Interior Designer Tips for Styling Low Platform Beds

Low platform beds bring a grounded, restful quality to a bedroom, and styling them well comes down to working with their height rather than against it. Designers tend to keep everything else in the room a little lower too, choosing short bedside tables, a large rug that runs well beyond the frame, wall lights or low lamps, and artwork hung closer to the headboard than usual. Generous, relaxed bedding stops a low bed from looking flat, while natural materials such as oak, linen and wool reinforce its calm character. In this guide we share the approaches interior designers commonly use with low frames, from getting the proportions of a room right and choosing the rug size to layering textiles, lighting the space and deciding what to put on the wall. We also cover practical considerations, such as getting in and out of a lower bed comfortably, airflow beneath the mattress and how these frames suit smaller UK bedrooms....