We all have them yet so many of us don’t fully appreciate them – bedrooms. A place to sleep, to dream and spend some alone time ruminating on the blizzard of emotions and challenges we’re faced with in everyday life, the bedroom is the most important room in any home.

The bedroom is also the place in which we can express ourselves most in terms of design – unlike shared communal areas like the kitchen and living room, generally only two people will ever share a bedroom, making it the perfect canvas on which to project your personality. Here, we’ve listed a couple of tips to designing your dream bedroom, whether simply redecorating or overhauling the entire room.

Use Your Space Wisely

Bedrooms come in all shapes and sizes; from the vast grandeur of the master bedroom to the ‘broom cupboard’ spare room. The best place to start when designing a bedroom is to consider what you can and can’t fit into your room – it’s no good investing in a queen-size bed if it’s going to take up all your floorspace. Similarly, sticking a single bed in a massive room is a good way of making your room look extremely empty!

Decorate Accordingly

The idea of a bedroom adorned with leopard print is a dream for some people, but it isn’t exactly the most relaxing design choice. Remember that your bedroom is a place to relax and decorate according. Warm or neutral colours are the best way to ensure that you drift off into the land of nod in comfort. Make your bedroom homely and comforting, a relaxing dream rather than a garish nightmare.

What Will You Use Your Bedroom For?

Aside from the obvious (sleeping), bedrooms have many secondary uses – storage space, home entertainment hub and makeshift gym being just a couple. Consider what you want to have in your room and accommodate accordingly. A TV, for example, might require a wall-mounted bracket whilst fitness fanatics might want to consider a corner of the room to store weights and work out. It goes without saying that a chest of drawers and a wardrobe should also be high on your bedroom essentials list too.

Call In The Experts!

Humans are naturally proud beings, and we pride ourselves on being able to do things ourselves without outside intervention. As the old saying goes, however, pride does indeed come before a fall. If you’re uncertain and have a budget, call in an interior designer. They’re experts for a reason and will be able to help you plan your room through their expertise and specialist skills. Swallowing your pride and calling an expert is much better than suffering in a badly laid out, cluttered bedroom.

Embrace Technology

Long gone are the days in which planning a room consisted of a pencil and a scrap of paper. In the computer age, technology can do it all for us. Home design software has advanced leaps and bounds in the past few years, and allows you to drag and drop furniture and generally play around with your room. Easy and efficient, this software is about the closest you can get to visualising your dream bedroom without actually physically dragging furniture around your bedroom and much less tiring too!

Ben Greenwood is writing on behalf of Nexus Design Software, specialists in home design software

Ben Greenwood is writing on behalf of Nexus Design Software (http://www.nexusdesignsoftware.com), specialists in home design software

Author Bio: Ben Greenwood is writing on behalf of Nexus Design Software, specialists in home design software

Category: Home Management
Keywords: home design software, interior design software, interior design