Oh, to have your problem!

You don't mention what furniture you do have but for any large room it is always nice to break it up. Maybe you could create a seating area where you and your husband can sit and read or relax before going to bed. Or have a designated dressing area with a vanity where you can get ready in the morning at a relaxed pace.

Good luck!

Couple of ideas:
1. reading corner...chaise, bookcase(s), end table for tea/coffee.
2. television setup/wall..open or hidden inside new furniture, or behind a dividing curtain.
3. Create a dressing corner with screens/curtains or add extra storage with a wall of closet units like Ikea has.
4. Two Words: Art Gallery!

I love a couch in a master bedroom. It can be a pretty piece of furniture and a good place for private conversations.

What I wouldn't give to have that problem? Currently only trying to fit furniture beyond a full size bedroom in our "master" bedroom.

We have a huge bedroom as well-our house is an old double converted into a single, so the master bedroom is the width of the house. We divided the room into the bed side and the hanging out side. On the bed side we have an upholstered bed and headboard which adds some presence and large bedside tables. My husband actually uses a chest of drawers which adds some extra storage. On the other side, I have my desk and chair, and then opposite that we have a simple modern chaise with a side table. I got a West Elm Parsons desk with a vintage bamboo chair so it doesn't look too office like. We constantly use the chaise-for reading, napping and relaxing.

I think the key is even if you want the room to be minimalist, make sure the furniture has presence or it will be lost an overwhelmed. And a huge rug can really help!

We have a very large bedroom (12X20) and when we moved in, chose to go minimal until we decided how we were going to use it. In addition to sleeping, it now serves as a reading room, since it is across the hall from our office, which has desks but no comfortable reading chair. Except for the reading nook and a couple of dressers (and the bed a nightstands of course), it if pretty spare and we have both grown very attached to the sense of space and calm in the room.

So I'd suggest living with it for a while and see what the space and your use of your entire house suggests to you.

Be sure to devote your bedroom to calm and relaxation. It is a great place to have a special dressing area with chests of drawers and a vanity, or comfortable furniture for curling up with a book or having a comfortable conversation. However, I strongly recommend that if you put a desk in your room, visually separate it in some way from your bed so that you never wake up in the morning staring at a pile of things in your inbox. Getting my desk out of my room was so helpful to my peace of mind.

I moved in with a boyfriend (now my fiance!) and was amazed by the size of the bedroom in his East Village walk-up. After moving in my dresser, desk, work dresser and armoir we still had a ton space. We moved the bed away from the window, put my desk (an actual dining room table) near one window, set up a reading chair near the opposite window and a long, leather storage bench along the wall near the bed. Our living room is small and will comfortably seat eight when we employ smaller storage benches in the doorways, but this area in the bedroom becomes another area that guests enjoy. There's still a ton of space in the middle - enough for a West Elm coffee table that has a fold-away base and top that we use for cocktails and snacks during parties and tuck away when everyone goes home. We've resisted the urge to make the space that's left function in any other way - sometimes it's nice to just have a bit of room (especially when the bathroom's so small!)

He have the same situation. We haven't done much with the space yet, but have decided that a vanity table (okay, that's my decision, haha) and a chaise will go a long way. I was thinking about a couch, but we already have the basement and living room for that. Good luck!

You could add an enjoyable function. How about a gymnasium? yoga area? meditation area? altar? crafting area? sewing area? photography studio? painting studio? sculpture studio? potted garden at a window or under artificial illumination? house pets lounge? library? curio gallery? sculpture gallery?

Don't fill it unless you absolutely have to! What's wrong with just having.............. space???

My husband and I have this exact same problem(?). Eventually, we will turn half the room into a nursery, but until we are ready to have a baby, I want to turn the opposite corner into sitting area. Our sitting area will have an oversized chair and perhaps an ottoman, a small side table for placing one's water glass, a lamp (either standing or on the table) and something to break up the space like a bookcase or a shoji screen (which is also helpful because I enjoy staying up late reading, but my husband wants to go straight to sleep, so a divider of some kind would keep the light out of his eyes).

Sure, empty space is good--easier to move in, low maintenance, and free. If you don't have a hobby you miss, yet the bedroom looks too empty, then you could fill it visually with a non-solid paint treatment on the walls.

1. Consider floating the bed away from the wall -- you'll probably need a good solid headboard or chunky bed frame to get away with this. You can set up a canopy to give it even more presence
2. Consider a loveseat at the foot of the bed, with a couple of chairs in a u formation -- like a living room
3. Set up a separate dressing area
4. fewer larger pieces are better than lots of little pieces. Make every space have a function so you use it.
5. Maybe get an electric tea pot so you are inclined to put your feet up in the seating area and have tea?
6. Pay attention to lighting. Light places and tasks within the room rather than the room itself (from a ceiling light.) When you leave some lights on and some off it will visiually divide the space, and make it feel cozier.
7. Consider an ethanol burning ventless fireplace to make a seating area even more alluring.
8. Leave a nice big open area -- marked off with a cool rug -- for dancing, yoga.. etc.

pam h
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At least one designer whose books I've read wrote that she enjoys writing her books in her bedroom. My husband would put in a refrigerator! How about a table and task chair left empty except during times of temporary tasks such as like wrapping gifts? Each household would have a different best option. Even that would change from year to year as interests, activities, and life stages change, e.g., the nursery suggestion.

We have the same "problem" too. Our bedroom is over twice the size of our bedroom in our old house.

In our room, the queen bed (that you could barely walk around in our old room!), seems too small. I'd really like to upgrade to a king, but it's not in the budget now. If you don't have a king size bed already, that could be an option.

We have a crib, changing table, glider and extra dresser on one side of the room, but in another year or two when the little one moves out, I am planning to put a couch and a couple of chairs there, to create a cozy sitting area.
I would stay away from anything "active" or too functional. You don't want to be going to bed at night thinking about how you should have worked out, or how you need to pay bills.

For now, I say just leave it. You may grow to like the empty space. Our bedroom that seemed huge and empty when we first moved our furniture in, now seems just right.

Right now it feels wasted. Please help!

This is the important factor - it feels wasted right now, because you're accustomed to a smaller space. Give it a few months to become "normal", and you'll wonder how you ever crammed all of your stuff into a smaller space.

If it's still bothering you after 6 months, break up the space with a dressing area (a nice chair and a small table) and/or a big potted tree.

Our bedroom is more than half the square footage of our small (underr 300 sq ft) apartment.

My boyfriend, if he could, would live full-time in a hotel. We put the chaise longue from my tiny studio (a TYLÖSAND chaise from ikea) under the bay windows to give the room a "boutique hotel" vibe, and are really happy with how it balances out the space. Of course, our new king-sized bed is nice, too!

we too have this scenario....but it allows for us to have two very different spots to put the bed for better ventilation at different times of the year ...and the cat loves to "floopy flop" in the open space and no toes get stubbed...it is great.

After living in a tiny house in Portland, sleeping in the converted attic (where we could hardly sit up in bed!) we moved to Germany and have a huge bedroom! Just recently I decided to make our main "living room" area in our bedroom, to be more energy efficient. I love it. It is so nice to have a place within the bedroom to sit and have a cup of tea. All you would need is a loveseat, armchair, area rug and coffee table, plus some artwork and maybe a side table or something.
You can see how we did it here:
http://and-here-we-are.blogspot.com/2010/11/forget-living-room.html

Have fun!

Maybe give it a while for you and your S.O. to fit into that area. Personally, my husband likes the bed against one wall and I like it against another so I'm just giving time for us to feel out what we like together.