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Bedroom with a nebula mural and bare bulbs beside the bed

The two clear globes hanging either side of the bed are the first thing you look at, and it's worth saying what they are: ambient light. A filament bulb inside clear glass spreads light equally in every direction, so little of it reaches the pillow and a fair amount reaches your eyes. They're there so the filament can be seen, not for reading, and the room works because it accepts that instead of fighting it.

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Design keys

A nebula mural in pink and violet filling the whole headboard wall, with no frame or trim closing it.
Two narrow bands of timber slat at the sides, with the pendants hanging just in front of them.
Bare filament bulbs inside clear globes, hung at the height of the bed head.
A low headboard with a curved silhouette, leaving almost the whole mural visible above it.
The curtain picks up the mural's pink and carries it to the other end of the room, where the window is.
Pale oak two-drawer nightstands, the only warm material in the room that isn't pink or cream.

Furniture and decor in this design

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

Nebula wall mural

A deep-sky mural with coloured clouds and star points, ordered to the size of the wall. Having neither horizon nor recognisable motif, it takes any crop and it doesn't matter how much the headboard covers, which is the advantage over a landscape. Ask for a matt finish: satin paper throws back the reflection of the lamps right in the dark part of the image and you see the highlights from the bed.

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Dimmer for LED bulbs

A wall or inline control for turning down lamps you're going to look straight at. What to check is compatibility: not all LEDs are dimmable and those that are want a dimmer made for LED, because with an old incandescent one they flicker or buzz at half power. Look at the minimum load too, which with two low-wattage bulbs falls short on many models.

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Curtain tiebacks

Bands or cords for gathering a curtain to one side and leaving the glass clear. In a room with a night view they're what decides how much window you see, and they want fitting below the halfway point of the opening: set at mid height they split the drop into two equal triangles and it looks stiff. If the curtain matches the wall colour, a fabric tieback disappears and a metal one becomes a detail.

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White artificial peonies

A bunch of natural-feel flowers for the nightstands, where fresh cut flowers last a short time and need the water changing every other day. What separates a good one from a bad one is the stem: smooth plastic stems give themselves away at a metre, while wrapped stems with wire inside can be bent so each bloom falls in a different direction, which is what stops a bunch looking arranged.

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Velvet lumbar cushion

An elongated cushion that sits in front of the whole pile and is the one actually used when you sit up in bed. Thirty by fifty is the usual size, and the filling wants to be feather or loose siliconised fibre rather than block foam: a foam cushion doesn't give at the small of the back, which is precisely what it's there for.

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Slat panel with adhesive fixing, no drilling

A lightweight panel meant for mounting with high-bond double-sided tape, the way out in a rented flat or on a partition you’d rather not drill. The condition is weight: it works with light panels in narrow bands, not with a whole wall of solid timber. And expect it to take some paint with it on removal, so choose this over drilling only if there really is no alternative.

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How to get this look at home

A clear globe calls for a low-output bulb and a dimmer, not an ordinary bulb. Decorative filament lamps sit around two or three hundred lumens precisely because they're meant to be looked at; fit one of the lighting sort and the bright point lands at eye level for someone sitting up in bed, and there's no getting comfortable with it.
For the light to rake across the slats, hang the lamp a hand's width or two off the wall. Tight against it, you scorch one patch of timber and flatten the relief; too far out, the beam heads for the middle of the room and the slat stays as flat as it was.
The ceiling hook decides the distance, because the cable falls straight. Mark it before drilling by measuring from the wall and not from the edge of the nightstand, which is what people tend to do and what leaves the two lamps out of line with each other.
If the curtain matches the mural's colour, choose it a shade lighter. Backlit, fabric lights up and climbs two or three tones, while the paper remains a surface that only reflects: at night they match and by day the curtain swallows the mural.
A nebula has no top or bottom, but it does have stars. When joining the drops, the only thing that gives the seam away is a bright point cut in half, so it's worth shifting the join a couple of centimetres until it falls in cloud.

FAQ

Is a bare filament bulb any good for reading in bed?

For actual reading, no. There are two reasons and both come from the bulb itself. The first is that clear glass doesn't direct: it sends as much light to the book as to the face of whoever is beside you, and a good share is lost towards the ceiling. The second is contrast, because the filament is a very small, very bright point inside a dark room, and the eye tires looking around it. On top of that, decorative bulbs give little light on purpose. If you want to read in bed, the honest answer is to keep the globes as ambient light on a dimmer and add an adjustable reading light on the wall, which lights the page rather than the room.

How far from the wall do you hang a lamp in front of a slatted panel?

Fifteen to twenty-five centimetres is usually the range that works. The point of putting the light in front of the slats is that the beam arrives at a grazing angle and each groove casts its own shadow, which is what turns flat timber into a surface with relief. If the lamp sits tight to the wall the light falls perpendicular, the shadows vanish and heat concentrates on one patch of wood. Move it too far out and the slat stops getting grazing light and the effect disappears entirely. It's worth trying it with the lamp on a temporary cable before fixing the hook, because a couple of centimetres change the result quite a bit.

Can curtains be the same colour as the mural?

They can, with one caveat that only shows in daylight. A wall is a surface reflecting the light it receives, while a curtain with light behind it behaves like a surface that emits: the same pink reads two or three tones lighter and more saturated in fabric than in paper. At night, with the curtains drawn and the light inside the room, the two pinks agree; at midday the curtain lights up and the mural looks dull beside it. The way to make them agree at both hours is to pick the fabric a shade below the mural's tone, or to use a lining that cuts some of that light.

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Bedroom with a nebula mural and bare bulbs beside the bed

Design keys

Furniture and decor in this design

How to get this look at home

FAQ

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