Thought i shared this for all the bridezilla-to-be =)
By Eric Leong
Step 1: Determine An Interior Design Style
First things first, before you start buying any furniture or paint for your room, you should determine what kind of interior style you want for your bridal room.
There are many interior styles available such as a, Luxury Touch - English Style, A Simplicity Approach - Zen Style, An Exotic Living - Balinese Style etc.
The important factor is to choose an interior style to fit the size of the room, as not every interior style is suitable for every room. A small room should adapt Zen style rather than English style, as the English style needs a lot of big and bulky furniture whereas Zen Style only requires straight and simple line furnitures.
Step 2: Select A Colour Scheme For Your Entire Room
Selecting a colour scheme for a bedroom is different from choosing colour schemes for other rooms such as living rooms.
Colour scheme for bedroom must not be too strong such as vibrant colour scheme as this area is your rest zone and usually soothing colour schemes as earth tone is suitable for this area. This colour scheme will not only cover you wall area but also the soft furnishing such curtains, bedsheets, comforter etc.
Step 3: Select The Feature Wall
Feature wall concept is to increase the visual depth for a particular room. As we know that most of the room size are not to big thus we need to create “visual depth” to make the room look big. Feature concept is all about choosing a wall to be the focal wall or feature wall and make the rest of the walls as the non-feature wall.
Usually we will choose the first wall we see as we enter a room as the feature wall and paint the particular wall into a darker tone (usually this colour will be the dominant colour of the room and it will determine the rest of the colour scheme) and paint the rest of the 3 walls into off-white or cream.
Please take note that to choose the feature wall for bedroom is different from the other room, the feature wall need to be at the bed headboard rather than the first wall you see when u enter the room.
Step 4: Select A Suitable Furniture
Selecting a suitable furniture for the interior style is not an easy task. Don’t just walk into the furniture showroom and buy any of the bedroom sets (usually a full bedroom set comes with a bed, bed side table, dressing table and wardrobe), consider your room size, your interior style and the most important is do you need bigger storage area?
Usually I suggest not to buy the full bedroom set even though most of the furniture retail shop offer good price for the bedroom set, as some of the furniture may not suit your room’s size and the other important factor is that you may need bigger storage area. Thus I usually suggest to custom build your wardrobe as the custom built wardrobe usually provide bigger storage area and what’s more you can custom-make your internal storage compartments for individual needs.
Please don’t ignore the bed side table, most of the rooms I have visited are without bed side table and many of them told me that they do not have enough space for them. Bed side table is a very important element for the bedroom. It can be used to store small items, first-aid kit for the room, etc. And for those who have to read before you go to bed, u need the bed side table for your book and the bed side table light.
Step 5: Select The Light
As I always mention, please use warm light for your interior to create ambience especially in the bedroom as it is the intimate place for the couple.
The lighting design for the bedroom is different from the other area of the house too; usually I suggest the up-lighting type of design as with this type of design, the light source will shoot up to the ceiling rather than shine above your eyes.
The voltage for the light in the bedroom should not be too high as you don’t need it to be too bright in the bedroom, remember that this is the place for you to rest. Suggested light bulb voltage is minimum 25Watt, maximum 40Watt and strongly recommended frosted bulb instead of clear bulb.
Step 6: Select The Soft Furnishing
Soft-furnishing refers to curtain, bed sheet, comforter, rug, throw cushion, etc. Soft-furnishing is the soft-touch for the bedroom. It plays a very important role, we usually use the soft-furnishing to connect or to link the furniture with the walls.
The colour for the soft-furnishing always refers to the feature wall’s colour, use feature wall’s colour as main colour to co-ordinate soft-furnishing’s colour scheme.
As mentioned, bedroom is the place to relax, thus don’t use too strong colour for soft-furnishing especially the bed sheet and comforter as it will cause discomfort to our eyes. Same goes to the prints or the designs on the material we use for the soft-furnishing, geometric designs will make our eyes discomfort too, especially in the morning.
Step 7: Selecting The Suitable Accessories
Please take note that in interior design, we always want to create an impact-the visual impact. The most economical way to create impact is to use decorative accessories.
When buying the home décor accessories, don’t buy too many small or tidy size items, buy big and over-sized items instead. Use these big or over-sized items to create the visual impact.
Finding the right place to place the decorative items is important too. Try to walk around the entire room before placing any of them, check which angle or direction will give a maximum impact. Please take note that the décor accessory need to be matched to the interior style (refer to Step 1).
Step 8: Final Touch
The final touch will be the candles and the fresh flowers. Candles are the most economical warm light source. As I always mention, it is good to use warm as the main light source for an interior but this would not apply to every house especially those that already have day light installed, thus the candle is the easiest warm light source to create ambience. Don’t forget to switch off the day light when u light up the candles!
I always use flowers, especially fresh flowers to enhance the interior too. Fresh flowers can add energy to the room and also to make the particular interior lively. Please take note that not every type of flower is suitable for any kind of interior style. For example, big bloomed roses are suitable for English style, small flowers and leaves suitable for Country style, etc.
And if you are creative enough, you can always use the fresh flowers and the candles to create a nice flower arrangement for the table top.
Happy Decorating!!
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