Interiors Round-Up: 6 Canopy Bed Ideas

There is something so dreamy and romantic about a canopy bed, am I right? It’s the bed fit for a princess, but it doesn’t have to be stuffy or too fancy. If you have a four poster bed for starters, you can drape all your favourite textiles along the top and from each post (they don’t have to match, but a similar colour palette would be nice). Add extra charm with tassels from your travels, rope or even a dangly necklace or two.

Add a simple strip of mud cloth from the headboard upwards, and bunch it at the top for a more relaxed boho look.

With the most colorful fabric you can find at the fabric shop or thrift store, you can make a really simple canopy by draping a strip of fabric along two suspended wooden dowels from your ceiling. By my eye, this looks like around at least 6 meters of fabric which has then been tied in a big knot at the end. The dowels were just installed with hooks and tied rope, but you could also use two c-cup hooks for each end of your support beam. You don’t have to dress your bed in the exact same fabric as your canopy, but it does pack a powerful punch!

If crazy colorful isn’t for you, add a white canopy for a more subdued look. I’m personally a big fan of white in the bedroom. Try threading a white curtain along a stick of bamboo, it already has the loops. Plus bamboo is light and easy to work with; you could erect a canopy frame along 1, 2, 3 or 4 sides of your bed and make your own four poster dreamship.

When I was searching for the prettiest canopy beds, none other than our Justina reigned as the queen of this domain; I had to include a couple of my favorites. Above, she has simply placed a piece of white fabric along the top of her bedroom window frame and then gathered it to meet at the pendant above the bed. So stunning, right?

Think beyond the bedroom, if you’re not ready or don’t have the space in there. Above, Justina has added an array of vintage scarfs and fabric leftovers to a curtain rod above this window seat, for the cosiest little reading nook.

Photo credits:

1. Terence Conran’s ‘New House Book’, 1985
2. ‘The Way We Live with the Things We Love’ , 2009 Photography: Gilles de Chabaneix
3. Terence Conran’s ‘New House Book’, 1985
4. Elle Decor UK, July 2012 Photography: Birgitta Wolgang Drejer
5. Justina Blakeney here
6. Justina Blakeney there

This post was created by Nicole Valentine Don for JB est. 1979.
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