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Bedrooms

Cuddle up to the cooler months with Forty Winks

Sleep in style and embrace the change of season with the latest Forty Winks Autumn/Winter bed range.

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Highlights include Geo, a tasteful Solid Victorian Ash and veneer blend featuring built-in shelving, and Accent Luxe, a beautifully upholstered bed frame with an elegantly curved bedhead highlighting subtle stitch detail. The later also offers the practicality of discreet storage, with the option of a front two-drawer base or gas lift function.

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Other styles include Yarra, an African Oak hardwood blanket box suite, Cubist, a versatile design featuring reversible bedhead and interchangeable bedside tables, and Austin, a retro-inspired suite showcasing the unique natural grain features of Mango Hardwood Timber.

Seasons

Forty Winks offer plenty of options for the littlies as well – Flinders features metal accents and rough sawn pine to create a stylish and playful kids zone. Seasons gives you a playful choice of white, aqua, orange and royal blue details on the bed head, bedside tables and tallboy, and Quinn is crafted from Solid Victorian Ash with its own stamp detail on the bed head, creating an edgy, urban appeal. Last but not least, Lexicon is the ultimate in practicality – a bed head with embedded shelving unit, built-in LED light, sensor switch, and foot-end draw mean that kids will have no trouble keeping their rooms neat and tidy.

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Bedrooms Furniture Styling

Custom upholstered bedheads from $149 at Fantastic Furniture

Considering your bed is generally the largest single item in the room, the difference a stylish bedhead can make to your bedroom is immense. And there’s no doubt upholstered bedheads just keep getting more popular.

Now Fantastic Furniture have released a range of affordable, customisable bedheads, designed to make choosing a bed that is perfectly suited to your space and style needs easy. Craig Evans, national visual merchandise manager, says: “Many people are switching on to the fact they don’t have to be an interior designer to showcase their own style and create a look they want for their home.”

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Following on from the success of their MyChoice fabric sofa range last year, the bedheads come in three designs, with more than 100 fabrics to choose from.

Sleek (above) offers a controlled and minimalist look. It has a timber frame and padded foam layer upholstered with the material of your choice, meaning you can make it fun, simple or sophisticated based on your personal preference. Priced from $149.

FASHION BED HEAD QUEEN

Fashion (above) is the current-trend option, featuring smart panelling and a pulled-in upholstery design. This is bold enough to make the bedhead the focus of the room, should you desire, but also simple enough to allow it to blend into the overall room. Priced from $179.

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Finally, there’s the Classic. My personal favourite, it has an elegantly curved design that makes it the perfect combination of traditional homeliness and simple sophistication. Suited to pretty much any room, its countered shape and layer of padded foam make it comfortable as well. Priced from $199.

Craig believes the range allows customers to “create the bedroom of their dreams, styled just how they like it”. Considering the difference a well chosen and beautiful bedhead can make to the overall appearance and atmosphere of a room (not to mention the enjoyment of sleep!), having a customised bed certainly is a great first step to the dream room.

All at under $200 for queen size and Australian made, these are definitely a bargain!

All the bed heads are adjustable to two heights (129cm or 144cm) and attach to your ensemble bed base using a universal bedhead bracket. All come with a six-year frame and support warranty. Visit www.fantasticfurniture.com.au for further information.

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Art Expert Tips Furniture Homewares

7 amateur-friendly DIY projects for your home

DIY projects can be scary (I’ve experienced enough glue-gun fiascos to know that!) but they can also be great fun, cost-efficient and even something to be proud of. Here’s 7 of our best DIY projects, and don’t worry, they’re amateur-friendly!

Buying a bed head for under $50 isn’t going to happen, so why not make one instead? Super easy (I promise) and renter-friendly, all you need is a piece of ply board, sandpaper, paint and paint brush, matte finishing spray, 3M hooks and a pencil. Follow our step-by-step instructions.

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If keeping plants alive is one of your life’s biggest challenges, a terrarium is the perfect answer. Not only are they easy to maintain, they are super easy to make. Follow these nine simple steps and get some greenery into your space.

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While Pinterest and Instagram have their place, nothing quite beats a physical, in the flesh, inspiration/mood board. But let’s be honest, no amount of magazine cut-outs and fabric swatches can hide an ugly cork board! So create your own, with just six supplies and our step-by-step guide.

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When interior and event stylist Steve Cordony undertakes a DIY project you know it’s going to be good, and his upcycled sideboard does not disappoint! With a full list of products, preparation advice and instructions, he gives you all the know-how to tackle an upcycling project with confidence.

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There’s no denying weavings are very on-trend, however, they look seriously complicated to make! But… with just a few simple techniques under your belt, creating a beautiful wall hanging is achievable. Just follow these step-by-step instructions.

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Teepees have rapidly become a staple for every kid’s room, so make sure your child doesn’t miss out! All you need is a $30 investment and in five steps, you’ll be done!

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Original art can often be expensive, so why don’t you give it crack? Sure, you most likely won’t be the next Van Gogh, but by following these achievable steps, you can create a beautiful geometric design. All non-artsy types welcome!

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Bedrooms Expert Tips Furniture Renting

Make your own bed head for under $50 (yes really)!

How to: make your own bed head for under $50 (yes really)!

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I can’t even recall how many conversations I’ve had with people wanting a bed head for their ensemble but not wanting to fork out for an expensive store-bought one. My housemate happened to be one of these people, so we decided to give her room a makeover on a minimal budget. This bed head could actually be the easiest DIY project I have ever done and it’s renter-friendly!

What you need:

1x piece of ply board
Sandpaper
Paint and paint brush
Matt finishing spray
Nails or 3M hooks to attach to wall
Pencil.

Step 1: Picking a pattern & size

The first thing you need to do is work out your tile size. I was working with a double bed, so I went with 39cm x 39cm timber tiles (I wanted to allow for a slight overhang on either side). Deciding on a pattern we both loved and finding something relatively simple to match my poor painting skills was a whole other story! I found so many cool patterns it made it hard to choose, so go with your gut on this one. Trust me when I say the hardest part is deciding on a pattern to put on the tiles. Once you’ve locked in the pattern, it will take you no time at all!

Step 2: Get your supplies

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I headed down to my local hardware store and managed to get everything relatively easily (Hint: Get them to cut your ply for you into your tile size. It’s free, only takes a few minutes, and saves all the mess at your own place!).

Step 3: Mount, draw and paint the tiles

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Mount your tiles to the wall and draw on the pattern you chose. Once you’re happy with the way the pattern will look, paint away. Then all you have to do is wait for it to dry!

Step 4: Spray with finishing spray

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Apply a few coats of finishing spray to your ply tiles and wait for it to dry.

We were lucky that we had some 3M velcro strips laying around. 3M hooks will up the price but understand that if you’re renting, your landlord probably won’t appreciate you nailing the ply tiles to the wall. If you love the idea of this bedhead but don’t have the time to make one yourself, you can always spend a bit more and opt for some of Bonnie and Neil’s ready done gorgeous tiles ($25 each).

Kathryn Bamford is our girl on the ground in Melbourne; you can follow her design adventures on Instagram @thedesignrookie.

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Kids Rooms

BedNest and Cultiver team up on kids bedheads and linen

Bednest, home of upholstered bedheads, and linen brand Cultiver, have collaborated on a classy and classic children’s range.

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Wanting to offer an alternative to parents tired of the garish colours and clunky bed designs crowding the childrens’ market, Nicky Line of BedNest and Nicolle Sullivan of Cultiver joined forces to come up with something altogether more sophisticated but kid-sized.

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Interiors Addict

Macrame neon bedheads, for big kids and small

These are a bit cool. And they’re tapping into two current trends: neon (yes, still not going anywhere) and macrame (tell me you’ve seen those pot plant hangers?).

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The Neon Vintage macrame bedheads are handmade in Brisbane and stocked by Petite Vintage Interiors. Of course they’re not actually a bedhead, more a suggestion of a bedhead. They just look fab. No practical use whatsoever. But  the same can be said of jewellery. Case in point?!

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Interiors Addict

The winner of the BedNest giveaway is…

Ashlin Fong from WA! Congratulations!

She sent in this room photo and we chose her because we loved her reasoning behind why it was her dream sanctuary. I think it’s very Carrie Bradshaw too, Ashlin! It doesn’t hurt that navy and hot pink is one of my favourite colour combinations and you can’t beat adding a touch of gold!

BedNest owner Nicky Line, who judged the winner with me, said: “I really liked the combo of contemporary and pretty working together. I love the feature wall and parquet floor.”

Ashlin wins the upholstered Maddison bedhead worth $1,699. Everyone who entered will be emailed a 10% discount code to use by the end of February.

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Homewares

Win this upholstered bedhead from BedNest and make your bedroom a beautiful sanctuary

This post is sponsored by BedNest.

The Maddison is the latest divine design in BedNest’s range of upholstered bedheads, bringing a little luxe from Manhattan to your home. The angled, tapered side wings are studded in either antique brass or silver. Stunning in plain velvet, she’s available in a huge range of fabrics, like the satin-based Castello pattern featured here.

Central to BedNest’s philosophy is the idea that your bedroom should be a haven, a sanctuary, a nest; a place where your personality shines through. They understand that transforming your bedroom into something incredible can be overwhelming and time-consuming and that’s how BedNest came about.

A BedNest freestanding upholstered bedhead is the simple way to breathe life into your room by injecting colour, warmth, texture and personality. No fancy fittings or brackets required, the bedheads just slot in behind your ensemble or slatted bed-base.

A simple 3-step online process is all it takes to make the transformation and they’ll guide you every step of the way. Choose from their range of designs, then select the size and finally a fabric and colour that best suits your nest. There’s also a Bespoke BedNest service that offers you the chance to tweak any of their existing designs or even start from scratch using photos, magazine tear sheets or sketches.

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