The canopy, as you know, is an ancient and useful invention. Once upon a time, they served various peoples to protect against heat, drafts, flying insects or prying eyes. In our time and in our interiors, it must be admitted, a canopy is an absolutely useless thing and even collects dust. (Although in the summer at the dacha or on the first floors of urban high-rise buildings, they help fight mosquitoes). Useful or not, the canopy is still so damn attractive that few people would refuse to spend the night under it and feel like royalty.

We tried to keep a relatively serious approach to Valentine's Day and not to prepare for it in full force, but the most romantic bedroom of a Barcelona apartment and a cottage for lovers in a magical Finnish hotel broke our spirits.

To stop being envious, we delved into thinking about how to make a canopy over our beds ourselves.

We schematically divided all the methods found into 14 categories (it also turned out symbolically).

1. Canopy beds.

Buying a bed with a canopy structure attached to it, like in that Finnish hotel, for example, is a simple and great idea. Especially if you create an interior in the Baroque or Moorish style. The originality of such a bed does not at all mean increased material costs. For example, many stores sell the base of such a bed made of wood and metal, the cost of which is approximately 25 thousand rubles. But, if there is someone in your family who knows how to wield a hammer, it is not difficult to make such a frame yourself, extending the leg lines to the top and connecting them with a square of beams.

12. The easiest and most straightforward way is to drive carnations into the wall and pull a rope between them, through which the fabric will be thrown. If the arrangement allows, this rope can be tied to furniture or lamps. And if the bed is under a chandelier, the fabric can be attached to it at all, having previously, of course, assessed the safety of this act. Or attach the fabric to interior details, for example, using clothespins.

14. The last way - the fastest and easiest - for those who have not yet dismantled the Christmas tree: a canopy from a garland with light bulbs. In any case, no matter what way you choose to show tenderness to your loved ones, your care and attention is what is dearest to them on holidays and on weekdays.