The easy answer may seem like a matching bedroom set right.
Can you mix and match bedroom furniture.
There are plenty of ways to lighten a room even using what you already have or love.
Here are a few tips i use to mix and match bedroom furniture finishes to give you a more custom space.
While mixing wood tones is perfectly acceptable and in fact encouraged it always helps to pick a dominant wood tone as a starting point to help you choose other pieces to bring in the room.
It s already been put together to match perfectly.
Whether it s done out of necessity or for an eclectic flair mixing and matching furniture pieces can bring a sense of style and cohesion to a room.
In fact many interior designers are strictly against bedroom sets preferring instead for the room to look like you put it together piece by carefully chosen piece.
Take a look at these inspiration photos to see mixing bedroom furniture in action.
A medium brown is definitely not going to look outdated though.
It also makes it easier to switch pieces in and out or move furniture around in your home more freely.
Doody also recommends dodging blandness by incorporating other materials glass metals stone along with the wood.
You can coordinate the leg to the flooring you have the other pieces in the room or just have it work best with the fabric on your sofa.
Yes there s such a thing as too matchy matchy especially when it comes to bedroom furniture.
As a matter of fact that collected curated look will help keep you from getting bored or committing you to one style for years to come.
It totally depends on your space.
For instance if you wanted to create a dramatic professor s library for a room with wood paneled walls you may start collecting objects that serve the theme.
While there are definitely some good collections you can achieve a more interesting space when you pull together different furniture pieces.
If you have wood floors this would be your dominant wood tone.
Not that a catalog is necessarily a bad thing but mixing up the furniture in a bedroom will create a custom look for your home that has a designer touch.
You have a few options.
Plus it will be uniquely yours and not straight off a showroom floor.
Another way to mix and match furniture styles with ease is to envision a theme.
A green wingback chair a tri arm floor lamp hammered brass baskets a french secretary desk.
Sometimes you have simply no choice but to mix and match such as when your favorite furniture set is suddenly discontinued and you must replace one of the pieces.
Because most people don t buy all their furniture at the same time and place.
Or paint the nightstands or the dresser in a fun color to lighten the overall mood and you can keep the bed as it is.