To create a beautiful bedroom, you want all elements of your room to work together from the bed itself, to the bedding, flooring and curtains. There must be no element which detracts from the whole scene.
On the other hand, you don’t want everything to be matching otherwise your room will look over-coordinated like those eighties rooms where every item had the same floral design from the wall paper border to the waste paper bin. However, each element should have some kind of link to another. So, as far as lamp shades and bedding are concerned, if you have a beautiful bedding set in oyster colored silk with gold embroidery for example it does no harm to have small candle lamp shades also in oyster colored silk, perhaps with gold colored fringing.
Given that most bedding sets don’t come with matching or coordinating lamp shades you may have to source your own. Whatever fabric your bedding is made from you should be able to get something similar in a plain lampshade. (If your bedding has a number of colors, select the background color).
Once you have your plain lamp shade you can then choose trimming to match. Take a sample from your bedding (such as a pillow sham) and your lamp shade to the haberdashery department of a large department store. There you will finding a plethora of braid, fringing, beading and other trimming sold by the yard. You can choose something in the same color as the main fabric of the shade or in a contrasting color from the bedding or from another item in the room. Attach the trimming using a glue gun to give a neat finish.
A bed looks good with matching bedside tables and lamps either side. The tables can either be small chests of drawers in a wood to match the bed itself (or other furniture in the room) or small tables covered in cloths. Try to keep your small tables clear of clutter so that you get the full effect of your coordinated lamps and bedding.
The style of bedding you choose reflects your personality. Well, ideally it does, of course. Everyone knows the unidentifiable sense of ‘wrongness’ about a room when the style doesn’t exactly fit to one’s taste. There is a difference between simply not liking a particular style out of sheer personal preference and having the experience of something ‘not quite right’, while being completely unable to precisely define what isn’t right about the bedroom. It’s so frustrating to try and fail on multiple occasions to describe to friends and family what is wrong about the room. Finally, it’s tempting to give up and resign yourself to perpetual subtle vexation in your own room!
Don’t give up. It’s possible to identify what irritates you about a particular room. Since your bedroom is where you spend half your life (while you sleep), let’s focus on that. In many cases, the bedding you choose can influence your experience of the room to an amazing degree. The reason for this is mostly the color of the bedding. The colors you use combined with the colors in the room together create the room’s personality, which can align or crash with yours. A good thing to do with your bedroom is keep it tidy and clean no matter what. This will allow you to focus on the color scheme more and keep in touch with the style of the room. It’s important to make sure the room is orderly and neat so the color remains apparent. Don’t have stuff from your outside life clutter everything up; instead keep it where it belogs: outside the room.
Another way your bedroom can reflect your personality is the theme you choose. When you were a kid, did you want a cowboy theme or an astronaut theme if you’re a boy or a horse theme or flower theme if you’re a girl? That’s a big clue right there as to the kind of theme you want for your bedroom as an adult. If you liked a flower theme, get some flowers and put them around your room along with bright, cheerful colors for your bed and walls. If you liked an astronaut theme, try dark, sky-like colors like navy blue, midnight blue or even black for some of the walls and bedding in your bedroom. Try a poster of the Space Shuttle or some constellations. Get really creative and see if you can’t paint constellations on your walls!
The point of all this is do anything you need to in order to create the bedroom that fits your personality.
