How much of the furniture in the room is your style and how much of it is "it's my first apartment and it's furnished from my parents' basement"? I have an eclectic sense of style, but I find myself drawn to unique pieces that have a bit of a story. The blue dresser is my favorite piece, it has a ton of character. However I don't want to stick with all the same style in the room, I don't like matching things. I also like contemporary modern things, pretty much anything that makes you thing where did you find that? The small dresser/night stand has been in my family for years, so I want to make it work. I'm not opposed to upcycling it, but I'm not sure how I'd go about it. And the chair I don't care too much about either way. What activities do you want to do in the room? Sleeping, obviously. But getting dressed? Surfing the net? Yoga? Reading--in bed or a comfy chair? Make-up or hair styling? I don't spend that much time in the bedroom. I guess this is the part where I add that my boyfriend also lives here but has no design opinion whatsoever. So I do want to try and define a space for both of us. I hung the skirt on the wall to try and bring the orange reds and pinks around the room, but I have since taken it down. We usually play video games on the ps3, or watch a movie and go to sleep. I'll take my clothes and bring them to the bathroom where I get ready, so I don't really use it for much. I do read in bed. The reason I have a chair is because we dont have a tv in our living room, so company will come into the bedroom to play video games and whatnot. In my living room, I have my computer for movies and tv, etc. What are the colors, paint and bedding you have chosen? Are they what's in the room now, or will you be changing all of them? The colors I like are pretty much in the room now. I like the mustard yellow gold in the rug (and have considered painting it with a white stripe or chevron?) The robin's egg and the grey, and the red orange are probably my favorite colors. I feel like there is alot of wood, and it is overwhelming. What does the headboard you are planning to make look like? I plan on painting a brick panel from lowe's matte white and hanging it from floor to ceiling behind the bed to bring the white from the ceiling down and the white from the bedding up, and breaking up the dark grey a little bit. That's next weekend's project. But that makes me wonder if using pallets to rest my mattress on would clash woods, or if I should paint them (white/black?) or what I should be putting my bed up on? I also wanted to hang some kind of art on top of the brick headboard. Another concern is the floor to ceiling expanse would make the bed itself look even smaller. A couple cool things about the brick panel is that It only needs a few nails to hold it up, I can take it from apartment to apartment and I can upholster it if I get bored. I also think it would add texture. What's your budget like? I have pretty much an open budget, I'd like to save up for a few things, but I like crafting and DIY too much to go buy a showroom set up for my bedroom. I want to put as much of myself into it as I can.

Thank you all. Yes, a dresser/chest of drawers can go into a reach in closet! I forgot about that. If you arrange your hanging clothes long to short (i.e., coats, pants, skirts, dresses, tops, shorts) you can pretty easily fit a small dresser in there under the short clothes. llucy, I really don't have clothes so fancy I have to hang them up either. I just do it to free up dresser space and because it makes it easier for me to find clothes. Because my closet doesn't have doors (the house came that way), I can just glance over and see everything at once. I also don't have a lot of clothes, so it might not work for everyone. I LOVE the secretary your mom has! What a great solution! writersblock, I agree--a small bedroom with just the necessities is so easy to keep tidy! In my last apartment I had a huge master and I had a desk in there, 2 dressers, a tea cart/table, a magazine rack, etc. It always looked messy! Oh, and a queen bed with massive headboard/footboard. I'm guessing you're the same as me--I want to separate home and work spaces. I'm finding that having that extra bedroom to convert into a library is awesome! First time I've been able to do that. Shades, I really like your bedroom setup with the sitting area for tea! It's a place of quiet solitude, and we all need that. llucy is right--there's a wealth of information on the Internet about creative uses and storage solutions for small spaces. And now, with the "tiny house" movement having gone viral, there's even more! The HGTV show "Tiny house, big living" shows a lot of neat storage ideas, and I know they have a site on the HGTV website. The one thing Joy and I always tell people NOT to do, which goes against the grain of most other organizing books and advice: Don't START by going to the Container Store, Target, Walmart, whatever, and buying a bunch of bins and organizers. People do that and then they have a bunch of bins and things that don't fit the space, or aren't the right kind of organizer for what they need. START by figuring out the purpose for the room. NEXT, figure out EXACTLY what has to go into the room. If your room is really cluttered, take EVERYTHING out, including furniture! Then pull out only what you need to serve the purpose of the room and put ONLY those things back into the room. (With the leftover stuff, put it in the room where it should go, donate it, sell it, or trash it.) NOW you know what you're working with! NEXT, measure, measure, measure. Measure EVERYTHING! Write it down. Write down what type of organizer you need for each thing you need to organize, and write down what size bin/basket/shelf/drawer/whatever will fit in the space you've designated. NOW go to your store of choice with your list and get the right containers for your space and purposes! Believe me, you will save a lot of time, headache, and money this way! Otherwise, you either end up using organizers that don't really work, or you have to haul them back to the store and start over. Let us know how it's going! :-)

Put bed on drawers like a captain's bed and lose the dresser. Not quite enough room for chairs but you could put bolsters to make it into a daybed. Make/buy a wall bed and buy folding chairs to use during the day. You could lean your bed up against the wall and secure it with a strap to see if that's something that works for you. If you are tidy this is how I'd go. Buy a daybed. Put bolsters around to make it into a sofa for the day and shove them under the bed at night. Everybody gets to be on a sofa together, not the best. I've got a 11x9,5' room I'd like to serve as library/office/sewing/exercise/guest room. Gave up and it will have an air mattress when we have guests. Didn't want to lose the wall space for a wall bed and putting shelving around a daybed made books difficult to get to. Just been through some redesigning of my own closet. Suggest dropping the hanging rod so clothes just clear the floor and putting up more shelves to regain prime real estate and keeping the floor clear.

Thank you all for your ideas and support. Especially you, Julie. I cannot thank you enough for your ideas and PATIENCE with me. The back and forth has been going on for weeks and u have always been genuinely eager to help me. I thought about the chests and everyone’s right, it’s the best option for my small room. I’m big on symmetry too, so that’s the best option with that as well. Everything will be centered which makes me happy. With that being said, i want to check out Home Goods, Ashley, and a few other furniture stores so I can see the chests in person. However, nothing is open on Long island where i live, and we aren’t even in phase one yet 😢. I’ve been quarantined for weeks with two little kids, driving myself insane with my room. I have also been driving Julie insane too I’m sure which I feel bad about. So i am going to give my room a break for now until I can see some three drawer chests in person. Julie, we spoke about this before and i scrolled up to see the old comments. I will need two chests 32 inches or less...so now I will know what to look for. I want my furniture to be light or a gray wash. Once I find one, of course I will consult with Julie and the rest of my houzz buds. Thank you so much for everything this far!!!!😉