to do just that, from creating your own room spray, potpourri and reed diffuser oil. Find a scent that suits you, then find a way to apply it in your bedroom.