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Master Bedroom with Tufted Headboard and Wardrobes
About Master Bedroom Interiors
Common questions from homeowners.
It is a wide taupe headboard, buttoned into a soft tuft and kept low behind the pillows. The low height is deliberate, because the wall above it is left plain and a tall headboard would have crowded that calm. Taupe was chosen so it sits with the cream walls rather than against them. Buttoned upholstery gives a padded back to lean on, and it holds up well as long as it gets an occasional dust.
The wall behind the headboard is a plain cream, with only a single framed piece above it. That restraint is a choice. The room already has a patterned bedspread, classical panelled wardrobes and gold trims, so another busy element behind the bed would have tipped it into clutter. A calm wall lets the eye rest where you sleep. The gold cornice at the ceiling adds the finish this wall needs without any pattern.
Two tall wardrobes with raised-panel shutters stand on either side of a central TV console, so storage and the television share one wall. Splitting the wardrobes around the TV keeps the run symmetrical, which suits the classical style of the shutters. The console below the TV has cabinets and a glass-topped ledge for a set-top box. Building it as one composition means the wall looks like furniture, not three separate pieces pushed together.
They are classical in feel, with raised-panel shutters, moulded borders and fine gold lines picking out the frames. Cream keeps them light despite the detailing, so they do not weigh the room down. The look is formal without being carved or heavy. The one thing to note is that panelled shutters have grooves, and grooves gather dust, so they take a little longer to wipe down than a flat slab door would.
A gold sconce shaped like lotus flowers sits on the curtain wall, and recessed spotlights run in the ceiling inside a gold-edged cove. A pleated table lamp on the bedside chest adds a soft reading light. The layers matter in a bedroom, because you rarely want the full ceiling light on at night. The sconce and lamp let you drop to a low, warm glow while the recessed lights handle the bright setting.
Most of the cost is the cabinetry, and classical panelled shutters cost more than plain slab doors because the moulding and the gold detailing are extra labour. Two full-height wardrobes plus a fitted TV console is a lot of carpentry on one wall. The headboard upholstery is a smaller line. Price the wardrobe run and the console together first, since a panelled finish across that width is what moves the figure most.
The bed and headboard scale down easily, since they sit flat and take no extra floor. The wardrobe-and-TV wall is the part that needs width, because splitting two tall wardrobes around a console asks for a long clear wall. In a smaller room you would run one wardrobe and wall-mount the TV separately. You would also drop the bench at the foot. The plain wall and the calm palette carry over at any size.
Raised-panel shutters wipe clean with a soft damp cloth, but the moulded grooves hold dust, so run the cloth into the profiles rather than just across the flat. The gold lines are a fine finish and are best left to a dry wipe, since harsh sprays can dull them. A cream laminate shows marks less than a dark one. None of this is heavy work, the panelling simply rewards a careful wipe over a quick one.