Hello Reader,
Most people with a long, narrow bedroom push the bed to the far end. Then the bed feels like it’s sinking into the room. Here are four layout moves you can try; I am using a 23’ x 9’10” (7 x 3 m) bedroom.
1) Don’t put the bed at the far end
It looks like the natural spot. But in a long room, everything else lines up in front of the bed. Your eye runs down the room like a tunnel, and the bed sits lost at the end of it.
2) Rotate the bed
Turn the bed so the headboard sits on the long wall. Then adjust the armchairs. Now you can have a TV directly in front of the bed. The room stops feeling like a corridor, and the layout feels much more balanced.
3) Don’t mirror the layout just for a bigger wardrobe
You can flip the whole room. Wardrobe at the far end, bed near the door. It does give you a bigger wardrobe. But now the bed is exposed to the corridor. Anyone walking past an open door looks straight at it.
4) Move the bed to the centre
You can make the wardrobe slightly smaller and push the bed to the middle of the room. Now you get a window view from the bed. Then use the far end as a TV and relaxing area, with a two-seater couch and a proper TV cabinet.
But if storage matters more to you than a lounge, keep the layout from fix 2. Pick what fits your life. Next time you walk into a long bedroom, you won’t just see a bed and a wardrobe. You’ll see why the layout works, or why it doesn’t.
Your space, your taste.
-Arpit
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