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Where should I put my bed in a small rectangular form bedroom?

5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago

Good day, everyone! I would greatly appreciate if I could get some feedback and thoughts about the positioning of the bed and/or some general furniture ideas considering my small 9.68 x 16.24 ft (2.9 x 5 meters) rectangular form bedroom.


I have attached my bedroom plan (1 square is ~0.66 ft or ~0.2 meter) with some initial thoughts and here is what I came up with: First of, I have already decided against which wall I want to put my bed. However, I am not sure how far from the window I should put it. Second, I am a bit lost about what furniture I could put in my bedroom considering its small size. Certainly, I would like to have night tables, wardrobe or a drawer, curtains and a carpet. I am also considering having reading spot and a small table.


My intial thoughts:



Any thoughts and comments are very much welcomed.

Kind regards, Dom

Comments (11)

  • PRO
    5 years ago

    Hi. You'll get a lot more feedback if you put these dimensions in imperial. I don't know if this is to scale, but I do think the bed is in the correct position.


    I would ideally leave 3 feet between the radiator and bed.



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  • 5 years ago

    9.5' x 16'

    Per CDR you are about .2 meters too close to the radiator.


    With the radiator position I don't see any other option for bed placement, which leaves no other option for wardrobe placement.


    Good job!

    dronzillla thanked Jennifer Hogan
  • 5 years ago

    Thank you very much for your comments! I have updated my drawing in imperial scale. If I would go for 3 ft bed-radiator then in this drawing I would need to push my bed additionally 0.33 ft :) (or 0.1 m)

  • 5 years ago

    I think you are right but If you don't mind then you can send me one or two picture send me then I can best feedback to you. Thank You

  • PRO
    5 years ago

    You can place it as close a you want, as long as it works for you. Is the bed already in place? I would place it and go from there.


    Is the wardrobe already purchased?

  • 5 years ago

    CDR design your comments are very helpful, thanks again. And yes, my bed is already in place, whereas wardrobe and curtains are not. I am thinking about my bed placement because I am planning to repaint my walls and before that I want to install new power sockets above and below night tables. Atm there are no power sockets in that wall.


    I have red various articles that bed in the bedroom should be centered but I am not really into it because I would be losing a lot of space. 3 ft from radiator solution actually seems pretty compeiling to me. As long as it not considered to be a design failure I think I would be happy with it :)

  • PRO
    5 years ago

    No, you do not have to have the bed centered.

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  • 5 years ago

    Dom, you mentioned wanting a chair - would be great if there’s enough room for it to fit in corner at bottom right of bed to be close to window. Might be too tight but depends on chair size. Also, the 2 nightstands don’t necessarily have to be a matched set. They can be different sized. A larger one with drawers on the wall /window side of bed would fill wasted space & offer storage. You’re planning @ 3 feet between bed & wall & your nightstands in drawing are only slightly over 1 foot square.

    dronzillla thanked KW PNW Z8
  • 5 years ago

    KW, thank you for your thoughts!


    Considering the chair I also thought about that. However, it seems to me that because of rectangular form of my bedroom I would need to sacrifice quite a lot of space in order to fit a normal sized comfy chair so I might drop this idea or go with a small pouf instead. Also, considering 3 ft between bed and radiator I also would like to have curtains so technically the real distance might shrink a bit, but yeah there is a dilemna: I dont want to shrink the distance too much because I would be loosing space, yet I dont wanna limit myself of not being able to have some sort of seating device by not leaving enough space in bottom right corner.


    Considering nightstands, havent thought about that. I think it would be a good option to lenthten up the window side nighstand or maybe put something additional there :)


    D.

  • 5 years ago

    Window treatments - another decision! Are you firmly set on drapes? Seems they’d have to be window sill length not floor length because of radiator under the window. Agree drapes will take floor space if they’re floor length & they also take wall space as need to extend past windows to stack fully off window when open. Have you considered shades of some kind instead of drapes? I cannot suggest type without knowing need for privacy, view from window, framing around window (casement, sill etc). There are so many options for mounting them, inside / outside, ceiling / window top height etc as well as types - Roman shades, cellular shades. Blinds, silhouettes withCordless raise / lower mechanism etc. From your drawing, appears your window is @ 7 feet long so drapes would fill the bit of wall space on either side of window. Just something to think about which might give more furniture options if floor & aerial space drapes would fill is freed up.

    dronzillla thanked KW PNW Z8