Very peculiar room and differing window heights
Hello everyone,
I have asked on here a couple of times before and have always received the best advice so thought i would be greedy and go again - although this time with my most tricky conundrum yet!
My problem is i have the most unusual shape room with a square bay window which looks out not the back garden and a window (which is of a very different height to the bay) which looks out on to a fence. Ignore all the decor, (carpets, wallpaper, curtains etc); everything in that respect is changing. I can't afford to do anything to change the structural element of the room so can't change the windows. I need to fit in built in wardrobes, a bed, 2 side tables and a chest of drawers with a tv on top (at a minimum, i am happy to add where needed). I have attached a photo from the house particulars (so not my furniture) and a floor plan.
I am just not sure which way to lay the room out. Originally i thought about putting the bed on the smaller window but as this set centre it wouldn't leave enough room for built in wardrobes to the side and so the bed wouldn't be centre to the window. I then thought about have the bed on the wall opposite the bay and then the built ins on the wall to the left but then i didn't know where to put the tv.
Curtains are also an issue in that how do you dress a room with different window height? Maybe curtains for the bay and then a blind for the other window but if i had build ins to the left, i am not sure i could then have full length curtains without impeding the cupboard.
Ahhh it's so tricky.
Thank you for all your help :)
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoHi everyone thank you so much for your suggestions. The problem with having the bed under the higher window is it doesn't leave enough room for a bedside table and wardrobe or even for just the wardrobe to open (and to not have a bedside table) - unless you don't think it matters that the bed isn't straight under the window and instead put the bed in the centre of the wall and the window off to the left? I have attached a photo showing the gap between the higher window and wall. Do you think it may look odd for the window not to be straight over the bed? The window takes up more of that wall than the floor map makes it seem.
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoI don't think i'd do any of the above. I'm not keen on the shorter height window. Thus, i'd have build in wardrobes across that wall and board up, albeit temporarily over the window. I think it gives you the option for a much nicer layout. Like this:-
you could also do this:-
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoif you wanted to keep the window you could do this with wardrobes opposite, chair in bay and tv wall mounted over a chest on a swing arm bracket on the door wall
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5 years agoI don't think the bed in the bay under the window will work. You have a large radiator under the bay and the bed would sit against this. Hence suggesting that you block the higher window and have wardrobes on that wall with the bed opposite.
If you block the window, you don't have to stop at just using wardrobes for the block. ( That was the cheapest option )
You could in fact take out the window properly and then have a dressing room for instance. The world is your oyster with the window gone.....................go mad...................
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