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Measure and try again with the floor plan. If your measurements are 15 meters by 3.5 meters, the floor plan is wrong.

For other metric-challenged USians, the Pax wardrobe is ~79 inches long and 79 inches high. There is nothing wrong with having a wardrobe in a room that also functions as a living room, but that is large for a piece of white furniture with slab (flat) doors. My only suggestion is to screen it partly from view, for example with a freestanding screen that would be more congenial with the Ektorp sofa.

Hello, apple_pie_order, thank you so so much for writing. It is 5x3.25 to be exact.

Hello, Paul NY 5b-6a, thanks for the comment.

Sure Pax can be hidden with a screen. But the bigger problem is bed. Bed is even more obvious. As you see from the sketch. So you suggest i should leave the bed visible and cover onlt the Pax?

1. i had thought installing a curtain from ceiling between the Bedroom part and Living room space. But then no light would come through window. Though otherwise , it would solve Pax problem too, as it would then be part of Bed room section and that where it belongs.

That is why bed remains visible and so does the Pax.

2. i had thought of moving the Bed to where there is sofa right now , and install a curtain around it hanging from the ceiling. But then at the eentrance the room is reduced to almost hafl width ( The room width is 3.25 and Bed is 1,60). And bigger problem is that now the Pax would be directly in Living room section that is already too small.

It doesn't really matter, but is your Sagstua bed frame black or white? (Its metric dimensions make it the size as a U.S. queen size, for anyone who is trying to visualize the furniture; it's a metal frame with arched headboard and footboard, and brass accents with either color.)

I think it would like it best if you placed the head of the bed where the Ektorp sofa is now, and not worry about screening the foot of it from what will become, in essence, a passageway from the door.

The classic way, often seen here in studio apartments, of screening a bed from the living-room section, is an open shelf unit such as the Ikea Kallax, which could be fitted with boxes or other insets in the lower tiers. It's not as long as the bed, so it wouldn't overly obstruct access to it, but would establish a visual break, and if the upper parts are left all partly open light will come through, although light from the window would be less important in the sleeping portion of the room than in the sitting portion, which would now be near the window.

There's nothing wrong with having the Pax unit in the living-room portion, except that is is rather monolithic, although less so with some door styles than with others. If yours has flat doors without detail, you might be able to adhere fabric to them to add visual interest.

My DH snores...and it's supremely loud an im al light sleeper..I've been using earplugs and they are a godsend. Took a long time to figure out which ones fit, I had bleeding ears for a while while I kept trying so I'm not suggesting that it's an easy way. But now that I have found something that fits my ears, it's Ike a different life. I know it's not the solution you came here for and I don't know enough too offer suggestions but wanted to share my experience if it helps you or anyone else.

Hi, Paul NY 5b-6a,

thank you so so so very much; for visualising all the deatails without photos and writing so much in detail.

Here is more deail:

1. yes , its Sagstua in Queen size in black.

2. i agree light is more needed in the sitting area.

3. The problem with putting the bed where sofa is: (a) the space is only about 170 cm upto the door. As the total width of the room is 3.25 meters. So the head cannot be against the wall where sofa is. It can be against the wall where entrance door is. In this way it will make a bit longer "passage" that you mentioned. And also wont have much space to put something alongside it ( exxpt for curtain ? along that entry passage?)

4. And now when the foot side would be towards the sitting area, can be easily hidden by inddor plants , real or fake or lamp etc.

5. Pax is all white. Maybe i can remove the handels and instaed attach Ikea leather hooks that would be less conspicuous, and then see if surface paper etc. could help. ( As that would be another consideration to coordinate the print with curtains etc. And buy together with new curtains)

6. Would love to know your suggestion for what other furniture i should have for sitting area in addition to ektorp that i already have, as i would have one wall avalable after one side taken up by pax and the other being the window. Although it would be a longer wall with first half being that "passage area" and the second half being next to window.

here is , floor plan also

Thank you so much again.

Hi, Rekha A 9a Houston Area, thanks. But its me who is the "snory one" and my partner wont like ear plugs. :( .

Would you be open to sleeping on a twin bed? You could set up a daybed on the wall where the PAX unit is now and your existing sofa could go opposite it with a coffee table inbetween or arrange in a L shape. Then place your PAX unit beside the door. To save money you could probably buy a cheap bedframe and mattress, then lean your existing headboard against the wall behind the long part of the bed.

I have seen some PAX setups where the unit forms a wall. they actually have a layout like that at our local store.

Hi nelliebean, thank you so much. it sounds interesting. easier would be if you could please add a rough hand made sketch of what you wrote. sorry i could not fully follow it, But sounds interesting. ( Pax is 2 meter x 2 meter with units being with width 50, 100 and 50)

Hi decoenthusiaste, thanks. actually while following another layout suggestion by another memebrr hier ( wich did nit work) I was in the middle of moving things that i dound out just by chance that my Sagstua beds Head piece can actually work itself as a dvider. that means putting the foot side agains the window i end up having high Sagtua head, which is metal frame and therefore airy , not blocking much. But cannot see how to go further with other arrangement. But i am not quite sure. Maybe i change it again.

While the living room is all about comfort and entertainment, adding a pax might disturb the aura. However, you can strike a balance of aesthetics and functionality by combining pax and décor. Use screen, curtains, or add décor on the pax doors to make it feel a part of the room. Then, you can place the rest items accordingly.