Best fitted storage configuration for small master bedroom

3 years ago

We have a very small master bedroom which I have posted about in the past and recieved some great advice for. We have tried many, many storage solutions and furniture configurations and still can't get it right.

In my son's room, which is identical to ours, we have just had some fitted shelving made. We are so pleased with it and would now like something fitted in our room. We suggested to the builder that he made the same thing for us but that the plain board (which will be used as a headboard and has storage behind accessed via a sliding shelf) would be larger, and in the middle of the unit for us, to accomodate our bed, which would come down the middle of the room. We then thought we would have narrow shelving each side of this headboard and then a wardrobe going up one side instead of the shelving pictured in my son's room. The downside of this would be that we would probably have to stand on the bed to reach at least the top section of the wardrobe.

When we discussed this with the builder, he felt that we would be better to leave the bed as we currently have it, going across the room sideways, and he suggested that he build a wardrobe with drawers and then high cupboards in a run across the wall. I just can't imagine what this would look like. I am attaching a picture of our room and a link to a floor plan. We currently have our bed turned the other way round and it fits wall-wall. We also have white slatted blinds instead of curtains and low white chest of drawers to replace the grey and yellow ones. To the right of the chest of drawers we have two clothing rails, 50cm each, one above the other. I think this is where the builder is suggested the fitted wardrobe should go.

What would you advise? If you wouldn't advise building around the window as we had hoped to, what sort of configuration should I suggest to the builder? He is able to start the week after next and we are keen to get going!

Floorplan: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=54017718&sale=49195230&country=england

Thanks in advance!

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arc3d
3 years ago
Hi Claire,

I would suggest swapping rooms with your son, then taking all or half the living room storage as the wardrobe for the bedroom. If you use sliding doors on the wardrobe you could fit an additional chest of drawers along the door wall.

Also for bulk storage why not consider an ottoman bed...

They come in side opening models too.
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Kay Moden
3 years ago
Hi there,

The space under the bed is essential for small rooms.

Beside ottoman beds ( as above ) you can also fit plenty of storage boxes under a standard bed (if the height allows of course).

Ikea's got a great variety of these, they come for different purposes & are easy to use.

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/cat/clothes-boxes-10565/

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/cat/baskets-16201/

You can then have some small wall mounted shelves for books, plants etc.

Hope this helps!
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clairemdew
Original Author
3 years ago
Thank you both for taking the time to reply.

Unfortunately funds don't allow us to knock the understairs storage through and we also use that to its full capacity as it it. A project for the future perhaps!

What we really need is hanging space and storage space that we can access everyday for our clothes.

I do love the ideas of storage under the bed and wonder whether something like this in the third picture down would work? https://bloesem.blogs.com/bloesem/2013/04/studio-oink.html
arc3d
3 years ago
Yes can't see why it wouldn't. Why not show it to your carpenter and see what thinks of it?

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