Bedspread for the bedroom: tips on choosing

Bedspread is a piece of cloth that covers the bed, a sofa in the bedroom, living room. This item is used as a drapery that protects bedding from dirt, as well as for interior decoration. The design of the bedspread is selected individually, for different styles of the interior, rooms for adults and children. It is bought ready-made, made to order or sew, knit, weave their own hands at home.

History of emergence, use in our time

This product has existed for a long time only with very wealthy people. It is believed that luxurious drapes for the bed were styled by the French, namely the Marquis de Pompadour. She received her chosen guests in a boudoir - a room located next to her bedroom, where they put a couch for a bed, several sofas decorated with various expensive textiles - Chinese silk, velvet, handmade lace.

Closer to the twentieth century, when production was already "put on stream", bedspreads became available to the middle class. They were less chic than that of high-ranking persons, but they perfectly covered bed linen, not letting it get dirty, gave even the most modest room a decent, neat appearance.

The modern market offers draperies of various price categories, from thin or dense fabrics, synthetic, natural, of various sizes, styles, colors. Separate companies make whole sets for different rooms, including capes not only on the sofa or bed, but also on chairs, armchairs, pillows, etc.

Criterias of choice

When selecting a suitable veil, many criteria are taken into account:

• design, bed design;
• interior style;
• appointment;
• bed size, mattress;
• the quality of the material;
• type of fabric;
• colors;
• picture;
• price.

If you want to buy a quality product, they inspect it, feel it, even sniff it when buying - unscrupulous suppliers of fakes or just "stale" goods are able to slip textiles infected with fungus, smelling like mold and chemicals. Especially often this occurs when buying goods at flea markets, in sealed packaging.

For beds of round, oval, other non-standard shape, size, it is difficult to find ready draperies, because their production is ordered in the studio. Sometimes the designer's idea of ​​interior design requires textiles with an original, author's pattern - for this they also turn to special copy centers.

If there are allergies in the house, the fabric is chosen hypoallergenic. In the presence of fluffy pets - one that is easy to remove wool.

Dimensions

On a double bed, it is preferable to cover one wide bedspread, completely covering the bed, practically reaching the floor.

Its standard parameters are:

• for a baby - 80 by 100 cm;
• for children 3-12 years old - 110 by 140 cm;
• one-and-a-half - 140 to 200 cm, suitable for a single bed;
• double bed - 170 by 210 cm, used for one and a half beds;
• Euro - 200 by 220 cm;
• Euro Maxi - 240 to 260 cm.

For sofas, beds of the "old" pattern, having a length of about 180 cm, it is better to choose a drapery no more than two meters in length.

By quality, type of fabric

Fabrics for plaids are divided into natural, synthetic, mixed fibers. The better the textiles, the more drapery will last, maintaining its appearance. It is advisable to choose one that does not collect static electricity - this is a safety issue. When choosing a blanket for a sofa for the hall, where there are often many people, the most wear-resistant material is required.

When among the residents there are children who are accustomed to eat, drink in beds, draw or sculpt out of clay near it - the cape is at high risk of being soiled, requiring almost daily washing. Then it is chosen easily washable in a typewriter or with hands - often it will not be cheap to wear dry cleaning. Usually, the more expensive the material, the more difficult it is to care for it.

The most commonly used fabrics:

• cotton;
• wool;
• tapestry;
• satin;
• silk;
• acrylic;
• viscose;
• bamboo;
• fleece;
• microfiber.

When using several types of fibers at the same time, we get eco-friendly, resistant to abrasion, easily cleaned from drapery spots.

The larger, more massively covered construction, the more dense, heavy drapery is selected for it.

In the stylistic direction

There are many design options for cloaks for furniture:

• classic - velor, tapestry, strokes are preferred from fabrics, most often with a low-key two-color pattern in the form of zigzags, monograms, meanders;
• Scandinavian - mainly woolen, fluffy, light, can have a fringe from two narrow sides, will be executed quilted;
• high-tech - shiny monochrome fabric of blue, dark red, steel shade, silk, crepe-satin, most suitable, less often used various "animal" prints;
• loft - drapery of faux fur, polyester, can be quilted, imitating the texture of pebbles or bricks, colors are preferably red-brown, black, beige;

• Provence - light, usually satin, cotton, with variegated floral motifs, hand or machine embroidery, sometimes done in the patchwork technique;
• minimalism - simple, mostly monotonous drape, any decor is completely absent;
• Baroque - a good heavy product with a bunch of folds, ruffles, flounces, brushes hanging from the floor, black, burgundy or emerald velvet would be ideal for fabrics;
• Japanese - white, pink, beige drapery, without any extra folds, with a pattern in the form of hieroglyphs, flowering trees;
• Rustic - a thick blanket of linen, cotton fabric, in a cage, a strip, with stylized images of animals, birds, plants.

The chosen style should be followed to the end - even the most beautiful textiles, but not suitable for the design looks very ridiculous, ugly.

Color, Textile Patterns

On some products, the pattern is obtained, due to a certain interlacing of threads, on others the pattern is printed. There are materials that can not be dyed, such as camel wool - it still remains yellow-brown. Calm, soft tones are chosen in the bedroom, but corresponding to the personal preferences of a particular person. For bedspreads on the sofa, the armchair in the living room use any colors that suit the style.

Popular color combinations:

• light yellow with sky blue;
• beige and gray with eggplant;
• coral with umber;
• white-green with purple-blue;
• swamp with vanilla;
• milky white with chocolate;
• cornflower with fuchsia;
• khaki with yellow orange;
• olive with quartz;
• brick red with purple-black.

Much also depends on the lighting, the size of the room: for a close room with small windows facing the north, draperies of the brightest, warmest colors with a small, sparse pattern or completely without it are selected. Sharp contrasts are best avoided. If the space is large, the windows are panoramic, facing the light, south side, the pattern on the bedspreads is allowed to be large, bright, and they are selected by dark, cold color schemes.

Of the patterns, various gradients are most often used, stylized images of plants, animals, peas, zigzags, curls, as well as a cage, a strip, a meander, a goose foot, an Indian cucumber, etc.

Shiny capes are out of place in too cramped rooms.

The choice of bedspreads under curtains

Earlier, in the mid-late twentieth century, all the fabrics in the room were selected exclusively of the same quality, texture, colors. Today, sleeping textiles make up a single ensemble with curtains and other draperies, but sometimes contrasts sharply with them, being the main color accent. There are also certain rules: a thin, translucent bedcover would be inappropriate in combination with heavy dark curtains. A product for a bed in a small room can “merge” with the main interior background, be of a different color, but repeat the pattern of the curtains. As an option - the curtains and plaid are selected in the same color, but with completely different images.

We should not allow all the textiles in the room to match the color scheme simultaneously with the background and each other - such an interior looks overly dull.

Tips for choosing a bedspread in the nursery

For a children's bedroom, it is better to choose a non-marking, but natural material of a suitable color. When children of different sexes live in the room, draperies on the beds of each one are selected in different colors, but similar in design, pattern, texture. For the newborn, the softest fabric is selected, unable to injure the delicate infant skin. The bedcover often comes with a baby cot.

Babies are offered plediki with bright patterns, applications depicting cartoon characters, whole fairy tales. Older children, adolescents, will prefer a neutral color scheme, abstract compositions, floral prints, gradient play.

A baby blanket should not hang down to the floor - an active child can easily step on it, slip, fall. The ideal option here - the product is fixed on the elastic band.

Covers options

Blankets are one-sided or double-sided, with filler, lining or without them, perfectly smooth, rough, with a complex texture.

Of the most common decor:

• stitch - one-color geometric, depicting plant elements, the plot, combined with the application, with the use of contrasting threads. Looks good on products with a lining;
• Border, fringe - create an elegant design, especially when using expensive textiles;
• ruffles - single-layered, multi-layered, combining several different fabrics;
• embroidery - covers the product evenly, runs along the edge, center, in one corner;
• patchwork - always looks original, home-made, as in the manufacture uses a lot of different rags.

Cover-cover

This object is designed to protect the upholstery of upholstered furniture as much as possible from contamination and damage. With the help of covers on the sofa, chairs, chairs, stools, easily, quickly update the look of the interior of the entire room. The product is made with zippers, ties, elastic, closes the seat, back, armrests of the sofa, decorated with buttons, tassels. In another embodiment, the cover hides only the soft details of the structure, is made of tension, of elastic textile material - this is important, if you want to emphasize, to leave open the places decorated with carvings and hand-painted.

The use of blanket covers has found its place on various holidays: snow-white sewed for weddings, with snowflakes for the New Year, with green leaves for the meeting of spring, etc.

Cover with a valance, his models

The product with a valance looks luxurious, expensive, especially if it is made of quality material. The valance is sewn around the perimeter of the cover, less often - it is used as an independent product in the form of a “skirt” on an elastic band that hides the legs of the bed. Sleeping places in the past - before the last century were made much higher, so that it was warmer to sleep - there was a lot of space under them, it was draped beautifully, decorated with embroideries with sacred meaning.

There are three types:

In the children's room in Podzor, comfortable pockets are made for storing various trifles.

Knitted or woven

With the help of a wide knitting machine, quality threads of medium or large thickness, this item is made in just a few hours. The simplest binding is usually used, and the threads are arranged so that a gradient transition is formed.

No less original, fast way out on the "children's" circular knitting machine. In this case, five or nine "sleeves" fit - the amount depends on the size of the car, the width of the rug, the length is taken 30-50% more. The sleeves are intertwined in a way similar to a pigtail, attaching to a common base at the top and bottom of the drapery.

A general wide canvas is knitted by hand - usually complex, intricate patterns are used, or a large number of squares, triangles, rhombuses, fastened together.

Braided in the style of macrame design is made openwork, used only for decorative purposes or dense, textured, often having a massage effect, if you often lie on it. Making such a veil will take a long time.

Patchwork quilted patchwork bedspreads

The original cape on the bed in the presence of free time, minimal sewing skills, a lot of variegations of variegated fabric is easily made by yourself. From the materials selected pieces of different fabrics from old clothes - linen, calico, cotton, satin, etc. They are cut into the same, less often - different geometric fragments, stitched together with each other according to a pre-designed scheme. An old blanket, any other filler is used as a lining. To create a full cover, you need to cut, process about a hundred or two hundred small parts. The finished product is edged.

Bulk with frills

Such a design is suitable for Baroque, Empire, Romantic and some other styles. Manually smooth, beautifully sew ruffles a little problematic, especially for beginners, because you should use a sewing machine. Each decorative element is cut out also slightly differently. Luxurious decor is needed when the bed wants to make the semantic center of the room - its main focus. It is not advisable to use it in a small room - there is a risk to make it even closer.

Taking care of such a product, especially made of easily creased fabric, is not easy - it should be washed gently, as dust is gradually collected in the outer seams, and it will take a long time to smooth out many folds.

Conclusion

Correctly chosen cover will decorate with itself an interior of both an adult, and children's bedroom, protecting a bed from dirt, creating a cosiness. High-quality, durable, wear-resistant, environmentally friendly drapery is relatively expensive, but it will be pleasing the eye, warm in cold evenings for more than a year. A unique product is made independently or ordered in a workshop engaged in sewing various things according to individual sketches.