How to match bedroom furniture?

Whether you’re designing a new bedroom or updating your current room, redecorating can be intimidating. The endless flow of inspiration and ideas is overwhelming and buying directly from a catalog is easy, direct and simple. But investing a little creativity in your bedroom renovation can be a lot of fun! To help you create a space that’s uniquely yours, here’s an article on the best way to match bedroom furniture.

Why should you mix bedroom furniture?

Why you should mix bedroom furniture

We talked about this before, but it’s a valid point. Why go through the effort of mixing bedroom furniture when you can simply buy a matching set straight from a catalog?

Yes, dragging and dropping a bedroom directly from the magazine is easy. But if you do, your room will look like it came straight out of the catalogue.

People don’t fall out of the catalog uniformly. They are complex and unique. So why should your bedroom, the space where you’ll spend at least eight hours a night, be any different?

Your bedroom is the mirror of your personality. By mixing and matching your bedroom furniture, you can express yourself through a space that is uniquely yours.

Where to start

So you’re ready to think outside the catalog box and mix up your bedroom furniture, but where do you start? To help you get the ball rolling, here are some quick tips

Choose a theme or design motif

One way to start renovating your bedroom furniture is to select a theme or design pattern.

By starting with the overall concept of your project, you can refine your focus as you move from room to room.

Maybe you love the warm, lived-in feel of a rustic aesthetic or the cool minimalism of modern design. Whatever you choose, having a theme or pattern will help create cohesion throughout the room.

Start with some furniture

If you prefer to start small and gradually expand your vision, try mixing and matching some furniture instead.

The fewer elements you start with, the easier it will be to reshape around them. Maybe it’s a bed frame, a dresser, a chest, a chair, a rug, or a piece of art.

Whatever you choose, if you can focus on a small selection of elements, you can use them to inform images, color schemes and other design elements to guide you through the renovation.

Start with the bed frame.

If you can’t choose a piece of furniture, the bed frame is the best solution. After all, it is the focal point of any bedroom.

When starting with your bed frame, pay attention to the style, color, and materials, as these can be starting points for the rest of your project.

How to match bedroom furniture?

Now that you’ve found your theme or base piece of furniture, the next tips will help you mix and match these ideas throughout your bedroom.

Choose pieces with repeating colors, styles or textures

To create cohesion when mixing and matching bedroom furniture, you need items that have repeating commonalities.

For example, perhaps your headboard is dark wood. You can then combine it with a chest of drawers or a bedside table in a similar tone. Maybe the nightstand has metal drawer handles that you can then match to the desk legs and so on.

Whether it’s material, texture, color, or even design, adding elements that repeat elements throughout the room creates a sense of coherence and cohesion for the entire space.

Combine the tones

If you’re not sure which elements to repeat, look at pieces made from multiple materials. For example, perhaps the bed frame you chose is a combination of metal and fabric elements. These elements can result in a coffee table with the same metallic accents and a chair with a similar fabric.

Not all parts need to be made of both materials. As long as each piece has at least one characteristic that ties it to another, they will all feel connected. This prevents every element of the room from looking the same, while still giving you the freedom to experiment!

Add contrast

While you should plan to keep some elements consistent from room to room, to make your bedroom decor stand out, you’ll need a little contrast. Ideally, the bedroom should be a space for rest. Colors that create contrast are not always the best solution. Instead, consider implementing contrast with texture, material, and style.

For high contrast, you can mix different styles or materials. Consider mixing natural materials like wood and stone with synthetic chrome and metallic finishes. For example, maybe a wooden headboard and a metal bedside table. Or maybe add your grandmother’s antique chest of drawers to a sleek, modern room.

Alternatively, by combining pieces that are similar in style but different in color or texture, you can create a relaxing space that still has plenty of visual interest. You might consider a transitional-style bed, dresser, and nightstand, but vary the stain or color of the wood.

Try mixing different styles

If you have chosen the tones and/or materials, try experimenting with different furnishing styles.

An easy way to do this is to pay close attention to drawer pulls and handles and try to match them to the hardware of your other bedroom furniture.

This way you can join different pieces together in a subtle way, while still leaving enough room for your creativity.

Experiment with various colors

If you’re really interested in a specific style, but are worried that it might look too uniform, don’t worry. By choosing a texture to decorate, you create options for experimenting with different colors.

Maybe you really like the rustic aesthetic we talked about. If you keep this style throughout, you can experiment with a range of colors; it is not necessary to painstakingly match the shades of each room.

However, you want to maintain a dominant tone throughout. For example, if you’re building around warm woods, choose furniture with other warm wood variations.

Vary the consistency and material

Mixing and matching furniture isn’t just a matter of color palettes. Every element in your room is something you can touch and feel, so mixing textures is just as important.

If you like neutral tones, you can still accent your bedroom by combining pieces with different textures.

By mixing materials and textures, you can maintain a specific color or theme while still creating enough space to get creative with layers.

Now that you’re more comfortable with how to style your bedroom furniture, let us know which tip you’re most excited to try.