4 Bedding Trends Designers Are Backing in 2023

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“I personally love a bed with a beautiful custom-made headboard,” says Nashville-based interior designer Amhad Freeman. “It becomes the focal point of the room and sets the tone for the morning or night. I live and die by custom headboards. There are so many ways to design them and no one else will have [the same one].

A bed is incomplete without a headboard, in Arnold’s opinion. “I definitely lean toward simple silhouettes so that beds don’t feel too of-the-moment,” he says. “Everyone wants comfort, and an upholstered headboard is really the best way of achieving that and adding warmth and coziness to a bedroom.” 

Adler sees headboards as places for creativity. “An upholstered headboard can be a great place to have fun with various shapes,” she says. “Especially in a kid’s bedroom, we love designing something with a more interesting shape or adding a contrast welt in a great color combination to outline the edge.” 

Though Cheung and Bradley are also proponents, Cheung cautions against headboards that can be overwhelmed by a mound of pillows. “We like tall headboards, so you can still see over the tallest pillow when the bed is made,” she says. “We want beds to be inviting, soft, and comfortable, and that usually translates to an upholstered headboard.” In terms of materials, Bradley adds, that usually translates to alpaca, wool, and high-performance velvets.

What’s the Goldilocks zone of pillows? In this bedroom, Merrell opted for a simple two-per-single bed—one for sleeping and one decorative.

Laure Joliet

The great pillow debate

“There is such a thing as too many pillows,” Freeman affirms. “Less is more and I prefer four [sleeping] pillows and two decorative pillows—that’s all you need.”

His contemporaries similarly preach restraint. “These days we do two big square pillows against the headboard, bigger than European-size, with two rectangular pillows in front—sometimes upright, sometimes laying down,” De Càrdenas says.

“The perfect formula for us is four sleeping pillows, two Euros and a lumbar,” Cheung says. “Not so many that you will lose your mind moving them every day or end your marriage.”