Moving into small one bedroom apartment. I have a queen size 'pewter' color metal bed. Also a Duncan Phyfe?

Keep the metal to a limit. Metal is hard, smooth, and shiny. Your dresser is hard and smooth, but not shiny. Too much hard in a room makes it feel cold, like a hospital room.

So you want some texture. What's on the floor .. is there carpet? That will add texture. If the floors are hard (vinyl, hardwood, laminate), you want a shag-type or sheepskin-type rug to to step out of bed onto ... and to give texture to the room.

As for the windows, you want some fabric curtains to soften the bed in front of them. I wouldn't put in blinds because you already have enough pattern from the metal bed.

You can use just about any color, but go with a cooler shade rather than a warmer shade ... pewter is a cool color, not a warm one. And the black will go with anything.

Chandeliers are both hard and patterned (lots of visual detail), and will compete with the bed. I like the idea of simple lamps or hanging lights ... perhaps a short cylindrical shade hanging down, or a round rice-paper globe-shaped shade.

ok, i'm getting what you advise proper to the king length mattress factor. on the commencing up it fairly is like dozing on the deck of an ocean liner. yet choose for it besides. The reasoning is user-friendly. by using fact after the female buddy strikes in, so will the doggy. Then finally the infants take place. And believe me...whilst the one you love is ill and you're caught in a queen you will wish you have been extra away. A queen is actual no longer that plenty bigger than an entire length mattress so flow all out and get the king. once you're in a queen you sense obligated to share the covers. yet if you have been at the same time some years you artwork out it fairly is suitable which you each and each have your person blankets in a king because you will the two desire different temperatures. Kings are so great, you could cuddle while you flow to sleep and then flow away in case you do no longer want somebody dozing good at the back of you. My husband, whom i like dearly, will roll up at the back of me just about forcing me off the facet of the king mattress. I merely awaken, arise and flow to the different facet and fall decrease back asleep. Kings are the suitable.