We look forward to Small Spaces Month because it's wall to wall inspiration. Today we take a look at small space bedrooms. Even though the featured bedrooms are small — and in some cases micro — they can still capture the luster of a well-designed home.
Top Row:
- Bedroom Nook: Sometimes closets and nooks become a bedroom. At least you know you will not fall off the bed in the middle of the night.
- Ace Hotel in Portland, Oregon: It is a hotel room vs. a residential bedroom; however, we could not resist sharing this great use of space. We don't have any need to visit Portland, but we are tempted to take a weekend vacation to explore the brilliance of this small hotel.
- Stockholm Apartment: These are quite tight quarters, but we love the sunlight splashing warmth on the bed.
- A Small Swedish Bedroom: We love the vibrant wallpaper on the back wall. It adds interest and personality to the small area.
- Micro Stockholm Apartment: We need to delete the adjective "small" from our vocabulary when describing our apartment. The micro-sized apartment puts it in perspective regarding what are our real necessities.
Bottom Row:
- Bedroom with Bedup Bed: The murphy bed alternative is stored in the ceiling instead of inside the wall or closet.
- Small Stockholm Apartment: We enjoy the blue accent background to an almost pure white bedroom.
- White Home in Charlottenlund: Back to the all white bedroom, glamourous or stark, you can be the judge. Because only a twin bed is used, the space appears larger than actuality.
- Mediterranean Bed Nook: Another bedroom nook that you can crawl into after a long day.
- Open Bedroom Apartment: We are impressed how a small space can be so glamourous. It would work perfect for us because when we are finished eating dinner we sometimes want to lounge in the bedroom right after.
Images: Morning's Light blog, Flickr Member Stef Monk, Innerstads Specialisten, Freshome blog, Yatzer, Home Dug, Emmas Design Blogg, The Style Files blog
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I can't handle exposed cords from bedside wall mounted lamps, I know it's common, even expected, but I just can't deal. I have cord issues, easily the most benign of my issues though.
I love #2 and ESPECIALLY #9!
How do you change the bedding? Not only in the one with the walls touching the bed but also on the beds that look like a mattress on the floor which would not be good for your back.
I love #1. I always dream about finding a studio in Chicago that has a nook/closet big enough to slide my queen bed into. It solves my issue of needing the common space and sleeping space to be separate - and all I need for sleeping is my bed so the nook is perfect and cozy. Changing sheets would be pretty difficult though...
ooh perfect inspiration! I've got a 3rd bedroom (someday a nursery then a full bedroom) that's TINY and has no closet.
Bed in the nook? Been there, done that. Honestly I never realized how claustro-stressed it was until I moved and had a normal bed without walls touching the bed. I would NEVER, NEVER do that again. It seems like it's OK, until you escape and then you feel free again.
My bedroom is the same size as #1. I love it, BUT making the bed every morning is a huge pain.
Our "guest room" is a closet that just fits the mattress, plus it has a low, sloped ceiling. It seems like it would be claustrophobic, but it is so comfortable. Everyone gets a great night's sleep in there. We take turns in the nook occasionally, too, if we need to catch up on sleep.
Love #9. Numbers 4 and 5 bother me. I don't know how people sleep under huge installed shelves or cabinets. I would worry about them falling on my head. Also: the cabinets are so inconvenient. You'd have to climb over the bed to get anything out of them.
the 8th photo looks a lot like my room...and i have the exact same mother of pearl windchime hanging in my room as well.
great minds think alike!
Bed nooks are not a new idea. Go pick up A Pattern Language and read about "bed alcoves." Personally I've always loved the idea as an alternative to devoting an entire room to where you sleep--I'd rather have a cozy, comfy nook to retreat to for sleep, and leave the space in my "bed" room to be used for better purposes.
Though really, for the concept to be cozy instead of claustrophobic, the LONG side of the bed needs to be exposed... not the short end, as in #1. That seems like it would feel like crawling into a restricted hole instead of a comfy sanctuary!
I think they LOOK cool but would be unhappy to live with. (Maybe as a daybed for naps and upholstered cushions but not with sheets and blankets that have to be maintained.) Also, for someone like me who gets up during the night for visits to the bathroom, this sleeping arrangement would be stubbed toes and other pain waiting to happen! Not for me.
Those are all really cute! But I don't see any dressers in any of them(even the ones that aren't alcoves, and thus theoretically could fit them) -- where do people store their clothing?
So... if it's small, it must be painted white? Or white with a minor accent colour surrounded by white? Is that the message you're trying to convey?
They look quite lovely. Though I'm not sure how #7 is a bed nook when the bed is fully accessible on three sides...
And the tv in #3 really bothers me. I'd probably kick it in my sleep.
I really like #1 but imagine wrestling with the mattress while trying to change the linen.
I could win a small bedroom contest:
http://travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca/?p=5548
I sleep in the loft-type area over the cab of my motherhome. There's space for a mattress and nothing else. So cozy up there; love it! Getting up and down is a non-issue and making the bed is a lot easier than one would think.
I'm blessed with a dressing room, so my clothes are all in there and I also have a library, so I read there before bed. The 'bedroom' is 100% a place for sleeping.
I would so have a broken TV one morning if I had bedroom three.
Hey, if it's good enough for Harry Potter...
Seriously, I love my sleeping nook. I took out an eight foot window bank (with a structural header) and sawed the concrete wall down to a comfortable sitting height. Three cinderblock walls with a picture window at the foot and clerestory at the head made up for the lost window, and a shed roof completed the nook. I have a great view of the waterfront from my bed, opened up a ton of space in the bedroom and sleep like a rock. Bonus: House guests can't resist climbing in during the tour. Do they do that to your bed?
I'm claustrophobic... And I keep imagining those shelves in #1, #4 and #5 falling on my head.
It's one of my biggest pet-peeves to have the bed touching more than one wall... changing the sheets and trying to get out of bed if you have company and are sleeping on the wall side would be such a pain in the ass.
We have a bed nook, and we love it. The room went through several makeovers, from 'over sized closet' to 'office space' to 'junk room'. Until we moved the bed in there. It's super cozy, not really claustrophobic because we have tall ceilings and two windows in the room. We don't really have any trouble making the bed either, but we do have a small walkway on each side of the bed.
No we are just trying to figure out what to do with the room that is SUPPOSED to be our bedroom.
TravelingRae - Thanks for sharing the photo of your bedroom. You are right, it is very small.
Ironically, my guests have a lot more space than I do:
http://travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/studysofaswithcovers-300x225.jpg
Sure, it's a twin bed, but they get a whole room (8' x 6', app) with an actual door.
I once slept in a "one bedroom", essentially a nook off the bathroom that also contained the closet and had its own door along with the one by the bathroom (2 doors essentially) and it was barely big enough for my full sized futon mattress on the floor.
Some of my best sleeps were in that nook.
And this was an interior positioned "one bedroom" (really a glorified studio with nook although it was like the others, all one bedrooms but being in the middle of the building, the bedroom got sacraficed size wise to barely larger than a nook) the building BTW was from the 1920's, cute but sans any view other than the adjacent apt building next door.