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Bedroom with a cloud mural and a branching light over the bed

With a light hung over the bed, people always discuss the height and almost never how wide it is, which on an open-armed fitting like this one is the figure that causes the most trouble when it's wrong. The second thing holding the room together is on the bed: all the linen is the same blue-grey and there isn't a single pattern, so the only thing distinguishing one cushion from another is the fabric. With a single colour, texture stops being decoration and becomes the structure.

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Design keys

A cloud mural set between the two slat bands, with a strip of plain wall above rather than running to the ceiling.
Slats tinted the same blue-grey as the mural, so the whole wall reads as one piece in three parts.
A branching light with globes at varying heights, centred over the mattress and narrower than it.
Opaque domes on the bedside lamps: all their light goes down onto the book and none reaches the eyes of someone sitting up.
Bed linen entirely in one blue with no pattern at all: what changes from piece to piece is the fabric.
White nightstands on slim wooden legs, the only thing in the room that's neither blue nor gold.

Furniture and decor in this design

Items shown are similar to those in the video, not necessarily identical.

Slat panel tinted blue-grey

A panel with the slats colour-stained rather than clear-varnished, which is what lets you take them to a mural's exact tone rather than the colour of the wood. Stain still shows the grain, unlike lacquer, so the wall keeps its texture even though it loses the original colour. If you're staining it yourself, test on an offcut first: the same coat gives a different tone on oak than on pine, and on veneered board it comes out darker than the sample suggests.

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Branching ceiling light with glass globes

A frame of slender arms with a sphere at the end of each, set at varying heights. Before buying, check two things that rarely get highlighted: the reach of the longest arm, because the quoted diameter is an average, and whether the globes unscrew, which decides whether cleaning it takes ten minutes or an afternoon. With many light points, use a low-output bulb in each, or together they end up giving more light than a bedroom wants.

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Washed linen pillowcase

Pre-washed linen, among the most matt fabrics there is, which is why it contrasts so strongly with a velvet in the same colour. On a bed done in one tone it's the piece that supplies visible texture without adding any pattern. Worth knowing that it always creases and that the creasing is the finish, not a fault; and that the first few washes soften it considerably, so don't judge it by how it feels on day one.

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Microfibre glove for cleaning glass

A microfibre glove you put on your hand, letting you wrap a sphere and turn it rather than having to hold it with your other hand to wipe it. On a fitting with slender arms that difference matters, because any pull takes the frame out of true. It works equally for globes, glass shades and exposed bulbs, and a double-sided version is worth having, with one face for dry dusting and the other for a damp pass.

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White nightstand on wooden legs

A nightstand with a white-lacquered body on slim pale wood legs, which is what keeps it light in a room with a busy wall. Lifting it off the floor lets the skirting and the floor show underneath, and that visually widens the side of the bed. Measure the mattress height before buying: the top should sit level with the mattress or a couple of centimetres above, never below, or you can't reach a glass lying down.

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How to get this look at home

The ceiling light has to be narrower than the mattress. If it projects past the sides it appears in the field of view of anyone sitting up reading, and it gets in the way when you shake out the duvet making the bed, which is when these get broken.
On a branching light, measure the actual reach and don't trust the catalogue diameter. The arms come out at different distances, so the figure usually quoted is an average: the one that matters is the longest arm, because that's what will hit something.
Centre it over the mattress and not over the bed as a whole. If the headboard is thick or stands off the wall, the centre of the furniture and the centre of where you sleep don't coincide, and an off-centre light shows from the doorway even if nobody can say why.
To stop the slats arriving as a new material, tint them the mural's tone rather than leaving them as bare wood. That's what makes the headboard wall read as a whole instead of splitting into three pieces of different materials.
With single-colour bed linen, raise the number of fabrics. Three is enough: a matt cotton for the duvet, something short-piled on a couple of cushions and a chunky weave laid across the foot. With one fabric throughout, the whole thing flattens however good the colour is.

FAQ

How wide should a light hung over the bed be?

The practical rule is that it shouldn't project past the mattress on either side, and ideally should stay well inside it. On a 150-centimetre bed, a light of seventy to ninety centimetres sits well; on a 180 you can go to a metre. Wider than that and it starts appearing in the field of view of someone sitting up reading, and above all it becomes an obstacle when making the bed, which is the moment these actually get knocked. With an open-armed fitting, measure the maximum reach rather than the nominal diameter, because the arms don't all extend the same distance and the spec usually quotes an average that falls short.

How do you stop a single-colour bed looking flat?

By raising the number of fabrics, which is what the eye reads when there's no colour to read. The difference comes from sheen rather than tone: washed cotton is completely matt, velvet shifts from light to dark depending where you look from, and a chunky knit casts its own shadow in every stitch. With those three in the same blue, the bed has relief without having pattern. It also helps to vary cushion formats rather than using all the same, and to lay one piece across the foot in a fabric clearly different from the duvet. What doesn't work is doing the whole bed in one flat fabric and trusting the colour to carry it.

How do you clean a light with many glass globes?

The first thing is to check before buying, because not all of them come apart. If the globes unscrew, you take them down and wash them by hand, which is ten minutes; if they're fixed to the frame you have to clean them one by one up a ladder with your arm raised, and that ends up happening once a year. For cleaning in place a microfibre glove works better than a cloth: with the glove you wrap your hand round the globe and turn, whereas with a cloth you have to hold the sphere with your other hand, and on a fitting with slender arms that means pulling on the frame. Wait for the bulbs to go cold and never push the globes upwards, because open arms go out of true with very little force. And hung over a bed it's worth not leaving it to once a year: the dust that gathers up there falls straight onto the pillows.

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Bedroom with a cloud mural and a branching light over the bed

Design keys

Furniture and decor in this design

How to get this look at home

FAQ

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