Wall art for bedroom above bed

27 Over the Bed Decorating Ideas That Work for Any Style

Sarah Fultz Interiors

Clueless on what to do with that teeny space above your bed? Should you go bold or neutral? Flat or spiky? Pattern or plain? It depends. Decorating your bedroom starts with setting a focal point. For most bedrooms, your bed is your focal point (and what you put over is just the icing on the cake).

Focal points matter. Without them, a space can feel disjointed and scattered. Even though there aren’t any hard and fast rules on decorating over your bed, it’s always a good idea to pick décor in line with your bedroom theme— and attach it securely, of course.

But the good news is that there are an infinite number of over the bed wall art ideas you can pick from (no matter your style or color palette).

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Brexton Cole Interiors

Whether it's a portrait of you, someone you love, or a complete stranger, placing a striking face above your head is a distinct décor choice. And regardless of whether or not this style resonates with you, it's definitely a conversation starter.

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Casa Watkins Living

Window or not, hanging curtains behind your bed adds just enough interest without being too over the top. Plus, curtains provide a soft backdrop to your bed, giving your entire space a soothing feel. To achieve a look that’s easy on the eyes (as shown in this bedroom), pick a neutral hue that blends with the rest of your color palette.

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Alvin Wayne

Add inspiration to your space with eye-catching art. We especially love how this blooming art panel evokes a sense of movement and cheer in this bedroom (thanks to its vibrant splatters with seemingly every color on the color wheel).

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Reena Sotropa

There’s no doubt—wallpaper can make any space stylish. The best part: once you’ve wallpapered the area behind your bed, you’ve eliminated the need for anything else. And with peel-and-stick options, you can DIY this piece of décor every time you grow tired of it. We appreciate the wallpaper above—its whimsical lines lend this bedroom a modern tone that’s still playful.

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Doris Roberts Interiors

If wallpaper isn’t enough, add a piece of art that spans the height and width of your over the bed space. Before you commit to anything, be sure to scout a piece of art that complements your wallpaper (or vice versa) so they make a chic design pair.

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Anne Sage

For a show-stopping look, style your space with a custom mural. Whether you bring in a space theme, a backdrop of trees, or pink flamingos is completely up to you. This trick is guaranteed to draw the eye upwards, which is ideal for small spaces that could benefit from the illusion of a little extra height. And if your artistic ability starts and stops at stick figures, use decals and peel-and-stick mural options instead.

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Gail Davis Designs

The general rule of thumb for placing artwork over your bed: pick a piece that’s about two-thirds the width of your bed. This creates the perfect scale. But, for a dynamic focal point, you can also pick a piece of art that spans the full width of your bed. We love this modern piece of artwork etched in a black matte.

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Arbor & Co.

If boho-style design interiors inspire you, try a shaggy handwoven tapestry to layer in some texture into your space. For this space, this wall hanging is woven in neutral shades of camel and black—a two-toned look that will pair well with most wall colors. Plus, it's an easy way to warm up and elevate your bedroom.

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Blakely Interior Design

Double-raised paneled walls are timeless; a style that will never tire. For a subtle look, paint your wall in a neutral shade or match it to your white trim. For something more daring, paint it in a dark or bright hue.

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Ashley Webb Interiors

Why not have a custom wooden headboard that doubles as a work of art? If you’re handy, this may be a great DIY project to tackle. Bonus points: it will certainly add interest to any stark white wall.

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Becca Interiors

If you don’t have brick architecture built in, you can always apply realistic faux brick veneers or 3D brick wallpaper that looks (and feels) just like the real thing. This brick wall naturally acts as a piece of art. Topping it off with a pretty mirror adds a nice glow too.

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Britt Design Studio

For a decidedly more subtle statement, install a horizontal trim over your bed. It’s a simple way to add something overhead that will go with just about anything you throw its way. Think: paint changes, patterned sheets, or bright paint colors.

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Black and Blooms

For a zen over the bed wall art idea, weave in a little piece of nature. Lack a green thumb? This is your time to shine. Just use a photo or print of nature and pop it in a pretty frame. For a “gallery-like” look, choose a frame with an oversized matte. Or, collect and dry your own blooms and frame them instead. You can also buy pre-made naturally dried botanicals and display them in a stunning case.

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JLA Designs

Your headboard can moonlight as wall décor too. To get the look just right (and add some drama to your space), look for headboard on a regal scale. These tall iterations come in every look, from pleated, tufted, and plain to curved styles and shapes. For the ultimate height, aim for headboards that peak at 75 inches tall (or more). Taller headboards can look gorgeous in large rooms (especially those with high ceilings). For smaller rooms, it may be best to stick to shorter styles to create more visual space. Average headboards fall at about 59 inches.

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Chelius House of Design

This skinny rectangular piece of art showcases a black and white sketch of a landscape. Landscape art can run the gamut from two-toned sketches to photorealistic images to abstract iterations.

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Twelve 15 Design Studio

For a creative way to purge your space of boredom, install custom woodwork over your bed. This design reminds us of paint drips or digital sound waves cut in half. How about you? Let your imagination run free.

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Gray Space Interiors

Poster or canopy beds add enough interest and depth to your bed area, eliminating the need to put a piece of décor above. For this bedroom, you'll notice how the bed’s back end forms a crisp line straight across.

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Nile Johnson Interior Design

Rattan is a naturally growing vine. But there are also seagrass, cotton, and jute woven baskets you can hang right above your bed. This is an easy (and cheap) way to decorate your dream bedroom. Plus, it's eco-friendly.

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Sarah Fultz Interiors

Sleek, abstract canvas art is a surefire way to add substance to your space. On the fence about dealing with a pricey art tag? Paint your own free-form piece instead.

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Yael Weiss Interiors

If you’re ready to plunge into a unique design territory—try adding sculptures over your bed. It's an artful decorating idea and a great place to think outside of the box.

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Forbes Masters

This natural grape wood branch makes a striking piece of art over this pleated Chanel-style velvet bed. If you like this look, but want a slightly different variation, search for driftwood panels or tree branch art pieces. With dozens of options out there, something's bound to catch your eye.

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Hannah Tyler Designs

Seize the opportunity to use every vertical inch of your over the bed space with a gallery wall. With this over the bed wall art idea, you'll not only add another layer to your bedroom design but get a chance to dress up your space with memories. Plus, you don’t need to stick to framed art. Try displaying your collectibles here too for a cool, eclectic feel.

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If Walls Could Talk

Curtains make this list twice—only this time, it’s all about color. Here, these curtains feel and look like a large-scale piece of art (or accent wall). We don’t mind its function too. The thicker the curtain, the more light blocked for a restful slumber.

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Andreas von Einsiedel / Getty Images

This brass ornate mirror doubles as a piece of art. You can also take out the mirror and display the frame itself (as shown in this space). Plus, mirrors come in a myriad of sizes, shapes, and colors, so it’s an easy way to add a pop of beauty to your bedroom.

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JK Interior Living

Deck out your walls with a standout framed agate crystal set. Pick crystals that complement your bedroom's color palette.

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Katie Hodges Design

It’s never a bad design decision to add art with a personal touch. Whether it’s an iPhone photo or a professionally photographed snapshot, pick a photo that means something to you. We love this beach framed black and white photo displaying soothing waves.

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Afro Bohemian Living

If all else fails, you can always choose to have a bare wall in a hue that complements the rest of your bedroom design. Your wall itself becomes a full-size piece of art (without the extra stuff).

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8 ideas on how to decorate the wall at the head of the bed - INMYROOM

Interior decor

Composition of mirrors or hats, a wall shelf with decor and LED lighting - we tell you how to make the wall at the head the main accent in the bedroom, using the example of "our" projects

The wall behind the head of the bed often remains empty, but it can be use as a testing ground for creative experiments. Paintings, decorative panels, shelves with decor - we take an example from Russian designers.

Picture + mirrors

If one picture in the headboard seems lonely, hang tall mirrors on the sides of the bed. They will add volume, light and visually enlarge the space, as it turned out in Antonina Sinchugova's project.

INMYROOM choice:

Decorative panel

Why reinvent the wheel if everything has already been invented for us? Designers from the studio of Natalia Patrusheva used a decorative panel in the bedroom for a young girl - the easiest and most effective way to decorate the wall at the head. The main thing is that the decor is combined with the interior in color or theme.

INMYROOM's choice:

Cameroon hat

Designer Olga Zaretskikh decided to add a bit of exoticism to the interior of the Stalinist apartment with the help of a Cameroon hat made of feathers Ju-ju. You can hang it alone or create a composition: make sure that the color hats matched with the rest of the shades in the room.

INMYROOM Choice:

Wall Shelf

Extra storage above the bed is easy! Fasten at the head of one or more bookshelves and place on them decorative objects, paintings, candles, books - everything that should be in plain sight, as the designers of the Flatforfox studio did it.

INMYROOM selection:

3 900 ₽

Kristal shelf

Dimensions:

Width

97 cm

Depth

24 cm

Or odd shaped shelf

The shelf itself can become an art object. For example, designers from Zeworkroomstudio decorated the wall in the bedroom with a shelf with silhouettes of houses - it turned out unusual and modern. At the same time, you can save on decor - after all, you need a minimum of it.

INMYROOM selection:

Sold

MENSA shelf

Dimensions:

Width

40 cm

Height

Depth

15 cm

Mirror collection

Single or complete a collection of mirrors will visually expand the space small bedroom, will create a game of glare from lamps and candles and become a real art object. This is exactly what designer Olga Shapovalova did in her bedroom.

INMYROOM choice:

Composition from frames

Designer Marina Merenkova was limited by a small budget when designing a bedroom in Khrushchev. At the same time, the decor at the head turned out to be spectacular: empty frames of a contrasting color were placed on a plain wall. Take note!

INMYROOM Choice:

Decorative Words and Letters

Who says a wall can't talk? Place wooden words or phrases above the bed that have a you value. In the loft-style bedroom, designer Olga Raiskaya went further and used flexible LED backlighting — it turned out to be an alternative to a night light.

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Bedroom wall decoration above the bed: headboard ideas

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There are a lot of ideas on how to decorate the walls of the bedroom. We decided to focus on the design of the headboard area. After all, it is she who helps to create a single interior ensemble with furniture and textiles. It is worth approaching the decor of an accent wall really seriously, then it will be able to change the look of the entire room.

Panels made of 3D panels, molding frames, compositions using mirrors, themed wallpaper inserts, LED lighting, creating niches and even custom hanging pictures - we offer you a selection of ways to effectively decorate your bedroom, turning it into a real abode of dreams and recreation.

W109

The quickest way to create an accent wall with your own hands is to create decorative panels from Orac Decor polyurethane. Depending on the location on the wall, the relief of the panels is suitable for creating a vertical, horizontal or even diagonal visual dominant. The same design can be placed on the wall at different angles to give the joints a mosaic effect. No more counting sheep before going to bed, just focus on changing the direction of the lines!

W108 | W111

The wall by the bed can be decorated from floor to ceiling with panels of one design, or a combination of several articles can be made. The lower part of the wall in this case will act as a small border, emphasizing the height of the soft headboard.

W108 | SX194 | W109

Paint the other walls of the bedroom a more soothing color and you're done! In order to create a calmer interior, create a "roll call" between the details of the accent wall and the built-in furniture. For example, in the decor of cabinet doors.

Niche-shaped walls: highlighting the headboard with color

When planning a bedroom, when the bed is “buried” in a niche, you can enhance the effect of depth by using a dark shade of paint for the walls and part of the ceiling. Complement the wall decor with moldings so that their line runs just above the headboard, and pick up an expressive high plinth and cornice to complete the “frame”.

SX155 | | C217

Decorating the wall behind the head of a narrow bed: the secret is in the mirrors

An accent wall with a mirror decor will decorate even a modest bedroom. Reflections optically expand the space, so feel free to use this decorating technique to add a little intrigue to the room. Wall mirrors will look especially organic in narrow vertical molding frames above bedside tables.

W100 | P4020

Fragments of mirrors can also become part of the mosaic panel above the head of the bed. For these purposes, compact elements W100 Rombus, W101 Trapezium, W105 Rombus, W106 Envelop and W107 Circle are suitable. By covering some of their faces with mirrors, you will additionally emphasize the visual volume of the decor. For safety reasons, you can replace the mirrors with foil wallpaper.

Walls with additional decor in the form of lighting

Bedroom interior design can be completely different. Whether it's minimalism, scandi or classic romanticism, style only partly determines the mood of a room. In addition to textiles and color palette, lighting design plays an important role in wall and ceiling decor. As a headboard in the bedroom, you can use not only wall panels, but also wide Orac Decor ceiling cornices, which provide for the possibility of hidden lighting with LED strip. A bright headboard will turn into a real art object and will replace night lamps.

C371 | W108 | W112

Colour, light and relief are the three key decorating techniques. If you decorate not only the wall, but also part of the ceiling with 3D illuminated panels, a special atmosphere in the bedroom is guaranteed. By the way, do not be afraid that dark paint will give the walls a gloomy look. In combination with neon lighting, this solution will add sensuality and passion to the interior of the bedroom.

W109

Wall above the bed, decorated with paintings

To fit paintings and posters into the overall interior composition, use molding frames. They will replace bulky baguettes and additionally emphasize the size of the paintings. A creative frame made of moldings painted in the color of the walls will help to achieve a balance between paintings, lamps and other decor items.

W109

Headboard Wall: Wallpapering Techniques

Wallpaper pattern can also be a key element when creating an accent wall. Use wallpaper with a plot composition or wallpaper with imitation of brickwork as an insert into a frame of moldings at the head - this will add brightness to the interior without being frivolous.

W111 | SX194

W111 Bar with the popular wooden slat effect can be added as a side element to the wallpaper. Such a decor will additionally protect the headboard area to minor damage and withstand wet cleaning without problems, provided that anti-vandal paint is used.

When the height of the ceilings allows experimentation, the headboard in the bedroom can be decorated with a 3D panel.

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