17 Ways to Style a Maximalist Bedroom, According to Interior Designers

The best thing about maximalist style is that it is endlessly customizable. After all, a design approach that goes all-in on patterns, colors, and dramatic details is one that naturally accommodates particular tastes and preferences. One person’s maximalism may feature contrasting layers of floral prints and gingham, while another’s may involve a mix of dark colors and sumptuous textures like velvet and faux fur. Across the board, maximalist bedrooms have this in common: they commit to going bold.

While this style can feel chaotic at times, a great deal of intention goes into designing a maximalist bedroom. It’s a fine art of creating balance amid a mix of dynamic elements and folding in pieces that can visually ground an otherwise frenzied space.

Striking that balance can feel like a challenge — but it’s all about thinking strategically about a room’s focal pieces, motifs, and statements. Here, Havenly designer Kelsey Fisher highlights a few of her favorite maximalist bedroom ideas to show just how it’s done.

1. Maximalist Bedroom: Modern Chintz

A collision of floral prints and other patterns gives this bedroom a slightly traditional look — but with a refreshing contemporary twist. The Inside’s rust-colored velvet bed frame grounds the room’s mix of vibrant colors and pops against pale pink walls.

2. Maximalist Bedroom: Curated Palette

Maximalism doesn’t have to mean incorporating an entire rainbow of colors into your space; instead, it’s all about maximizing the colors and patterns you do incorporate. In this space, a blue velvet bed frame from Interior Define adds to the space’s intimate feel, while a peek of neutral-toned wallpaper and assorted textiles make a well-considered contrast.

3. Maximalist Bedroom: Eclectic Energy

The patterned, blush-colored Demilune Bed from The Inside makes for an eye-catching focal piece, but several other high-impact features take this room to the next level: deep, plum-colored walls, a textured, lime-hued quilt, and dramatic, shibori-style drapes.

4. Maximalist Bedroom: Light Tropical

Just a few details in this bedroom give it a playful, vintage-inspired feel: a tropical-print ottoman, a leopard-print throw pillow, and an abstract, spotted area rug. Sophisticated elements, like picture frame molding and a bobbin chair, keep it looking elevated.

5. Maximalist Bedroom: Perfectly Matched

Coordination can go wrong quickly — sometimes, a room that matches a little too perfectly can feel cookie-cutter instead of curated. The secret to making it work? Throw in some unexpected details! An elaborate area rug makes a great, complementary contrast to this matching cherry blossom bed and curtains from The Inside.

6. Maximalist Bedroom: Pink Hues

Forget about perfectly matching your colors — in a maximalist bedroom, a bit of colorful chaos goes a long way. Interior Define’s rose-colored bed is a perfectly imperfect match for petal-colored bedding and deep pink throw pillows. A patterned pink area rug, some contrasting blue textiles, and a simple, white bench complete the equation.

7. Maximalist Bedroom: All-Over-Pattern

Matching your wallpaper to your decor is a design decision that certainly isn’t for the faint of heart, but it pays off in dividends. Woodland-printed ottomans make it feel like this pattern absolutely envelopes this kid’s room, while plaid drapes and a geometric area rug keep it grounded with a touch of the unexpected.

8. Maximalist Bedroom: Graphic Dynamism

When it comes to designing a maximalist bedroom, don’t underestimate the transformational power of a graphic wallpaper. A cobalt-colored headboard from The Inside pops against this dynamic pattern, while pairing nicely with a few jewel-toned throw pillows.

9. Maximalist Bedroom: Dark Romance

Nothing brings the drama quite like an inky wall color and sweeping drapery. This bedroom commits to its dark, sophisticated look with refined details, like an antique-style chandelier and a lush faux fur throw.

10. Maximalist Bedroom: Grounding Pattern

There is a lot going on in this eclectic bedroom — a striped quilt, rainbow throw pillows, wicker table lamps, and brass shell candle sconces could easily compete for attention. But a golden palm-print pattern somehow manages to balance it all out, with a dramatic headboard, waterfall bench, and nightstand tablecloths.

11. Maximalist Bedroom: Playful Garden

A sweet bird-printed wallpaper makes this kid’s bedroom feel perfectly charming, while cabana stripe twin beds liven it up — a great example of well-executed pattern-mixing.

12. Maximalist Bedroom: Retro Glam

Banana leaf wallpaper is a classic for a reason. The pattern, made famous by the Beverly Hills Hotel, has an Old Hollywood cool that plays nicely with contemporary features, like a brass and lucite canopy bed and tasseled textiles.

13. Maximalist Bedroom: Beachy Cool

For a grown-up bedroom, the same cabana stripe pattern from The Inside brings a beachy, Mediterranean air to a coastal-cool space. Banana-print curtains have a softer effect than wallpaper and add to this space’s breezy feel.

14. Maximalist Bedroom: Eccentric Drama

A grand chandelier, a statement, floral wall, plum-colored paint, and a mish-mash of bedding patterns give this bedroom an ornate and eclectic look. The relative simplicity of a green velvet bed gives it a grounded foundation.

15. Maximalist Bedroom: Sweet Stripes

The striped patterns in this bedroom — on the upholstered bed frame, the light blue sheets, and the red-and-white coverlet — lend this maximalist space a charming feel. A quirky, yet well-regimented floral wallpaper and a wicker side table add a touch of cottage whimsy.

16. Maximalist Bedroom: All Pattern Everything

When in doubt, go all-out: patterned bed frame, wallpaper, bedding, and a lumbar pillow from St. Frank make this space absolutely entrancing. What makes it work? The prints all share similar geometric characteristics and stick to the same clay-toned color palette.

17. Maximalist Bedroom: Refined Details

Two polar-opposite prints make this maximalist bedroom sharp and sophisticated; a hyper-detailed red stripe wallpaper gives the room an almost textural foundation, while a cream tiger-print bed frame and drapes add to the artistic look. Other refined details, like an extra-long maroon lumbar pillow and a marble bobbin-base table lamp, complete the space.

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