I think if you push the headboard so that the edges touch the wall, it will be sturdy enough to lean on. Here’s a picture of a house near me that has the bed on the diagonal. It definately cuts down on your options for bed side tables.

I personally don't care for a diagnoal bed. I've tried it and it seems to me there is wasted space behind the headboard. Even filled with a plant! But that's me!

I tried doing that for awhile. Then when I was staging it to sell....my realtor said she could not envision floor space. It made the room look smaller.

Feng shui....I've read several books on the subject. Being able to see the door was "good" Feng Shui. Sitting at a desk, for example, turning your back to the door was bad Feng shui.

Why would you allow an ancient belief to guide your furniture placement?

I've tried it many times in many rooms. It's never worked for me. The bed juts so much farther into the room and it makes bedside tables nearly impossible. In the end it seems to eat up way more space for no functional gain. IMO.

I tried that when I was a teenager. It didn’t last. Loss of space. I’d have to move the rug farther up under the bed. You want to get out of bed with your feet hitting the rug.

I don't like that look at all. Watching HGTV last night they had a teeny bedroom with a king-size bed which gave literally inches on each side. I have a very large bedroom 18 by 20 and I have just a double bed which just fits. I don't know how someone would fit a bigger bed in here because there are five large windows and a massive fireplace.

It makes the room look small, unbalanced.

Another no. It bothers my sense of space.

Why would you allow an ancient belief to guide your furniture placement?

In the end, I may not. However, I am open to new ideas and philosophies.

In my experience it’s never worked well. Something always seemed off.

Placing a bed diagonally in a room? I don't think it's the best choice. For a number of reasons:

-I think it makes the room look smaller

-I've seen in Europe that in bedrooms with hard surface (not carpeted) floors, there's either an area rug placed under the bed so that when exiting from either side of the bed, a foot encounters carpeting rather than a bare cold floor, or textile mats (like the size of a bath mats) at the side of the bed to fulfill the same purpose. That could be done with the rug shown but not with the bed pushed into the corner.

-The area rug is both off-center in the room and also not aligned with any of the furniture pieces. So why is it where it is and not somewhere else?

If the elements in this drawing are to scale, I'd square off the headboard against the left hand wall (so that the bed is perpendicular to it) and center the area rug under the bed.

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I don’t care for it as it seems awkwardly placed, and as others have said, makes the room seem smaller. I need side tables for a lamp, book, glasses and there is limited space for a table of any size.

And how would you manage to water a plant placed behind a headboard?

I stayed in a beach house once that had an absolutely heavenly bedroom: It was upstairs, and had windows on two sides -- and the bed was placed diagonally so that it caught the breezes from the two windows. Wonderful.

Of course, I didn't live in the house and wasn't concerned with floor space, furniture or storage.

I love a diagonally placed bed! I feel like it captures all the best views, and opens up the space. If I'm in the bed.

And I don't care what anybody else thinks. I have lots of things kitty corner. But, if I'm going to move the bed, the rug is going to come with it...

I don't like it but I'm no decorating expert so I don't think I count. I just don't like the way it looks.

Plus unless the plant was fake, it wouldn't get any light behind the bed.

I know someone who did a diagonal bed only because there was no way to arrange a bed, small dresser, and desk with chair in the room otherwise, and still be able to access the closet — which even had bypass sliding doors. But, even still, the placement made the bed awkward to walk around, awkward to get to the closet.

Who is this bedroom for? Is it for guests? Kids? Young or older? or a spare bedroom? And are all three of the doors on the right closets? The entry door is at the bottom left, yes?

Nah. Don't worry about the door. That is where the bed belongs, facing the door. Diagonal just cuts the room up in a strange way, taking too much space. I also learned facing a door is a good thing. It certainly makes sense to me.

Elmer, I live in Florida and my entire house is tile. However, on my side of the bed, I buy pretty rugs which are the size of bath rugs. I dislike large rugs under a bed because they are difficult to clean or vacuum properly. I wipe my feet when getting in bed and I have a soft landing when I get up. I can throw them in the laundry. Much cleaner.

Jane

I don't necessarily dislike it and can remember as a teen trying it, just for something different. But, I would not put a plant, real or fake that close to my head for sleeping. They are too difficult to keep clean and are dust catchers.
Do you have the headboard? If not, I might try a low one with a table in the corner with a table lamp and other necessaries.
I've also seen folding screens used instead of art to fill the space. Neither of these is particularly attractive, but you can sometimes find or make them so they are:

I like this with art, a table and lamp for reading. It looks cozy and comfortable.

If the purpose of doing it is to make more usable space, it doesn't. Rather it takes up more. The only time I think I would do it would be if it was the only way to place the bed in a room where it's not under a window which I really don't like.

You show 4 doors into the room. Is the one by itself the entrance door? What are the other 3? Do you want free access to them or would you mind walking around the bed to get to them? Is there a view out the windows that you might want to wake up to? Or do you want a reading nook by the windows for the light? I'd worry less about feng shui and more about the function of the room. There are a number of options for bed placement...head on the window wall, head on the wall to the left either toward the window wall or centered on the wall, and where the dresser is now.

I've put the bed diagonally in a bedroom that was in the 350 sq ft range and it worked well. One difference is it was a true four poster bed so the headboard didn't need a wall for support. It was quite common before air conditioning to pull the bed away from the wall into the center of a room during the summertime.

Which door is the entrance door? To me that would be a big deciding factor. I also don’t normally like a diagonal bed.

When we were kids we did that, but we had single twin beds and our rooms were quite large. I couldn't do that in the house I live in now as it's a 1000 sq ft house with 3 small bedrooms. My queen size bed just barely fits in my master bedroom and I can only have one nightstand or I can't fit my dressers in there too....

If the bedroom is large enough, it'll look nice, but it'll also take up a lot more floor space, kinda sorta. The bed stays the same size obviously, but because it's on an angle it'll seem like your room is smaller because you'll have less useable space.

From what I understand of Feng Shui, there are usually some sort of Remedy for furniture positions and bad architecture.

Also it appears that there may be enough room to shift the head of the bed to the corner of the window frame and get your feet Mostly not directed immediately out the door. And one remedy would be to sleep with the door closed, I think.

The other option would be to place the bed 90 degrees to the window wall. There is something in Feng Sui about sleeping between a bed and a window where energy and spirits flow between the door and the window and will pass over you and disturb your rest. However, if you take the two extremes of the diagonal between the door and the window it does not pass over most of the bed, and I think that could be remedied by a window covering as well.

I can't say that I adhere to Feng Sui, but I can say that I did have my bed in a position that placed my head directly in a path between the room door and a window, and I felt I slept Terribly with the bed in that position and slept much better when I moved my bed out of that position. And also I would not sleep well if the head of the bed were in the dresser position. One the architects in the BAH forum calls that a "hatchet" bedroom where someone could jump in your room and chop your head off because you'd never see them coming.

hahah! I guess I have a hatchet room then as I positioned my bed on the same wall as the entry door so I could see out the window to the view in the a.m.

I grew up in a room where my bed was apparently in the idea position if you believe such things with the head of my bed diagonally across the room from the door in a corner with two solid walls behind me, and I could see out a window on a different wall. Two of the bedrooms had heads of the beds on the same wall as the room door, and if I slept in the twin room I would sleep in the bed further away from the door and if I slept in the double room I would sleep on the far side of the bed. And this was long before I knew anything about Feng Shui. I did know about hatchet killers, I guess.

Depends on the room - problem is, as pointed out, diagonal placement eats space, because the eye is envisioning the open area required to walk around the bed. So unless the room size and windows are conducive to a diagonal bed placement, it may not visually work well.

I squeeze my double 150-year-old rope bed between the wall and the back window. Because it's a four-poster bed I don't want a post sticking up at the window. No room on the other side of the window because it runs into another window and then the massive fireplace and again two more windows. The door opens at the foot of the bed. A very hard room to arrange despite the size. I'd love to see an HGTV person tackle it.

Of the bird's eye views shown of different arrangements, I think the diagonal bed is the most attractive arrangement. But only you know if you will like it in actuality. I would try it to see how I liked it and how it 'works' for you and your space.

Rusty

Thanks for all the good advice. After the new year, I think I'll give it a whirl. If I don't like it, I'm going to try the bed in the middle of the wall facing the three closet doors. You all are very good and very patient. THANK YOU!

I have placed the bed diagonally many times and the feet always face the door. I still here to tell you about it LOL.

Forget Feng Sui and think about practicality. If its a bunk bed, then one side should be against the wall, then only one set of railings for the upper bed is required. For a regular bed, placing in on an angle from the corner of the room does provide access to both sides of the bed, however, the bed commands more floor space. Placing the bed square to the wall and using the same floor space will provide some access space on the wall side.

About desk placement, in my college and professional lives, I have preferred not to directly face a door or window to reduce distractions. However, I do like to look out a window for breaks when at a desk.