Beautiful Bedroom Window Ideas for Style and Natural Light
A bedroom window is more than just a place to get light. It changes the atmosphere at the moment you enter and can be the focal point of the room when you walk in, and it is the background to the room. But one of those things that no one thinks about until they have a room that seems to have a flat or dark appearance when they can’t identify the source of the problem.
A plain bedroom can be transformed into a veritable retreat with the right window treatment, shape, or even a certain seat location.
Here are 10 bedroom window ideas that add style, but don’t lose functionality. Some are bold, some subtle and restrained—all reveal another approach to the interplay of light, framing, and the window itself.
Dreamy Pastel Retreat With Soaring Floor-To-Ceiling Forest Window
A tranquil, dreamy and pretty pastel escape with a lofty floor-to-ceiling forest window. A bedroom with a window that runs from floor to ceiling, and that overlooks trees – almost like a film! The scale changes the feeling of the room, the walls gradually fade away, the forest outside gradually becomes a decoration.
You can easily combine various colors on the window. Whether it is blush, sage, pale or lavender, it can look great. When there is a lot of greenery outside it will make your room more like a visual treat. You don’t need to go over the top as heavy drapes may not look that good. You can keep it light with sheer linen panel and use a texture that doesn’t obstruct your view.
This style is suitable only for homes that have a real forest or hillside or garden view. If your window faces a neighbour’s fence, the drama will ultimately fall flat, even if you’re lying to yourself about what your neighbour has in his yard.
Charming Bay Window Reading Bench Overlooking Green Gardens
Bay windows are among the few things that provide you with a free bonus room. A small extension of extra square footage is begging for a bench, and a bench under a bay window looking out to a garden is one of the most popular features of the bedroom, and for a good reason.
Construct a deep seat (20 inches or more) to use for lounging, not perching. Place a row of small pillows along the back and place a soft throw across one end. Drawers or lift-top storage adds to the bench’s usability under the bench, particularly in smaller bedrooms where every foot counts.
Having three exposures of glass already, bay windows allow light to enter the room from many different angles during the day. Minimize window coverings — a café curtain or a simple roman shade on the center pane generally is all that is needed, with the side windows free to enjoy a garden view.
Calm Modern Farmhouse Retreat With Cozy Window Bench
A window bench is a good fit for modern farmhouse design, which focuses more on texture and warmth than ornamentation. Consider shiplap paneling below the window, a large wooden seat with basic corbels or brackets, and a neutral-colored woven cushion, such as waffle cotton or linen.
The color palette is typically very neutral: white, warm gray, dull taupe with black window frames as the one accent color. The black trim serves a purpose, it catches the eye on the shape of the window and does not let the image get washed out.
You want to use natural light in this style, which means you don’t want to have any drapes or shadows. One woven wood shade, that is primarily raised, allows daylight to filter in during the day and provides privacy when pulled down at night. Place a pile of books and a small reading lamp on the sill and the room begins to look more like home than set up.
Whimsical Reading Bed Tucked Beneath A Garden Window
If you’ve ever dreamed of sleeping with plants growing in the window above your bed, then this is a great way to accomplish that. It’s an excellent choice for a cottage-inspired or eclectic bedroom, where a fun touch is appreciated.
Set the window to have a lower sill so it still frames the view even when sitting on the window ledge. Soft floral or botanical sheer curtains make for a storybook ambiance, but they don’t dominate the space. Then put a canopy or a couple of trailing plants over it and the bed is not just sitting on the windowsill, but is in the garden.
Classic Neutral Bedroom Brightened By Windows And Transom
Sometimes, the best solution is not a design, but an architecture. If there is a window on the transom above a normal window — or above a set of French doors — it will add more light to the room, but not necessarily more wall-to-wall window glass, which can make a difference in bedrooms where privacy or furniture placement may dictate the size of the main window.
This look is perfect for a traditional neutral color scheme: white walls, wooden finishes, brass and matte-black hardware. A transom that allows soft, indirect light to filter in close to the ceiling will light up the entire room even on days when the sun does not shine, and a window below can be curtained or blinds down for privacy at the level of the eyes.
Glamorous Pink Bedroom With Elegant Window Seat And Chandelier
Not all bedrooms can whisper. A room can be very glamorous with a blush or dusty rose color scheme, a tufted window seat and a chandelier suspended close to the window. The chandelier photographs well in this combination as it reflects and refracts the natural light that comes through the glass, particularly during the late afternoon.
Choose a velvety or subtle damask for the window seat cushion and a coordinating color for the drapes for the window—dusty rose, champagne or soft gray. You need to rarely pull the drapes in a closing position here; their main role is more art than function, to frame the window.
The chandelier look can be used in any size bedroom, except the positioning of the chandelier is crucial.
Airy Beige Bedroom With Dreamy Sheer Curtain Windows
Though beige is known for being bland, in a bedroom that’s surrounded by soft sheer curtains and soft light, it’s the ideal neutral base instead of a neutral behemoth. The idea is to be feminine, with linen or voile panels that billow somewhat in the wind and soften hard light.
Add two sheer layers of slightly varying beiges or creams for depth and if the room is not directly east or west of the sun, omit the blackout lining. The idea is for light to pass through, not block.
You can keep the furniture and bedding in this style are within the same tonal range, which is warm white, oatmeal or taupe, so the sheer curtains do not need to stand out against other items in the room. The total effect is soothing, and somewhat dreamlike, as if the light itself were part of the furnishings.
Luxurious Neutral Retreat With Dreamy Zebra Shade Windows
Zebra shades, also known as dual shades, have bands of sheer and solid fabric that move horizontally to control the amount of light entering the room by simply sliding them to the left or right. They bring a gentle graphic pattern to neutral bedrooms with taupe or greige colored walls, without dominating the space with an overpowering pattern.
They make a practical option for bedrooms that require different lighting conditions – light and airy in the day and completely private and dark at night in the same shade. If the windows are large or out of reach, consider motorized ones, which are becoming commonplace and affordable.
Match the shades with basic, coordinated bed linen and a few patterned throw pillows, and the window treatment isn’t the only piece of statement making gear in the room.
Elegant Sage Green Bedroom With Garden French Doors
It is not surprising how French doors opening in the garden or balcony make everything so attractive. The best thing is that it gives a unique light in the room. The vertical lines, height and many other things make it easy for you to set up. When you walk into such a bedroom it gives a feeling of peace. The sage green walls are fantastic and have a certain charm to it. Your room will become eco-friendly with so much greenery around.
Attach simple curtain panels to a traverse rod so doors will slide completely open instead of drapery that covers part of the doorway. A sheer under-layer provides privacy in the day but allows the garden view to become part of the room.
Works great in ground-level primary bedrooms or in houses with a private courtyard, where it is part of the morning routine to open the doors on a mild morning.
Romantic Mustard Yellow Bedroom With Soft Sheer Curtains
Mustard yellow is a bold color and its perfect for a modern or traditional bedroom. The soft look appears with sheer curtains and it reflects warm sunlight in the room which is so soothing in winters.
Leave the curtains up and unlined to let the light in in the afternoon with a golden hue. Avoid having a room that is too “noisy” with the color of the wall, by adding neutral bedding — cream, ivory or soft gray — so it is not fighting itself. Some decorative elements (brass or woodwork) complement the warmth without adding more color.
This type of window treatment is ideal for west-facing rooms because the sun rises in the west and sets there as well, making the room appear truly golden in the evening.
Ready to bring one of these looks to life?
The windows are more important in a bedroom than almost anything else, whether it’s the amount of light entering, or the overall atmosphere when you first awake. Perhaps you would love to sit on a quiet window bench, or gaze out at the floor-to-ceiling view, or drape soft sheer curtains over the windows, there’s a version of these concepts for your home.
Your starting point should be your existing window, then consider the light and the look it provides and proceed accordingly. First measure your window and select one treatment to test – the rest of the room will follow suit.
