The 9 best summer bedrooms

A SANTA MONICA CANYON BEDROOM

In the master bedroom of the Santa Monica Canyon home of designers Jeffrey Alan Marks andRoss Cassidy, a vintage rowboat hangs upside down from the ceiling. Walls are upholstered in aLes Indiennes cotton, and a bench designed by Marks is covered in a printed linen fromChristopher Farr.

AN IBIZA BEDROOM

At the weekend retreat of brothers Antonio and Ignacio Saorin Lopez de Ayala, on the Spanish island of Ibiza, a guest bedroom—nicknamed "the Captain's Room"—is carved out of the rocky bluff on which the main house sits, and opens onto a private terrace. A canopy of Indian mosquito netting hangs over the bed; the wood floor is painted white.

A DARIEN, CONNECTICUT BEDROOM

For her family's house in Darien, Connecticut, textile designerSusan Harris decorated a guest room with a vintage French rattan bureau, a Swedish wool rug, and ceramic lamps. The cotton-linen fabrics for the headboard, bedcover, bed skirt, and pillow shams are by Harris's firm, SeaCloth.

A HUDSON VALLEY BEDROOM

Veranda editor in chief Dara Caponigro and her husband, David Steinberger, used a bold print to enliven an otherwise all-white sleeping alcove at their lakeside home in New York's Hudson Valley. The wood-frame bed is dressed in a floral linen-cotton coverlet by Brunschwig& Fils.

A HAWAII BEDROOM

Michael S. Smith decorated the master bedroom of a 1930s home on a Hawaiian island with a Ming-style bed of his own design. The bed linens are by John Robshaw Textiles.

A BAHAMAS BEDROOM

Dressed with IKEA curtains, a wrought-iron lit à la polonaise with an eight-foot-tall canopy takes center stage in the master bedroom of Tom Scheerer's 200-year-old cottage on Harbour Island in the Bahamas. Painted in pastel green, the room is kept shady and cool by louvered shutters.

A HUDSON VALLEY BEDROOM

Martina Arfwidson of FACE Stockholm and her husband, David Weiss, chose a Swedish palette for the guest room of their Georgian Revival house in New York's Hudson Valley. The bed is covered with Hedström& Judd linens, and a side chair comes from Arfwidson's childhood home in Stockholm.

A WISCONSIN BEDROOM

In the bedroom of a Wisconsin home, the linens and bedside table are vintage. The bench is from the ’50s, and the rug is by Dash & Albert. The Chinese vessel once belonged to Elsie de Wolfe.

A GEORGIA BEDROOM

In this Athens, Georgia home the homeowner made the mahogany platform bed in this guest cottag. The candlewicked coverlet is from the 1800s.

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