How To Create a Calming and Luxurious Bedroom Retreat

As we embrace our time spent at home, our bedrooms become more than just a resting place. They're a place for us to unwind, recharge and indulge in a peaceful ambience - this is made possible with calming bedroom decor. By refreshing your bedroom decor, you can transform your space into a relaxing and luxurious retreat. In doing so, there are a few elements you should consider.

Think about the colour tones, textures and decorative aspects of your bedroom styling. Here at KOO, we're inspired by moody hushed tones, tactile textures, and soft, romantic colour palettes that bring a sense of calm and luxurious quiet to the everyday. To help get you started, we've put together everything you should know about styling a calming and luxurious bedroom, including bedroom retreat ideas and pieces for adding a calming accent to your safe space.

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• Styling With Soothing Colour Tones
• Comforting and Cosy Textures
• Subtle Touches To Create A Luxury Bedroom
• Botanical Bedroom Retreat Ideas: Nature Inspired Accents
• Establish a Visual Harmony
• Aromatic Finishing Touches: The Ambience of Home Fragrances

Calming, Soothing Colour Tones

The key to a calming space is, of course, a calming colour palette. Loud and bright colours offer a maximalist touch while a restful colour palette of soft, muted hues offers a peaceful ambience. Pastel bedroom ideas often revolve around colours such as blush pinks, soft-steel blues, lilacs and chalky apricots. These dreamy hues resemble the tones found in the morning sky and hazy evenings - the perfect backdrop for peace and presence.

The best way to establish a calming colour palette for your bedroom is with a soothing toned quilt cover set. Your bed is pivotal in creating a peaceful ambience. It is the focus of your room and the first thing you notice when entering your sanctuary. To establish a calming palette in your bedroom, a solid, muted toned quilt cover set is the perfect way to elevate your bedroom - the neutral hues of the KOO Linen Quilt Cover Set and the muted colours of the KOO Yasmin Quilted Soft Touch Quilt Cover Set are great options. For the perfect tonal touch, consider adding a similar toned KOO Cellular Blanket and not only adhere to your chosen colour scheme, but bring warmth to your bedding.

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Comforting and Cosy Textures

When creating a relaxing space, our minds are often drawn to cushions and throws. These pieces elevate the comfort of your space, whether it's supporting your head or bringing a layer of warmth to your bed, so of course they contribute to the cosy ambience of a room. In the case of cushions and throws, the cosiness they bring is enhanced with the texture of these pieces. For a luxurious and calming bedroom, plush textures are your best friend. The soft-to-touch surface of a faux fur throw or cushion such as our KOO Zara Fux Fur Cushion exudes a cosy ambience that elevates any armchair or bed.

It's not just the overall texture, but also the added accents of your decor pieces that contribute to a textural charm. Tufted patterns, fringed edges and corner tassels all contribute to the textural allure of your cushions and throws, all while bringing visual intrigue and cosy ambience to your bedroom. Pieces like the KOO Foxton Waffle Yarn Dyed Throw look elegant when draped over your bed, while the tasselled edges offer an artistic accent that sets this throw apart from more traditional, plain throws.

Layering Textures

Cosy textures naturally exude a calming aura, but the way in which you style these textures also holds a noteworthy effect on the overall ambience of your space. Layering different textures will add dimension with finishes like waffle knits, faux fur throws, or brushed cotton accessories. Think of pairing the faux fur of the KOO Mongolian Fur Cushion with the subtle texture of the KOO Chester Woven Cushion and complementing the cushion arrangement with the brushed cotton KOO Cellular Blanket for a quiet luxury - comforting, not loud, and effortlessly stylish.

Subtle Touches To Create A Luxury Bedroom

The little details make a big difference in establishing a luxurious bedroom. A plush towel in your ensuite or cosy bed sheets can instantly elevate the ambience of your bedroom. Let's dive into these subtle changes you can make in your bedroom.

The Ambience of an Elegant Hotel With Luxury Towels

While towels are typically seen as a mundane, everyday household essential, they are available in a variety of colours and textures to elevate not just your home styling, but your everyday routine. It's also about how you choose to style your towels. By rolling a towel up and placing it neatly on a bathroom shelf, arranging by colour on hooks in your room, or simply folding in a square on the bed in a guest bedroom, fancy towels can transform an everyday routine into a luxurious affair.

Towels are often available in collections like the KOO Elite Luxury Comfort Towel Collection, so you can pick and choose a set of deluxe towels all with the same coordinating design, helping to establish a sense of cohesion in your bath linen that elevates your styling even further!

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Stylish Foundations and Comfortable Underfoot: Rugs & Runners

A luxurious rug in the centre of your bedroom will anchor your space and instantly elevate the snugness your bedroom exudes. Rugs and runners provide a layer of insulation to help your space feel just as cosy as it looks.

At KOO, you'll find a variety of different rugs and runners to elevate your space. Our KOO Masan Curly Shaggy Rug is made with a luxurious fabric that is comfortable underfoot, while the KOO Melange Plush Wool Rug features more of a flat surface that brings a sense of elegance in its own way. To create a peaceful retreat, these rugs in neutral colour tones are the perfect base to your bedroom decor.

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Sleep Soundly Amongst Sumptuous Sheets

The key to rest and relaxation is a good night's sleep, and as much as your quilt cover sets the scene for your bedroom decor style, your bed sheets hold a strong influence over the quality of your sleep. For instance, during the colder nights throughout winter, cosy bed sheets will help you feel warm and snug when falling asleep. Our KOO Cotton Flannelette Sheet Set is a collection of warm and cosy sheets that will elevate both your bedroom decor and the quality of your sleep. This set includes one fitted sheet, one top sheet and coordinating pillowcases and is available in a variety of calming, muted colour tones to adhere to your luxurious bedroom styling aesthetic.

Sheets are also designed to protect your bedding and mattress. Worn and stained mattresses lower the aesthetic appeal of your space. Fitted sheets such as our KOO 250 Thread Count Fitted Sheet help to protect your mattress from spills and body oils while also providing the perfect foundation to your bedding.

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Valance

For that luxe, hotel look in your bedroom, it's the pieces that you may forget about that will transform your bedroom. For example, a bed valance will instantly elevate your bedding arrangement for a sense of luxury. Our KOO Quilted Valance provides a decorative element to your bed, concealing the legs or wheels of the bed. In most bedrooms, the space under the bed is often used as storage, and a bed valance will also help to hide any clutter that you choose to keep under your bed. Available in 3 timeless neutral colours, - black, charcoal and white - the KOO Quilted Valance brings a modern, tailored look to your bedroom styling.

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Botanical Bedroom Retreat Ideas: Nature Inspired Accents

Flowers and plants exude a tranquil aura, so incorporating botanical themed accents into your space is perfect for transforming your bedroom into a calming retreat. Artificial plants with their faux green leaves are ideal for that botanical charm. Great for any corner of your bedroom, these decorative delights are constructed from incredibly lifelike details to look just like real plants without the added maintenance, ensuring they won't wither away and offering a stylish piece all year round. If instead you prefer the pop of colour or the subtlety of a small bouquet of artificial flowers, shop for your favourite floral stems and display in a vase on your bedside table, bookshelf or desk for a refreshing decorative accent.

Incorporating a sense of nature into your bedroom doesn't start and end with floristry and greenery - it can also exist in the form of elegant nature-inspired patterns in your bed linen and decor choices. Take our KOO Emmy Quilted Coverlet Set, for instance. With a soft pink toned pattern of floral inspired shapes, this quilt cover set is a great choice for a floral accent in bedrooms where there is limited space for decorative pieces.

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Establish a Visual Harmony Through Your Decor Pieces

Establishing a colour palette is one thing, but creating harmony through this colour palette is another. To maintain the calming mood, keep the colour palette cohesive and tonal. Styling your bedroom with soft neutral tones communicates a calm aesthetic, but pairing these shades with darker tones offers a stunning and refreshing contrast. Colour tones of dawn, soft apricot, lavender, lilac, baby blue and ice pink tones add a refreshing touch, while the cool and calming indigo grounds the colours together. This is easily showcased through a comfortable cushion arrangement. Consider shopping for the KOO Zara Fux Fur Cushion and the KOO Oakley Woven Cushion in their lighter shades that will breathe life and softness into any room, and complete your new cushion arrangement with the darker toned KOO Sara Chenille Slub Cushion for a calming subtle contrast to anchor your space.

With this cushion arrangement as your base, you can then move on to shop for the more decorative pieces to tie it all together. Incorporate furnishings and homewares in the same colour palette, such as:

• Vases
• Curtains
• Wall art

These are the pieces that will complete the decorative portion of your bedroom refresh and will leave your bedroom feeling like a brand-new space.

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Aromatic Finishing Touches: The Ambience of Home Fragrances

If you've ever stepped into a spa retreat before, you'll have recognised that the peaceful ambience is established as soon as you enter through the doors. Most of the time, this is due to the fragrance of the space. No retreat is complete without a sensory layer, and home fragrances are the finishing touch you need to create a luxury bedroom retreat.

There are a few ways you can elicit a fragrance throughout your space, including:

• Diffuse calming scents like lavender or sandalwood.
• Light a candle like our KOO Jar Candle in a soft floral fragrance.
• Shop for a reed diffuser in citrus and fresh scents.

For more information about home fragrances, read through our helpful diffuser vs candle blog article and discover the best home fragrances for your bedroom, as well as how to style them! A beautiful space is not only about how it looks - it's about how it feels.

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Create a Tranquil Haven For Relaxation

Our bedrooms are our safe spaces. Transforming our bedrooms into luxury retreats will have us feeling relaxed and rejuvenated after busy, stressful days. There are many aspects that influence the ambience of your space and taking care in refreshing these elements will have you ready to transform your bedroom into a haven for relaxation. Consider relaxing colour tones and ambient fragrances as well as luxurious bed linen, rugs and homewares for the perfect refresh to your bedroom styling.

Discover our great range of bed linen and homewares right here at KOO. And, if it's styling help you're after, you can read through our helpful styling articles and buying guides online for more home decorating inspiration.

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