Rise and Shine: Beds That Favor Your Creative Side

Unless you’re giving guests the grand tour, your bedroom tends to be off-limits to anyone but you and your other half (and pets and children, if they’re lucky). So why not throw caution to the wind and make a statement about who you really are behind closed doors? The bed is the centerpiece of any bedroom, so making it the star attraction will transform the most boring of bedrooms into a place that feels more like you. The beds dictate the style of these standout rooms, and are sure to have you looking at yours in a whole new light.

Plush platform. The bed in this light-filled room in France is oh so inviting with the carpeted platform built up and around it. It’s different … but then, aren’t you?

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Pattern perfect. Sometimes a headboard makeover is what a bedroom needs to transform it from ho-hum to heavenly. An upholstered headboard with unusual fabric and an even more unusual shape could be just the thing.

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On an angle. Positioning the bed flush against a wall is so expected that, if you have the space, it can pay to consider alternative options. This corner bed makes use of every bit of room around it with bedside table storage, a shelf in the headboard and more storage space behind. It’s unusual and brilliant.


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Couch surfing. The bedroom is just the room to show off your sense of humor. This bed was custom made for a teenage girl but could just as well suit a fun-loving grown-up.


Open weave. If it makes the most sense to position your bed up against the window, a bed like this one, from Kenneth Cobonpue, will block none of the light or view, and there’s room for reading lights in the canopy-like headboard.


Five-star getaway. If this bed doesn’t make you feel like royalty, what would? It gives this grand room a nice chateau vibe.


Show off. The Queen Peacock headboard in this bedroom is all the more attention-getting set against its black backdrop.


Eclectic nook. If your bed does more than just provide you with somewhere to sleep, this one could be for you. Magazines, books and knickknacks are all within easy reach when shelving doubles as your headboard.


Pulling a bed like this out from the wall also creates an instant dressing room behind the shelving.

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Under lights. This bed is even more of a star attraction thanks to the volcano-inspired Murano lighting overhead.


Open-and-shut case. Four-poster beds can make you feel hemmed in, but not when the curtains are just on two sides. This bed is cocoon-like rather than smothering.


Design savvy. What does this room say about its owner? Someone wearing ultrastylish PJs surely slumbers in this Cattelan Italia bed.


Period statement. If color is more your thing, let your bed reflect it. Carrying through the style of the rest of your home into the bedroom can make it (and you) feel more pulled together.

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New take on tradition. An oversize upholstered bedhead in a luxurious fabric can add a sense of grandeur to a bedroom.

Your turn: What does the bed of your dreams look like? Tell us about it in the Comments section.

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