Guest room layout

18 years ago

I need help with the layout of my guest room -- specifically, where to place the bed. With the exception of a tall bookcase, shown in the floor plan, the other furniture (chair, low cedar chest, cabinet in lieu of dresser) will fit anywhere.

Here's the floor plan:

The windows at corner D are high "ranch" windows, and anything except the bookcase can fit under them.

Wall A has plenty of room for a bed, with night tables on either side, and a Mennonite crib quilt could hang above the bed in place of a headboard (which I don't have anyway). However, it would be relatively inconvenient to walk around the bed to get to whatever is on wall B.

Wall B has room for a bed and night tables and entails the least inconvenience, but they wouldn't be centered relative to the window, and the quilt couldn't hang above the bed. The quilt can hang on wall A, or on wall B to the left of the window.

Wall C has room for the bed to be centered relative to the double windows, with just enough room for night tables on both sides. I don't like sleeping under an open window, but as this is the guest room, my preferences aren't decisive.

None of the positions is particularly good feng shui. Wall A has the chi from the door, which faces down a hall toward the staircase, rushing right at the sleepers. Walls B and C both have windows behind the head of the bed, but since the windows are high on the wall and this is at second-floor level, it's not as bad as it could be.

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les917
18 years ago
Not sure how big the bed is, but judging by the fact that there is room on C for it under the windows, what about putting the bed and two nighstands on wall A, but rather than centered, put it down toward the wall B end of the room a bit.

Put the cedar chest where the bookcase is on wall C and hang the quilt over it.

Put the bookcase on wall B to the left of the window. Put the chair in the corner where the windows intersect.

Put the cabinet on wall A to the left of the bed and nighstands, across from the new cedar chest location on wall C where the bookcase was.
OKMoreh
Original Author
18 years ago
Les, that arrangement has a number of attractive features, but the dimensions of the room don't allow it. I ought to have indicated the swing of the door, which is toward wall A, so that nothing with any depth can stand directly across from the current bookcase location on wall C.

The bookcase and the cedar chest are the same width and depth (34 inches wide, 17 inches deep); they differ only in height. If the bookcase is on wall B to the left of the window, the night table to the left of the bed on wall A is slightly in the way of the door.

The cabinet (intended for a kitchen) is slightly shallower, about 15 inches, and wider, 42 inches. It fits well under the window on wall B. It would also fit to the left of the window on that wall, and the quilt could hang above it (best appearance from the hall, I think), but I would like to have the cabinet away from the bed since the cabinet and the night tables are the only places for lamps. The electric receptacle on wall C is switched, so it's the best one for the non-bedside lamp.

It's clear that this is not the ideal selection of furniture for the room, but it's what I have.
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wooderlander
18 years ago
I would put the bed under the windows on wall C because then you don't run directly into it from the door. We like sleeping under a window unless there's a pretty view outside, in which case it's nicer to have the bed facing the window.

It would make me uneasy to have the side of the bed right across the doorway so that as you walk into the room, you walk into the side of the bed (even if the bed is away from the doorway, it still feels funny to me). Better to have a path from the doorway across the room. And feng shui says don't have the foot of the bed facing the door.

Can you put the cabinet to the left of the window on wall B or else opposite the bed on wall A, perhaps with the quilt hanging over it? If you put it on wall B, can you put the cedar chest at the foot of the bed?

How nice that you have as much flexibility as you do.