I have a black iron bed and a couple of other black furniture items in our bedroom. I LOVE the black. I also have honey pine in another room and I will say black does show dust much, much more! But I don't mind - dusting is pretty fast and easy. Hope you love it!

I have lots of black furniture, though not in the bedroom. I think it will be fab for sure. I love black, I love that it hides so much. I do not have a huge problem with dust, I might even say I see less dust on the black.

Go for it, it will be wonderful in a bedroom. But please post pics, so we can see your lovely new bedroom set.

I bought an old white dresser about 10 years ago and paid an artist to paint flowers and vines on it for my cottage-style bedroom. Then, a couple of years later, I painted it Sycamore Maple, a Walmart muted green, to work with new bedding. Loved it! Six years ago, we moved into this house and the green was wrong, wrong, wrong, so I had it painted diestressed black, with a little red accent. The dust is hideous. The dresser is gorgeous. It will stay black forever, no matter what color my room.

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I have a black wrought iron bed & like it. I really like the look of big solid black headboards. I have other black tables here and there throughout the house and they show dust horribly. I also swear that when you buy a 'used' house you also inherit all of the yrs. of dust so I deal w/ about 100+ yrs. of dust that still blow through the vents.

Lot's of black here, but not in the bedroom. The only black bedroom sets I can think of off hand are the shiney lacquer ones. Are you talking flat black? I think that would be nice and wouldn't show dust too much.

I don't have black bedroom furniture but I do like the looks of it. The black pieces I do have, don't show the dust any more than the vintage mahogany and cherry ones I have in the MB, now.

We have black lacquer bedroom furniture. I hate it!!!! We have a king bed with built-in 24 inch dresser/headboard 2 feet wider than the bed (which really are the nightstands). It also has a 18 inch mirror (the width of the bed) with more lacquer on top. Sorry - I have such a headache that I can't explain it very well this morning. I also don't know how to post pics. But the point is that there is a lot of surface area behind the bed and with it being so shinny - it's always dusty. Flat might be better.

An old client of mine did just that...her floors are wide honey pine planks, and we did a mostly blue and white scheme with creamy yellow-ivory walls, and I had all her simple mismatched wooden furniture spray-painted (my painter has a booth and a commercial spray apparatus) semi-gloss black. Her things included a simple four-poster bed, two different night stands, a dresser, and a blanket chest, and we did everything except the blanket chest, which we had painted a worn barn red-brown. We replaced the hardware with aged (not "antiqued") brass, and added an old dark natural wicker rocking chair and a big old brass kindling bucket for magazines. I'm sorry I don't have photos to share, because it looks great (if I do say so!)
I would caution against flat black. It looks dull, and because the finish is a bit "toothy," it grabs and holds not only the dust, but also the lint and fibers from everything you use to dust it with.
I also don't usually like to use lacquer unless you are sure you will never chip it, or get anything like oil or alcohol on it. Too fragile for simple living.

I have a love hate relationship with all the black furniture in my house. Most of it is in my bedroom but I do have smaller pieces scattered here and there. For me dust is absolutely more of an issue on black pieces than other wood tones. In my next life...... I'll rethink the black.

As you can see, there's a lot of black in my bedroom;

BIG black bed and nightstand!

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Black breakfront
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BIG black mirror!!
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Small accent piece at bedroom entrance
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OH! And don't forget the black frames - do you have any art framed in black already? If so, that will give you a good idea of how dust settles in your house. Some homes just have more - whoever said older homes are dustier is right - I've always lived in old houses and always battled dust.

Dlm2000 - What a gorgeous bedroom! I could move right in. Reasons why I think your room works so well: It's large, and has a lot of light. The impressive window treatments counterbalance the weightiness of the black. And the room is softened by the w.t.w carpeting, the tan walls (my fave color with black) and white woodwork, the soft chair, the red table and the well-chosen artwork. IOW, everything is in balance.

I am not the world's best duster, but I have a lot of those little microfiber cloths tucked out of sight in every room. If something is showing dust out comes the cloth and the cleaning is just a matter of seconds. Every so often I toss them all together in the washer and line-dry them (they shouldn't go into a dryer). They are right up there with Velcro and Post-it notes among our greatest inventions!

Wow - thanks, Sable! That made my day!

I have black furniture in one of our guest bedrooms, and really do like it. The bed is wrought iron, and there's a wrought iron bench at the end of the bed with a toile pad, so the black dresser pairs well with this furniture. I also put up two black shelves in the dormer alcove, to have somewhere to put a book or alarm if a guest needed to. This is an old photo, and I've changed out the artwork and accessories, but you get an idea of how it looks. I'm thinking of repainting this room, too, but haven't been able to decide on a color that would best suit the navy and cream toile and cream color bed linens.

I painted an old maple dresser and mirror and a night stand for my guest room. I used a satin poly over it and I can't say that the dust is any worse than alot of my other darker furniture.

dlm and nanny what great bedrooms. I love the taupe/black/cream combo but the toile is wonderful too. I love the idea of shelves on either side of the bed nanny. You just solved a problem for me in a guest room I'm working on. The spot where the bed works best is a nook and now that I've changed the bed from twin to queen there's no room for night stands.

I don't have black furniture but I just wanted to comment on the dust situation. It is possible to have your ducts professionally cleaned. My hubby cleans duct work in "sick buildings" professionally and has done ours at home with the garden hose. It makes a big, big difference! Also, change your vacuum bags around half full and be vigilant about changing your furnace filters. The 3M filters are the beset.

I love black painted furniture in any room.

My headboard was wood...then...white...then green...now black. I like the black the best!