Whether you have a bedroom in a basement apartment or in the basement of your house, they're spaces that definitely have their challenges. We're not sure one can completely overcome the issues of light, ceiling height, etc., but these inspiring basement bedrooms come close:
- Who says the bedroom has to be enclosed? We love this bed alcove in a basement that's open to light streaming in from upstairs.
- This basement bedroom was made over to make it more attractive to prospective homebuyers.
- Somehow this dated paneling and dingy mattress look appealing in this photograph!
- This light and serene bedroom hardly appears to be in a abasement at all.
I think the main lesson learned here is to obscure the source of the light. Don't let it be 100% apparent that light is coming in through tiny high windows. Instead, let it come in indirectly, whether down a stair or through a sheer, full-height curtain. What do you think?
Images: Bhouse, Emily Hagerman Design, eHow, Houzz
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Very nice, all of them! Will do this in the future. We have a small basement, but we use it as a full gym space, full of commercial gym quality equipment. We can just use P90X type workouts, and convert the basement into a small guestroom/tv room.
love the last pic of the basement with the light wood flooring! Any idea if that is bamboo??
Room #3 looks nice, but as a former basement-dweller I can't help but cringe at the thought of being right down there on the floor with all the bugs! It seems like no matter what we did, they always found a way in.
Shout out to the unmade bed in the first pic!
The general idea is to make it not feel like a bunker. 1 is great because you have a lot of natural light pouring in. #3 is creepy. I wouldn't call that a bedroom as much as a spare futon mattress in the corner.
moving into an apartment in a couple that has a finished basement downstairs. Although, this is misleading because it has lots of light because the building is on a hill. We were considering whether to put the bedroom downstairs or not. so timely post!
What unique bedroom solutions - I love the use of space ;)
I'm going to agree with funstraw on this. 1 is great. It really overcomes the obstacles of low light and claustrophobia. 3 is totally kinda serial killer. I imagine just outside the shot someone is chained to the radiator.
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Ha. Yeah #3 looks strange. It might be me but those walls look slanted, and the back wall behind the bed seems to having spacing between the beams. Is that really a basement?
Love #1 and #4. #1 looks like they still got used the rest of the basement for some other purpose (office, rec room or exercise room?) but still managed to create a very inviting extra bedroom filled with light.
#3 makes me nervous.
# 1 is great!
I live in a basement and I think it looks great, I just wish I had the money to put in actual cielings, having the light and noise bounce over the walls can be very irritating at times, plus no one wants to look at Plywood, wires are heating vents that belong to the floor above me
#1 is beautiful and sexy.
I like this post because I do have a basement, or as they say in Metropolitan Home, "garden level" bedroom. I am working out the details right now, but it is coming together pretty nicely actually.
I've never had a bug problem, but that could be courtesy of my cats. And moisture is not a problem, though I do run a dehumidifier in the summer.
The unmade bed on #1 is really sexy! #3 looks a little unfinished to me, but still interesting.
I would love a corner-nook-alcove bed like in #1, basement or not! Imagine how cool it would be if you extended half a 4-poster frame into the room and swathed it in light curtains...great ideas for basement apartment dwellers!
Brilliant selections, all! Thank you so much.
#3, weird as it is, still helped me realize, a low bed might help make a low ceiling seem higher. One DOES wonder about that slanted wall! And the daylight seen between the slats for sure spells bugs aplently, LOL! But the main problem I see is, that mattress needs to be on a frame that allows air circulation beneath, else it will sweat & get moldy.
As for #2, I recently saw a GREAT idea where interior shutters were attached to the wall beneath high small basement windows, with possibly a fake sill beneath them. Curtains on the sides disguised the fact that the window trim didn't extend down all the way. The overall effect fooled the eye into thinking the windows were normal-sized. Sorry I'm not describing it well. But it was so clever.
Absolutely NOT for #3!
I am completely in love with #1 - no getting around it, I need something like that one day.
#3 reminds me of some nightmares I've had.
i LUUUURRVE the first one. all three others are not ok. (hey, honesty has to count for something ya)