A Marigold Fireplace and Tiny Library Define the Best Mid-Century Modern Bedrooms

An original mid-century modern bedroom might date back to nearly a century ago (mind-bending, we know), but the era continues to influence contemporary interior design—from modular shelving and lounge-friendly soft seating to textured walls, warm wood accents, and freestanding fireplaces in playful colors. Ultimately, though, it’s about the feeling the style evokes—cocoon-level cozy, comfortable, and effortlessly chic—as much as the elements themselves. And no room channels that elegant ease as much as a bedroom.

Ahead, we pulled together eight mid-century modern bedrooms that spotlight the forever-stylish period in completely different and fresh ways.

The Sleep-and-Study Mid-Century Modern Bedroom

A slim-profile, sculptural desk set that extends into a sleek sleep nook just might be the ultimate WFH office. Creative director Patrick O’Neill achieved the small yet statement-making room in his Richard Neutra–designed Los Angeles home. Throughout the 1950s property, mahogany and redwood set a serene scene—a labor of love that includes influences spanning Paul Rand to Disneyland.

The Mid-Century Modern Bedroom With Soft Power

Bringing a texture such as grasscloth onto your bedroom walls can achieve a cocoonlike vibe. Anchor it with a soft color on the ceiling (or trim) for a truly dreamy combination. Hint: Think of the fibrous wallpaper as a subtle yet impactful neutral backdrop for art. Interior designer Starrett Zenko Ringbom’s colorful NYC apartment nails that balance.

The Decade Mashup Mid-Century Modern Bedroom

Even though it was built in 1984, this Connecticut home is full of stellar mid-century-influenced moments—especially in the bedroom, where the platform bed, sheepskin-draped chair, and floor-to-ceiling windows all orient toward a Fallingwater-worthy view (the river outside acts as a natural sound machine come bedtime). Bonus: The streamlined space still tucks in storage by way of modular shelving and drawers under the bed, proving pretty can be practical. 

The Mid-Century Modern Bedroom With Major Art Moments

There’s a lot of MCM style to love inside the walls of Ledgewood, a home in the Hollywood Hills with a relatively compact footprint. Originally designed by architect Robert Kennard in 1961, the space was reimagined by L.A.-based Studio Shamshiri in 2020. A moody moss green appears on the walls throughout, but the bedroom provides an especially scenic spot for some large-scale artwork and sweeping architectural lines. 

The Mid-Century Modern Bedroom Artist Retreat

Leave it to hospitality design wizards Roman and Williams to inject mid-century modern with a little bohemian spirit at the Ace Hotel Brooklyn. Inspired by Cabanon, the summer holiday cabin of architect Le Corbusier on the Côte d’Azur, the rooms come equipped with handcrafted details like woven bed covers from Maine. 

The Pop-Up Mid-Century Modern Bedroom

Small-space occupants, here’s something to consider: You can have a mid-century modern–style bedroom and a living area without needing two rooms. Case in point: this highly creative carport renovation. Utah-based graphic designer Amanda Jane Jones and her husband, Cree, took a tough situation (a sinking garage) and turned it into gold (an airy guest studio), complete with a sleeper sectional sofa straight out of a Mad Men mood board. 

The Mid-Century Modern Bedroom That Keeps a Spark

There is potentially no mid-century modern design element more iconic than a freestanding fireplace. Salad for President author and tastemaker Julia Sherman and her husband, Adam Katz, made the expert decision to incorporate one (in a sunny marigold, no less) as the main focus of the bedroom in their newly restored 1960s Pasadena home.

The Mid-Century Modern Bedroom for Bibliophiles

Goodmoods founder Julia Rouzaud’s three-story Napoleonic hunting lodge, located just outside Paris, has a bedroom that checks a lot of—plot twist!—mid-century modern boxes. Le Corbusier–inspired headboard with built-in nightstands? Done. Warm, woodsy color palette? Yup. Cute book nook for late-night reading sessions? Absolutely. The space is like a time capsule within a very grand estate, but together it all just works. Never underestimate the magic of mid-century modern.