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How to decorate a bedroom around a captain’s bed?

We recently moved to a new house and I would like to finally decorate the bedroom. It’s nice and spacious and the only furniture that we currently have in it is a queen captain’s bed that my husband built. It’s nice enough (ok, I am not crazy about it but my husband put a lot of sweat and tears into that bed, so it’s not going anywhere soon), and the wood is a gorgeous natural cherry. My decorating problem is that it’s so BOXY (both the bed and the shelves in the headboard) – I don’t know what to do with it. Any ideas for how to decorate the bedroom?

What about using a dust ruffle to minimize the boxiness of the platform that holds the drawers? You’d still be able to get into them easily, because you could just lift the ruffle.

And the head and footboard are good storage, too – you could put a couple of books in one nook, a candle garden in another (you wouldn’t light those, of course, but if you get scented ones, the scent will be released into the room very slowly even if not lit) – little stuff, you know, but not too much – keep if from getting jam-packed with stuff so it doesn;t look cluttered.

And I’ve seen people get some more decorative shoeboxes and stack them sort of caddywhompus (not exactly straight) in the footboard cubbies – then their shoes are ready to go, but it still looks really nice.

The trick is going to be using some fabrics and accessories to soften the boxy shape of the bed – nice drapes, valances and shades on your windows and perhaps a rug underneath will also help. Using round shapes in your accessories will also help, so for example, changing your lampshades if you use bedstand lamps for ones with a round shape is a good idea. Placing a few pillar candles around the room in little groups, a round clock on a wall that is seen as you come in, these are little things you wouldn’t think help, but they do, because they give your eye something other than the straight lines of the bed to focus on.

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