He bed is the focal point of your bedroom decor, so getting it right is the most important step to creating a restful retreat. With so many options available, you’ll want to consider size, style and a few other design elements to select the perfect bed for your space.

Bed Types

First things first: The basic style of your bed should fit with your decorating preferences to achieve a cohesive look. Some of the most popular styles include the following:

• Canopy Beds: These traditional bedsteads include a tall frame originally designed to hold curtains that kept heat around sleepers. Today they provide architectural good looks and high style — just be sure to measure your ceiling height so that you know it fits.
• Platform Bed: Platform beds offer modern styling that eliminates the footboard. They look best with bunky boards or low-profile box springs to accentuate their sleek, horizontal lines. These are on-trend styles that look great in contemporary homes.
• Traditional bedsteads: Traditional bedsteads feature a headboard, footboard and side rails for a classic look that works well with a standard box spring. They are available in a wide range of materials and work well in transitional decor as well as in rooms inspired by a historical era.

Here are some more popular bed types; the best type of bed for you will come down to space needs (do you need a sleeker profile for a smaller space?) and your own personal style. Each of the types of bed frames below come in standard bed sizes for kids and adults’ rooms alike.

• Bunk bed: An icon of shared kids rooms, this is the only type that requires literal “climbing into bed!”
• Futon: One of the more unusual types of bed frames, this is essentially a sofa that folds out into a bed. Thanks to the two-in-one functionality, it’s the kind of design that makes small space living a breeze.
• Panel/platform bed: Panel and platform beds are the more common beds – they look like what you picture when you picture a bed. Four legs, and usually a sideboard, footboard and headboard, define the look.
• Storage bed: A storage bed is a panel/platform bed, but instead of the bottom of the bed ending where the mattress platform ends, it extends to the floor; the area between the floor and mattress contains drawers for storage.
• Sleigh bed: One of the more different types of beds, a sleigh bed is a panel/platform bed that curves like a sleigh – a traditional design that adds instant character to any space.