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Our Top Tips For Buying Bedroom Furniture

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Our Top Tips For Buying Bedroom Furniture
January 1, 2025

The bedroom is undoubtedly one of the most important rooms in the house - after all, most people will spend up to 1/3 of their life sleeping! Your bedroom should be an inviting space that combines style, functionality and comfort in one. So, what furniture can help you to achieve this?

We’ve put together a handy bedroom storage buyer’s guide to help you select the right furniture for your oasis. Let’s start by considering these factors for buying bedroom furniture:

  • **Style **- Make sure the bedroom furniture matches your personal style and the rest of your home. Start by selecting an interior design style and colour palette and ensure it flows throughout the entire home. Do you love the clean lines of minimalism or do you prefer the bold colours and contrasting prints of a bohemian abode? Wooden furniture is rustic and adds warmth while black and white furniture is sleek and modern.
  • **Size **- The size of your bedroom will determine how many pieces of furniture can fit into it, as well as the shape and type of furniture. A good tip is to measure your space before you buy anything and plan out your space in a diagram beforehand. Next, consider the size of the furniture itself. Large, bulky items will make a room appear smaller while items that are too small will make the room sparse. Strike for a good balance of both. Compact bedrooms should look for space-saving bedroom storage options like gas lift beds and tallboys.
  • **Storage **- The right storage furniture makes it super easy to maintain a clean and tidy bedroom. Storage beds with drawers are ideal for small bedrooms, as are gas lift beds and kids’ trundle beds for overnight guests. Opt for furniture with plenty of shelves and drawers for storage space, such as tallboys, dressing tables, bedside tables, wardrobes and wall-mounted shelves to maximise wall space.
  • **Quality **- Invest in high-quality bedroom furniture from the start so that you can use it for many years to come. Poorly constructed furniture isn’t made to last and you’ll likely need to replace it in 2-3 years.
  • **Budget **- Furnishing a bedroom can get pricey. If your budget is limited, focus on buying key pieces first, such as a bed, dressing table and bedside tables. You can add more furniture over time as your budget allows it.

Thinking About Storage Solutions For Your Room?

When it comes to keeping your bedroom looking organised at all times, it can be a bit of a challenge! Let’s take a look at your storage options. If you have a lot of things, a storage unit may be required to store them all. However, these costs can quickly add up each month.

You can store small items in storage boxes, such as books, toys, shoes, clothes and more. The problem with this is that you will have unsightly boxes around the home and the contents may not be easily accessed.

We think the best option is to invest in bedroom storage furniture. These functional pieces of furniture utilise the available storage area by cleverly using hidden compartments, shelves and drawers to store all of your belongings while keeping them in the bedroom for whenever you need them.

Gas lift beds and storage beds with drawers are fantastic for your storage needs. Easily store items inside the bed frame and keep them out of view. If you need extra storage, consider investing in other pieces of storage furniture, including freestanding wardrobes, tallboys, bookcases, shelf modular units, dressing tables, bedside tables and wall-mounted shelves.

Finding Functional Bedroom Storage Solutions

In your quest to declutter your bedroom, you need to ask yourself a few key questions. The answers will help you to narrow down your search and only select bedroom storage furniture that will suit your space and your needs. Ask yourself:

  • How much available bedroom space do I have?
  • How will I be using the room? Will it be a workspace as well as a bedroom?
  • Who is the bedroom for? Myself? My children? Overnight guests?
  • What is my preferred interior style?
  • What is my budget?
  • How much extra ‘stuff’ do I have that I need to store somewhere?
  • What items are essential and what items can wait until later?
  • Do I want to buy individual items or invest in a bedroom suite?

Size Does Matter

Knowing the size of your bedroom is essential before heading out to buy bedroom storage furniture. Start by measuring the dimensions of the available floor space. You can get the length and width of the room by measuring the distance between each pair of opposite walls. Multiply the length by the width to get the square footage of the bedroom.

If you have a small space, you’ll need to get savvy about storage solutions. Storage beds are ideal and let you hide your belongings in drawers or inside the bed frame. Tallboys and smaller drawer sets are ideal for not taking up much space while floating shelves let you use wall space instead of floor space to store items.

How To Best Utilise Your Bedroom Storage

Our bedroom storage buying guide aims to help you declutter your bedrooms and create a space that combines functionality with personal style. Bedroom storage furniture can help you to do just that. It’s time to start thinking like a minimalist and add these must-have storage solutions to your wishlist:

  • Wall-mounted floating shelves are a great place to display books or trinkets as they use wall space instead of floor space.
  • A tall boy is long and narrow, easily fitting into a small bedroom.
  • Storage beds give you plenty of under-the-bed storage solutions. A gas lift bed lifts up to let you store items inside the bed frame while other storage beds have drawers on the side of the bed that opens out and push back in when needed.
  • Combo storage wardrobes give you shelves, drawers and longer compartments for folding and hanging robes, pants, skirts and dresses.

Matching Your Bedroom Furniture To Your Interior

Consider your existing home décor when choosing your bedroom furniture. From Scandinavian, mid-century modern and bohemian to Hamptons and industrial, you want your style and colour palette to flow from room to room. Match your bed to the headboard, bedside tables and chest of drawers in the bedroom, to the coffee table, side tables and sideboards in the living room, and to the dining table and dining chairs in the dining room. Pick a couple of accent colours and dot them around the entire home to tie every room together nicely.

Choosing The Best Bedroom Furniture For Your Space

When it comes to bedroom furniture, you’ve got plenty of options. These pieces of furniture make the most of bedroom storage and look stylish in any space:

  1. Gas lift bed - You can’t beat a gas lift bed for bed storage. They give you a huge amount of room to keep your belongings and hide them out of sight. Storage beds come in every size from single to king size.
  2. Tallboys - Tallboys are taller and narrower than other dressers, making them ideal in a small bedroom that lacks floor space.
  3. Wardrobes - Wardrobes can range from freestanding to wall-mounted to insert packages to drawer and shelf modular units that fit everything inside.
  4. Chest of drawers - From 3-drawer to 6-drawer, these essentials are one of the best ways to increase storage space in your bedroom.
  5. Dressing tables - Low-dressing tables look elegant in any room. Use the drawers for storage and place a mirror on top to do makeup in the morning!
  6. Bookcases - A bookcase turns your snooze space into a sophisticated sanctuary. Use the shelves for books, indoor plants, photos, decorative items and more.
  7. Shoe rack - A cute shoe rack is a perfect place to store your shoes so that they’re always ready to go.
  8. Bedside tables - These tables frame your bed nicely and give you a place to put the lamps. They can also have smaller drawers which are great for jewellery, makeup and tiny trinkets.

How To Decorate Bedroom Storage With Decor

Home accessories take your bedroom to the next level by adding little pops of colour, texture and pattern around the space. Bedroom storage furniture has plenty of shelves and flat surfaces for you to display your favourite items and give some personality to your bedroom. Check out these ideas for decorating your bedroom storage:

  • Add cushions and throws to your storage bed. Stick to a similar colour palette and style or shake things up with mismatched colours and contrasting prints for a creative twist.
  • Hang some wall art to add interest to blank wall space.
  • Use the top of your dressing tables and tall chests to show off a beautiful vase with flowers.
  • Make your bedroom more inviting by displaying framed photos on top of a chest of drawers.
  • Install floating shelves above the bed to decorate with books and knick-knacks.
  • Add a mirror to your bedroom to make the space appear larger than it is.
  • Bring life to spare shelves in your wardrobe with decorative items, books, photos and more.
  • Indoor planters bring nature into your bedroom and instantly enhance it. Place them on the top of dressers, on bookshelves or on deep window sills.
  • Bedside tables are perfect for decorating with lamps but you can also place photos of your nearest and dearest, your current read, trinket trays and a vase full of flowers.

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