Decorating Assistant - Bedroom

Decide how the room should feel before looking at any art. A bedroom's brief is rest and intimacy: soft edges, atmospheric light, low visual noise. Horizontal, tranquil subjects are the bedroom workhorses; high-drama scenes fight sleep. Fix the era, style and mood first, and every artwork you see afterwards will already belong. This is the step amateurs skip and pros never do.

Two professional moves: echo - pull the art's colours from the bedding, curtains and rug so the piece feels inevitable - or accent - let the art bring the one colour the room lacks, the "10" of 60-30-10, kept dusty rather than loud.
In a sleep space value matters more than hue: muted, low-contrast colours read as calm, pure black-on-white reads as alert.
Build the palette from the real room, not from memory.

This step is math, not taste. Above the headboard the piece should span two-thirds to three-quarters of the bed's width - never wider than the headboard - with 15-25 cm of air between headboard and frame, so bed and art read as one composition. On open walls, centre the piece at 145-150 cm eye level. Undersized art over a bed is the single most common amateur mistake - this guide makes it impossible.

One long grid makes every artwork compete with every other. A decorator compares directions, not pictures. Pick a lens and the assistant lays out the matching artworks as side-by-side columns - deliberate interpretations of your bedroom brief - so you can see the range before committing to a piece.