"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.

layout help

Post a picture of the room and you will get lots of responses.

You are welcome. Most of the time, I do place the bed in the back of the room , facing the door. Normally the bed is the largest visual piece in the room. In this case, the bed is rather short and the other pieces dominate it. So, it feels better with these larger pieces on the far wall. The bed is still in a good spot.