Japanese design and culture has now entered bedroom decor. This is for good reason: Many people find its simple lines soothing. Since your bedroom is your innermost retreat, your sanctuary, it should offer you comfort as you enter the room. By utilizing sparing, but luxurious, Japanese decor and design, you can create a relaxing, meditative, bedroom. How do you go about creating a Japanese styled bedroom? Let's find out.
Start from the bottom up, and consider your flooring. Would you like traditional tatami (tightly woven straw) mat flooring? It is very comfortable to bare feet. Traditional Japanese design requires a certain mat layout that dictates certain room dimensions. Modern Japanese-inspired decor may use a traditional tatami mat layout as a floor insert surrounded by other flooring or one tatami mat on top of hard flooring to use as a yoga mat.
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Next is the central feature of a Japanese-style bedroom - a futon or platform bed. In Japanese design, this bed does not have a footboard or, sometimes, a headboard. It has an extended platform on which the mattress sits in the middle. It usually does not have box springs. It sits low to the ground and sometimes well away from all walls. Use all silk bedding in a single rich color to continue the Japanese theme (and to pamper yourself). Add several silk pillows to your platform bed to complete the effect.
Add shoji-style lamps for lighting. Their translucent panels are especially good for creating warm, diffused lighting. Put one on a dimmer switch on either side of the bed and have bright enough light for reading or soft, romantic lighting from the same lamps. Shoji doors could replace French doors leading into your bathroom or out onto your deck. Skylights also look classy framed to appear shoji-style.
Remember to keep bedside tables and other tables in the bedroom area low. Keep them in proportion to the height of your bed. If your bedroom also has a sitting area, consider keeping the Japanese theme and use a low table and zabuton (the seating cushions).
You should also consider adding a tokonoma, which is a small, raised alcove in which you might display a wall scroll, and other decorative features. A sliding-door wall closet can be opened up and trimmed to make a deep tokonoma. A shallow alcove can be framed out and set in the wall. If you are displaying a tall, narrow object, you can even put a tokonoma between studs. Traditionally, the decorations are changed every month or so. Small geisha dolls, a bonsai tree, or a Buddha statue are other ideas for your tokonoma decorations.
So there you go.
When you are ready for a soothing bedroom makeover, consider Japanese design ideas. Whether you go completely traditional with a tamaki room, and all the proper accents or whether you choose a lighter impact, only incorporating a few Japanese-inspired items in with your traditional bed and flooring, a bedroom with Japanese style elements is a mentally soothing retreat that you will look forward to visiting at the end of a stressful day.
Special Price!!! Bed Claw Queen/King Footboard Attachment Kit, with Combo Bag
Nov 01, 2011 09:53:02
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Bed Claw Queen/King Footboard Attachment Kit, with Combo Bag Feature
- These footboard brackets attach to your existing headboard-only style bed frame allowing you to attach a bolt-on footboard.
- (2) 13" (Queen/King) Extension Rails, (2) Two Footboard Brackets,(8) Eight Hex Bolts and (8) Eight Locking Tensi-Nuts to attach the extension rails to your Bed Frame
- (4) Four 3 1/2" Bolts, (4) Four Nuts, and (8) Eight Washers for attaching the bracket to your headboard and instructions
- Download installation instructions using this link (PDF File) - http://www.quebot.com/AZN21340
- Although These Rails Are 13" Long, There Is Some Necessary Overlap Between The Extension Rails To Be Bolted To The Bedframe. Because of this Overlap, Your Extension Rails Will Actually Extend The Length of Your Bedframe 11-5/16"
Bed Claw Queen/King Footboard Attachment Kit, with Combo Bag Overview
What These Brackets Do:These footboard brackets attach to your existing headboard-only style bed frame allowing you to attach a bolt-on footboard. Our footboard brackets only work on bed frames that have holes in the side-rails for bolting on the footboard brackets; otherwise, some drilling may be required.
Please Select the Correct Size:
Each Bed Claw footboard kit contains hardware for the size bed you have, please insure you purchase the correct size. The twin and full size kits have a 7" rail extension, while the queen or king size kits have a 13" rail extension. Otherwise, all other parts are the same; the length of the included extension rail determines what bed size it would fit. Click on thumbnails for larger view.
Dimensions Note:
Please note, these Extension Rails are 13" in length. However, when the Extension Rails are bolted to your bedframe, there is some necessary overlap between the bedframe and the extension rails to allow the extension rails to be bolted to the bedframe. Because of this necessary overlap, the extension rails will actually extend the length of your bedframe 11-5/16". Please see the Dimensions illustration under More Views above for an illustrated representation of this necessary overlap.
What's Included:
(2) Two 13" (Queen/King) Extension Rails
(2) Two Footboard Brackets
(8) Eight Hex Bolts and (8) Eight Locking Tensi-Nuts to attach the extension rails to your Bed Frame
(4) Four 3 1/2" Bolts, (4) Four Nuts, and (8) Eight Washers for attaching the bracket to your headboard
Instructions
Although These Rails Are 13" Long, There Is Some Necessary Overlap Between The Extension Rails To Be Bolted To The Bedframe. Because of this Overlap, Your Extension Rails Will Actually Extend The Length of Your Bedframe 11-5/16"
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