Pine Furniture for your Bedroom

Pine furniture is great for a simply-furnished bedroom.

Pine furniture looks great anywhere in your home, but many people choose it for the bedroom because of its country cottage looks and sturdy nature. You can buy pine bedroom furniture as a set, or pick up pieces as time goes by. Whether you want to maximise storage or create a relaxing person area that’s just for you, pine furniture can help to set the scene.

Pine Furniture Choices

Although pine furniture is a single category within the furniture market, there’s a lot more to it than one style and colour. Pine comes in a range of natural colours, but it can also be stained, varnished and painted to give it a very different look. If you’re opting for a shabby chic bedroom, look for distressed, painted pine furniture, which can give you that relaxed but elegant feel. On the other hand, if you love the warmth of colour that natural pine can give you, stick with traditional finishes and styles to create a cosy bedroom:

• Pine beds – the most important piece of pine furniture in your room is the bed. This isn’t because it’s the most expensive or even the largest piece; it’s because you will spend around one third of your life sleeping on it. Make sure you buy the best quality pine bed base you can afford, along with a really good mattress. This will help to ensure that your bedroom not only looks great but gives you night after night of top quality sleep.

• Wardrobes – whether it’s a small two-door wardrobe, or something on a much grander scale, this is one piece of pine furniture that should be built to last. A good quality wardrobe needs to be sturdy and strong, so that it can support the weight of clothing rails and shelving when the wardrobe is full. Good workmanship will show itself in the way the doors hang, the types of joints used and how solid the wardrobe feels once it’s in place.

• Drawers and tables – if you’re buying pine furniture as a bedroom set, you will probably find that you can pick and choose from a range of drawers, dressing tables and bedside tables. Choose the ones that are most practical for you, bearing in mind not only what you want to store in the drawers, but also how much room you have. A deep chest of drawers may not leave enough room for you to walk past, and bedside tables that are too or low may be uncomfortable for you to use. Take the time to work out which elements of the pine furniture set will work best in your bedroom.

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