Get The Hotel Room Look For Your Bedroom
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If you get hotel room blues, you can make the glorious sensation of a clean, fresh hotel room last forever by replicating it at home with a few simple tweaks. The key is upgrading everything you see and touch to create a sense of luxury and class.
Here’s how to turn your bedroom into a 5-star room:
Create a simple colour pallet with the 60-30-10 rule
5-star hotel rooms keep things simple to create a consistent theme, and you can do the same to create a sense of professional design.
The 60-30-10 rule applies to hotel rooms, where you split your colour pallet 60% primary colour, 30% secondary colour, and 10% accent colour (up to two).
Pictured: Sleepeezee G2 Memory Divan Bed, Available from Bedstar The Online Bed Superstore
Here’s how it works in practice:
- Primary colour: White (bedding, most walls)
- Secondary colour: Grey (feature wall, furniture)
- Accent colour: Blue and gold (mirrors, cushions, lamps)
Sticking to the 60-30-10 colour rule will ensure you don’t get stuck in the white box rental pallet that plagues many hotels.
Get a divan bed
Most hotels have divan beds because they save space, and the headboard is replaceable, giving designers lots of scope for different themes.
Most divan beds have built-in drawers, and because the frame is the same primary size as the mattress, there are no protruding legs.
Get a super-comfy mattress
5-star hotels have the comfiest beds, but it might surprise you to learn that they don’t buy the fanciest or most expensive ones!
Hotels stick to tried and proven mattresses like our award-winning mattresses, and they nearly always buy medium to medium-firm feels. The reason is that medium and medium-firm feelings are adequate for most of the adult population.
Pictured: Sleepeezee Hotel Comfort Mattress, Available from Bedstar Starting from just £359
Buy the best bed linen you can afford
While 5-star hotels often save money on their mattresses, they never skimp on the bedding because quality here tells.
The safest choice for bedding is 100% Egyptian cotton, a soft, luxurious material that lasts a long time and feels lovely.
You can save money on luxury bedding with polycotton, a 50-50 cotton, and polyester blend. Polycotton works fine for duvet covers and pillowcases, but you should go for pure cotton when it comes to your bedsheets.
Chandeliers, baby!
Sure, spotlights are excellent, but 5-star hotels tend to reserve spotlights for reading zones and bathrooms. In bedrooms, chandeliers rule.
Pictured: Aria Chandelier Ceiling Light Available from NEXT online
Chandeliers are perfect for bedrooms because there as so many styles. You can go extravagant with a classic glass chandelier, give your bedroom a traditional twist with a metal chandelier, or embrace modernism with a Sputnik chandelier.
Add pops of colour with art
Art is your friend for breaking up monotone and simple colour schemes. Abstract art, landscapes, and portraits are all excellent choices, or you can go down the display art route with three-dimensional display pieces that pop.
You can also build rhythm into your bedroom with art by cascading pieces and placing them strategically on walls so your eye follows them.
Choose matching furniture
Matching your bedroom furniture is essential to achieving that 5-star look. Mismatched furniture (either in style or colour) gives off a disjointed vibe.
The best hotels match furniture by buying them together in ranges. You can compare the colour and general style at home to achieve the look.
Embrace metallic textures
5-star hotels understand the importance of textures and instill a sense of class through the eye and touch. Metallic textures are ideal because they can take the form of everyday items like mirrors and light fixings.
Brass and gold décor is ideal for traditional and eclectic bedrooms, while silver and steel are ideal for modern designs.
Add texture and eye candy with wall panels
Wall panels elevate your bedroom to 5-star quality by taking your two-dimensional walls and transforming them into three-dimensional surfaces.
Wall panels are perfect for feature walls, and our favourite type is double-raised panels like the ones pictured below, which add a real sense of class and depth to bedrooms.
Picture source: Pinterest, Rogueengineer.com
Another exciting option is hexagonal wall panels like the ones pictured below, creating various patterns and interesting focal points.
Pictured: Hexagonal wall panels by Distinctdesigns.co.ukF
