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I like the feel of a tiny bedroom - it's almost like a bunk, really. My bedroom isn't huge by any stretch of the imagination, but it's not tiny either.

I do love my bedside table space, but maybe some wall shelves (outside of head-bonking range) might do for that in such a small space.

I guess it's good the French are so thin.

Love the headboard idea in the secong room!

Hmm, my old bedroom in the apt I moved out of a few months ago was narrower than the first picture with the white bed. There was literally no room to get out on either side of the full bed. I had to crawl into bed from the foot. No getting out of bed on the wrong side ever! But seriously, I think I slept worse for it, feeling like the walls were on top of me. I'd wake up a lot during the night.

The white bed in the top picture is lovely. I'd like to see it with the palest blue wall and some blue toile pillows. it would be sooooo cozy.

The first room with the sheet metal walls reminds me of a caravan. Just imagine you live in a trailer park but have a bed like that :)

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Makes me think of the space my bed is in.. it touches wall on three sides, but it's not so much a bedroom as it is a corner in my loft. And it really is quite cozy to be surrounded by so much wall.

The third 'bedroom' is in an enormous space so it doesn't really qualify as small.

Love the bed in the first photo, but the walls make the room look so sterile! I wish they had done something different - flat paint, different color, or something.

The second bedroom appeals to me the most, but I think the sheet hanging there looks a bit tacky, even if it is "vintage linen." A more rigid headboard (fabric-covered boards, or SOMETHING) would remind me less of the forts I made out of sheets and couch cushions as a kid.

The third one is the only one that looks decent to me - I agree with an above poster that the first room looks like something that should be in an RV or trailer. The hung fabric in the second looks very tacky and the mirror really is making the space seem smaller.

For the first one, I would think it would be a better idea to lose the heavy headboard/footboard - maybe just let the window be the headboard. Also I would definitely go with a smaller sized bed so there would be room to get out of bed without having to walk sideways.

The second would have looked better without the tacky mirror (I swear people say they make rooms look bigger, but I find the opposite effect) and with a thin headboard covered in fabric. Without the mirror, they could have had room to put a small bedside table on each side, making it feel more comfy.

I realize some people do have small bedrooms, but I wouldn't give it up for a bedroom with space to walk around and a have a dresser in.

The first room creeps me out.

In the first bedroom, why not have a smaller bed?

The second photo presents an interesting solution to a tall, small bedroom, but I don't agree with the verbage that claims that the chocolate paint accentuates the height of the space. The solution succeeds because it does the opposite -- creates a false ceiling that cozies up this cramped room. The mirror helps to open up the space horizontally, but a facing the bed is just, I don't odd... so porn-ready, regardless of the misguided vintage linen accents and whatnot.

I once had a bedroom like the one described above, in which the bed touched walls on three sides. It was kind of a walk-in closet with a window, really. I had a wall-hung lamp and used the window sill for books and things, and it was very cozy with a sari canopy that spanned the entire ceiling. I like small bedrooms; they ensure that you don't use the space for too many things -- a home office, watching TV, etc.

I think number two is actually much BIGGER than my bedroom, but looks far smaller for some reason, I think the chunky decor makes it look 'cozier' perhaps, somehow.

Wow - that first bedroom looks like a very small garage. The headboard is pretty though.

The first room creeps me out.

Yeah. It looks like a padded cell.

Sheer grey panels do not a private space make. I guess I'm a slob, but I like not having to worry if my bed is made up when I invite friends over.

The first white room makes me claustrophobic too.
Looks like a Polly-Pocket size version of the hotel room in 2001 a Space Odyssey.

Big mirrors in the bedroom are a big feng shui no-no.

Big mirrors in the bedroom are a big feng shui no-no IF they are positioned so you might be confronted suddenly with your own reflection upon waking.

I'm pretty sure the first bedroom is in a rental storage unit.

"Sheer grey panels do not a private space make. I guess I'm a slob, but I like not having to worry if my bed is made up when I invite friends over."


I pray you don't mean that you refuse to clean your place if you invited people over...I make my apartment damn near spotless if I opened an invitation to someone. Now if someone drops by unexpectedly, I tend to just close the door to my room - but I try to keep the place like I'd want my parents to see it.

I like the sliding mesh panels, but I would like something that wasn’t see-through. How do you setup a panel system like that? is it three tracks?

The mesh panels seem to be on two tracks from the picture. I think the point is overlapping when you want privacy.