Mission Bedroom Set

Elegance and Style with Mission Bedroom Sets

One of the classic home decorating designs was shaker or mission. The mission bedroom set has not changed much in two hundred years.

The original mission furniture was simple, easy to build, and lasted a long time.

Today's mission bedroom set reproduces the same simplicity, recreating the smooth lines, but in a more artistic and designer style. 

Solid Wood Look

One of the most charming aspects of the mission home decorating style is its ability to add life and interest to a small apartment or a loft. 

 Mission bedroom sets offer a solid wood look without the bulk and clumsiness of old world European styles.

One of the biggest benefits of the mission decorating style is the minimalist feel and mood of the room.

  The bedroom furniture for a mission retreat does not require high quality artwork, expensive window dressings, and overstuffed furniture or bedding sets.  There is no need for expensive pillows to stack on the bed. 

In fact, adding these extras is the mark of an amateur home decorator. The mission bedroom set is used as a frame. The rest of the room is designed to recreate the bedroom furniture and mission retreat feel. 

Relaxed and Peaceful

The most important thing is to preserve the relaxed, peaceful feel of the room.  Too much clutter, or too much elegance, destroys the feel of resolution and slower, more sophisticated lifestyle.

The best bedding set for a mission bedroom should be high quality. There is a fine line between the look of a professionally designed bedroom and a bedroom that is only half finished, or decorated by an amateur. 

Three designs work well with a mission bedroom set. The Feng Shui, Colonial and the cottage home decorating schemes.

The Cottage Look

The cottage look is simple. It is the perfect choice for a small room that uses the mission day bed.  The room is painted a darker, natural blend of blues and greens. The window dressings are wood or simple.

Wood shutters are an excellent choice in the cottage bedroom.  The bedding set should be simple, no dust ruffle, no extra pillows. Just a simple comforter stretched smooth over the bed and two pillows at the top. 

A single pillow or a thick warm throw is all the bed needs. In addition to the mission bedroom set, the only other furniture the room needs is a rocking chair or a pine chest. 

A room designed around a mission day bed, can be set off with antique butter crocks full of dried flowers.

The Colonial Look

The Colonial look is the hardest for today's home decorators to reproduce.  Most people mistake the Colonial look for another type of English Garden, or Victorian decorator style. Instead, the colonial look is one of sparse elegance. 

The mission bedroom set  should be the only thing in the room. There should be no extra furniture, no decorations, no frills, and only a simple, provincial type of art.

The mission bedroom set is set off by an over stuffed duvet and pillows. A Mennonite quilt should become the focal point of the room,

Colonial bedroom furniture, mission retreat furniture, both are used to create the Feng Shui look.  The simplistic mission bedroom set sets off the wall textures, linear look, and natural fibers in the room.

Slat bedroom furniture, mission retreat furniture, and mission style daybeds are excellent choices for people who prefer simple designs and rooms that lack artwork and knick-knacks. 

Metal bedroom sets are always in style...

 You'll  just seem to sleep better in a lovely new bedroom suite...

Patricia Taylor
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 Mission Bedroom Set