Big Bed, Small Room? (Pop Quiz Week!)
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2021
- If your bed feels too big for your room, what do you do? It’s a pop quiz week question on Roominess! We’ll look at how you can adjust color, texture, and scale in the rest of the room to help the bed and room to not fight each other.
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What I especially like about those wall-hung nightstands is that they, along with the band of gray bedding that runs across the bed, create a line that your eye follows across that end of the room. I have seen a few rooms where rectangle shaped pillows that are along the dimensions of 18" by 8" are used to draw lines within the room. If that was my room, I would put the nightstands on the wall like you recommend, keep the single band of color on the bed, and then add two or three rectangle pillows to make another line across that same plane. So cool! Great design ideas, Doug!
Good thoughts, Cara! I opted out of doing anything with pillows in this one. It sounds silly, but pillows and bedding aren't easy to deal with in the roomstyler.com. Those are what "came with the bed" in the app. I agree, a little more punch with the pillows would be good!
Great design ideas!
Thanks Yvetha! Glad you liked them!
Those black floating bedside shelves are a deal breaker for me. The color contrast is too harsh and my eyes can't look away. I wouldn't call them a focal point, more of an eye anchor. I do like the idea of going large with the wall art.
Hi Valkyrie! You have a good point! I mainly wanted to show pulling the furniture up off the floor. I tried a white floating shelves, but they seemed to disappear in the wall. I also wanted to pull more of the bed wood tone as an accent in the rest of the room, but the available options were limited, so I ended up using black accents.
To your point, it would be nice to at least soften up the stark black with books, baskets or some other accessories. (Something else I couldn't accomplish with software and time constraints!)
Thanks for letting me know what you think!
The high bedposts are a sore to my eyes, and they are bulky as well (and brown). I would get rid of those. And if you need something to hang your musquito-net on, little hooks on the ceiling?
True enough, Henriette! I guess I did assume that people who have beds too big for their bedroom have already considered (and decided against) changing the bed itself!
thanks.. im finding it frustrating tho that these vids of large bed small room never mention dogs, or even cats for that matter.
i have two large dogs and one refuses to sleep on the bed. so i have a large dog bed also on the floor. and its just like, 'designer' people nevveerrrr mention the dogs. or even the cats hogging up the heater area lol.
i bet theres no good ways of arranging a small room with a large human bed and a large dog bed. and also leaving some open-ish space for the cat to strech out in the warmest part of the room, heater/sunny window.
no cats or dogs is not the most reaalest normal life, since most people have them. imo
Hey Kittypaws90 - What a great comment! I won't argue with you - designers don't often deal with pets. (Heck, we ignore kids most of the time!)
Some disclaimers - I don't have pets and I'm on a long-term UA-cam break, so I can't answer you with a video.
My impression from pet-owners is that the pets usually take precedence over decor decisions. One person I talked with had one couch for people and four different cat towers, beds, scratch posts, etc.
In your case, we'd want to think more about what's not working for you and what would you like to be different. Is the problem that you're tripping over the dog bed when moving around? Would it be a big hassle to push the dog bed under the people bed during the day? Or, if the main problem is how the house looks when company is over, can the dog bed be shifted just for those times?
Alternatively, if the dog bed needs to stay out then (1) coordinate the dog bed color with the dog fur so it doesn't constantly need cleaned. (2) Coordinate the room colors with the dog bed. If the dog bed color and the floor color can be similar / low contrast, then the bed won't stand out as a visual eyesore when considering the room decor. (3) In the room from the video, maybe the dog bed goes in the corner on the right so you have kind of a "pet zone" - the dog gets the corner and the cat would get the area by the window. I'm guessing the heater duct is under the window, so both sun and heat are available. The people stuff stays out of that zone so you don't trip over the dog.
Not being a pet-owner, I don't know how practical that advice is. But maybe it will give you some ideas!
Thanks again.