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I've lived in several studio apartments, and I always look for one with a closet big enough to put a bed into. I love the cozy feeling of sleeping all wrapped up in blankets and walls, and I have a wardrobe to store my clothes in the main living room.

It's like having a one-bedroom but paying for a studio. LOVE IT.

I've always wanted to sleep in my closet: super dark and quiet.

didn't we just see that top bedroom on AT recently? There really is too much duplication these days it seems...

My bedroom is trending more and more this way. I love the photo on the bottom, especially the way they incorporated a desk into the room via a tall spindly drafting table type thing. Don't really understand the strange squatty stools, though. I think that if you're going to have a tiny bedroom nook, you should avoid a ton of superfluous decorative junk -- a purpose for everything, and everything with a purpose.

I love the first picture.

I wish we had a room only big enough for our king-sized bed, and a closet. All we do is pile crap in the room, anyway.

I could possibly make it work in a small room, but not a closet. I don't understand a closet that big being used as not a closet! It is obviously meant to be a decent size for storage for people without any other place to keep a lot of stuff they don't want to look at every day, but the bottom line for me is what size bed I might be restricted to, changing sheets, and especially, getting in and out, and whether any of the sides touch a wall. Practical, ingenious, but uh, um... unideal. I mean, you do what you gotta do, but are you tacky by default? I guess that's what I mean I don't like about it.

I have a lot of closet space, but if it was all together, there still wouldn't be room for a bed. So I guess, given the other restrictions, it's the only practical place to put a bed (in those apartments allowing such an alcove), then that's what to do, if that's what you like. I live in a studio with a sizable foyer, yet not enough room or a queen size bed in the foyer. I'm lucky there's a "bedroom" which comprises almost half the apartment by square footage (450 total), rather than a "real" studio, where people would notice my bed as soon as they walk in.

I guess my point is I don't think I would feel comfortable squishing into a tight room for my bed, although if things were different here, I would put my bed in the small space I do have and have a much grander living room instead. It's just not the way it's laid out where it would be satisfactory that way.