How does a blank primary bedroom in a new-build home become a complete retreat with a glamorous bathroom and custom his and hers closets? This transformation follows one couple’s journey with a Decorilla designer who shaped their 3,300-square-foot single-level residence. Explore the alluring details and carefully coordinated finishes across four connected spaces.
The Challenge: Primary Bedroom, Bathroom, and Closets Design
The client approached Decorilla for a creative interior design of their new 3,300-square-foot single-level home. They wanted a transitional aesthetic with glamorous touches, emphasizing warm tones and statement lighting while avoiding gray walls and overly busy patterns. The designer worked across four connected spaces in several phases. The second was the primary bedroom suite, which included a primary bathroom design and his and hers closets. The requests for the designer involved custom storage solutions, as well as:
- Primary bedroom design with tray ceiling lighting and wall treatment
- Bedroom TV wall and window-area seating
- His closet design with darker tones and glass-covered shoe shelving, and hers with a potential makeup vanity and glass-front cabinetry
- White oak flooring throughout the primary bedroom suite
- Primary bathroom design featuring large-format tile, a floating vanity, and a glass shower enclosure
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Design Inspiration: Glam Transitional Primary Bedroom Interiors
The client gathered primary bedroom ideas and images where sculptural crystal lighting became a major focal point, drawn to how these fixtures cast glamorous dimension across neutral palettes. They also fancied tall upholstered headboards and feature walls with inset details. Floating nightstands appeared in several saves. The appeal centered mainly on dimensional surfaces and reflective accents, while the palette remained within a similar color range. It was mostly taupe and cream, punctuated by bronze or gold hardware.
Similarly, their primary bathroom design inspiration leaned toward large-format marble tile in warm taupes with subtle veining. Images featuring floating vanities with undermounted lighting popped up across the inspo gallery, along with glass shelving and backlit displays. The consistent thread throughout these spaces where material choices perform functional roles and add glam factor at the same time.
Initial Concepts: Finding the Right Designer
The Decorilla team initially matched the project with two designers whose portfolios demonstrated experience with primary bedroom suites: Casey H. and Erika F. Each developed concepts that reflected the brief’s assignments and the client’s vision. After reviewing both proposals, the client selected Erika to move forward as the sole designer for the house interior.
Erika‘s primary bedroom moodboard organized the layout around an upholstered bed frame with a tall tufted headboard. She paired it with neutral nightstands, a pair of wall mirrors, and a tiered crystal chandelier that addressed the client’s request for statement lighting. In the same style manner, his-and-hers closets featured custom cabinetry with glass-front sections and LED shelf lighting throughout both spaces.
The primary bathroom design ideas revolved around large-format tile in pale taupe with subtle movement. Erika also proposed an amber freestanding oval tub centered beneath a crystal flush-mount chandelier. The floating vanity in white featured gold hardware and integrated toe-kick lighting, with glass-enclosed shower and water closet compartments flanking the main space.
The client accepted both proposals, responding to the cohesive material choices and layered lighting that aligned with their brief for glamorous, spa-inspired rooms in warm tones.
Glam Transitional Home Interior Design Series
This complex interior design project was developed in four sequential phases, each targeting a specific spatial zone. To see the rest of this exquisite home, check out the entire story:
- Before & After: Glam Transitional Home – Open Concept Living (Coming Soon!)
- Before & After: Glam Transitional Home – Spare Bedroom Designs (Coming Soon!)
- Before & After: Glam Transitional Home – Work and Wellness Spaces (Coming Soon!)
Results Revealed: Primary Bedroom Suite Design
The primary bedroom suite design addresses the 12-foot ceiling height through vertical brass partitions and a five-tier crystal chandelier that occupies the upper third of the room. The palette centers on cream and taupe, with gold hardware providing warm accents across furniture pieces. Dimensional surfaces convey visual interest through channeled upholstery on the headboard, gridded glass in the room dividers, and veined marble on the fireplace platform.
Glam Primary Bedroom Design
The chandelier hangs at mid-ceiling as a central decorative feature of the layout. Its rings gradually cascade downwards in stacked tiers that diminish in diameter as they rise. Warm LED strips line the tray ceiling recess, washing light across the recessed plane and outward toward the room perimeter. During evening hours, the perimeter strips provide ambient glow while the central fixture illuminates the bed platform directly below.
The bed’s channeled headboard rises well above pillow height, with vertical fabric grooves that cast shifting shadow lines throughout the day. A channel-tufted bench sits at its foot in matching cream upholstery, extending the bed’s visual footprint proportionally to the room’s scale.
Full-height mirrors in brass frames flank the bed on both sides. Their vertical proportions emphasize the ceiling height. The glass reflects light from the chandelier and ceiling strips in multiple directions, as well as daylight from the window wall. Each mirror frame features a grid pattern for added visual interest; in their centers, small pendant fixtures introduce auxiliary light at mid-room level.
Two curved white chairs are positioned along the wall perpendicular to the bed. Their rounded forms offer geometric contrast to its rectangular platform and the pattern of vertical surfaces.
The client requested a creative yet subtle solution for the TV wall, which now projects outward in stepped planes. A raised platform finished in pale marble supports a linear fireplace at floor level, its flames visible through clear glass. A recessed panel above frames the television mount. The platform’s forward projection creates an architectural feature that seamlessly incorporates the media display into the room’s material vocabulary.
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Harmonizing Colors and Textures
In the absence of color contrast, design conveys visual interest across monochromatic surfaces through texture variation. The smooth marble on the fireplace platform complements the matte weave of the taupe drapery panels. Channeled headboard and bench introduce grooved shadow lines that shift as light moves across the room throughout the day. Meanwhile, the crystal chandelier and table lamps contribute faceted surfaces that refract light into prismatic fragments. Brass finishes on the mirror frames, door hardware, and lamp bases carry a consistent warm metallic tone that ties together furniture pieces and architectural elements.
Primary Bathroom Design
The freestanding acrylic tub dominates the primary bathroom, centered beneath a window to open up the exterior views. A crystal chandelier suspends directly above the tub at a height that allows for visual presence overhead while maintaining clearance for standing. The tub’s reflective surface catches natural light from the window during morning hours. In addition, its sculptural form provides the glamorous focal point that the client requested.
Next to the tub, the walk-in shower occupies a generous footprint enclosed by frameless clear glass panels. Brass fixtures include a ceiling-mounted rainfall head and two independent wall-mounted sets. Tile continues from the floor up across all shower walls, while a recessed niche with LED backlighting provides storage for bottles and products.
The powder room sits within a separate compartment accessed through a frosted glass door, offering privacy while maintaining light transmission. Its tiny footprint is powerfully embellished with a combination of a smaller crystal chandelier twin and vertical LED strips.
The floating vanity extends along one wall with vertical fluted white panels creating shadow lines across its surface. Two vessel sinks in white sit on a continuous countertop, with brass faucets rising from deck-mounted positions. Tall rectangular mirrors with LED perimeter lighting flank each sink, emphasizing ceiling height and continuing the visual narrative from the bedroom.
The vanity’s toe-kick recesses several inches, with integrated LED strips washing accent light downward. This undermount illumination adds ambient glow while also keeping the vanity mass visually lifted from the floor plane.
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Hers Closet
Both his and hers closets boast a glamorous look cohesive with the bedroom and the rest of the house. The hers closet design delivers the glass-front cabinetry the client requested while organizing storage across multiple functional zones. The space works within a beige and antique gold palette. LED lighting runs along hanging rods, shelf edges, and cabinet perimeters, illuminating contents throughout the walk-in footprint. A crystal chandelier hangs at the center, its scale appropriate to the room’s volume. The design forgoes a central island, keeping the floor plane open for movement and dressing activities.
Hanging sections stretch across three walls. Chrome rods suspend from the ceiling with integrated LED strips running their full length above. Garments hang at two heights in some compartments, maximizing vertical storage capacity within the available wall span. Meanwhile, multiple stacked drawers provide closed storage for folded items, undergarments, and accessories.
Glass-enclosed sections line the back wall, their brass frames holding transparent panels that reveal organized shoe storage inside. Individual shelves stack vertically within the enclosed bays, each shelf backlit with LED strips. The shelving depth accommodates various styles, from flats displayed heel-to-toe to heels positioned at slight angles. Shoes sit in arrangements across multiple tiers; the glass fronts protect contents from dust while maintaining visibility of the collection.
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His Closet
His closet design delivers the masculine aesthetic the client specified, along with the glass display concept referenced in the brief. It addresses their explicit request for darker tones by working within a palette of taupe and charcoal. Glass-fronted compartments line the walls, their transparent panels revealing organized shoe storage behind. LED lighting runs along every shelf edge and hanging rod, creating uniform illumination throughout the space, while a sleek contemporary linear ceiling fixture provides overhead light.
Shoe shelving occupies substantial wall divisions behind glass panels. Individual shelves stack vertically, each backlit to highlight the footwear collection.
Hanging sections feature chrome rods suspended at multiple heights. The setup allows immediate visual access to clothing options during morning dressing routines.
Carpet flooring in a neutral tone provides a soft surface underfoot. Drawer units in taupe finish occupy the base level across one wall section, providing closed storage for folded items and accessories. Their fronts align with the vertical divisions established by the glass compartments and hanging sections above.
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Design Details: Sourcing the Perfect Pieces
Decorilla’s 3D renderings allowed the client to assess spatial relationships across the four-room primary bedroom suite before committing to purchases. This preview stage also helped them make material selections with confidence. In addition, Decorilla’s exclusive trade pricing reduced costs on furniture and fixtures, keeping the project within budget while allowing for the glamorous finishes the client wanted.
Erika adjusted elements as the client’s preferences clarified throughout the design process. Early conversations about avoiding gray led to the warm beige tile selection in the bathroom. The client’s uncertainty about window seating resolved into the two curved chairs positioned for morning light. The collaboration produced results, and the client’s response confirmed this alignment: “Thank you so much for everything, you exceeded my expectations in every way! Forever grateful for you 😀.”
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