Bespoke furniture like a custom bedhead reveals a designer’s ability to personalise the bedroom. This edit explores seven designers’ creative take on the bedhead, revealing inventive ways to customise through materiality, form and storage. Through each design, the bedhead transcends functionality to become a centrepiece in the space.
Photography by Anson Smart
Photography by Anson Smart
01. Pacific House
Design: Alexander &CO.
Location: Sydney, Australia
One of the hero materials in this clifftop home is shop-sawn American oak, which manifests in the custom kitchen joinery, ceiling beams and bedhead in the primary bedroom. The bespoke design creates material continuity within the home while enhancing the bedroom’s functionality with its generous storage.
02. Fisherman’s House
Design: Studio Prineas
Location: Sydney, Australia
Another clifftop home features a custom bedhead made of striking green Tinos Verde marble and smoked oak veneer. But it doesn’t just stop there; Studio Prineas have placed a bathtub made of the same marble on the other side of the bedhead, creating a seamless connection with the bathroom through materiality.
Photography by Gavin Green
Photography by Gavin Green
Photography by Anson Smart
03. Ultramarine
Design: Decus
Location: Sydney, Australia
This home takes cues from its waterfront locale through a coastal-inspired palette and organic forms, as exemplified by the custom bedhead in the primary bedroom; the bedhead’s curved shape and composition of custom-stained American oak and grey-blue fabric reflects the ocean and cliffs just metres away.
04. Residential Nº631
Design: Framework Studio
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Framework Studio are renowned for their exceptional joinery work, as demonstrated by this riverside home, which features a custom bedhead made of rich walnut and textured fabric. The built-in bedside table and lamp elevate the bespoke design.
Photography by Cafeine
Photography by Ben Anders
05. Leinster Square Townhouse
Design: Banda
Location: London, UK
Each bedroom in this inner-city townhouse honours a singular colour. The guest bedroom plays on warm terracotta tones with a custom upholstered wavy headboard with wooden trim.
06. Crane in the Sky
Design: YSG Studio
Location: Sydney, Australia
YSG Studio are celebrated for their bold and vibrant interior palettes, often expressed as custom pieces. For their Crane in the Sky project, the studio have custom-designed a bedhead to tie in with the rest of the space’s eclectic patterns and tones.
Photography by Prue Ruscoe
Photography by Anson Smart
07. Where Architects Live | Madeleine Blanchfield
Design: Madeleine Blanchfield Architects
Location: Sydney, Australia
Warm tan leather is a recurring material in architect Madeleine Blanchfield’s home, from the sofa in the living room to the custom upholstered bedhead in the primary bedroom.
