Bedroom Style: Set the Tone With Your Choice of Flooring

Warm wood, a soft silk carpet or a colorful rug — choosing your bedroom flooring is a big decision. Because once you’ve set the room’s tone with your flooring choice, the rest of the decor will follow. Here are 10 beautiful ways to kick-start a new style in your most restful room.

Go soft with silk. Totally luxe is the keynote mood of this space, with a snow-soft silken carpet, the texture and color of which has been picked up in the rest of the decor. A silk or silk-look viscose carpet feels and looks different, picking up the light in a way that wool doesn’t.


Get a little wild with geometrics. Zigzagging lines raise the game in this loft apartment with a fold-out bed, the defined lines followed through in the closet door grid and the shelves. It’s the perfect mood setter for this compact urban space.


Warm up the room with wood. These contemporary rooms are united by warm-toned wood floorboards with a silken sheen to them. Real wood is always going to be richest, but engineered boards are increasingly good quality as a second choice that can be easier to install and maintain.


Add zest with a colorful rug. This citrus-colored rug is a cue for equally bold artwork and contrasting upholstery on the chairs. Gray and lemon yellow or lime green always make a good combination, but think about other effective contrasts if you want to use color on a rug.


Stay pale and natural. A lighter tone of natural wood is versatile and easy on the eye. It’s used here as a way to unite the taupes, creams and caramels, and emphasizes the fact that in a bedroom, it’s about textures and how things feel as well as how they look.


Weave in texture with sisal. Sisal, coir and sea grass all bring natural textures into the bedroom and work with pale grays, seaside whites and blacks, thanks to the hues that run through their fibers. These carpets are not always the kindest on feet first thing in the morning, but they’re very hard wearing and versatile. Look for new weaves that alternate wool and sisal threads for a softer touch.


Get a refined yet weathered look. Sanded and painted floorboards set the scene for this French-style space, with painted furniture, tactile linen and cool cotton. If you’re preparing the floor yourself, it’s all about the boring prep stage. Otherwise you could end up with flaking paint rather than the artfully weathered look displayed so well here.


Anchor the scheme with a neutral. A neutral rug can pull a scheme together. Here it unites the different pieces of furniture and gives the room a clear center. This scheme is traditional, but the rug keeps it from being old-fashioned with an on-trend zigzag weave.


Make a bold color statement. This bedroom is all about teal, so the rug is a really important focal point. Without it, the curtains, headboard, chair and sofa could look a bit lost and float in their individual spaces. But by grounding the scheme with this bold, beautiful rug, the designer has made full use of the generous space.


Put your stamp on a space. If you’re all about quirky wit, you won’t want a bland, wheat-colored, wall-to-wall number. A statement rug can immediately announce that you search out the unusual. Here it’s followed through in the pillows and bed-frame style.

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