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Three master bedroom designs that will have you seriously inspired

Get creative with these incredible master bedrooms – a bunker, a clifftop home, and an internationalist interior.

10 June 2024

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Find inspiration for your master bedroom with tips from professional designs. A considered lighting plan is crucial for setting the mood, as demonstrated in a Dalman Architects bunker home that uses light to accentuate texture.

Embrace immersive colour, like Arent&Pyke's award-winning Queenstown interior which uses a soft Resene paint palette. Create a sense of luxury with a strong focal point, such as a large custom headboard by Studio John Irving architects or a striking piece of artwork.

A moody master bedroom design in a decadent concrete bunker

Award-winning bedroom design

This award-winning bedroom design by Arent&Pyke encapsulates a bold use of colour. Image: Anson Smart

Amp up the style with bedroom feature walls and paint design ideas

Use the headboard as a central bedroom interior design element

This wall-to-wall aubergine velvet upholstered headboard adds a rich layer of colour and luxury to this master bedroom, in an Auckland home designed Studio John Irving, with interiors by Kirsten Ford. Image: Hanson & Daughters