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Need Help Choosing Right Sleeping Options For Room.
I am moving soon and rather clueless about furniture in this case bed options. My parents always handled mattress and box spring purchases. In my soon to be former bedroom it's a tight space where the double bed takes up a considerable chunk of the room. In my new home it's different.
I cannot recall the length/width of new room exactly but I know 13ft is accurate but not X width. I don't like the traditional bed and box-spring and want a sleep option that doesn't take up a lot of space not thrilled with a queen or single either. I have slept on pull out couches before and they kill my back. I want to have a lot of room to walk in and put a leather chair and desk too. Even with foam a pull out sofa bed screwed up my back. Any ideas of what I can buy that is different and fits my room well?
The actual room itself will also have a trophy case and several 27X40 pieces of framed artwork. A comfortable bed is my main concern that doesn't dwarf everything in the room. The only other big furniture obstacle if you can call it that is a long chest of drawers my big screen TV and satellite receivers, Blu-ray player etc sits on. Other than that I hope to have room to make it cozy because my current room feels like a sardine can and I don't want it to in the next house. Any ideas would be great on the bed of course and getting maximum out of any space. Thanks! I know you aren't furniture experts but opinions can spark ideas that work.
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My husband and I sleep on a platform bed. This would be a wood construction, box like and has drawers for storage just like a chest of drawers/dresser. On top of the wood plat form, you place the mattress. There is no need for boxsprings or the frame that supports them. This utilizes the under the bed storage space and would look nice to fit in with all the other things in the room. These platform bed frames come in all bed sizes. However, I believe they are sold without mattress and you need to purchase that separately.
Another hint for knowing ahead of time where all furniture will go or even fit is to use graph paper.
I did this once when I just bought a house. I measured the length of every wall and half wall and where doorways occurred along a wall. I also measured all my furniture. How wide and how deep from front to back is important as well. Height is not needed. Then you decide what each little square on the graph paper will represent in inches. If I remember, I had each square represent 2 inches. That way I could cut one in half to represent i inch. Using the furniture measurements, I then marked off the inches of width and depth of each piece using the squares on the graph paper with pencil and then cut them out and labeled them which furniture it was. Then I had to tape from back side a couple of pages together to be big enough to represent the room. YOu have to make sure it all lines up perfectly with other sheets, exactly on the line.
Once you've marked where the walls are you are ready to move your cut out representations of your furniture to see where they fit best if they fit at all. This is much easier than moving and removing the actual pieces of furniture around to get it all to fit. Yes, measure your chair for desk too as it will be sitting out in walk space.
Hope this gives you some inspiration.
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