After a year cooped up in the same spaces, it makes sense that you are looking for some kind of change to your surroundings. Though traveling the world and spending time in public aren’t quite yet in the cards, there are a few things you can do around your home to improve the look and feel of your space — especially when it comes to your bedroom.
If you devoted 2020 to renovating your kitchen, your patio and your bathrooms, 2021 should be all about your bedroom. Here are a few trends worth following in your sleeping space this year:
Bedroom Colors
A coat of paint is one of the fastest, cheapest and easiest ways to completely transform a room. If you are looking for inspiration for your next paint adventure, consider these ongoing color trends:
- Peachy orange — a warm color that doesn’t feel overpowering
- Golden yellow — a punchy hue perfect for color-blocking or an accent wall
- Deep emerald — a moody shade that goes well with dark décor
- Soft black — a high-contrast color that feels daring
- Terracotta — an earthy brown that comes in a range of tones
If you aren’t allowed to paint your bedroom, you can look for temporary peel-and-stick wallpaper in any of these trendy shades. You can also keep your walls as they are and add trendy colors through textiles, like your bedding, curtains, rugs and furniture.
Bedroom Furniture
While midcentury modern furniture has been at the forefront of furniture trends for the past few years, these days, mid-mod is making way for a more bohemian aesthetic. Wicker, rattan and bamboo furniture tends to be inexpensive to produce and thus easy for almost anyone to buy and use in the home. Introducing natural materials like rattan and cane to your bedroom space allows for more diversity of texture and can be more comforting than cold, hard materials like metal and plastic. Even better, you might be able to DIY some boho bedroom furniture using a cheap and readily available material like cane.
Bedroom Lighting
Even though lighting is a functional element of the room, it shouldn’t be an afterthought of your bedroom design. Lighting has an incredible effect on the atmosphere of a room; dim, low, warm-toned lights set a different feeling than bright, cool lights set high in the ceiling. You should think about what ambiance you want for your bedroom space when designing and choose lighting to match.
Generally, sleep experts recommend having a range of lighting options in your bedroom. First, you should have overhead lighting, perhaps from ceiling fans with lights, to illuminate your space in a functional way. Next, you should have some kind of task lighting near your bed, like a wall sconce or table lamp, which provides a smaller amount of light to signal the body to sleep. You might also prefer to sleep with a nightlight, which should be an exceedingly dim light that won’t interrupt your sleep but will provide illumination if you wake up before morning.
Current trends often depict warm-toned light fixtures in brass or bronze. Fabric light shades are also slightly out of style; you might opt for a fixture with a bare bulb or one with a glass covering for a simpler and sleeker look in your bedroom.
Bedroom Details
No room redesign is complete until you finish the styling. Here are some trendy details to finalize your room refresh for 2021:
- Rounded shapes. Circles, ovals and asymmetric curves are very in. You can show these shapes with details like mirrors and wall hangings, side tables and patterned textiles.
- White wash. Instead of painting everything pure, bright white, you should try refreshing old furniture with a white wash, which is less intense and offers more texture.
- Lots of pattern. Solid colors are out, and patterns are in. You can introduce pattern on the walls with wallpaper, in your bedding and on your floor with various rugs.
- Plants, plants and more plants. Living plants never truly go out of style, so decorating with them is a good idea. Plus, it gives you something to care for at the tail end of quarantine.
You don’t have to scrap every element of your old bedroom to follow 2021’s top design trends. With a few new touches to your old space, you can make your bedroom feel brand-new.
