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Contemporary Master Bedroom with Marble Headboard
About Master Bedroom Interiors
Common questions from homeowners.
It is a single slab of marble that runs the full width of the bed and wraps a little onto the sides. Against floor to ceiling windows, a fabric headboard would have looked thin with all that light behind it, so the stone gives the bed a solid back. The veining also means the wall behind the bed needs nothing else on it. Marble is heavy, so it is fixed to a backing frame rather than hung.
Two layers handle it. Cane sliding screens sit across the lower half of the glass and knock the afternoon sun down to a soft, dappled light without shutting the view out. Floor-length curtains take over when you want the room fully dark. The screens are the everyday setting, the curtains the night one. It means you are not pulling heavy fabric across a whole wall of glass every afternoon.
That is a wood fluted wall, floor to ceiling, in a warm mid brown. The vertical grooves give a tall flat surface some rhythm and stop it feeling like plain veneer. It grounds the room, since the rest of the scheme is pale stone, beige and glass.
A curved chaise daybed sits across the foot of the bed. The rounded shape is deliberate against so many straight lines, the glass, the wall panels, the console. It gives you somewhere to sit to put on shoes or to read away from the bed. In a room this size it also fills what would otherwise be a large gap of empty floor between the bed and the seating.
Cluster pendant lights drop on either side of the headboard in place of table lamps. Hanging them frees up the marble nightstands and keeps light at reading height. Recessed spotlights cover the general light, and a cove strip gives a soft wash for winding down.
The stone is the main cost, and it depends heavily on which marble you pick. A busy, well veined slab costs more than a plain one, and a single wide piece with no join costs more than two smaller sheets butted together. Fixing adds to it because the weight needs proper backing. If the budget is tight, a stone-look large tile or a veneer panel gives a similar effect for less. Price the slab first, since it swings the total the most.
Parts of it will. The marble headboard and the wood fluted wall work at any size and are the two ideas worth carrying over. The chaise daybed and a separate lounge chair need real floor to sit right, so in a standard room you would keep the headboard and drop the extra seating. The full height glazing is a builder decision more than a design one. Scaled down, this stays a calm, warm scheme rather than a grand one.
Both want a light touch. Marble stains if a spill sits, so it should be sealed and wiped down rather than scrubbed, and you keep anything acidic off it. The wood fluted wall mostly needs dusting along the grooves, where a dry brush works better than a cloth that snags. Neither likes harsh cleaners. Done now and then the upkeep is minor, but skip it for months and the marble is the one that shows it.