7 Glamorous Bedroom Ideas to Create a Timelessly Beautiful Boudoir
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Interiors inspired by the glamour of the past
There’s nothing like a period drama to inspire glamorous home decor, and the romantic in me never fails to swoon over the interiors of the latest historical TV show. If you are a fan of Bridgerton, you may know that my home city of Bath played a starring role in the Netflix blockbuster, featuring famous landmarks such as The Holbourne Museum and No. 1 The Royal Crescent; places I regularly pass and which I can confirm are as beautiful and stately as portrayed on screen.
With the history and many Georgian buildings around me, it is no wonder I am drawn to recreate a little of the glamour in my client’s home and mine, too!
Whether you are enticed to stay in a beautiful Bath residence ( Always Sunday Boltholes) for inspiration and you are influenced into adding more vintage glamour into your home, incorporating a few choice antique or vintage pieces of furniture is a must for this look and recreates the romanticism and glamour we’re after.
This comes with a caveat though, as we don’t want the room to look like a staid museum room set from the past so it's important to think about adding modern touches too (see my tips below for ideas), helping create an overall more harmonious and luxurious look.
A perfect example of this vintage/modern mix is in the image below from a recently completed client’s bedroom in a Victorian property. She wanted a feminine, restful, clutter-free space where she could feel pampered and cosy. Click here if you would like help transforming your bedroom or any other room in your home.
Della (my client) Victorian home in Bath
7 Ideas to help create a bedroom design which oozes nostalgic glamour
1) Colours: Use a harmonious colour palette of soft blush pinks and pale turquoise. Top tips: A perfect white with a hint of pink is Edward Bulmer’s ‘Rose Tinted White’ and a gentle pale blue is Farrow and Ball’s ‘Borrowed Light’. Also, adding antique gold rub-on paint to furniture or picture frames creates an aged, vintage look.
2) Pattern: Choose floral and/or simple striped fabrics. Textured wallcoverings create the look too. Top tips: Panel your walls to recreate the period style. You could wallpaper between the panels as a way of adding pattern and some frivolity. Painting the ceiling in a tonal colour can bring some modernity to the scheme.
3) Fabrics: Use silks and velvets for luxury and crisp white bed linen with frilled edges. Top Tip: For grandeur, add a fabric covered pelmet to full length curtains and tasselled rope tie-backs to sweep them back.
4) Lighting: A chandelier adds instant grandeur; try looking for a vintage, restored original from Fritz Fryer or look for wall sconce lights for a touch of elegance on either side of your bed. Top Tip: Pooky has a range of traditional lamp base designs which can be paired with a colourful modern lampshade - an easy way to marry the old and new.
5) Furniture: Bring in romantic elements by way of a curvaceous-shaped headboard or ornate bedside tables, or what about this beautiful chaise longue in pale pink velvet? Loaf offers similar pieces in gorgeous velvets. Top tip: Hidden storage is essential for a calm, uncluttered space, so consider adding an ottoman at the end of your bed. Look out for antique pieces on platforms such as Vinterior.
6) Accessories: Have fun sourcing vintage items like figurines, jewellery boxes and trinket bowls to decorate a dressing table. Find paintings in the style of classic impressionist artists like Renoir, Monet or Degas or soft pastel still life drawings framed in ornate antique gold frames. Check out our online shop for soft, tactile bed throws and sheepskin seat pads.
7) Best bedroom TOP TIP!
Most women I know, given the space and opportunity, would love to house their very own dressing table. Perhaps it could be because the dressing table evokes fond memories of watching our mothers glamming themselves up to go out. Or perhaps we aspire to the life of the glamorous female stars of the screen perched on a stool, swaddled in a silk dressing gown, spritzing themselves with a light waft of beautiful perfume before swooping off to the next glamorous occasion.
Vinterior sell a large choice of vintage dressing tables.
Like I say, it’s aspirational, but the dressing table does offer us a place of sanctuary where we can pamper ourselves with beauty products at our fingertips and pretty mirrors to sit at, take a moment for ourselves, be quiet and reflect.
Enjoy daydreaming about the bedroom in an episode of your favourite period drama and plan how you would like yours to be, as we all would like it to be our sanctuary, the most restful but elegant of rooms in your home.
Happy bedroom designing! Contact me if you need a second pair of eyes to look at all your ideas.
