Hanging over bed

• The canopy on the eaves is attached to the ceiling, it can be placed above the bed, for example, in the form of a sail. The advantage of fastening is that additional structures are not required.
• Canopy-beam. Ideally, you need a special stand for it, but you can get by with a straight wall cornice. This canopy is laconic and simple, and at the same time perfectly completes the look of the room. The disadvantage of this option: the canopy completely loses its functional purpose and becomes an exclusively decorative element.
• Canopy cape. A bed with a high frame does not have to be hung with textiles from floor to ceiling. The symbolic canopy serves as the final decorative touch that softens the space of the bedroom. In order not to complicate your life, it is better to fix the canvas with the help of ribbons sewn to it. Such a canopy is mobile, it is easy to remove and move.
• Canopy tape. Another version of the symbolic and decorative canopy. The advantage of this option is that you don't need a lot of fabric to create this effect. As in the case of a canopy cape, it is better to fasten the structure - with ribbons or textile fasteners, which should be hidden under the folds of the fabric: the point is that the ribbon hovered over the bed without obvious signs of fastening.

• The semi-circular canopy at the headboard has a rather decorative function, covers only a small part of the bed and is a continuation of the headboard.

Which fabrics are suitable for canopies

Canopies and bed curtains are made from different types of fabrics. Natural fabrics that collect less dust and “breathe” are best suited. Let's consider some of them.

• Canopies and curtains for the bed are made from different types of fabrics. Natural fabrics that collect less dust and “breathe” are best suited. Let's consider some of them.
• If the main function of your canopy is zoning, pay attention to delicate, airy, light fabrics. For an adult bedroom, tulle or a veil would be a suitable choice, for a child's bedroom - cotton and linen. The latter pass air well, give the opportunity to "breathe", but easily wrinkle.
• Batiste, satin and tulle will make your canopy more dense, opaque. Please note that you cannot completely curtain the bed with thick fabrics - this is unsafe, especially in children's bedrooms.
• Tapestry, jacquard, velvet will suit those who love a luxurious, royal, rich-looking interior style. But keep in mind that these are quite heavy fabrics, so the fastening must be appropriate. Velvet perfectly absorbs sound and light, but collects a lot of dust and wears out fairly quickly. It is distinguished by seasonality - this material is best used in winter, it is of little use for the warm season. The above fabrics are best used in spacious rooms.

• Silk and satin will make your bedroom passionate and romantic at the same time. But these fabrics are very capricious, they quickly get dirty, puffs easily appear on them, spoiling the appearance.

  Please note that the color scheme of the canopy and the structure to which it is attached must be in harmony with the overall palette of the bed and bedroom.

Which canopy color is best?

In recent years, the theme of environmental friendliness and closeness to nature has been very relevant in interior design. If these are close to you, then choose the color of textiles in natural, natural shades: beige, white, brown, coffee, etc. All these colors will be a little muted, but they will not bother the owners for many years.

It is also important to remember that the color of the canopy in the bedroom should be combined with the textile decoration of the room: bed linen, curtains, decorative pillows. If your bedroom is in the style of Provence or classic, then you can choose a canopy to match the rest of the bedroom textiles, in other cases, you can choose both opposite colors and those close in shade, but a few tones lighter or darker.

In which interiors canopies are used for bed

• Scandinavian minimalism, popular today, involves a small set of furniture. For a canopy in this style, a support or ceiling structure with a minimum number of elements is suitable. It is better to use translucent, light fabrics, the canopy should be light, cloudy, airy.
• Loft. Wood and metal are suitable for a canopy structure, the canopy frame itself can be deliberately rough. We recommend using plain, dense fabrics of “factory” colors: brick, black, brown, sand.
• Neoclassical style combines the luxury of jacquard, tapestry fabrics and the lightness of the second airy layer (tulle, veil). Patterned carved bed elements, tassels, weaving and fringe on fabrics, drapery will perfectly complement this style. A hipped or domed canopy in such an interior will make the bedroom atmosphere even more aristocratic.
• Provence. Light, pastel colors of fabrics combined with floral ornaments, smoothed corners, soft shapes are ideal for a newlyweds' bedroom.
• Light, airy, translucent fabrics are suitable for decorating a bedroom in an oriental style.
• Loved by many, the hygge style will ideally complement a light canopy in natural light colors or made of lace, sewn or macrame. By the way, since all adherents of the Danish style adore natural raw linen, you can safely bring this idea to life!

Remember, the choice of a canopy for decor must be approached with all responsibility. First, decide on its functionality, and only then try to correctly fit it into the environment. And do not forget that in the children's room, reliable fastening is especially important, while the fabric should be light and weightless. Then he will create a pleasant atmosphere and comfort.

Are you afraid to hang shelves/cupboards above your bed?

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13.03.2011 16:46

We recently chose a nursery, noticed that almost all manufacturers recommend such options that something hangs over the child's bed, and sometimes these are quite voluminous cabinets. For a long time I had bookshelves that my father installed on the wall. And then somehow in the winter they collapsed, crushing the music center. Maybe, of course, I collected a lot of books on them, but here’s a fact for you. I can’t think that even half of them would fall on a sleeping child .. The shelves were Soviet, strong, and it wasn’t Ravshan that hung on the snot, but my father, who does everything honestly. But I look at repairs, people are not driven by this, they hang them.

gray cat V.I.P.

13.03.2011 16:53

I don't feel comfortable either when something is above the bed. We, here it was in a single room, fenced off a room for a child, and mirrors were hung on the wall to visually increase the space. One night, a mirror fell on the sleeping daughter. Everything worked out, the mirror did not break, but it hurt and frightened me very much. so I will never hang anything in the sleeping area on the wall again.

Gloria with Mom **K**

13.03.2011 17:12

I don't hang. As a child, in a dream, a heavy carpet fell on me, I woke up from the fact that I was suffocating, it was difficult to get out of sleep. And before that, shelves hung there ... As I imagined ... Well, what for. I am also always surprised at the manufacturers, and even more so at those who buy this.

Anonymous

13.03.2011 17:19

So I'm not alone, but while we were choosing, the sellers looked at me like I was crazy that I didn't want to hang anything over the bed, my husband also chuckles, but approves.

gray cat V.I.P.

03/13/2011 20:08

I thought that I was the only one with such thoughts, I was also going to start a top :) So there are more of us :)

Bee V.I.P.

13.03.2011 17:48

OOO..You are not alone. Once a shelf with books (attached by the father, to the conscience) collapsed on the desk. The roar was .... no one and nothing hurt, but since then nothing heavier than a picture hangs on the walls in my house))) There are no upper cabinets in the kitchen, etc. But 20 years have already passed ......

A

03/13/2011 19:32

are not alone:) once in my deep childhood, the mirror in the corridor collapsed, I won’t hang anything over any sleeping place because I’m afraid, and it seems to me unpleasant to sleep if something is above my head hanging. ..

Selka C.B.

13.03.2011 22:18

I am against hanging anything!

Hope ***

13.03.2011 23:35

Usually in children's rooms, what hangs above the bed is not attached to the wall. This design is shaped like a "bridge" and is screwed to the cabinets that are on the sides of the bed. So it can't fall off. Here is an example of such a bridge: http://www.mebel-credit.ru/detskaya-mebel-adriatika/m-1975-most-nad-krovatyu-2-door-1-polka.htm

Anonymous

15.03.2011 08:39

My children have a bunk bed. It’s also scary when the elder starts to spin on top. and the shelves ... They also fell on me as a child. And also at night. I wonder if they did it on purpose?

Sobina _

15. 03.2011 20:23

I will never hang anything over my bed.

Old Wallet *

03/21/2011 08:16

When we hung these shelves above the bed, and on the sides of the bed we have cabinets on both sides, so my husband, also fearing that God forbid they might fall off, made through holes from the cabinet to the hanging shelf and pulled them together with bolts. It turned out like a "P". The shelf, in addition to being fixed to the wall itself, is also reinforced on both sides with cabinets.

Swella *

23.03.2011 06:15

Oh, and we also have)) I also look at children's interiors and don't understand - why hang over the head? In a word, it’s also confused) and the sellers react this way - only those who don’t have children yet)) then they will also be perplexed)

Nale **K**

13. 03.2011 18:08

You are not alone at all :), I am also against having something hanging over a sleeping child, so I never even consider such options. In our old apartment, a rack fell one night (it was from floor to ceiling and was attached to the wall ...) no one was hurt, but there was noise !! I don't understand how you can take risks for the sake of the harmony of the interior...

puzayka *

03/13/2011 18:16

We also don't hang.

vtehina(dnt[byf) **

13.03.2011 18:32

As a child, shelves hung over the headboard, but the walls were very thin... Once, one fastening came off, but not from the wall, but near the shelf itself... It was unpleasant when it became clear that could have been on the head. Now there is nothing above our heads and the child. Although, in the future, maybe, we will hang light shelves for soft toys

Serebryakova +

13.03.2011 20:39

I will NEVER hang! There were 2 cases in my life. 1) Shelves that hung over the bed collapsed on my girlfriend, it was before my eyes, a terrible sight, if it crashed on a child like that - I don’t know what would happen. 2) In a rented apartment, shelves hung above the children's changing table, once foolishly we put an old hard drive on the top shelf and safely forgot about it. It fell off the shelf about a year later, and just when I was changing my son's clothes, next to his head, God ..., I got gray hair, it's good that it didn't hurt. For the youngest son, the diaper was moved away from these shelves.

Dominic **K**

13.03.2011 21:58

Definitely not! And not only over the child's bed. In addition to the risk of falling, it is also terribly uncomfortable when something is hanging over your head)))

Brusia **K**

13.03.2011 23:18

I also saw in my parents' apartments (mine and my husband's) how bookshelves fell down, very securely built into concrete walls by dads. Fortunately, in all cases they fell on the floor / sofas without hitting people. But it all looked terrible, especially at the thought that it could fall on people like that. ;-(( And large carpets also fell (fortunately, not entirely and not on people, but again, it was impressive). I had to hang a sconce over the children's beds, and more pictures, but only in the lightest frames without glass. But not in no shelves!!

Iris74 **

13.03.2011 23:49

I have never hung something like this and never will hang it over my bed. I have a rich imagination, as I imagine that a shelf or a wardrobe can fall on a sleeping child (or adult), I feel bad. A long time ago, a carpet hung over my bed, 1 more time a picture, a canvas without a frame. once this picture fell, although it seemed to be hanging securely, well, because was just a canvas, then they got off with just a fright, since then I don’t even hang pictures above the bed.

Daughter of the Night **K**

13.03.2011 23:54

I'm afraid too. I will never hang.

Elena beautiful V.I.P.

03/14/2011 01:37

well, wow! I also doubted, they told me that I was suspicious.

03/14/2011 08:24

In modern children's rooms, the method of attaching shelves above the bed is absolutely safe, because the shelf is not attached to the wall, but hangs due to intersection ties, between cabinets, or on the 1st side if there is no cabinet, a support shield is placed.

KATYUSHA V.I.P.

03/14/2011 14:49

Thank you for the information, reassured! And then I read a lot of horrors, got upset, because I definitely decided to buy one Italian nursery with shelves hanging over the beds.

Natalia.

03/15/2011 23:48

the only problem is that children will again use all this beauty. and they will give a load and an overload)))))), who knows what will come to their mind, what kind of load they will put there, whether they will want to swing on it, hang on it, etc. ... any shelf will collapse from such stress, even the strongest))))

lolo_fisher **

03/14/2011 12:47

I'm glad I'm not alone. I don’t like it either (it’s psychological, it seems to me, it “presses”) + according to Feng Shui, it’s kind of bad :) But the most priority is safety. They even refused to hang a shelf above the table, and it was not even planned to be above the bed - terribly ...

grusha C.B.

03/14/2011 13:14

It is psychologically pressing, rightly said. But modern designers love this business for some reason. And a lot of children's rooms are built according to this principle. They call it a "bridge" - it connects the cabinets / racks and then the whole composition looks better. It seemed to me that it was even very personal in appearance, but from the point of view of psychology and functionality - I refused this when designing a nursery. In her youth, she slept at a party under a bookshelf full of books. At night, the local cat amused itself by jumping on apartment furniture and accidentally throwing off everything that was there. As a result, I woke up at night in confusion from the fact that all the books from the shelf fell on me ... Well, my head was under the shelf and everything spilled out in the chest / stomach area. But there was little pleasant;)

Evitta V.I.P.

14.03.2011 13:32

we have a shelf hanging over the bed. fastened to the wall and to the adjacent cabinets. seems to be sturdy construction

Anonymous

03/14/2011 16:11

We are also very confused on this topic. Therefore, now the problem is to make a nursery in a small area and so that it fits as much as possible.

Shy Piglet V.I.P.

03/15/2011 00:06

I have already read above about modern methods of "hanging" shelves, but I can also tell a horror story. AT 90 years, Soviet bookshelves hung over my mother’s bed, once it was at NIGHT that they both collapsed, they didn’t hit by a miracle, no one even thought when they hung that they could fall ... They stood on top of each other just before (before they hung the wall), there was no load on the sag, it might have dried up, maybe it just ended unexpectedly. But there was a lot of roar and fear, as I remember right now. If now they make TYPE reliably, it might be worth a try, but even then...

mireka **K**

15.03.2011 01:04

Won in the top about Stylish kitchens discussing how to hang cabinets on carnations. And like this, some armless ones will hang over the child, but God forbid, it’s better to hang pictures of children or photographs.

Anonymous

03/15/2011 07:59

There are cupboards hanging on the floor. I also freak out terribly. But the husband says that there are 20 cm bolts screwed into the concrete wall, and everything is attached to the ceiling from above. But I still twitch :(

Innulia V.I.P.

03/15/2011 08:56

Nothing hangs, because we do not need trouble.

Sanflower V.I.P.

15.03.2011 19:39

As a child, a wall sconce fell on my head, also at night. Terribly, he had such a heavy and sharp edges, got off with scratches. Then they bought me a floor lamp. And in my adult life, I don’t have wall-mounted lamps in my house. And the shelves were there, they didn't fall :)

Anonymous

15.03.2011 19:41

I'm afraid and don't hang up.

Anjelika7 **K**

16.03.2011 11:22

I don't hang anything over the bed at all, neither over my own, nor over the nursery, although nothing has ever fallen on me, but I'm still afraid

Lera's mother V.I.P.

17.03.2011 10:18

I will never hang lockers there, I don't understand, who buys this? maximum photo framed, etc.

Saint V.I.P.

17.03.2011 17:29

and I hung it up and am very pleased, the shelves are not bulky, they don’t put pressure on my head, and because we don’t have enough space, the shelves are salvation, if you’re interested in the passport photo, folder repair password 6262

ksenia-n ** K * *

19.03.2011 21:17

It's very nice, light and cozy in your place.

anchou**

03/22/2011 21:58

thanks!

ksenia-n **K**

21.03.2011 16:05

As in the car on the bottom shelf.

Anonymous

22.03.2011 21:59

your remark is incomprehensible

ksenia-n **K**

23. 03.2011 20:27

Cool you posted everything.

Chersik *

17.03.2011 19:58

I don't hang, and I won't. And in general, this is not Feng Shui :-)

M a r m i C.S.

18.03.2011 17:44

We have such children's furniture, BUT the shelves besides the walls are also screwed to the cabinets on both sides. Heavy things are not stored on these shelves. And it is very comfortable to sleep there, in the absence of a child, I myself am happy to settle down with him.

Chydo *

18.03.2011 20:19

I don't hang anything over the beds. And in my youth, a flower in a pot fell on me, which stood on a shelf above the sofa in the kitchen. Since then I've been afraid of flowers on the walls :)

Kajakas C. S.

18.03.2011 20:33

One gets the impression that something once hit everyone here ... And now no one hangs anything anywhere anymore. Why does everyone live in mansions, where there are so many storage places that children's fears calmly walk in their heads? A chandelier fell on me - moreover, when I passed under it. What now I do not groom under the chandeliers?? I hang shelves over the children's bed and sleep peacefully, because I myself controlled how they were attached. But everything is stored in their places, and not littered with rubbish

Anonymous

03/18/2011 20:54

it's better not to take risks with children.... IMHO - it's better to hang these shelves over your bed, so at least you can give it to the head and precautions will increase

Anonymous

18.03.2011 21:22

I didn't get hit. It fell nearby. Enough storage space. I wouldn't call it mansions))

A

03/18/2011 21:34

Well, yes, if you choose - order in the house or a shelf on the head of a child, better, order, of course

Anonymous

03/18/2011 21:51

as my good friend says: "everything that can break - will break, everything that can fall - will fall"

Lilunya **K**

18.03.2011 22:05

I didn't write this))

A

18.03.2011 22:07

I wrote about the topic, not for you, just answered in this thread

Lilunya **K**

03/20/2011 08:25

I don't hang

Shu-shu **

03/21/2011 08:18

They have been hanging for 2 years. See above how they strengthened it so that they would not fall.

Swella *

21.03.2011 15:32

No, I will never hang. Not even because I'm afraid that it's unsafe (with current technologies, it's all likely that it's really safe), but because of the psychological discomfort that you have "something" hanging over your head. At friends, some children were even afraid of hanging shelves at night.

Katarinochka **

21.03.2011 23:39

I'm afraid and therefore I will never hang. Rather, it does not even concern the shelves, but there are more lockers. I don't even morally like these options

Nick V.I.P.

03/22/2011 09:16

we also looked after the bedroom with hanging shelves at the head. then, as she imagined that something would be hanging over her head, she refused, despite saving space with such furniture. IMHO, security is more expensive. it is better to take a children's corner with shelves above the table than something will put pressure on the sleeping person above the bed, and also threaten to crumble

olgacock _

22.03.2011 22:37

But I want such a child for my girls http://www.mebelclub.ru/children/ferretti-ferretti/ferretti-ferretti-16/ And now I doubt it. Although it is unlikely that the Italians would have created an unsafe design for children. Girls, what do you think?

Anonymous

23.03.2011 00:51

Feretti were ordered from us many times, exactly similar options, there were no problems (pah, pah, pah), but the point here is not the Italians, but the walls on which everything will be attached, in the hands assemblers, in what you plan to load into these designs.

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