Bedroom Design Italian Style
Bedroom design Italian style is elegant and romantic
Decorative scroll work, Italian pottery and rich fabrics will turn your bedroom into an Italian villa. Round out your design with antique plates and worn antique accessories and end tables to add interest and give your room an old world look.
The perfect wall color to show off your Italian bedroom design is a golden stucco color - better yet if you can do a faux painting or even use real stucco to give it an old world stucco look. Accent the walls with columns or place columns cut in half and placed against the wall to look like real columns.
To give it a more elegant look to your design, have a hand painted Italian fresco done on the walls or save some money - buy a stencil and do it yourself!
Your bedroom window treatments should be drapes in an elegant fabric like velvet or silk. You can try to get vintage drapes or use a vintage Italian design fabric but that will probably be quite expensive so if you are on a budget, you can buy new ones - pick a rich color and no one will know the difference.
For an old world look, incorporate some marble into your Italian bedroom design. Either use marble topped furniture, alabaster lamps or marble busts. Incorporate some mosaics into the room, either on your table tops or as wall art to add color (you can also use Italian pottery as well art in a scrolly hanger to add color to the bedroom as well).
Decorate with scrolly wrought iron candelabras, candlesticks and wall art. For more of old world Italian bedroom look add some chippy painted items like finials or painted frames with Italian oil paintings. Hang a tapestry for an elegant look (you can buy them new or try to find vintage ones).
Italian bedroom design typically uses heavy antique furniture but you can also make newer sleek furniture work, and wrought iron looks great too. If you don't have the money to buy new furniture you might try a stencil - I saw an episode on HGTV where they used a stencil to paint a faux wrought iron headboard and it looked just like a real headboard was there! It's amazing what paint can do when applied properly - in this application, they made a shadow by offsetting the stencil one inch to the left and below and painting a color 1 shade darker then the well. Then they moved the stencil to the real placement of the headboard and painted in black and the look was amazing!
Recommended Merchants
 Buy accents and bedding for decorating your Italian bedroom at Charles Keath
Novelty Lighting
At Lamps Plus - they specialize in lamps so you're sure to find what you need!
Of Interest
Find out about using antiques to lend character to your bedroom design of Italian style.
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