Guest Bedroom Layout

10 years ago

DH and I just found out that the drawings for the stairs were slightly off (ugh!) and now the guest bedroom wall needs to be moved.

Our plan was to have the bed on the bottom wall. Across from the bed we wanted to have a TV, chairs, dresser, and small table. As drawn the bottom wall is ~10', but the wall will now be 8'2".

In the near term, it won't be used very frequently, but we will likely have in-laws stay for long periods of time in the future and wanted a lounging area so they could retreat there.

Our question is, can we still put the bed (standard queen) on that small wall? We're worried that 15" or so on either side of the bed will be a bit small. If we moved the bed to the other side of the room (aside from moving the tv/sconces/etc) we thought it might be more weird to have the TV jammed in there and the bed on the opposite side.

One added wrinkle, we were thinking of adding a fireplace downstairs, hence the chase on the top wall across from the existing bed. If we did that, we're not sure we'd even be able to put the bed on the opposite wall.

Any ideas on layouts would be much appreciated!

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Annie Deighnaugh
10 years ago
How high and how low do the windows go....are they basement windows? Or full size?
stlblufan
Original Author
10 years ago
The windows are full size, if not over-sized (see attached picture, which shows the "nook" area). They start and end about a foot and a half from the floor and ceiling and we have 9ft ceilings.

This post was edited by stlblufan on Mon, Jan 20, 14 at 9:47
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chicagoans
10 years ago
I think 15" on either side of the bed will feel too small and make it hard to make the bed. It might also feel rather exposed, for lack of a better word, being in bed that close to such a large window.

I think your best bet might be to center the chase on the top wall, either by centering the location of the fireplace or by making the chase wider than it needs to be. (The fireplace is in the room above, not the guest room you're laying out here, yes?) Then you can have the bed centered on the chase. On either side of the chase you could have built in shelves the depth of the chase. Then you could use the nook for a small TV and a couple of chairs or a loveseat.
Annie Deighnaugh
10 years ago
I agree with stlbl...the bed is going to have to go on the other wall....there's not enough room to comfortably get in and out of both sides of a bed now. If you put the bed there, there is still plenty of room in front of the windows for a conversational cluster...even for a bench at the foot of the bed...

You can be clever about the built-ins on either side of the bed with flip down doors that then become a surface on each side of the bed so no need for end tables and lights attached to the built ins so no need for lamps.

Of course not this as the bed couldn't be recessed with the chase, but you get the idea...

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