If your decorative style leans toward the outlandish, or eye-catching or just odd, you haven’t completed your bedroom without some statement-making pillowcases. Enough with this “spa-like, soothing, Zen haven” kind of look, all pale and delicate and serene and boring. S

care someone with a pair of eyes looking back at them, on your black and white cases from Urban Outfitters, for $28.

Or be just a little bit strange with their bird on a wire set, also $28. Be a little artistic (and perhaps subtly reference the recent Olympic archery competition at the same time) with an archer image on your pillowcases from Luxury Lab Linens (the bedding set is on sale for $139).

Perhaps just a bold stroke of color and a graphic flourish on a single pillow is noisy enough for you, such as the Ethan red pillow from Bliss Living Home for $50. 

For new parents, Uncommon Goods has the On Duty/Off Duty pillowcase set, $32, to establish early in the evening who’s going to deal with the crying tot. ModCloth.com has a set of saucy pillowcases, again in stark black and white. One says “I’m not really sleeping, You Just Bore Me,” and the other has a ’50s-style woman’s face resting gracefully on her pillow, for $24.

If you don’t have the gumption to go with bold bed pillows, maybe just the Strike While the Iron’s Hot puzzling decorative pillow will do. It’s $54.