OShea-Evans - Veranda a room of ones own: Personal Retreats & Sanctuaries

A headboard made from a vintage suzani helps turn this SoHo aerie by Katie Leede into a sexy, relaxing, and easy retreat.

). Whatever you dream up, make your bedroom a fairy taleas romantic as a bedtime story, for you alone.

In Montecito, California, Richard Hallberg emphasizes a sculptural headboard with symmetrically placed etchings that draw the eye up.

An overscale paisley makes for a fresh and modern master bedroom in this Manhattan pied--terre by Cathy Kincaid.

While I find balance and a rhythm in personal spaces to be important principles, I think varying the textures is what makes it inviting. Smaller, more personal spaces give us a close-up and tactile experience with the objects and materials surrounding us. Mixing a cashmere throw, polished silver frames with family members photos, a shell or piece of art collected on a tripthese are the tactile layers that make me most happy in intimate spaces.

Tammy Connor

Tammy Connor adds casual cheer to a pair of iron-frame beds with antique quilts perfectly befitting a 19th-century Tennessee cabin.

Designer Tammy Connor maximizes a low attic ceiling by placing rope beds under the eaves, which are lined with curtains for magical privacy.

Exquisite details, such as Moroccan ceilings and keyhole doors, can transform the usual four walls into otherworldly respites.

A wall of antiqued mirrors behind the headboard of this Manhattan home by Jeffrey Bilhuber maximizes the light.

A canopy-topped bed fit for royalty provides stately slumber in this Virginia home by Suzanne Kasler.

Subtly striped linen fabric in an oatmeal hue softens the antique reproduction four-poster bed in this Tennessee home by Tammy Connor.

A flower-petal pendant chandelier adds a playful note to a classic Park Avenue master bedroom by Celerie Kemble.

Charlotte Moss decked the master bedroom of her summer home in East Hampton, New York in romance, by way of antique French botanical paintings, porcelain flowers, and wallpaper in a delicate floral motif.

A custom toile cocoons a four-poster Los Angeles bed by Anthony Baratta in Francophile delight.

Malachite-inspired wallpaper in Andrew Browns Alabama home creates a jewel-box sleeping space that evokes an old Dorothy Draper maxim: If it looks right, it is right.