Create a boutique hotel bedroom feel
Author: Esme Lyall
There’s nothing better than creating a luxurious feel in your own space. Now more than ever, our bedrooms are where we spend a huge amount of time, so investing time and thought along with some strategic additions into your own home is a way to bring some beauty, peace and luxury into your life, and even give you that little piece of escapism that we are all craving. Listed below are some of our top tips we follow when dressing a home to be staged to create the perfect show home. Follow these tips to create a boutique hotel feel in your own bedroom!
Luxurious Bed
The bed is the first place to start when upgrading your bedroom, you want to feel like you could melt into your sumptuous, comfy, luxury bed, so dress it well – use nice clean, fresh, white linen which you could lightly fragrance. Feather pillows and duvets on the bed create a ‘boutique hotel-style bedroom’ to complete that showhome feel, and you could even consider investing in a mattress topper to give some extra plumpness to the look, and create a softer feel to your mattress. When staging a property to be sold we hang fluffy, white robes in the bedroom or sometimes place slippers by the bed, to give that hotel feel which you can try in your own home. These extra details make all the difference to a room. For the ‘pièce de résistance’ and to create a real focal point, the headboard is key. In our homestaging projects we love to play with statement shapes, upholstered in silky fabrics or plush velvets in tonal, warm colours. Make sure you allow for an ample height headboard, we like to use a minimum of 90cm visible height from the top of the mattress.
Silky Upholstery
Cushions are an essential when styling your bed. Plump feather stuffed cushions make all the difference in our own home staging projects and we would recommend them when trying to recreate the look at home. Select cushions with detailed embroidery such as piping, fringing or tassels, and consider a pattern or texture to add interest to your bedroom. Silk bedspreads and fur throws always compliment cushions and give warm layers and textures to a bed, all adding to that sumptuous hotel feel.
Mood Lighting
Table lamps with a silky shade and a low dimmed bulb will create mood lighting which is another key feature to create a cosy, inviting space. A floor lamp placed near a feature chair in the corner of a room can be all that is required to enhance the use of your room and add functionality and beauty to the space. When selecting your lighting, we would recommend shaded lamps over any alternatives, you want the light to be softly diffused through the room at night, rather than any glaring task lighting.
Styling Accessories & Fragrance
In our home staging projects we use touches of warm gold and brass tones in sculptural pieces, vases, photo frames or jewellery boxes to give a personal touch to the bedroom and enhance the richness of the scheme. Introduce a luxurious smell using scented candles, pretty perfume bottles, lavender pillow sprays, diffusers. And of course, flowers, real or faux, are a definite must! Adding some life and greenery introduces the nature element, which has a deeply calming feel.
Flooring & Window treatments
If you have a wooden floor consider using soft wool rugs to give warmth and improve any echoing acoustics. We like to place our rugs half under our beds, so the pattern and texture is both in the main space of the room, yet also providing softness to feet as you leave the bed in the mornings. If you don’t want to consider a large rug, instead introduce runner rugs or even sheepskin rugs on either side of the bed to provide comfort, warmth, and another textural layer. Ceiling to floor thick, luxe curtains will add that boutique feel to a room, which you can co-ordinate with a sheer roman or roller blind which you can use for privacy in the daytime.
Images are all taken from our previous home staging jobs in London, Surrey and Kent.