How to Make My Room Runway Themed

If clothes make the woman in your world, create a dream bedroom for yourself and your fashion-slave friends with a few simple props. Turning a bedroom into a house of high fashion means adding mirrors, clothes racks, backstage prep areas and some wall-hung inspiration. Go through your stacks of fashion magazines for ideas from runway shows that reflect your taste.

Daybed and tailored cover
Pillows
Mirror screen, 3-wat
Track lighting with daylight bulbs
Fashion show, collection or model poster
Photographs and frames
Dressing table
Mirror with theatrical-lights border
Make-up kit
Jewelry storage
Wheeled costume rack
Carpet remnant “runway”
Carpet knife
Small gilt chairs with cushions

Instructions

- 1
  Replace a twin bed with a daybed covered in fabric such as faux zebra. Applique pillows to look like famous-label shopping bags or designer logos.
- 2
  Make or buy a three-way screen that’s mirrored on one side. Place it in good light.
- 3
  Install track lighting on the ceiling with daylight bulbs that can be aimed at the closet, clothes rack and mirror. Aim one light at a giant poster for a fashion show or an oversize framed ad for a favorite designer’s new collection. Get help hanging track lighting.
- 4
  Ask a friend to take a series of photos of you posing in a chic ensemble. Display the shots in one long frame with mat cutouts to reveal the photos. Hang this over the dressing-table mirror.
- 5
  Dedicate an entire corner to a dressing table with a large mirror surrounded by theatrical lights, a make-up chest, hangers for necklaces and earring trees.
- 6
  Place a wheeled costume or clothes rack in front of the closet.
- 7
  Cut a swatch of carpet remnant in the shape of a runway and lie it on the floor from the doorway to the daybed. Curve the carpet as you cut it if the room layout requires an angle.
- 8
  Add a few small gilt chairs with cushions for guest seating.

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