Q. Hi Jordan!
I’m looking for some good-quality bedding that’s male- and female-friendly, and not so delicate that it won’t hold up to our nightly bed wrestling matches (with our boys, not each other).
Keep up the good work 🙂
Meredith
A. My first piece of advice: check out Pottery Barn’s Design Your Own Bed feature – I built the above look (featuring muted blue-grey tones with just a hint of “pretty” in that duvet cover) for you, but the options are endless. What I’d suggest is to pick a relatively subdued color scheme, and then try adding a simple pattern (like tiny polka dots, or that pretty stripe you see above) on your pillows and duvet cover for interest.
My own bed is pretty colorful (you can check it out here), but I keep it from going into overly-frou territory by confining the colors and patterns to the duvet or quilt: the sheets are a mix of solid yellows, creams, and whites, so no matter what I pull from the linen closet (or overstuffed box stacked against my dresser, as it were; weneedtomove), it goes together.
Go for all-white bedding and add an impossibly cool quilt inspired by South American architecture for color.
Everyone likes stripes. Toss a cream pom-pom throw into the above look for a little softness, and you’re done.
This Vera Wang set features eyelet embroidery, but the deep colors and rich fabrics add balance.
If you’re into a mod look, try mixing mustard, grey, and brown.
