Small projects to revive your bedroom
Bedrooms can be the most fun spaces in your home to redecorate. They’re a chance to really indulge in your design and decorating skills and tastes in a way that doesn’t need to please anyone but those that sleep there, and that will create a space you love to spend time in. They’re also rooms where one or two small touches of flair can have a big impact on how your space looks and feels.
Here are some project ideas that can revive your bedrooms without blowing the budget, and can be completed quickly, without the need for a lengthy renovation.
Look up
Resene colour expert Amy Watkins suggests looking toward the ceiling for simple ways to add some fresh pizzazz to your bedroom.
“If you want to introduce colour, but don’t want it on the walls, why not add it to the ceiling,” she says. “It’s something fun and different that will add life to an otherwise boring space.”
Amy suggests opting for colours that invoke the sky such as the soft blues of Resene Emerge, Resene Ashanti or Resene French Pass. You could take that sky theme in an even more whimsical direction by adding cloud-like wisps in Resene Half Sea Fog.
Bolder, brighter ceiling colours also have a bit of a moment in the spotlight and can be a fun, effective way to make rooms with higher ceilings feel cosy or more contained. Try the warm, deep teal of Resene Tangaroa, or try something unexpected like a deep red Resene Aroha against sandy beige walls in Resene Tua Tua and trim in fresh cream Resene Meringue.
If you want to level up your feature ceiling even further, why not try a wallpaper? Keep it a neutral colour but add subtle starbursts with Resene Wallpaper Collection 38818-3 or try a painterly style like the Japaneseinfluenced Resene Wallpaper Collection 296487.
Wallpapering your ceiling might seem difficult, but the steps are essentially the same as hanging wallpaper on the walls. That said, if you make it a two-person job, it will be much easier to manage.
First, decide which direction to hang your Resene wallpaper if it has a strong pattern or texture. That means thinking about where you’re most likely to get the best view of the design. In a living area that might be from the main entry point, but in the bedroom, you probably want to consider the angle you’ll be viewing the design from while lying in bed. Top tip: If you have a large window as a source of light in your room, you might want to orient the wallpaper so the light runs along the wallpaper length. This will help hide the joins. You might also want to check you have chosen a “paste the paper” wallpaper rather than one that requires you to paste the wall. This will just make application to the ceiling much easier.
When it comes to application, have one person in charge of placing the paper and the second person in charge of holding the remaining length so the paper isn’t dragging off the ceiling while you’re trying to hang