Bedroom/Sitting Area Furniture Arrangement Advice
Jewel
2 years ago
Hi All,
In the process of removing carpet from bedroom & getting it painted. Since we have to move furniture, I thought now would be a good time to keep old furniture out and get new furniture. But I would love advice on furniture arrangement especially the sitting area. When we watch tv in the room, we typically would be in the sitting area but it's not really an ideal area to watch tv with the current set up. I'm wondering if there's a better option. Was considering eliminated the electric wall fireplace above the bookshelf and putting tv there but it seems like it would be too close to the sofa.
Attached is approx bedroom measurements and few pictures of the space (we've already started moving funiture in preparation of the new floors).
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Comments (36)"I know you're not going to want to hear this" No, I want to hear it all. I remeasured everything, and redrew the room plan. My real bed is bigger than the standard I used before, so this time I'm using their canopy since it's most similar to a four poster. patricia said it - a small room is a small room. One of my neighbors did just that, she put a queen bed in her small bedroom, and it has just enough room on either side for a regular sized night stand. She put a gorgeous comforter on it with lots of pillows and it really looks nice. Just enough room to walk around the bed though, so staying there and living out of a suitcase would be a pain. But it looks nice. The main difference with her room is that you enter her room directly facing the bed and it was a mattress and headboard. I think the four poster takes up more visual space. I like the pictures geokid posted. Those night stands look really narrow too. My white ones are 18" wide. I do have a plant stand that is small and could put a top on it, or possibly build a couple of stands that are the right height too. I don't want to put any big holes in the walls after spending the last week fixing the walls, but I had thought of a floor lamp. I would like to have the small dresser in there too, not just so it looks like there is room for a bed and dresser, but so there is somewhere to open a suitcase. I can't move the bed by myself, but as soon as my company is gone, I'll see if dh will help me move it one more time. In the meantime, I played with your ideas in the planner, and with real dimensions....See MoreCan anyone help with bedroom furniture arrangement?
Comments (14)Beds need to be positioned so that your feet are pointing toward the entry way into the room (if you were laying down in it). So it looks like it's on the wall it should be. I would just center it on that wall, and then I would do the old Rebecca Robeson trick and get a mirror the same size as the window and hang it on the other side to "balance" the wall. I would hang window treatments over each "window" for symmetry. And then you need two nightstands for each side of the bed. Then don't put pieces of furniture at an angle in a corner. Move that dresser flat onto a wall and get rid of that little table by the window....See MoreArranging furniture in a small bedroom?
Comments (12)First pic is looking into the room from the door. Turn to the right and the first wall is TV and dresser and a smaller window. Turn to the left is the bed and bigger window. Turn left again and you see closet and then the tall dresser. I measured and the bed would fit where the tv and long dresser are, with 10 inches of clearance between the bed and open door (if the bed is pushed all the way against the window). The long dresser would then fit long ways against the remaining wall space between the foot of the bed and the big window. But I can't decide if that would look bad....See More
elcieg
2 years agoDo something special to the angled wall. Peel and stick wallpaper would work just fine:
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