Gold and White Canopy Bed Ideas

Angel Wings

• Make your canopy bed a heavenly place to sleep with an angel theme, suitable for someone with a strong belief in angelic protection or a fondness for the angel motif. Paint the bed frame a soft, creamy white. Add gold trim along the edges of the headboard, the bed posts and the lower portion of the frame. Consider also applying an "antiquing" paint finish or a gold "crackle" finish to add additional texture. Paint a pair of angel wings on the headboard. Stamp a plain white canopy with a star-shape sponge dipped in gold fabric paint.

Golden Bed

• Create a golden bed fit for an Egyptian pharaoh if you like your decor over-the-top or if you want a standout furniture piece in an otherwise plain bedroom. Paint the bed frame -- including the canopy posts -- in rich gold paint. Put up a plain white linen canopy to mimic the plain shifts that everyday Egyptians wore and underscore the shine of the gold bed frame.

White Bed

• Decorate your canopy bed in all-white with the exception of the canopy if you gravitate toward the minimalist, airy aesthetic featured in many spas. Paint the bed frame glossy white if it isn't already white. Add white linens, a white comforter and white pillows. Finish the bed with a diaphanous golden canopy that will give incoming light the glowing, vital color of morning sunlight.

Stripes

• Adorn your canopy bed with stripes if the rest of the room is a little bland and needs spicing up or if you just like stripes. Some ways to use stripes in a gold and white canopy bed include putting up a gold and white striped canopy to drape over the bed, painting the bed frame gold and adding thin white stripes (or vice versa) and procuring striped gold and white bed linens.