Here’s a little secret. When planning a sophisticated luxury interior, bedrooms get almost as much attention as the rest of the house combined. Why? The bedroom is a personal sanctuary where one goes to be away from the world, where a person should feel truly relaxed and insulated.
As this space is meant to be serene and nurturing, it is necessary to devote significant thought and time to make it just so, and one of the principal ways the aesthetics of your bedroom becomes elevated is through luxury bedroom furniture. Thanks to the innovative furniture designing techniques of modern designers, furniture comes in all manner of colours, designs and forms, but one particular colour has captivated the senses of discerning buyers, grey bedroom furniture.
The aim of choosing a specific colour scheme lies in providing your bedroom with a degree of pleasant uniformity, which in turn gives off an air of sophistication and serenity. While people may be partial to brighter colours elsewhere, grey is universally acknowledged as the colour that captures both serenity and sophistication. While it may not seem so at first,it is a highly versatile colour. It complements a range of other colours and makes it possible for you to mix and match other elements of your room like chairs, linens, carpets and curtains.
Perhaps more importantly, it comes in a vast array of shades. The biggest fashion houses in the capital can make this seemingly neutral colour really stand out when contrasts, sharp lines, accents, and gradients are introduced. In this feature, we are going to present to you a compelling case for choosing grey luxury bedroom furniture.
Naturally, grey will not suit every occasion and too much may come across as uninspiring or soulless, particularly if there is no variation in the whole of the design. Here’s a look at some of the best aspects of grey furniture, and some of the limitations that can be expected.
Your bedroom is a place where you need complete peace and calm. Grey luxury furniture aids that through muted hues and shades that don’t tax the eye. These furnishings and surfaces lend the room an uninterrupted and calming air, an ideal trait of a room that removes you from the business of the world outside.
Minimalism is the dominant theme in contemporary accent design. Simple shapes are a significant feature of minimalist designs while clean lines and less detailing provide you with cleaner spins on timeless classics with less contrast. Minimalist designs are easy on the eye and ideal for a space catered for simple tranquillity.Being a combination of white and black, grey is classified as a natural colour and that makes it highly versatile. It can stand on its own or complement other colours in your room without adding to the noise.
While Grey conveys sophistication and cleanliness, overuse can make a space feel flat and uninteresting. Too many layers of the colour may also darken a space, or even leave it feeling unfinished. The finish of the paint, upholstery, or base materials of your furniture is a very important consideration in making sure your furniture doesn’t come off as one-dimensional.
The ideal way to find the right grey furniture for you is to visit a showroom where you can see how designers have incorporated this colour into high-end furniture and take the advice of an expert interior designer to help guide you to the right finishes for your home.
Warm and Cool are the two principal variants of grey shades, and provide the starting point by which you can choose the overall feeling of your space, depending on what you’d like more of. To know more about these two shades, this section will provide you with the core aspects of the two shade variants.
The warm variant is fused with base shades of brown or in some cases beige, thereby providing it with warmer and more natural, earthy undertones. Interior designers use it to introduce a feeling of the warmth of nature, often associated with natural materials for classical styled living areas. If the rest of your room has these similar undertones and their matching counterparts like deep greens and mustards then this variant is ideal for carrying through the theme. Additionally, if you want to lend your bedroom to hint at traditional and rustic looks, then this shade is your ideal choice.
On the other hand, Cool grey is underpinned by blues or light greens, which are still natural hues, but are reminiscent of the space and openness of the sky, oceans and grassy plains.. This shade is often found in modern furniture designs, and favour the sleek and unobtrusive
lines preferred in minimalist designs. If you are partial to contemporary minimalist furniture, then cool shades will complement and enhance that aesthetic perfectly. If your bedroom already has dominant cooler colours then furniture in this shade will maintain a sense of space and understated harmony.
Essentially, warm greys tend to remind us of earth, the ground, sun and warmth, often embodied by classical or traditional interiors while cooler ones are reflective of the open vastness of the sky, oceans and the open air and are ideally suited to minimalist and contemporary ones.
Keep these points in mind when considering the harmony and style of your bedroom.
It is a highly versatile colour and can serve as a backdrop for most other colours. However, some colours are better suited than others and won’t get lost or look out of place in a mostly grey dominated space.
White is one of the best matches for your grey furniture and would carry through the cleanliness of grey, while adding more light and spaciousness to your bedroom, when not overused. One way to incorporate white in a grey bedroom is as upholstery, linen or curtains. These expenses can make the room come alive with brightness and freshness. Black is a more modern and edgy combination choice that will enhance a feeling of sharpness and can be reminiscent of brutalist architecture. With the right finish and texture, black doesn’t necessarily need to be overwhelming. Consider adding it in small statement pieces like mirror frames, accents on furniture, or as runners on the floor.
The warm principal neutral colours are excellent matches, but should be used sparingly so as not to overwhelm and wash out the grey areas of your room. Small spots of colour like feature rugs, cushions or wardrobe accents can be a tasteful way to add these kinds of colours without spoiling your modern sophisticated aesthetic. Green, Blue and Yellow are more daring combinations, but stand out for the more daring. Cooler shades of blue and pink, earthier shades of green and brighter shades of yellow also go well with grey furniture. Here, an interior designer’s advice is invaluable in directing you to the right shade and the right volume to complement your bedroom.
With these insights into the world of grey furniture sets for your bedroom, what remains is to start visualising how it can be the colour of choice for you. However, before making purchasing decisions, it’s advisable to create a checklist of the details of your own space.
As mentioned above, different shades may convey differing characters and ambience within the room. Ambiance is more than just looking at one space, but also accounting for how that space conforms to adjacent rooms and areas. Having too much change in only your bedroom may cause the continuity and flow of your home to feel stilted or the house to be segmented. A good interior design expert can help you navigate this with ease and will be able to help you ensure smooth and luxurious transitions throughout your home.
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