Ideas for a Fancy Red Bedroom

Canopy Bed

• A canopy bed with a red canopy and curtains can take the place of an accent wall in your bedroom if you do not want to paint your walls. The red curtains surrounding the canopy will accent the bed as the feature piece in the room. Use a contrasting white or black for the tie-backs for the curtains on the bed to more readily find them and to add visual interest. For a more delicate look, consider dying lace red and using it as your bed's canopy and curtains. Red velvet curtains are heavy and will require a strong canopy for support, but they give the look of old-fashioned opulence around the bed.

Bedding

• The bed clothes will determine the overall color of the bed more than the headboard and footboard of the bed, because the covers take up more space on the bed. To fit into a fancy red bedroom theme, opt for red and white or red and black bedding. Solid-colored bedding will create a bold impression, but for a more muted red decorating scheme, use a red and white print for the bedding with an equal balance of the two colors. You will still get the visual pop from the red without it becoming overpowering.

Walls

• Painting all four walls in a bedroom red can easily turn the room from comfortable to choking. Break up the red color by only painting one wall red for an accent wall, or painting the upper half only of the four walls and using a chair rail and paneling on the lower half of the walls. Hang white- or black-framed pictures on the red portions of the walls to further break up the expanse of red. If you have an accent wall, choose pictures with red as a featured color in the painting -- consider red roses or red balloons for a fancy bedroom. Hang the pictures on the other walls, to tie the red accent wall to the paler walls.

Windows

• The window treatments in your bedroom should serve as a contrasting accent to the dominate color of your walls. If you chose to paint a single accent wall red, use red curtains. For a room with four red walls, opt for white curtains. Use white lace to add a fancy, feminine touch to the room and balance out the warmth and vibrancy of the red in the rest of the space. Use pink instead of white curtains for a more mellow contrast to the rest of the room's décor. Whether you use white or pink as your accent color on your window treatments, follow through and use that as the accent color throughout the bedroom to give continuity in the style.