If you are a highly creative individual who likes to show a lot of personality in your home design, you have probably thought that platform beds offer much too little intrigue and creativity to fit your lifestyle. On the contrary, these are perhaps the best beds with which to begin a decorating project because they provide a perfect, clean backdrop to start the process. While some contemporary bedroom sets limit you to specific ideas critical to maintaining the flow of the design, a group of items centered around this blank slate is the perfect setup for someone who wants their room to completely reflect his or her personality.

With a platform bed, you usually have little or no design or influence from the shape of the bed. You'll typically find the manufacturer has approached the idea as a minimalist and left you with a canvas to paint - all hard, straight, clean lines and sharp angles. From this point you can decide if you want to dress them up with leather headboards and create a very masculine or wild-west themed bedroom or if you'd rather soften the look with lots of cushions, deep blankets, and throw pillows. Either way, it's your decision and your design to build, starting from the basic platform.

Many other wood bedroom sets are ornately carved, given a distressed look, stained a particular shade, or otherwise "predecorated". However, you can often find platform beds that are "naked", meaning that the wood hasn't been stained or painted, and the build of the bed is really no more than a plain frame. Therefore, you get to go back to the drawing board again, deciding for yourself how you want to treat the wood and what sort of creation you'll build from the basic. Best of all, because it's easy to design around the bed in any way you like and the build is sturdy and reliable, lasting for years, you can add versatility to the list of bonuses. You can redecorate at any time without having to change your furniture.

One of the great things about using platform beds in the bedroom is that, unlike other king wood beds, the sheer size of the platform never seems overwhelming. Most of these sit fairly low to the ground, and because of their minimalism, they are extremely unobtrusive, even in the smallest of bedrooms. By comparison to other master bedroom furniture, even of the same size, you'll feel more comfortable and less cramped with a bed that is less ornate and imposing, especially if you are upsizing from a queen.

While creative design is not the priority on everyone's list, there are plenty of people who feel trapped by the style of their bedroom furniture and unable to work around it to really show who they are inside. Contemporary platform beds are a completely different animal and inspire rather than subdue creative thinking. Next time you look around your bedroom and wonder where YOU are in the design, think about starting fresh with a platform bed as your blank canvas.