The glass platform bed is backed by a headboard of two sheets of lucite embedded with aquamarine wool from Maharam. Hanging pillow-side, electroluminescent draperies glow in the dark.

These quirky custom beds and bedrooms remind us that no part of the home—even one where you'll mostly be sleeping—should be taken for granted.

At turns decorative, space-efficient, and functional, these modern headboards are telling intimations of those that sleep beneath them.

When an urban expat couple decided to build the suburban house they wanted rather than the one their neighbors expected, they ended up with a spare but airy jewel box and no wooden shingles.