The bedroom can be turned into a loving sanctuary that is overflowing with the influence of an English garden. Classic cottage details, personal touches, mixes of garden inspired fabrics and patterns come together against a background as innovative and inviting as a garden in spring to produce a blooming cottage bedroom sanctuary. Take these hints and personalize them to make the space your own.

Informal and Fresh

Produce the ideal cottage backdrop for your room with luxuriously textured walls. Checked cottage paper, or wallpapers in broad ethereal stripes or florals offer a checked setting. Another great idea is to implement beaded board finished in creamy tones of white or classical cottage wainscot. Run the paper half way up the wall and top it off with a small shelf. Top the shelf with garden inspired collectibles, vases, and plates.

Bed, Bedding & Furnishings

The centerpiece or focal point of the room will be the bed, whether it is made of natural wood, forged iron, or covered with fabric. A spotted dust ruffle can be crowned with a floral or a double wedding-ring comforter or a lacy coverlet. Mix up fabrics such as chenille, lace and cotton fiber comforters and perpetually layer patterns when building romantic cottage flair. And while utilizing some floral patterns is ideal, merge in checks, plaids and stripes as well.

Selecting colors with the same tone saturation will pull it all together. If your wall colors are light or pale, the colors in your bedding and accessories will stand out. If you picked out floral wall paper, striped and tartan patterns, gingham checks and solids will coordinate if accent colors are drawn in. You can even merge different floral patterns if they are linked by color and style.

Try a unique look in the bedroom by slanting the bed in a niche. Break out of the box and soften the lines of the room with a bed, furniture or mirror with svelte curved lines in the headboard, bureau or wall mirror.

Garden Fresh Accessories add Romance

* Make your dresser a one-of-a-kind personalized statement by layering on nostalgic white table dressings. Other accessories to select from include a collection of heirloom photos, metallic champagne glasses overflowing with beautiful roses, and a silver jewelry box.

* An assortment of straw hats or hat boxes and floral plates make good accents to go with your garden look. A straw hat placed on a hat stand on the corner table with more hats displayed behind it forms an ideal grouping. Fill a teapot or sugar bowl with your favored flowers.

* Details matter. Dried lavendar hanging in bundles from a glass knobbed closet or room door is a nice touch. Place a hat box collection atop your dresser. Place topiary on a chest of drawers. Supply aromatherapy with candles and potpourri in floral fragrances.

* Bring in architectural pieces from days gone by for remarkable touches. Some ideas include an old birdhouse sitting atop a work post in the corner, or an old-fashioned fence grating converted into a headboard.

* Repurpose garden items for the bedroom. A plant stand cuddled in a reading nook that holds a few potted plants brings much charm. Transform a bigger urn or other container with a glass top to repurpose it as a side table or night stand. Turn a painted flower pot into a wall sconce candle holder.

* Bring in alfresco decor such as a statuary or a bird bath. A tabletop fountain can be positioned in a birdbath to lend the reassuring sound of gently cascading water.

Author Bio: Article written by Brenda Walker of WallDecorandHomeAccents.com, check out our selection of tropical fish wall decorations & wall decor store online.

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