what does your bed look like?
We use my mother's California king bed. The headboard was hers, too, which is dark wood with caning inside. I have my mother's furniture. None of which was my taste. But because it is hers, I love it. And I have put things together, mixed with my own furniture, in a way that feels unique to me.
We have the bed heaped with cotton comforters (2). The one on top has rose buds. The one below is spring green solid (my mother's). The sheet are a beautiful blue-aqua, not because it necessarily goes the best but because that was one of the sale colors (2/3 off--I would have gotten chartreuse at that price.)
What's on the bed does not take center stage because the walls (all 4, even window walls), have gallery walls with lots of art, mostly prints. My mother in her home had more than 100 framed large pictures, art prints (she had so many that one wall of her garage had a gallery wall.) And I had been buying original art at thrift stores and online for years before. I swear there must be 160 framed and unframed pictures in my house. Even the laundry room and bathroom (one bath I have not decorated) has multiple framed pictures, some original art which I got at St. Vincent de Paul.
It sounds like it would be oppressive, but it is not. I get so much pleasure from these pictures. My mother began collecting hers when I was about 14 years old, (a little over 50 years ago.) I would go with her to antiques auctions where she bought antique frames. I have art prints that my mother herself framed 50 years ago and that I lived with as a teenager. And then she bought more throughout her life.