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That's actually a cool idea...
...and if a headboard were desired/necessary, one could use a King-sized headboard.

So either you have to re-make the bed before going to sleep every night, or you're extremely short. Looks great, seems completely impractical.

I would knock the pillows off while I was sleeping if there wasn't a headboard.

This is a guest bedroom. For occasional guests, this seems like a great idea. No need to re-make the bed each night because there is usually no one is sleeping there!

This would work best for a guest room, where you wouldn't have to re-make the bed everyday.

It looks nice, but does she sleep with her head by the window or to the side? I once had a bed like this, no headboard and no wall by my head and it wasn't very comfortable. The pillows kept falling down and it just doesn't feel right somehow.

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They did that on HGTV. Cant remember which show. They did what Bepsf said. i don't know If I can get use to sleeping against the wall like that though.

emaozora, my thoughts exactly.

Sure it works great for the homeowner, but not so much for the guests who would be fishing their pillows off the floor every night or sleeping with their feet hanging off the side.

My grandmother had a bed like this. I remember that she had it made up so we [yes, we! it was a twin bed, yet she shoved multiples of us in it] slept with our heads at the ends...

Complain. Complain. Complain. What's one night sleeping against a wall? I'm sure we all slept against a wall at some point in our life....Hell I had a day bed growing up...then there was the 2 twins in a rectangular college dorm.

As someone pointed out. It's a guest bedroom.

It's practical. Otherwise one of you would be sleeping on the floor if there was only a twin in there.

It encourages people to stay a few nights and a few nights only.

Great idea for a guest bedroom! But that black hanger on the hook needs to disappear!

Not to be argumentative, but I like the hanger. I always like little accidental touches in these photo sets that remind me that I am not alone in leaving crap out.

And it's one of those super-sexy flocked hangers that hold practically anything! Really jazzes up the place.

I like the sideways bed thing--much better than banging your knees on the wall each time you walk in the room just so the bed is positioned "correctly".

I can deal with my pillow falling off the bed when it's an air mattress on the floor, because it never fully falls off, but a full height bed with no wall or headboard to keep a pillow on while sleeping is just plain being mean to your guests, IMO. Yes, the whole bit about not wanting to stay too long is true, but do you really hate your friends and family so much you want them to sleep poorly?

Great idea, looks like a daybed and its cozy. Love the row of windows ..I barely noticed the bed..

This is so cute. I don't even have a small space, but I just tried it in my room and it actually looks good!

I have my bed like this in my room as well. It's not ideal, but the benefits outweigh the negatives for sure. My NYC bedroom is 9'x11' with no closet, so this allows me to have a little more storage and a pretty chair. You do what you gotta do, people!

Holy cow- overreact much?

I really don't think sacrificing a headboard in the name of having usable space is an indication that someone "hates" their guests :) And how tiny are the people who are confused as to whether they are supposed to sleep the wrong way across a double bed?

It's basically a day bed folks, if the possibility of having one of your five pillows fall off the edge of the bed is enough to ruin a night's sleep you should be able to avoid it by scooting down a few inches (apologies to those 6ft people- you all will probably have to make a velcro headband to keep your pillow secure.)

Don't mind the haters, Dale- this is a lovely, bright, cozy and thoughtfully arranged guest room, and if I was staying with friends who told me this is where I'd be sleeping for the duration of my stay, I'd feel touched and extremely lucky to have friends with such good taste.

Just when I was having doubt about my guestroom because I've had the bed this way for a year. It's a futon that looks bulky and unnatural in the "sofa" position- I think I'll get some poofy pillows and go with the daybed look.

Thanks, AT!

One wouldn't have to make the bed twice daily! I used to have my queen bed set up just like this, and it was a huge space-saver. I simply made my bed as I normally would, then folded my comforter halfway down the middle - much like the above picture - and added my pillows (I have a ton) to the center of the bed. The only remaking I did at night was to refold my comforter (not terribly time-consuming) and move my pillows back to the head of the bed. It took all of about thirty seconds, and was time well spent for peace of mind regarding the size of my apt! Additionally, while I did miss a headboard, to anchor my bed I used both a window with long drapes, and in another house, a very long, slim shelf (similar to Ikea's LACK series) with candles and art to give the feel of a headboard.

I'd take extra square footage in a teeny space over an extra two minutes a day (if it takes even that long to set up the bed for sleeping), anytime...

It's interesting to see all these comments! I'm planning on buying a bed (moving off the floor, hurrah!) and the only way it would fit in my small apartment would be sideways. I planned on using end tables to keep my pillows in place.

Honestly, how hard is it to make the bed and put pillows in the center?

This would work in a guest room like it is - but I don't see it working in an every night bedroom. Not only do you have to unmake the entire bed, fix the pillows, etc....but you had a partner, one of you two would wake up the other climbing over or have to crawl to the very end and climb over the nighstand. Looks more like an accident waiting to happen. And there are excellent points made about pillows falling off - if I invited someone to stay, I'd want them to sleep well. Consider this - if they don't, who are they going to be extremely cranky and grumpy against the next morning? The person who decided to pull this silly stunt.

Personally, I could not get used to sleeping in that odd position. I'd sacrifice the space and put the bed the normal way. It's a bed room - you don't need a ton of furniture in there. And for the poster who said it beats having the bed in the center and banging your knees into the wall, if you can't remember where your walls are, then you have worse problems.

As a guest, I'd rather have to deal with no headboard/possible pillow loss, than sleeping on an air mattress on the floor. Besides, I'd want to lay along the wall with those incredible windows and stare at the stars all night!

In general, older daybeds had ends on each side... sorry, good idea for saving space, but i can't see myself sleeping here.... I like to know there is a headboard. This one looks like a mattress against a wall under a HUGE amount of fabric... no more than that...

One of my important reminders to clients: design your home for the 360-something days you generally use it, not for the 5 days a year you have guests. Honestly, if someone is staying a night or 2 at your place, they will be fine with this set up. For the rest of the time, the room is much more user friendly to the person who lives there.

Haha, it looks like one of those display beds you see in Bed Bath and Beyond that are a headboard, about 2 feet of bed, and a baseboard.

I have my queen size bed in my tiny bedroom in this position. It's really not that big of a deal - I don't have a problem with pillows falling off and it only took a few nights to get used to. It's not my first choice, but I would have to turn sideways to walk between my bed and dresser otherwise. As for re-making the bed every night it's not a concern -- I rarely make my bed to begin with.

Did this in my college dorm. Worked fantastically!

I loathe jerry-rigging things.

I love jerry-rigging things.

And I love this bed.

And I am left wondering what you people are doing at night that your pillow gets thrown over the edge so easily?

i think its a great idea! "you do what you gotta do" is right! some of us don't have the luxery of tons of space. i think it's unique and fun!

I think this room is super cute! It looks so cozy and like a perfect place to read on a rainy day. If needed, I bet the bed could be turned around or pushed against a wall when a guest needs to sleep.

My bed is like this, only because my apartment is small (and I temporarily lost my couch to a flood) and the daybed-ish quality made a good sitting area to watch tv.

manu_pty -- Finally I'm not the only one who only thinks daybed only if it has ends. Anything else is pretty much a futon in my opinion.

It really doesn't take much for your pillows to fall off the edge with no headboard and/or the bed at least being pushed up against a wall where a headboard would be. Unless you sleep absolutely still, you will have this problem.

I live in a studio and my bed is oriented this way against a wall. My couch is on the opposite wall under a bank of windows. I love the arrangement because since the bed doesn't invade the floorplan, it's less of a focal point and my guests don't feel as though they're intruding on my private sleeping space the moment they walk in. I encourage use of the bed for seating and its location across from the couch is ideal for gatherings.

It isn't any more or less tedious to unmake the bed at night than it was in all my years of sleeping with my head against a wall/headboard. My pillows fall on the floor occasionally and yet somehow I've managed to survive.

My husband and I moved our bed this way a while ago because our bed faces our TV, so this way, more people can sit comfortably on the bed.

We haven't moved it back because of the space saving.

I've noticed the anti-sideways bed people are those that haven't tried it.

Awesome idea! I'm not against it and I think it may even impress my house guests.

SOLUTION: Make the bed sideways, but put the comforter/bedspread with the top along the wall, then add pillows.

At night, remove the bedspread or just tug the comforter over a bit, and put the pillows where your head is going to be.

My bed has been like this most of my life, despite moving often. Old homes and apartments weren't really designed to have queen sized beds. Single and Double/full were the standard back-in-the-day.

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