Chic Designs for Bedrooms

Shabby Chic

• Designing a shabby chic room will have you staying in a somewhat limited palette, with gorgeous results. Shabby chic colors consist of soft colors like baby pink and pale Tiffany blues and greens. Use lace and floral throws, doilies and bedspreads to add to the feminine elegance of your shabby chic room. Paint your antique furniture white or Tiffany blue and distress the corners. This can be done on dressers, desks and frames. The more the merrier in a shabby chic room. Shabby chic is a style known for being slightly overdone, if not a little cluttered.

Trendy Beach

• Beach chic is another offshoot of shabby chic, except with beach accessories such as seashell lamps and candles and is done in a room with no carpeting. Distressed furniture should still be included, though it does not have to be antique.

Modern Style

• Modern chic consists of modern furniture that can be purchased at any big box store. Your bedspread could have any design: flowers, squiggles, polka dots. For a truly modern room, paint three walls one color, such as white, and have one colored accent wall on the same wall your bed is on. Using stark colors against each other will add to the modern feel such as red and white or white and chocolate brown. If you do not want an accent wall, simply exchange the accent piece to your bed. Choose a solid colored blanket and use playfully decorated throw pillows to line the head of the bed, or vice-versa. Walls should be decorated with simple, lacquered frames that are rowed in an interesting pattern, such as in a square or one of top of the other in groups of threes.

French Bedroom

• French chic is a slight off throw from shabby chic. Furniture can still be distressed, if desired. Decorate your room with damask wallpaper and bed throws. Decorate in black and white, turquoise or reds for your French chic room. Have all antique furniture for this style, or at least antique looking. Using French pavilion-style furniture will make it authentic. For an addition of elegance, buy a bed crown and place it above your bed, stringing tulle and silk fabrics from it as a grownup canopy.

Hippie Chic

• Hippie chic is an offshoot of modern chic where square furniture is used as accent pieces. Use lime green, shag carpeting and paint your walls colors like lime green, yellow, purple, red or orange. Peruse through thrift stores for furniture and fabrics from the 1960s to complete this look.