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Glam bedroom with curtains as wall panels and a backlit artwork

There's no window on the headboard wall, and yet there are curtains: two floor-to-ceiling panels hung either side of the picture, used as wall covering rather than as curtains. They're what gives the room its background texture, and everything else follows the same idea. Every light source is hidden — the cove, the back of the frame, the strip under the bed base — except one, the crystal chandelier, the only piece meant to be looked at.

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Design keys

Floor-to-ceiling curtains used as wall covering either side of the headboard, on a wall with no window at all.
A backlit abstract artwork: the strip hides behind the frame and the halo forms as light bounces off the pale wall.
Vertical channelling repeated across four pieces — headboard, armchair, pouf and the curtain folds — with no two from the same range.
A crystal chandelier on a brass frame, throwing the pattern of its drops across the flat ceiling.
Every light source hidden except the chandelier: perimeter cove, the back of the frame and a strip under the bed base.
A blue velvet armchair with a round side table in the corner, turning the spare metre by the window into somewhere to sit.

Furniture and decor in this design

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

Crystal chandelier with a brass frame

A chandelier of crystal drops on brass rings, hung from an adjustable chain. Size it by the room rather than the bed: one rule that works is to add the room's length and width in metres and read that figure as centimetres. Check the weight before hanging, because many exceed ten kilos and need fixing to the slab rather than to a suspended ceiling.

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Ceiling-mounted curtain track

An aluminium profile with sliding carriers, screwed straight into the ceiling. It's what lets a curtain work as wall covering: with a pole on wall brackets, the panel starts below the ceiling and the effect is lost. Choose a track with wave heading tape, because it spaces the folds evenly, which is exactly what you want on a panel that never opens.

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Blue velvet floor-to-ceiling curtain

A velvet panel in greyish blue, bought by drop with enough width to fold. Velvet is the fabric that works best in this position because it has body and holds its own folds; a light fabric hangs flat and looks like a sheet. Order the exact drop from the ceiling: shortening later is easy, but a panel that's too short can't be rescued.

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Blue velvet armchair with a channelled back

A low armchair with a vertically channelled back and short gold metal legs. In a bedroom an armchair gets sat on rarely and used for clothes constantly, so choose a cleanable fabric in a mid tone: pale velvet shows every mark. Channelling also hides wear considerably better than a flat surface.

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Round gold metal side table

A side table with a gold ring frame and a round top, sized for a cup and a candle. Beside an armchair the height should match the armrest or sit slightly below it: any higher and you lift your elbow every time. The small top is an advantage here, because a large side table in a bedroom always ends up covered in things.

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How to get this look at home

A curtain used as wall covering hangs from the ceiling, not from a rail at mid height, and needs roughly twice the fabric of the width it covers. With less fullness the panel looks taut and it's immediately obvious there's no window behind it.
Repeat one texture across several pieces and leave everything else plain. Here vertical channelling appears in the headboard, the armchair, the pouf and the curtain folds themselves: four different pieces that read as a set without being one.
To backlight a picture, the wall behind has to be pale. The halo isn't the strip but light bouncing off the surface; against a dark wall it never forms and all you see is a lit frame edge.
With a crystal chandelier, the ceiling is part of the fitting. Keep it flat and in a pale matt finish, because that's where the pattern of the drops lands: a textured or satin ceiling destroys it entirely.
If the cove, the picture and the bed base all carry LED strip, run them all at the same colour temperature. Mixing 2700 and 4000 K shows far more in low light than in daylight, and it's what most often spoils a setup like this.

FAQ

Can you hang curtains on a wall with no window?

Yes, and it's one of the most effective ways to give a flat wall texture without building work. Fit a ceiling track rather than a pole, and hang the panel floor to ceiling so it brushes the floor. Fullness is the key: you want between two and two and a half times the fabric of the width you're covering, because the effect comes from the folds and not the fabric itself. It also absorbs echo, which is welcome in a bedroom with a marble floor.

How do you backlight a picture?

With an LED strip fixed to the back of the stretcher, standing a few centimetres off the wall so the light has room to spread. If the frame sits flush, the halo never forms. Use warm light at low output, because you're after a glow and not illumination of the piece: the artwork itself is still read by the room's ambient light. And plan the socket before hanging it, since a cable running down the wall ruins the whole effect.

Does a crystal chandelier give much light?

Less than you'd think. Crystal refracts and scatters, so much of the output goes into sparkle and into the pattern it throws on the ceiling — which is precisely what you buy it for. As useful light it delivers little, which is why it needs other layers around it. Two practical points: clear bulbs give far sharper sparkle than frosted ones, and plan on cleaning it, because dust on the drops kills the effect within months.

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Glam bedroom with curtains as wall panels and a backlit artwork

Design keys

Furniture and decor in this design

How to get this look at home

FAQ

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