From Bedroom to Boutique Hotel-Style Boudoir
Take inspiration from opulent and embellished hotel rooms to create your own private retreat at home you’ll never want to leave
Staying in a boutique or fancy five-star hotel can really make you feel bored with your bedroom when you get back home. Of course hotels have top designers to do all the work for them so it’s no wonder everything seems to work so well together and rooms have that all-important ‘wow’ factor.
From imposing bedheads to luxurious fabrics, bold contrasts to soft lighting and billowing curtains, luxury hotel rooms have some common design elements you can steal to recreate the designer hotel look at home. Here’s how to get started.
From imposing bedheads to luxurious fabrics, bold contrasts to soft lighting and billowing curtains, luxury hotel rooms have some common design elements you can steal to recreate the designer hotel look at home. Here’s how to get started.
Consider dark walls
Not only do they help create a moody atmosphere, but dark painted walls provide a striking backdrop to a bedhead, artwork or accent pieces, making them really pop.
Not only do they help create a moody atmosphere, but dark painted walls provide a striking backdrop to a bedhead, artwork or accent pieces, making them really pop.
Pay attention to detail
The devil is in the detail when adding finishing touches to a room, such as the bling in this golden diamond button bedhead and the bronze furniture handles.
The devil is in the detail when adding finishing touches to a room, such as the bling in this golden diamond button bedhead and the bronze furniture handles.
Create contrast
Black or charcoal will create a dark, moody feel in a bedroom but needs white to balance it out so it’s not too dark. Team with one accent colour, such as the beautiful pop of yellow here.
Black or charcoal will create a dark, moody feel in a bedroom but needs white to balance it out so it’s not too dark. Team with one accent colour, such as the beautiful pop of yellow here.
Choose curtains instead of blinds
Curtains are great for softening the look of a room. Take them right up to the ceiling line and across a whole wall for maximum impact.
Curtains are great for softening the look of a room. Take them right up to the ceiling line and across a whole wall for maximum impact.
Use luxurious fabrics
Silky and satin-like fabrics instantly inject a sense of glamour into a room. Mix up fabrics and textures but stick to similar colour tones for a cohesive glamorous look.
Silky and satin-like fabrics instantly inject a sense of glamour into a room. Mix up fabrics and textures but stick to similar colour tones for a cohesive glamorous look.
Add some comfy furniture
If you have the space, add a sofa or large armchair to create different ways you can sit, read, relax and enjoy quality time out in your bedroom.
If you have the space, add a sofa or large armchair to create different ways you can sit, read, relax and enjoy quality time out in your bedroom.
Incorporate mirrors
An oversize mirror perched against a wall helps reflect light and space in a room making it feel even more expansive.
An oversize mirror perched against a wall helps reflect light and space in a room making it feel even more expansive.
Add soft lighting
Apart from having dimmable down lights, a ceiling feature like this helps direct soft lighting around the focal point of the room – the bed. The painted gold in the ceiling feature also adds a bit of glam that is reflected in the light.
Apart from having dimmable down lights, a ceiling feature like this helps direct soft lighting around the focal point of the room – the bed. The painted gold in the ceiling feature also adds a bit of glam that is reflected in the light.
Layer fabrics
Use lots of layers of fabric in bed linen and scatter cushions, together with an upholstered bedhead and soft curtains for a soft and luxurious look.
Use lots of layers of fabric in bed linen and scatter cushions, together with an upholstered bedhead and soft curtains for a soft and luxurious look.
Be smart with colour
If you have a favourite colour don’t be afraid to use it in various shades and intensity throughout the room. It will create a space with a lot of impact.
If you have a favourite colour don’t be afraid to use it in various shades and intensity throughout the room. It will create a space with a lot of impact.
Consider a wallpaper feature wall
A striking, patterned wallpaper helps create a dramatic backdrop to your bed which is especially good if you don’t have a bedhead.
A striking, patterned wallpaper helps create a dramatic backdrop to your bed which is especially good if you don’t have a bedhead.
Nothing projects over-the-top opulence like a tall bedhead that commands attention in the room. Frame it with large bedside tables and lamps on each side.