The Bedroom Edit
Jump into the dreamworld with our bedroom edit.
Words: Emma-Kate Wilson
Here at Hunter & Folk, we like to offer a little escapism and inspiration from the regular day-to-day. For our bedroom edit, we connected with ettitude, a sustainable bed-wear company, and spoke to founder, Phoebe Yu, to find out what makes the perfect bedroom.
Of course, the first place to start is the bed, and is the reason why Phoebe knew ettitude had to be the gold standard in materials. “Make sure your bed is somewhere you really want to be,” Phoebe muses. “That means soft, breathable bedding that feels heavenly to climb into each night.”
She also knew that alongside quality sheets, ettitude should offer a wide range of colours to create a personalised calming atmosphere. Two of our favourite bedrooms, Lynda Gardener’s Room + Board and Simone Haag’s home in Melbourne shows how mixing colours and prints adds depth to the bed and visual texture for a cosy, inviting atmosphere to the room.
The arches over the beds evoke the rising Menorcan sun and Dorothée Meilichzon's love of art deco style at Menorca Experimental Hotel. Photo - Karel Baras.
The Young Family bedroom at One Manhattan Square apartments. Photo - William Laird.
Poynton II - Simone Haag’s bedroom space in her Melbourne home. Photo - Derek Swalwell.
“My number one tip is to treat your bedroom as a sanctuary from the outside world, so that means avoid using any electronic devices while you’re in this space,” shares Phoebe Yu. Photo - Courtesy of Ettitude.
On top of wanting to find quality sheets, Phoebe realised how damaging the design industry is for the planet. “I spent years working for large organisations that produced homewares, and I saw first-hand some of the unsustainable practices that were used,” the designer explains. “It was an eye-opening experience, particularly around textile manufacturing.”
“I wanted to create something that was environmentally responsible and also very high quality, so I set about tackling it from the fabric source first. ”
Phoebe quickly learnt that while some companies offer bamboo bedding, they use toxic rayon or viscose technology. ettitude removed this process through its custom lyocell blend, spending years finessing a closed-loop system that results in 98% of water recycled. The bedding is free from nasty chemicals and harsh dyes, certified by the global textile oversight company OEKO-TEX. Alongside this, they only source bamboo from FSC certified forests, and currently donate one percent of sales to 1% For the Planet.
Bedroom details at Lynda Gardener’s Room + Board. Photo - Marnie Hawson.
Dusty blues at The Esplanade bedroom space designed by GOLDEN. Photo - Sharyn Cairns.
Embracing green living feeds into another hot tip from Phoebe for creating the perfect bedroom — “add plenty of plants - they help clean our air and also are calming to look at.” It’s clear that this is a method used by other designers, as one of our other favourite homes, the Merrick’s Guest House by Studio Esteta, brings harmonising plants into the bedroom to reflect the view out the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Another reoccurring theme? Art in the bedroom. From the pops of abstract colour in the One Manhattan Square apartments by Anna Karlin to GOLDEN’s simple ceramic sculptures in The Esplanade house. The Menorca Experimental Hotel takes this to the next level, and as a hotel can do, by turning the entire bed into a piece of art, mirroring Dorothée Meilichzon’s love of Spanish-inspired art deco.
Merrick’s Guest House by Studio Esteta. Photo - Tom Blachford.
Alongside quality bamboo sheets, ettitude offer a wide range of colours to create a personalised calming atmosphere. Photo - Courtesy of ettitude.