Secrets to having a beautiful bed

Make your bed as you go to bed; popular expression has never been so true. Whether for the comfort or the aesthetics of your bedroom, the care taken in arranging your bedding is a founding element of a relaxing, inviting sleeping area, imbued with gentle elegance. The art of decorating your bed therefore comes down to several elements: the choice of materials, colors and patterns, but also the attention paid to finishes and accessories, essential to successfully making your bed in the most refined way. Here are the tips from our experts in household linen and interior decoration to achieve a result that meets your expectations.

The choice of materials for your bed linen

Select with care and love high-end textiles for dressing your bed is the cornerstone of an aesthetic and comfortable sleeping area.

Cotton gauze: a vaporous and light material like a feather

Breathability and lightness: this is the kept promise of the cotton gauze bed set. This very high-end fabric has a very pleasant airy softness, as well as an inviting, vaporous drape.

It is an ideal choice for making your bed in a cleverly relaxed way, for a romantic, slightly bohemian aesthetic, absolutely irresistible. In addition to its visual qualities, cotton gauze offers you pleasant humidity and temperature regulation, for fully restful nights.

Cotton percale: a luxurious fabric for high-end nights

How to make a beautiful bed with a cotton duvet? The answer to this question lies in the choice of cotton percale as a bed linen textile. This fabric, thanks to its tight weave, gives you a smooth and clean look, slightly reflecting the ambient light. Qualities that are reminiscent of those of silk and satin, while benefiting from the undeniable functional qualities of cotton.

The slightly satiny and very smooth look of cotton percale allows you to design a very neat and luxurious sleeping area. You will love slipping into these enveloping and soft sheets, while gently letting your skin be cuddled by soft pillows, covered in a soft cotton percale pillowcase.

Washed linen: an authentic and charming fabric

The washed linen has undeniable aesthetic qualities, which make it an absolutely essential fabric for making a bed that is both beautiful, pleasant, and tinged with inimitable charm.
This material has a more intense softness than that offered by classic linen, because it has been washed many times with specific softeners, in order to be covered with a slightly smoother and softer appearance on the skin. Anallergic and anti-bacterial, washed linen is a resistant fabric, with a naturally and delicately wrinkled appearance, ideal for a sleeping area tinged with sublime bohemian charm.

Layering: mixing textiles for a sophisticated bedding set

If each of these materials has the essential advantages and aesthetic qualities to make your bed in an elegant and refined way, it is entirely possible to combine them to obtain a very neat personalized set.

So, you can play with the combination of several high-end materials, which will allow you to create a particularly charming play of textures and volumes. You then have the option, as you wish, of combining a washed linen duvet cover with a cotton gauze flat sheet, or even combining cotton percale pillowcases with a cotton gauze mattress cover... Depending on your preferences and the desired final look.

For example, the authentic, raw and delicate look of washed linen goes particularly well with the softness, vaporous and light appearance of cotton gauze.

It is also possible to place a woolen blanket on your duvet, which will be nicely and carefully folded at the foot of your bed. The very soft, warm and enveloping texture of wool will blend wonderfully with the aesthetic and functional qualities of washed linen, while adding a warm touch to the smooth appearance of cotton percale.

A multitude of elegant, charming, bohemian, refined and neat combinations are possible, depending on your tastes.

The importance of decoration and finishes to make your bed like in a hotel

To make your bed like in a hotel, every detail is important.

Choosing high-quality bedding

Having a beautiful bed inevitably requires choosing high-quality bedding. Pay attention to your choices: favor soft pillows and inviting as well as an airy and enveloping duvet. The quality of these elements will make it possible to design a bed with a very neat look, because soft pillows and a voluminous duvet will give an impression of comfort and softness. In addition, the pillows, the duvet and the mattress are intrinsically linked to your nocturnal well-being... You should therefore select them carefully.

The importance of decoration

In order to make your bed in a way worthy of the greatest hotel establishments, decorative elements are extremely important. Then bet on decorative cushions in different formats, which will add volume and texture to your bedding set. You can also add to your set a magnificent bed set adapted to the shades of your bedding, for an absolutely irresistible and very aesthetic set.

Choose patterns and colors carefully

Colors as well as patterns have an important role to play in creating a sophisticated and harmonious decoration. Here, no rules are pre-established: you just have to give free rein to your personal preferences as well as the desired aesthetic.

You then have the opportunity to select a plain bed set, which will bring an impression of serenity, luxury and sophistication to your bedroom. In order to add a pleasant play of textures, do not hesitate to use the layering method, while maintaining a uniform color for all of your bedding elements. You will thus obtain a very neat sleeping area with an appearance worthy of the most beautiful hotel rooms.

It is also possible to mix the shades, in order to obtain a very trendy final result, delicately relaxed, while remaining particularly luxurious. Several options are available to you: choose a monochrome color scheme (Ink Blue, Paros Blue, Charcoal Grey), or opt for complementary shades (Green 77 Rue de Varenne and Rose de Bagatelle, Brun Haussmann and Blue Zinc, etc.).

Of course, it is entirely possible for you to integrate patterns, by touches, into your bed set: pillowcases and an Asahi Yellow Check duvet cover will then be enhanced by a flat sheet and Optical White decorative cushions, for example.

Making your bed like in a hotel has never been easier than by relying on decorative cushions, soft pillows, layering of colors and materials. Don’t hesitate to try out bold and original combinations, combining flat sheets and throws, high-end bedspreads and sets, warm and cold tones… In order to create a personalized sleeping area, reflecting your personality and your good taste.