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Contemporáneo Nocturno

Bedroom with a moonlit mural and two lights at each nightstand

There's a measurement behind this mural that you can't see but that explains the whole thing: the moon is high up because down low it wouldn't have fitted. A tall headboard eats the lower third of any paper you hang behind it, and here the mountain line starts just above the upholstery instead of being cut in half by it. The second decision is less usual: each nightstand has two lights, a pendant and a lamp, and they aren't there to be switched on together.

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Design keys

A night landscape with the moon in the upper third, which is precisely the band of mural the headboard never reaches.
A cream buttoned headboard filling the lower part of the panel: the mountain line begins where its top edge ends.
Two lights per nightstand, a brass pendant from the ceiling and a table lamp, on separate switches.
A narrow gold profile edging the mural and running along the springing of the ceiling, with no more presence than a line.
Bedding blue a couple of tones above the mural's blue: same family, different lightness.
The painted moon and the room's bulbs at the same colour temperature, so the mural looks lit by the room's own light.

Furniture and decor in this design

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Self-adhesive brass wall trim

A thin metal strip, usually one to two centimetres, for finishing the edge of a mural or drawing a line where the ceiling springs. The narrower it is the better it does the job: wide, it competes with whatever it's framing. Check the finish matches the rest of the metal in the room, because polished brass and matt gold set a metre apart give each other away immediately.

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Inline cord switch for a pendant light

A part spliced into the pendant's drop that lets you switch it off from the bed without running a control to the headboard. It's the answer when the wiring is already in and you don't want to cut into the wall. Check it takes the cable size your light uses and that it matches the drop's colour, since it sits in plain view at hand height.

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Pendant suspension kit with ceiling rose and fabric cable

A set of ceiling rose, braided cable and lampholder for hanging a light over a nightstand at whatever height you want. What you're really buying is length: order it longer than you think and trim on fitting, because a short cable forces the lamp up and you lose the directed beam that justified it. The usual measure leaves the bottom edge some sixty or seventy centimetres above the nightstand top.

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Cross-line laser level

It throws a horizontal and a vertical line onto the wall, which is what you need both for marking the height the headboard will reach and for hanging the first drop of a mural plumb. On a continuous design the first drop decides all the rest: a millimetre out of true and the error multiplies until it shows where the mountains meet. A self-levelling model saves you adjusting it by hand.

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Brass pulls for a nightstand

A set of elongated pulls to replace the stock ones on a dark wood nightstand and bring it into the same family as the rest of the metal. It's the cheapest change you can make to a piece of furniture and the most noticeable. Before buying, measure the centres of the existing holes: if they don't match, either buy to that spacing or fill and drill again.

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How to get this look at home

Before ordering the mural, tape a line on the wall at the height of the headboard once assembled. Between the base, the mattress and the upholstery you lose somewhere around a hundred and twenty to a hundred and forty centimetres off the floor, and anything falling below that line will never be seen.
In a landscape it's the horizon line you have to save. If the main motif sits at mid height the headboard cuts it in half, and there's no fixing it afterwards: here the moon is high and the mountains begin exactly where the headboard ends.
A pendant over a nightstand only works if you can switch it off from the bed. Where the wiring won't allow a control by the headboard, an inline cord switch on the drop does the same job and goes in without cutting into the wall.
If a pendant and a table lamp share a nightstand, the pendant hangs to the outside rather than directly above the lamp. Centred over the nightstand it fouls the shade and leaves the furniture with no room for what actually gets used: a glass and a book.
The gold profile does its job better the narrower it is. A wide batten competes with the gold already in the artwork; at a centimetre wide it merely edges the paper and closes it against the dark slats at the sides.

FAQ

How much of the mural does the headboard cover?

More than you'd guess by eye. Adding the height of the base, the depth of the mattress and the upholstery, a tall headboard usually reaches a hundred and twenty to a hundred and forty centimetres off the floor, and with the bed made up and the pillows stacked a few more centimetres go. In practice you should write off the lower third of the paper. Checking it before you pay is simple: tape a strip to the wall at the height the headboard will sit and hold the sample or a printed mock-up of the mural above it. Whatever falls below the tape doesn't matter.

Do you need a table lamp if there's already a pendant over the nightstand?

You don't need one, but they do different jobs. The pendant gives a narrow light that falls on the book and leaves the rest of the room dark, which is exactly what you want for reading without disturbing whoever is asleep beside you. A shaded lamp spreads light sideways and is what makes the room habitable when you aren't reading. Having both makes sense if they switch separately; on together, one is surplus. What does disappear when you fit both is the pendant's main advantage, which was keeping the nightstand clear, so this combination calls for a wide nightstand.

Does a night-time mural work in a bedroom?

It works, but it's worth knowing when you'll be seeing it. A night landscape is painted with very little contrast in very dark tones, and with daylight striking it head on it flattens out into a nearly black panel where the clouds barely read. Where it comes alive is under warm, low light, at night or at dusk, when the golds in the drawing answer and the moon looks as though it has light of its own. If the bedroom gets used a lot in the daytime or is the room you work in, a night motif earns its keep half the time; if you walk into it at the end of the day, that's when it's at its best.

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Bedroom with a moonlit mural and two lights at each nightstand

Design keys

Furniture and decor in this design

How to get this look at home

FAQ

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