Do you have blinds or drapes or shades over the sling glass door? I have seen beds angled in the corner and think it looks nice.

Yeah, we do have big curtains on The glass doors, but somehow it always finds that sliver between them.

Honestly, we’ve been sleeping with the bed angled for a while, I just feel like it takes a huge chunk of the room away And just creates a big triangle of empty space for dust and dog hair to collect.

so I’m just trying to find any possibility to try to see if it’s a bit better.

We also had the bed on the wall with the single window for a while, the window being directly in the middle, but in the winter it caused the bed to be pretty chilly and having the noise directly above us caused problems with our sleep pattern.

Can you post a layout?

It may be a room that is just plain too small for a kingsize bed. Can you go to a queen?

Oh no, certainly not too small for a king. We could float the king in the middle of the room and still have 5 feet on any given side to walk around. even a queen would face the same issues - not a single wall with empty space big enough.

i think the main solution will be to downsize the night stands, they’re a little oversized to begin with and not cometely necessary.

The sliding glass door door faces out to our view of the river off of our back yard, so I’m thinking of keeping the bed Off to one side on the only empty wall, then adding a small sitting area in front of the sliding doors. That way the room is balanced.

Please take pictures so we can see room proportions. And sketch a floor plan.....possibility of curtianing the single window wall and putting the bed centered on that area? working blind here...... inspiration photos perhaps

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You can use wall mounted sconces or hanging pendents over a small end table instead of table lamps.

The architect should have designed the room with half-windows (as in the blue bedroom above) and should have put the bed placement in the floor plan and elevations when designing the house. Of course if your house was built by a builder, they ignore such details. My house in Austin had half-windows in the bedrooms so that beds could go under them (and it was built in 1934), but my current house does not have that, although the master bedroom addition was designed with windows placed far enough apart so that a king-size bed could go between them.

If you have to put your bed in front of windows that are too large, then you will need an upholstered headboard to protect you from possible drafts. In general, I hate beds in front of windows, and they prevent you from putting sconces where you might want them.

What is really bad is when you cannot center your bed front of a window or group of windows. That is the case with my brother's bedroom. Part of his headboard is in front of a window and part of it is in front of a wall.

We, very successfully, put our king with headboard to french doors. Lovely long full curtains behind. (do not squash) Like the 2 pics up above.

Edit - I had all of the photos here, but they seemed to have not loaded. I will add more photos up top.

A note on the architecture - this house was built in 1859, bed size and architectural focus was different then. Also, this room used to be two separate rooms, which I’m sure complicated things. The angled ceilings make sconces hard, though I debated that as well (and will be down-sizing the end tables, I’m in the middle I’ve making new ones as we speak). As I mentioned, we had the end in front of the single window for a period but the noise above us interrupted our sleeping patterns.

That seems like good placement for the bed, but over a few more inches toward the wall, with sconces and either very narrow end tables or wall mounted shelves to act as an end table.

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