Transform Your Bedroom: Expert Interior Design Tricks

0:00Alice Lane:Hello everyone, welcome to Dear Alice. Today we have another episode in our Transform series. We've done a couple of these. We have one that's Transform Your Kitchen, another one that's Transform Your Bathroom, and today is going to be Transform Your Bedroom. So if you are going to be looking at working on your bedroom in this new year, you're going to love this episode. And maybe you'll even get ideas if you weren't planning on transforming your bedroom. And I feel like the bedroom, even for all of our clients, when we go into the home before we've even touched it, the bedroom's never been touched honestly like the primary bedroom is the last yeah to get a dress like they're like it's not public facing we'll like we'll hit that later you know when the kids are grown up so anyway we thought it was very important because that bedroom it's like you spend more hours there than anywhere else in your house truly I always think of my bedroom too as like my reward after a hard day that you're just like when you finally get to get in your bed at night don't you just feel like this is the great reward happy chills man yeah you really do that nothing else is expected of you yeah and you get to look around and have a beautiful scene that just makes you feel like like you were a success at whatever you did or accomplished I love a beautiful bedroom too I think in queuing in on what makes you happy this is your space so queuing in on what that is nothing could be more personal than exactly and employing that just for you for no one else.

1:24Yeah. Like what a gift. What a gift. Okay.

1:27Alice Lane:Well, let's teach them. Let's teach them all of our tricks. First, I wanted to tell you guys, you were doing this in concert with, it just happens to be our white sale, which is for the bedroom. So after you get juiced up on this episode, go check out our website, aliceleinhome.com. The white sale is on, which means everything for your bedroom is on sale. And this, this, these categories are huge. There's rugs involved. So Even if you need a new rug for your kitchen or your family room, like take advantage of the white sale. No one's asking. Exactly. Exactly. We don't care if you're not using it in your bedroom.

2:00Alice Lane:Also, like lighting is in there. We're thinking you might need lamps for your nightstands, but who's to say where you're going to use them? So go get yourself some new lamps or a new chandelier, beds, obviously, nightstands, bedding. So all of this you can take advantage of once you get some great ideas. After today's episode, check that out at alislanehome.com. before we get into the spaces themselves what is what are on your what are on your guys is like must-have lists for a bedroom space topical or skeleton let's see okay i would say either skeleton i'm going to say skeleton i'm talking about just like the actual space i'm just coming off of a bedroom remodel for my own bedroom for your own bedroom if you're a long-time listener you probably know that I feel nothing in a neutral space.

2:46And like 2020 Suzanne, when I was painting all the rooms, I picked a light color, noted it was reticence. It's a beautiful like blushy tissue pink that we used in Tiger Oak entry. I'm like, you know what? Again, my bedroom was the last one to be considered. I'm like, I'll throw reticence on there and then I'll dress it later. So I've been living in a neutral space in my bedroom, falling asleep and waking up every day in a neutral space for circa five years. Like, yeah.

3:11Alice Lane:How's it going? I hate it. I hate my bedroom. I'm like, I'd rather sleep in a twin bed in my son's room than sleep in my own bedroom. Cause I'm like the thing. And the thing about it too, is like in a neutral space in a bedroom, some, you know, you have like your nightstands, you have all the stuff that like ends up corralling there. You have just like an unmade bed. And like, I will say when you have a neutral or lighter room and you have things that sit on top of it, your bed frame, your nightstand, you feel contrast but everything feels messy everything feels messy all the time and so but when you do a color drench or you have some depth of color which we know like color psychology we know that when you use a deeper color in a bedroom it allows you to focus on the task at hand which is sleep and allows you to relax and it will allow your like eyelids to close on this proof positive y 'all and so by having like depth on your walls it is a game changer I remember we had a client that we're working on her bedroom and she she came to us and she's like my favorite place to stay all over the world is in Capri and the bedroom or the bedroom is black and the bathroom is light light like white she's like and I want to do that because I've never slept better than in Capri so like that just taught us something early on in our career that like this is something and like Like when you experience depth on your walls, like it really does.

4:34Like it psychologically changes like how you perform in that space, how you sleep in that space. Everything. Shut your brain off. Yeah, exactly. Otherwise.

4:42Alice Lane:It doesn't mean that you have to go all the way to black, but you'll see in the images that we're going to share today in the podcast, there are colors used on the wall or at least a tone. And it's so much more restful. And like Sue said, I mean, I think it's such a key teaching that you just taught, which is rooms look messy when there's a light room and there's contrast and you just see every little thing that's leaning or not perfect. It really is a messier aesthetic, unless you're going to be one of those people that doesn't put anything on top of your nightstand, puts everything in the drawers.

5:14Alice Lane:But sleeping is one of those activities that you're, once you get comfortable, you need your stuff on your nightstand to be comfy. I mean, I can't even tell you the amount of stuff on my nightstand is embarrassing too i'm like over that it's gonna tip and fall at any second i mean stuff is balancing on other stuff no yeah yeah raise your hands if you're with us so you're gonna look more pulled together by having color on your walls and not all these objects floating in front of a white wall yeah i love that you taught that amen so that is something i i need depth of color in so what are you doing in your bedroom remodel did you want to say you're gonna see it's gonna look like i'm like dipped in chocolate that's all i'm gonna say pictures to come.

5:54Alice Lane:I'm just going to say it's kind of cinnamon. It's cinnamon so it's like Mexican chocolate. Yeah. It's really good. As it should be. Anyway, everything looks super fly. I'm really, really excited to reveal it. So excited. Are you getting a new bed? Yeah. Should I say which one I'm getting? Yeah, say it. I wanted, since we designed it and the fabric was chosen, the Terra kit. Okay. I love the kit and like pair that with like the brown with rapers we're gonna get into rapers i'm like i'm letting it all out before we're gonna like which nightstands you're getting because they're gonna go look at the website after this episode i'm getting the brooklyn and the dark walnut so everybody i don't know if you remember yes because okay so you know how i have my green bathroom and i have the bro walnut like the vanity i wanted to have some of that depth over in my bedroom so again i've been looking at like all the spaces and all the paintings in concert with each other and how they play and that stain finish looks so good in that space against that wall color it's really really good and it just kind of melts and that's what you kind of want for your bedroom you just want to melt into that scene yeah you know and you just like want all the aches and pains to go away so you can get a good night's sleep so i'm doing the brooklyn nightstands and then i'm doing the miles dresser and cloud it will have some contrast there but i'm doing gosh are we just gonna should i just say everything yeah i'm just gonna say okay i'll do everything shoot and then And I'm doing the super sconces.

7:20That's going to be. Above the Lulu. The Lulu sconces. And again, that light pink with the brown wall with like the Tara. With I'm doing like this faux silk drapery panels, which I haven't had drapery in my bedroom since we moved in. So I'm like the most excited. You wake up to the sun? Oh, no. I have blackout shades. Oh, gosh. No. I live like a vampire in there. But now I'm really going to live like a vampire. Anyway, but panels like again, I've seen how it transformed my son's bedroom, just like with the Romans. I kept those tight in Romans because they're little kids. They don't need to be tugging on panels.

7:55But in my bedroom, I'm like, I want the place to be draped. And it is. And it's like corally colored silk with the brown, with the chair, with the slippers, with some really dope art that like we got reframed for ourselves for our Christmas present. So I'm excited for you to see it.

8:11Alice Lane:It's going to be good to see the reveal of Suze's bedroom for our new lighting launch that's coming up at the end of the month. So we're shooting the lighting launch in Suze's house and a few in my house. So you'll get to see that reveal coming up. So make sure to sign up to be one of our insiders because you're going to want to see how great this turned out and have first pick of the litter. Yes. And I will say it started with the light. Yes. I saw those and I was just like, I have to have that light. No. She's getting the caviar flush mount. I got rid of my fan. Which nobody knows what that is yet because it hasn't launched.

8:43Yeah. I saw that. I'm like, oh, my gosh, I need that. And Jess was like, what about in your bedroom? I was just like, it will happen. Yes, it will. It will happen. It will be mine. It will be mine. Oh, yes, it will be mine. And it is. So anyway, cannot wait to show you.

8:57Alice Lane:So Suze has been transforming her bedroom. And we've, as you know, been transforming people's bedrooms since at least 2008. So we're going to take you through some past projects and just take you through some principles that we love to use in bedrooms. So let's start them out in the sugar house. And you guys might remember this. We did a remodel masterclass on the sugar house, probably in the summer of 25. So you could always go back and revisit this whole project, but there's a few key learnings we want to take you through on their primary bedroom. It's so funny because these, I think it shows the longevity of the design, but a lot of these projects are ones that have lived in our portfolio for a second, you know, but the design is still so good.

9:35And just so everyone knows, we're doing a lot of really great stuff right now, currently all the time. They're just like longer projects. So we're going to be doing a lot of capturing in 2026.

9:45Alice Lane:So get ready. But the principles and the spaces are still so good that we couldn't not dive into the details with you. So the sugar house, this is the before. Again, it wasn't a big, it's not a big house. It's still standing. It's not a big house. It's a historic home. Really where the bed sat, we didn't change. Right now we're looking at the before picture, which shows a really pretty like white finished worked wall with historic windows. not the tallest ceilings I bet we're about that eight foot ceiling some darker Roman so this picture really shows that idea of a neutral space with dark contrast and how it has the potential of looking messy everything I mean from the ceiling fan up top you know to the shams are not quite in line and then the Romans even the nightstands are well well decorated but there's it just everything just looks messy yeah the contrast makes it feel messier but still like most people look at this and be like what a beautiful room it's a great room but there's things that we did to transform this space that again she wanted it to feel more restful more cohesive there were like little things that she wanted again it's a historic home so she wanted to have like a spot she couldn't like make her bathroom larger but she's like i'd love to have like a makeup vanity so there are certain things that she wanted she wanted a chair she wanted like a more relaxing space, you know, to, you know, retire and, and she needed a makeup vanity.

11:12So we're going to show you again, a few more befores. This kind of shows you again, the Roman, this is a Roman, obviously, if you're looking at the screen, there's a dark Roman in these two windows that flank her bed. These are functional Romans. And what that means is that like, that's what you would operate to make the room darker. So it's a decorative, a decorative Roman that is functional and the thing that like one teaching i think that we should just like talk about while we're looking at this right here is that romans like in any bedroom um we love a blackout shade and a shade that's what is like from hunter douglas it's that roller shade that has the blackout that you can just like roll down like you're at a hotel and it completely like just tarps the place and then we would do a decorative if we were doing roman we would make it a decorative roman non-functional that like it looks like it could be functional but you're not futzing with it like to move it up and down and having to like fix the folds every single time and you can see that this was a functional roman that would have to be fixed every time and like honestly everyone's busy everyone has a morning routine kids schools night routine whatever that that's just like one more thing for you to do so just like that's a tip moving forward for everyone is that you're not going to make those roman the decorative romans functional and i would also say

12:27Alice Lane:that more likely than not, most people are going to want light control in a bedroom so that you sleep really, really well. I love a blackout shade in a bedroom. I think it's so great. And then light creep is also something that's going to come in and around these Roman shades. Even though they're an outside mount, it looks like, you can still get light creep through the edges. So being able to control that with window coverings and then window dressings, we are going to be putting drapes in this room. You'll see in the afters. And the drapery can come in and it can close over the light creep that's going to come in on the edges of a Roman.

13:01Alice Lane:So as you're solving for your own bedroom needs this year, really consider a blackout shade. I think you're going to love how you sleep. And there's a lot of ways to achieve it. And we'll make sure and talk about the window coverings as we go through these three projects we're going to show you. The only time everyone does a blackout shade for the primary, usually for the kids so that they can just like conk out. the only time like for a bedroom someone said i actually don't want my guests to have blackout if they like their guests they'll give them blackout not that they don't like them but they just like they're just like just do something light filtering give them privacy but allow the scent to wake them up yeah they can get on their way which i thought was so funny anyway so anyway whatever bedroom you're addressing this season um that was a fun tip think about who's seen with you so um and here's this one last before picture just really quick i wanted to just orient you You walk in, this is a floor plan of this room that we showed her when we were doing the design.

13:55And you're walking into this, this door and you're, again, there's not a lot of spaces to put the bed. It's going to go in the exact same spot it was with a bench. We actually kept the nightstands because we're like, what can we keep? And so my kind of inventory what you have and you're like, hey, that's, that's still good. That works for the function, but we're just going to like repurpose other things. Right. So we kept the nightstands and kind of redid everything else. and this is where against there's a window wall perpendicular to the bed wall where we did have a window and as we were space planning we're like that actually is a great spot for a little desk you know right in front of a window to do your makeup so that kind of gives you some context as now we go into the afters of our sugar house bedroom so here you can see the wall color it's a

14:39Alice Lane:tone but it's not white and this really does just look so restful and cozy and the room feels finished. We're leaving that white era behind that so many houses have been white on white. The interiors have been white. You can just see how much more sophisticated this room is with this beautiful sort of darkened taupe color on the wall. The nightstands, you know, necessarily aren't the focus with everything on them. And then we did a drape that's tonal with the wall. It's a very small sort of tonal pattern. And it's just, it keeps the eye really restful. Those drapes really connect to the walls in a beautiful way.

15:16Alice Lane:And I just love how this turned out. We have a colored headboard, which I think brings a real beautiful sort of sophistication. This is a shelter bed and it kind of defines that space. Even though this is only an eight foot ceiling, this is so chic, feels completely finished. And there's even kind of a grandeur to it. Yeah. And honestly, like that's probably your big, you get a little bit more contrast with that vanity desk. but like the majority of the contrast you feel is like what the important thing in the room which like that should be the focus that's the bed here are just a couple other corners showing you again the rug is tonal with those nightstands and everything just like and just like it's a lot softer and i again that be to be able to get ready right in front of a window lucky lucky deck and then the last little corner of this was the dresser and so again i think i thought this was a really great trick right here of just like the size of your art.

16:09You go into this space and it does look 10 times taller than it did. Yes. Like you see that in the pictures, but like live, it's incredible. Yeah. Absolutely incredible.

16:18Alice Lane:Yeah. It always feels counterintuitive, but when you can use larger art, larger rugs, your spaces are going to feel so much bigger. And the panels, the drapery panels reached all the way up to the crown molds. The art reaches all the way up to the crown molds. Even the bed is high, that shelter bed, and it makes the room feel grand. It's such a great trick when you're trying to work on spaces. Suze, have you ever given a gift that felt more like an experience rather than a product? At the end of the day, all I want, if showered, the kids are in bed, I'm going to go to my sofa and I'm going to grab my bubble cuddle blanket because that's all I want at the end of a good or a bad day.

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17:35Give the gift of comfort that lasts beyond the holidays and carries you into a cozy new year. Next, we're going to go to our Hidden Springs Manor, which is on the portfolio. But this is a fun one. I don't know if you want to dive into the situation. Yeah, let's do it. situation.

17:50Alice Lane:So it's fun being an interior designer because you get to learn the dynamics of a couple. And this actually isn't the first time this has happened, but sometimes couples don't sleep together. They have separate bedrooms. And this is the case of the Hidden Springs Manor. This is on our portfolio. Sometimes this is due to maybe he has a CPAP machine and it's loud and he keeps his wife awake all night. Maybe she's going through menopause and she's so hot she needs to sleep in the basement with the window cracked in the winter. But, you know, and he's cold all the time. So it's interesting to see couples evolve and change over time.

18:23Alice Lane:In this case, the female client slept upstairs and the male client slept downstairs in the basement. And they each got to have their own aesthetic. And I love how both bedrooms turned out. And so we haven't talked about this project very much, but it's kind of fun because aesthetically you can just lean all in. And sometimes primary bedrooms are a combination of what they both can agree on. In this case, they just got to be all in, didn't have to agree with anybody, could just have their own aesthetic. They can have their own closet. They can have their own zone in the house and heat or cool it however they want.

19:01Alice Lane:He could heat or cool the entire basement or just his room. So anyway, kind of a unique project, but we want to take you into her bedroom first. We don't have very many befores. This almost reads like a real estate listing, but here you can just see neutral was the way that they went to try to appeal to more buyers. Like a light, light gray, almost white on the walls, white casings. Unfortunately, window treatments are also white roller shades. So not a lot to look at here. But to what Suze was saying earlier about doing a color so that it can really contrast and make the room fully feel complete and not so jumpy with little imperfections or cluttered nightstands or whatnot.

19:45Alice Lane:Look at the afters. I mean, this is so beautiful. You can see what color added to the space. The color we used in here is called Cougar Brown, and it's this really great shade of mauve. and we did this space probably about four four or five years ago i'd still choose this today we did a window treatment that was somewhat in line tonally with the wall color so it's going to keep your eye moving those drapery folds just look so stunning the little bit of trim up in the tray of the ceiling pulls your eye up so you can really appreciate it and then we did a trick and if if any of you guys have a large bedroom and don't know quite how to make it feel cozy You've heard us say this before.

20:26Alice Lane:We love a four-poster bed in a grand room. It's going to create a room within the room. So we did this for her. We did a four-poster bed. It's this beautiful brass modeled frame. And then just really beautiful drapey bedroom. Little piece of art above the headboard. And then we've got a really beautiful upholstered bench or almost like a settee at the foot of the bed with a garden stool. And the space is just really feminine and tonal. Lots of varying shades of pink. and feminine details like the drapey, beautiful drapey bedding. It's almost gauze-like. Really stunning. One fun thing that we did on this ceiling, we did a ceiling treatment here with some applied molding just to add interest and some romance in the space.

21:10And so I remember the builders proposing, let's do a thicker beam and let's pull it down. I'm like, oh, no, no, no. We're going to come up. We're doing a four-poster, and then that's going to be the vibrato in the space. And so we just need some, some geometry up top to kind of echo some classicism. And so I'm really stoked. Like, again, it wasn't ridiculous, but it was like the frame out. So beautiful. Yeah. It looks like it's been there forever. And it kind of like helps the window, window casings for me too. It kind of just ties that in together.

21:43Alice Lane:Like those pencil mold details. They all make sense of them. Yeah. It feels more elevated. Yeah. And cohesive. Yeah. And again, we didn't have a ton of space. Like she wanted like a little perch chair. We didn't have a lot of space for like big nightstands. And so we opted for small, but it's just her. So anyway, we were able to do smaller nightstands. Just one on your side of the bed for herself. Exactly. And then we have a really beautiful dresser with, again, the larger art. Again, just to kind of stretch up and I think relax the space. I think a lot of small things make it nervous. And so by doing something that is like more generous in scale, just makes the space feel so much more grand.

22:21Alice Lane:I agree. I think. Yeah. Of course we think the same thing. Here's like one other little after shot. Also, I love the little bit of crystal that we did on these nightstand lamps. Again, just so you have all these other geometric moments that are like cutting the space in half, but just to have some transparency and wetness, usually say. It's so beautiful. And on a smaller nightstand too. So it's not like a huge body, you know, lamp that just takes up the whole space. And I think the serpentine drawer fronts are also sort of a feminine, almost ruffled detail that you wouldn't be able to do if this was a his and her space.

22:59Alice Lane:Just being able to key into all of those little details that are just uniquely her and have this really intimate moment with her to figure out what rest looks like and feels like for her and just tune into her feminine side. I love that. How about that gauzy bedding? I'm going to say one more shout out to that because that is so, I've never felt more relaxed. Yes. My voice was actually whispering earlier and I'm like, it's the gauzy bedding guys. There's something there. If you go on our website, this is called the Chloe bedspread on, or maybe it's like the Chloe coverlet. You'll be able to see that on the website.

23:35Alice Lane:And it just, it's really beautiful draped at the foot of a bed as almost a bed scarf or pulled up like we have it in this image and something about it you just feel swaddled like a newborn like you picture like those gauzy finishes and newborn babies and we should all get to live like that i think so yeah okay let's take him down to his space okay we're gonna take you on a little video tour because again before pictures were limited this kind of shows you again a pretty basic shell of a space you have a tray ceiling nothing's really being like defined designed as like one being special against the wall color but we also don't have any trim work up there we had this like weird little notch out in this floor plan that nobody really she's like I don't know what to do with this like this tiny alcove um that you're like hopefully we can fit a dresser in there because it's so it's such a strange little moment and I do think what we were able to come up with was just perfect this tray ceiling wants to be addressed just the space in general I think it kind of it's just squat like makes the room all feel kind of squatty and kind of the tray is like really big you know and so I'm sure it's hiding some ducting down there it's usually why you had do a tray but I think the way we dressed it is so beautiful because what we did is we actually did a wall covering on the walls and then the entire tray and ceiling just so that it felt completely continuous and like you didn't feel the proportions I think straightened out and I feel like these walls feel like they're upholstered you know the the wall covering almost reads like a fabric, which also adds that softness.

25:09Alice Lane:And I think the color is just so handsome. We're in a sort of a medium gray, almost feels flannel. So handsome, definitely leaning into those Ralph Lauren vibes. And the bed is velvet with leather straps on it. We've got velvet shams, layers of bedding. And I love the light fixture here. It's like almost a semi-flush mount or it's a chandelier that's choked up into that tray and their palm fronds and it's just so handsome I love how this turned out large art to the right of the bed again he has small nightstands too but that large art is going to stretch your eye up in that basement space and make it feel grand and we do have some nice big windows down here so it doesn't feel so basementy and then we've got that moment back in the alcove we were able to fit a dresser and this just feels like such a handsome dressing room moment we've got a mirror on the wall a little piece of art on an easel that has an art lamp on it and then four drawers to be able to conceal whatever he wants maybe it's all of his neckties maybe it's his watches maybe this is his finishing station where he can come and finish getting ready but this I think turned out so him so uniquely him and I think hers was just so uniquely hers what would we say would be a couple of tricks to make sure and employ when people are working on bedrooms transforming bedrooms I think again back to kind of that skeleton moment of like looking at just like the room in general like how are you going to like frame are you going to be do you like waking up in a dark color or like do you want to be like I really do think like this is a really successful thing for most people to employ um it's just to try even like with a sugar house we didn't go like dark dark dark it was just kind of a medium saturation but you felt something yeah more than you felt like in the befores right it was addressed and it felt yeah it just still felt like the gauzy blanket was on the walls in that one for me yeah um i just thought that that was so beautiful so i would say like really try and understand what do you want to feel like i feel nothing in a neutral space so it makes sense that i'm going dark on my bedroom but that's not everybody so like really understand what like look at pictures what do you want to feel um when you go to sleep and when you wake up in the morning um and then that'll like kind of i think gear you toward if you're going to like be something more deep or if you're going to still like stay on the light or what is what is the heroic moment you know there i think another key for me besides getting the color right is layers of light because you're going to experience the space in the morning like you talked about also at nighttime and so in this room that we're talking about with him he's got roman shades that are all pulled up to let that light in but at night he can pull down the window coverings to get privacy and it really is a deep space but then you're going to want that lamp light or that art light turned on or maybe the overhead if you're getting ready to go out or looking for something but i really think bedrooms almost more than anything need lots of layers of light because we do spend probably the most time in them at night and the and you're not getting that light in there, especially in the winter.

28:12Alice Lane:So being able to turn on those lights and not the overhead one so much, or if it is get a dimmer on that bedroom. But I, when I think about being in my bedroom at night, do you guys just mostly have your lamp lights on? Only. Only. Yeah. And there's nothing more beautiful too. Like even if it's just my dresser light, if I'm trying to need like everybody to be quiet, cause my kids are asleep, I have my dresser light on. Everything looks more beautiful in there with just that light on, or just like both lamps on, on the bedside tables like it's such a mood it is such a mood I also have um floor lamps that are flanking a little sofa in my bedroom so mine's usually the floor lamps and the and the bedside table lamps that are turned on and none of the overhead stuff yeah and then the draperies are closed and you know it's just such a scene and such a mood so I would say spend time getting your lamp light right you're gonna have layers of light like we talked about depending on the times of usage but even this little art-like trick that we used in his space having just that art aglow and then you're in bed with your nightstands aglow and then he also has a little floor lamp next to this favorite reading chair that's just such a handsome scene and both of those are diffuse like metal shades so it's just like a focus light it's not like a bright blaring shade that's gonna just like radiate too much because you do want it to just be a little bit more of a hum you know not such a blaring light yeah and then I think bedding is another thing in bedrooms that you want to really personalize.

29:36Alice Lane:You all sleep at different temperatures. Different things are comfortable for different people. Maybe you want a sheet that's a little bit silkier. Maybe you want a sheet that's more like linen. This is your opportunity to really get it right, to think about how you both sleep in this stage of your life. And maybe what you liked once before has changed because I know that's true for me and how I like sleeping. And I need a couple layers and my husband doesn't. And so just figuring out how to get those layers just right so that you can sleep great and stay asleep all night. Get yourself a scent.