Need help balancing awkward wall
Our bedroom has a super awkward layout. In the photo below, you see that the bed and nightstands are shifted to the right corner, so that we can access the closet (out of the frame on the left side). The only windows in the room are as shown, and this is the only possible location for the furniture.
Here's my question: how do I decorate the wall behind the headboard so that the room appears more "balanced"?
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Olychick
5 years agoI'd do drapes, as Patricia suggests, or at least the portion from the window corner to the edge of the nightstand. Then you could add art to the left, maybe 2 stacked pictures.
this one covers the wall and allows the window to be partially uncovered:
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tunibell
5 years ago
I am intrigued by the drape idea...but since I didn't have any on-hand, I thought I'd try the art idea first. This raised a few questions....
What is the "center" of the room? Is it the wall, or is it the headboard? For example, am I trying to occupy roughly 46" of wall space on the left side (the same measurement as the window), or am I trying to occupy even more space to make it look like the bed is centered?If I go with drapes...am I trying to make the brackets attach to the corners of the wall (sort of a finial-less rod?)
Thanks again...this is unexpectedly quite fun!
Olychick
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoYes to the brackets at the corner...since you'd probably want a matching drape on the other window you could get a corner bracket for both windows. For the left corner, it would depend if you take the drapery all the way over, or if you stop it just to the left of the headboard and then move your art work over a few inches and center it on what's remaining of the wall. Can your bed scootch any further to the right? If you go with the partially covered wall, I might look for a smaller end table for the right side of the bed, so the drapery could stop short enough to leave some more wall space for the art. Like the middle pic I posted above.
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5 years agoOkay, hubby gave the drapes idea a hard pass, so I'm back to using art work.
How's this? The large rectangle of tracing paper represents the Brooklyn poster above, and the poster board in the center is for some undetermined piece (or pieces of art).
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