I don't like it. It's as fake/stagey as it really is.

This is an old stylist's trick to keep interior editorial photography from looking stiff, unlived in, and fake.

The whole point is to make it look like the occupants have just left the room and that the pictures are a slice of "real life."

Of course they aren't a slice of real life at all. Nothing, not even the wrinkled bedding, finds itself in an interiors editorial photograph by accident.

The last one looks like a fort :)

I don't like this post any more than I liked going into my teenagers rooms and finding smelly socks twisted into an unmade bed.

Um, no. Although I find the unmade bed in the last photo more tolerable than the others given the circumstances, i.e., cramped attic space.

Sorry, no. The only time an unmade bed looks sexy midday is when there's people on it, having midday sex.

I never make my bed. It always looks like the 5th picture. And I'm totally fine with that. =)

I actually don't see any purpose in making it.

The thing is, people who leave their beds unmade (like me) generally don't have otherwise perfectly organized rooms. Along with the rumpled covers go clothes strewn over chairs, cluttered dressers, and night tables stacked with books. As others have pointed out, the artfully disheveled beds here belie the work of stylists.

I like it. But then again, I like midday sex :)

Exactly laurakins....it's an acquired taste!! ;-)

ProfKD....I agree!!

I think ProfKD said it all !

Zara Home has my favorite catalog photos for their bedspreads and quilts!
http://www.zarahome.com/shop/gb/en/zara-home/category/Bedspreads/72408/-1/-2

Sadly, they said they don't have any plans right now to open a Zara Home store here in the US.

I like it - in terms of styling as I prefer editorial shots that look lived in and cosy. At home i make my bed but it still looks kind of messy as in pic 6, but I couldn't cope with completely unmade, particularly since my bedroom is ground-floor and street facing!

Yup, I'm another member of the Never Make My Bed Club. It just seems like a pointless chore to me, and the rumpled sheets don't bother me (or my cat) at all. Plus in 2 weeks I'm moving to a place with a murphy bed, so it's not like anyone will SEE the mess ;)

Also, Sally305, tell it like it is. Yesterday I finally got around to putting away the pile of clean clothes that had been lying on my hope chest for a month. I still have the stack of books... but clutter's never bothered me.

This is the most bizarre post I have ever encountered on this site. There is nothing attractive about any of these beds.

Can't stand unmade beds/messy rooms. Love midday (or any other time) sex.

I loooooove an unmade bed.

This is just wrong.

I make the bed first thing in the morning, after which my dogs jump on it to nap. I won't waste my time making the bed more than once a day or trying to keep the dogs off furniture. The unkept bed's yet another way I've lowered my standards to keep my home content. No regrets--I enjoy my dogs more than a made bed.

To each his/her own. If the rest of the bedroom is fairly neat AND the bedding is all white with a duvet and not a tailored cover, then I like it. On the other hand, how hard is it to pull up a duvet?

Another fan of midday sex, here.

But I still make my bed everyday. I work from home, and everytime I walk past my bedroom, it irks me to see the bed unmade. It really doesn't take much time, and gives me piece of mind.

Make that 60 votes and counting for midday sex...
But i don't like to see an unmade bed. What's the purpose of picking out a spread or comforter to coordinate with the rest of the room if you won't take the trouble to put it in place every day? Plus, I find neatened sheets to be much cooler and more refreshing at night than unmade ones. Could just be my imagination.

Yay! Unmade bed folks!!

I generally only make my bed when someone is likely to see it -- not often, since it's on the second floor. (Also when I launder the sheets.) The rest of my room IS tidy as is the rest of my house. I leave my bed unmade mainly to air it out and give my cats a place to burrow! (It also saves a bit of time when I'm getting ready for work.)

I can't leave my home to go to work in the morning if my bed isn't made. The whole look of these bedrooms make me really nervous. I want to pinch the owner of each bed on their butt really hard.

charna, LOL!