Your bedroom should be a place where you feel the freedom to enjoy yourself as you will.
Coming up with an unusual decor plan for your bedroom can be difficult. You may feel as though every decorating idea ever thought up has been featured on one of those interior design shows on television. Just because someone else thought it up, doesn't mean it can't be creative and unlike any design of anyone you know. Try to add your own personal stamp to the ideas thought up by others. Does this Spark an idea?
Faux Wrought Iron Headboard
In her book "Painted House: Bedrooms," author and designer Debbie Travis offers a truly eye-catching idea utilizing the current design motif of faux painting. Travis suggests buying a stencil of a wrought iron headboard and painting it onto the wall above your bed. Where this idea takes off to heights of fancy is that you begin by painting the stencils in a lighter color paint before moving it slightly to paint in a darker color paint. The final result is not just faux wrought iron, but also faux shadows of the wrought iron cast by your overhead light fixture.
Ceramic Mosaic Tile Flooring
Buy yourself some ceramic tiles that you admire in a variety of colors. Take the tiles home, and wrap them up in a burlap bag. Now take a mallet or hammer to the bag and break those pretty tiles into smaller pieces. Let nobody create a mosaic design for you; create your own one-of-a-kind mosaic floor out of the pieces of smashed ceramic tiles.
Vinyl Album Cover Art
Why buy wallpaper for your bedroom when you've got that huge collection of old vinyl albums just gathering dust in the garage. Sure, all your music is on MP3 flash drives these days, but even compact discs didn't feature the kind of album art that you grew up with as a teenager collecting albums. Use all that handsome artwork to decorate your bedroom walls in a way that is not just aesthetically pleasing, but also is pleasingly nostalgic as well.
Nostalgia out of Time
Add a funkier sense of nostalgia for a time you may not even have lived through by taking the time to browse through junk stores, antique stores, flea markets and yard sales for items that speak directly to another period. Look for offbeat items, like an old-fashioned gumball dispenser, a wooden red and white barber pole, old-fashioned food tins or a laundry mangle. Situate these out-of-time items in your bedroom to lend it a vintage feel that contrasts with your computer on the desk, flat-screen TV and waterbed.
Glass Block Work Cubicle
If your bedroom doubles as your home office, create a more well-defined bifurcation between the room's purpose as a place of relaxation and its business entity by building your own cubicle made from glass blocks. You only need a hall-wall of glass blocks to finely delineate the difference between where you sleep and where you work.
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