A small bedroom is a common occurrence in modern housing. Much worse if it is stretched relative to one side. The design of a narrow bedroom is a difficult task: its mandatory element is a bed that should look organically in an irregularly shaped room. In addition to it, you need to fit other furniture, make the room cozy and hide the oblong shape as much as possible, so as not to feel in crowdedness.
Design of a narrow and long bedroom in the style of minimalism - the most common option to date. Thanks to the space created by this direction, it is possible to hide the proportional flaws of the room. The design uses light colors, the number of interior details is kept to a minimum. Within the framework of minimalism it makes sense to expand the window, give preference to natural lighting.
The second most popular is the sea theme. Successfully combining cold shades of blue and warm beige, in the manner of the sea and sand, you can completely hide the elongated shape of the bedroom. The embodiment of the theme of waves on a short wall is the path to its visual elongation.
Using modern style or modernism, you can also imagine an elongated bedroom in a favorable light. The effect is achieved through the use of abstract forms, bright non-standard accents and the admixture of eco-notes in the overall symphony of the room.
Surface Finishing
Using the correct finish, you can visually fix the shape of the bedroom. There are such design methods for walls:
- Long walls should be finished in cool colors, and short ones should be finished in warm colors.
- The use of squares as a pattern, conducts a subconscious association of the room with this form.
- A horizontal strip on short walls will lengthen them. But do not spend it across the room: it will return the bedroom to its wrong shape and visually cut the height.
- They prefer light colors of finish: white, beige, yellow, blue.
Avoid dark colors and small patterns: this will create an uncomfortable tunnel atmosphere.
As a floor covering, it is preferable to use a floor that is close to natural: a parquet or a laminate. Absolutely irrelevant are ceramic panels and tiles: they are slippery, cold, and advancing on them with bare feet is unpleasant. Fasten the floor elements to the diagonal or to the side of the long wall.
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Another way to fix the proportions of the room is to use a multi-level ceiling with a square shape in the middle. In no case can not glue the ceiling wallpaper along the long wall. It is better to give preference to modern tension and suspension structures or to use the classic no-lose option - to paint in white with paint.
Layout
Before you start arranging furniture, you need to think over its placement in the room. We need to draw up a plan on paper. This will allow to make sure beforehand that all the necessary elements will fit, saving the budget and time.
In the extended bedroom, the layout options are limited. There are 4 types:
- Linear. Suitable for a narrow room. The furniture is located along one of the long walls, opposite the door.
- L-shaped. Suitable for a room of medium width. Most elements are placed along a long wall, and one of them, most often a bed, is placed along a smaller wall. When the bed is single, it can be placed near the main wall, and about a short one to put a cabinet or workstation.
- U-shaped. The layout option is suitable only if the bedroom has impressive dimensions, allowing to arrange furniture along three walls. In the center should remain a comfortable passage for an adult.
- Asymmetric. Implies the placement of elements along each wall in a staggered manner so that they do not interfere with free movement around the room.
Zoning Space
The interior of a narrow bedroom seems to suggest dividing it into two smaller rooms. It is not necessary to achieve this by building a wall. It is enough to know the methods of zoning, dividing the bedroom into several functional areas.
The design of a narrow children's bedroom especially requires the embodiment of this technique: the room will be used for rest, and for study, and for games.
You can do this in several ways:
- Finishing. To achieve the effect of separating a part of the room can be different from the basic finish of its surfaces: the ceiling, the floor and the walls. For example, you can paste other wallpaper in the second half of the room, emphasize the separation of a multi-level ceiling.
- Layout мебели. Расположив часть мебели поперек можно физически отделить одну часть комнаты от другой. Поставленный таким образом шкаф скроет спальную часть от посторонних глаз.
- Decor. Different decor elements can also help in zoning. For example, in the design of a small bedroom in the style of Provence perfectly fit the ornate screen.
- Curtain. Often, the separation is done using a fabric curtain covering the second half of the room.
Bed as the main element of the room
Planning the entire bedroom space depends on its width in the narrowest place. Based on this parameter, choose the bed, the main part. Experts in this area recommend giving preference to the most expensive model available: a quality bed is a guarantee of good sleep and an investment in one's health.
The first question that plagues every owner of an oblong sleeping room is whether or not to stretch the bed along or across? There is no universal right answer, a decision must be made in each particular case. When you take into account the size of the room, you need to calculate, in addition to the width of the bed itself, whether it will be possible to approach it from each side. Comfortable for a person the breadth of the passage is not less than 70 cm.
If you need to save as much room as possible in the room, especially if the size is not more than 2 by 4 meters and you plan to install other furniture, you can leave only one approach to the bed. This solution is not always convenient for a spouse who will sleep at the wall: he will have to climb all the time through the one who will sleep on the edge.
The bed sets the style of the whole room, so when choosing it, it is important to follow the direction chosen initially. The key part of the bed is its headboard, which can become the main accent of the design of a narrow bedroom.
When choosing a practical bed, you should pay attention to the spaciousness of her laundry box: in conditions of space saving, it can become the only place for storing bedding.
Choosing furniture
In a limited space, when choosing furniture, you need to be guided not only by your tastes. Modern designers have come up with a lot of interesting furniture solutions for the interior of a narrow bedroom.
In the bedroom there must necessarily be a place for storing bedding, pajamas and other things. An interesting idea is to put together a closet and a bed, preferring a folding structure. This will save most of the space and looks stylish. There are full-fledged furniture systems with a folding bed. Laying it along one wall, immediately solved the problem of furniture completely.
Filling the space of a small room, we must not forget that furniture can be located not only on the floor. It is convenient to use pendant lockers and shelves that are attached to other elements: a table, a bed, etc. If you hang them at different heights, the room will become cozier. The TV is also hung on special brackets.
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Instead of chairs, you can give preference to puffs. And the dressing table is combined with the desk, hiding everything you need in the drawers. Necessarily near the bed should be bedside tables or a table: it is convenient to put on it all kinds of little things for the night, put on charging devices, etc.
Favorable lighting
Creating a design of a long and narrow bedroom, special attention is given to lighting. Proper use of it can radically affect the visual representation of the room.
The key is the presence in the bedroom of natural light from the window. Opposite him, you can put a mirror, then in the daytime the light from it will be scattered throughout the room.
There is no point in hanging massive lights here: this will only worsen the situation. It is better to give preference to several small lighting devices in functional areas or spotlighting on the square perimeter of a multi-level ceiling. An additional light is to equip a short wall, if it does not have a window.
As an element of decoration, it is possible to equip hanging shelves with lighting.
Necessarily need to further highlight the place near the bed. It can be a small night light on the bedside table, a lamp built into the headboard or a sconce over the bed.
It will be convenient to build in the brightness control of the light, which will allow you to adjust it from bright lighting for work or cleaning up to an intimate dimmed shade.
Interior decoration
The dimensions of the room force you to refrain from using a large number of elements. Otherwise, it will create a cluttered corridor effect, which will significantly affect the interior of a tiny narrow bedroom.
Atmosphere comfort can help create family photos or paintings. It is better to hang one or more large frames, do not overdo it with quantity. The picture above the head of the bed can be the main accent, which will distract the guest from the uncomfortable form of the room. The most successful choice will be abstract art or perspective.
Mirrors make sense to place on long walls. The best option is furniture with a mirror facade. A mirror on a short wall will stretch out the room even more.
Using indoor plants in the bedroom will not only revitalize its interior, but will also make the air cleaner, increase its humidity.
Use strips and square motifs can be on curtains, bedspreads, upholstery furniture. It is necessary to avoid their direction along the long walls of the bedroom.
A square carpet is one of the key decor objects of a narrow bedroom. By its form, it visually corrects the proportions of the room, and the texture and color complement the stylistic direction, make the room cozier, warmer.
