Here's a nice illustration of how nicely you can balance a space by not automatically pushing furniture up against a wall and letting the bed float in the center of the room...
It would be hard to make this room or bed look bad, but even a more modest room could benefit from the same treatment, particularly if your bed has a built-in headboard for those who like to read in bed.
- Kristin Hohenadel blogging from rue Vieille du Temple, Paris, France. She can be reached at kristin @ apartmenttherapy . com
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Comments (15)
Is it just me or is that bed extremely short?
Gorgeous, but impractical. Notice that they've run an electrical cord across the floor to provide bedside lighting. And where could you put a dresser or armoire? A room would have to be REALLY big to accomodate both a floating bed and storage pieces.
Wish I had the space to float a rubbery ducky, much less an entire bed!
very pretty photo
I've seen (somewhere on AT, in fact) that there's some kind of mat that one can put under one's rug that IS an extension cord, just so you don't have to have a bump under the rug or trip over a cord.
i have my bed floating in the center of my bedroom and I love it. It works in a space that is long like my own. The bed is backed by a dropleaf table, which divides the room, so I can have a seating area on the other side. there is plenty of space for my full size dresser and closets do the rest for storage. I was skeptical of the floor-plan when a family member suggested it, but now I would not have it any other way!
definitely beautiful. but definitely impractical for most apartment dwellers. i know this couldn't work in my current place, or the one i'm about to move to. bummer.
I love a floated bed. It can transform a room. You need a wide enough space for this. It works best in square rooms. Even better if you can position the headboard facing a window.
I think the bed in this picture looks silly. The headboard and footboard appear to be falling in towards the middle. The comforter looks like it needs to go in the laundry. And I never like those cloth crowns. Just way too pretentious for my taste.
All that said, a platform bed floated in the middle of a room could be fun. You could just flop onto it from anywhere.
As of a few weeks ago, we have our bed in the middle of the room. (The master bedroom is the single large room in our new house.) It does feel very luxurious, even if the furnishings are sparse. I'm very intrigued by the extension cord-mat that Curtis mentioned above--I haven't figured out what to do about that yet!
Does this remind anyone of the bed the grandparents slept in on Willy Wonka?
I could not sleep in a floated bed. It looks good, but it would feel oddly exposed to me.
nope. sorry. i think it looks out of place & the canopy is just ugly. sorry.
Willy Wonka was the first thing I thought of when I saw this picture. Is the canopy only on half the bed? Kinda weird.
Just because something is floating in a room does not make it balanced. It looks like a room that is about to be painted, and the canopy is the tarp.