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Welcome to Gothic Bedroom Design
Do you want to sleep in a Gothic castle? Do you love the medieval look? Take a look at my Gothic Bedroom Design lens for ideas, options, and how-to advice for designing your own Gothic bedroom. You'll find links to Gothic style bedding, Gothic color combinations, faux painting tips to make your bedroom look old, medieval and Gothic decor accessories, Gothic candlabras, and books on Gothic design to help you get that Medieval look just right!
Why a Gothic Bedroom?
Bela Lugosi Inspired Me
My love of the old Dracula movies inspired me to design my own Gothic bedroom. I so much admired the medieval looking decor that I started really looking at how those castle bedrooms were decorated.The first thing I noticed was the candelabras. Before electricity that was their only form of lighting. For a proper Gothic bedroom you definitely need a great candelabra.
Color scheme is a bit difficult to detect in the old black and white movies but I've found that rich reds, royal purples, deep blacks,satiny golds, and all of the gem colors, work very well. Your bedding pattern must be of a regal design, stripes or crests, or simply solid colors with lots of velvet, lace, and fringe work. The large 4 post bed should be topped with a lacy canopy, or fringy drapes and have an assortment of billowy pillows on it.
Wrought Iron adds a touch of the ancient. Crosses and over door decorations should all be made of wrought iron, or look like it is.
Of course you will still want the modern conveniences of electricity but be sure that it doesn't stand out too much. You can find Gothic looking lamps with scroll work on the bases and even in the upper lighted areas. You can even find lamps and ightbulbs that resemble candles.
Your pictures and accessories should not have a modern look. Think Medieval paintings - swords, dragons, crests, Kings, and Queens. Since my room is based on Dracula, I have a great picture of a vampire, ready to sink his teeth in, at the side of my bed.
The most important thing to remember is to have fun designing your Gothic bedroom. Watch the old movies, study the medieval designs in books and start designing your own castle hideaway!
Vampire Decor for a Gothic Bedroom
A Strand of Garlic
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Garlic Strand Wall Decor
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Faux Painting Gothic Bedroom Walls
How to Create Cracks and Cobwebs
Your Gothic bedroom should have an old look and feel to it. Think dark and dusty without it actually being dirty and filled with cobwebs. Believe it or not, you can acquire this look with a new coat of paint.To get started you need to choose a paint color that compliments your bedding and taste. While a Gothic bedroom should be dark, black paint on the walls isn't neccessary. I'd try to go with tones of a dusty white, sepia, or gray. Stay away from anything bright or flourescent.
I chose to use a nuetral color with a slight golden tone to it as the back color in my bedroom, to match the gold in my bedding and curtains, and a brownish colored paint for the accent, but I believe this technique will work with any color you like.
Once you've chosen your wall color, you'll need to choose an accent color. This color should be in the same family as your chosen wall color,but a shade or two darker. You can also go with a dark gray, or if you've chosen a fairly dark color for your walls, you might want to use black. Test the colors to see if they go together using the paint chip samples at your local paint store.
Once you've got your colors, paint the entire room with the lighter color. Depending on the type of paint you use, this usually takes two coats.
After the paint on your walls is completely dry, comes the fun part! Using a very thin artist's paint brush, or the edge of a folded piece of sturdy paper, paint thin, uneven lines to look like cracks onto your walls, running from the top corners (where two walls meet the ceiling) in varying lengths, no more than 1/4 of the way down the walls. In order to keep your cracks realistic looking, don't go all the way to the floor. If a real wall cracked like that, it would crumble and cave in.
As you paint the lines (cracks) down the walls, keep your paint brush on the dry side, and don't re-wet your brush until you start a new line. The lines should appear darker and fuller near the ceiling and fade away as they descend down the wall, just like actual cracks do.
Do this in all four corners of your room, but don't make the cracks look symetrical, and keep the lines thin. Each corner should have it's own unique look. If you like, you can paint a few "cracks" in the center of the walls, starting from the ceiling, but I don't recommend you do too many. Sometimes, less is more and in this case less cracking will look much more realistic.
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Gothic Bedroom Design Ideas
Throughout this page there are pictures and descriptions of Gothic and Medeval Bedrooms to help you get a good idea of what a Gothic Bedroom should, or could, look like.Although these pictures are limited to what the camera caught, your own Gothic bedroom ideas are limitless. Use these photos and your own imagination to create your unique interpretation of a proper Gothic bedroom.
Have fun with it!
Purple Comforter on eBay
Certain types of purple bedding will look great in a Gothic Bedroom, Unfortunately, I have little control over what is displayed here from eBay.
I want you to have the opportunity here to be able to purchase the royal plums and satiny purple bedding at fantastic eBay pricing, so please excuse any butterfly or dainty floral patterns that may show up here from time to time. And if you are in the market for a purple comforter, and it isn't being displayed at the moment, please stop back here again in a day or two. They do have some really nice ones on a fairly regular basis.
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Gothic Bedroom Window Treatments and Curtains
Your Gothic bedroom window treatments should be long, full, and billowy with sheer panels of lace peeking out through satiny, or velvet, curtains. They should flow and flutter with the breeze of an open window and yet look majestic when sitting still.Your curtain colors should be the same rich colors as your bedding or something similar that will compliment them. Think ruby red, black, gold, or deep purples, and maroons.
I chose liquid gold curtains with black lace and a valance that matches my comforter with black jacquard stripes over gold. I'm very pleased with the color combination and the antique look of the lace curtains. (I got my lace curtains at Big Lots, believe it or not. It's like they say in their commercials, you never know!)
To add to the medieval look of your Gothic bedroom windows, you might look for scrolling, or crescent shaped, wrought iron door toppers and attach them to the walls just about your curtains. I found some great scrolling door toppers at Kirklands for my own room and placed them not only above the curtains but over each of the doors too. They give the walls a taller appearance and add to the mystique and majesty of the room.
(Lace image from www.costumes.org)
Wrought Iron Gothic Beds
This is a wonderful depiction of a gothic bed.The bed itself is made of wrought iron and is available through Thewroughtironco.com.
I love the way the canopy works as the crowning glory of this beautiful bedroom layout. In my opinion the drape behind the bed brings everything together.
The opposing colors of the pillows work well too.
Gothic Wrought Iron
GOTHIC WROUGHT IRON RENAISSANCE CASTLE WALL DECOR HEAVY DUTY HANDCRAFTED SCONCE LARGE PILLAR CANDLE HOLDER
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GOTHIC WROUGHT IRON RENAISSANCE CANDELABRA CASTLE and RUSTIC DECOR HEAVY DUTY HANDCRAFTED LARGE PILLAR CANDLE HOLDER
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Gothic Vampire Posters and Art Prints
My complete collection of vampire posters and art prints including gothic vampire posters, vampire movie posters, black and white prints, and reproductions of vampire art by famous artists.Stop by for a taste.
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Gothic Charm
The neatly squared canopy and the trunk at the end of this bed give it it's Gothic charm. Get Gothic Accessories on eBay
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The traditional canopy bed, draped with an abundance of fabric adds a bit of romance to this medieval room. Black Bedding on eBay
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The Gothic shaped window makes this room appear like it is in a castle. Medieval Bedding on eBay
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The simple styling of this understated bed and bedding are truly Gothic in nature.You can see that to acheive a rustic medieval look you don't have to spend a fortune on trinkets and baubles.
Red Bedding on eBay
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The carved wooden bed gives this room it's Gothic taste and feel. Medieval Decor on eBay
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Gothic Bedroom
This Gothic bedroom is fit for a King, or Queen. Gothic Bedroom Set on eBay
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Spanish Mission Decorative Candle Holder
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The Gothic Vanity
Candles, candlesticks and a simple wooden jewel box give this vanity a Gothic tone. Gothic Design Books
Masterpieces of Western Art
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Gothic Architecture (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art)
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Victorian Gothic House Style: An Architectural and Interior Design Source Book
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Gothic Style
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Gothic Patterns (Agile Rabbit Editions)
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Gothic Decor Accessories
This room achieves the dark Gothic look by including medieval statues, Celtic crosses and some other dark objects. Gold Bedding on eBay
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Again we find that simplicity works well in a Gothic bedroom.The quaint styling of this bed does all of the work to give this room a medieval look and feel.
Gothic Movies
To Watch in Your Gothic Bedroom
Dracula (75th Anniversary Edition) (Universal Legacy Series)
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Dracula - The Legacy Collection (Dracula / Dracula (1931 Spanish Version) / Dracula's Daughter / Son of Dracula / House of Dracula)
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Horror Classics 50 Movie Pack Collection
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Tales of Terror 50 Movie Pack Collection
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The Fall of the House of Usher /The Pit and the Pendulum
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Gothic Link List
- Resources links to medieval France, gardens, gargoyles, Germany, Itay
- Selected links & resources to art, architecture & medieval life.
- The Literary Gothic - the premier webguide to Gothic & horror lit written prior to 1950
- The Web's premier guide to Gothic fiction and horror lit (prior to 1950)
- Gorey Details
- Fab gothic shopping
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Flashfink
This would be a good idea for bachelors who like goth girls! Posted April 01, 2008 |
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riff999
We just finished redoing our bedroom but after seeing the ideas within your lens I might just be "brave" enough to ask my husband to start over! Awesome job with the lens. I found it very interesting. Posted March 29, 2008 |
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mulberry
Great content, definitely a unique theme! I like it. Posted March 22, 2008 |
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Clarissa789
Great lens, 5 stars! :-) Posted March 18, 2008 |
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StephenC
Stumbled here by accident, cool stuff! Posted March 16, 2008 |