How to decorate a narrow bedroom, the best design and layout ideas
The design of a small narrow bedroom is designed at the very beginning of the renovation. Particular attention should be paid to finishing materials and furniture. For a small area, dark paints or large objects are not suitable. It is advisable to focus on the convenience and usefulness of things, and not on their appearance. A bulky baroque chandelier or a canopy bed is not the best choice for a small space.
The main features of the design of the design of narrow rooms
In any room in terms of area, you can make a stylish renovation and correctly arrange the furniture, turning it into a cozy and original place. A special approach is needed when planning a narrow room.There is not as much space to store furniture, especially tall ones, as you would like. In addition, the designer is faced with the task of visually expanding, increasing the space.
Nuances to which it is desirable to pay attention when decorating a narrow bedroom:
- use light and warm paints for narrow walls and cold ones for long walls instead of dark colors;
- decorate the space between the longitudinal walls with transverse elements;
- choose compact furniture;
- focus on a bright decorative element in order to distract from the dimensions of the room;
- using mirrors or mirror surfaces in decoration;
- competently design lighting;
- for decoration use paintings and photographs with an optical illusion or a pronounced perspective;
- put a bed in the corner or against the wall.
Basic tips
A small bedroom is not so easy to arrange. If all the objects are simply placed against the wall, then you get not a rest room, but a passage corridor. True, designers have a few tricks to turn a small bedroom into a cozy place.
Use multifunctional furniture
Often, standard size furniture sold in stores is not suitable for a small, cramped bedroom. In this case, it is better to order a bedroom set and make it taking into account the area of your room.
In a small bedroom, instead of a wardrobe, you can put narrow pencil cases, cabinets, hanging wall cabinets, shelves for books.
The linen closet should be narrow, with sliding doors, not hinged doors. It is desirable that there were no patterns and decor on the facade of the cabinet. Gloss or mirror finishes are welcome.
Choice of colors
A small bedroom can be visually enlarged with the right color. There is a special design technique - a combination of warm and cold shades. It can be used to decorate a small room.
Warm tones bring objects closer together, cold ones, on the contrary, move them apart, enlarge the space.
You can visually separate long walls with the help of pale blue, snow-white, pistachio, lavender. It is better to paint narrow walls with warm pastel colors. For example, peach, pink, orange, light brown, terracotta or yellow.
How to choose finishing materials
In the design of a small room, every detail is important. The design of a tiny room begins with the renovation and selection of finishing materials.
Stage
In a narrow room, it is better to lay parquet or laminate on the floor. Elements and boards should be placed diagonally or across the room, but not along it. This technique will visually expand the bedroom. The color of the floor should match the color of the walls. The coating can be matte or glossy.
Ceiling
The top of a small room should be light. It can be whitewashed with acrylic paint or pasted over with plain wallpaper. The cross beams of the ceiling structure will help to visually expand the space.
Walls
In a small bedroom, it is better to paint the walls with acrylic paint. You can paste light-colored wallpapers without patterns. To decorate a small room, it is not recommended to use materials with vertical stripes or with complex intricate patterns, dark or bright colors.
True, on one of the walls you can glue wallpaper with a landscape or perspective.A picture with a receding horizon will help visually expand the room.
Lighting organization
Lighting plays an important role in bedroom design. In a long room, it is better not to install spotlights in a row on the ceiling. The bedroom will look like a hallway or hallway. It is better to hang a small chandelier in the center of the ceiling, and place additional lamps (floor lamps, table lamps) near the bed or on the table, bedside table.
Zoning of particularly elongated rooms
A long room can be divided into two areas: a bedroom and a work or rest area. Zoning is carried out with furniture, decorative elements, finishing materials. For example, a living area will consist of an armchair and a coffee table, and a bedroom will consist of a bed and a bedside table. The work area can be separated by a carpet. This area usually consists of a table and a comfortable chair.
How to install the bed
The main element of the bedroom is a comfortable bed. It can be placed along or even across a wall, in a corner of a room, near a window or near a door.
Along the long wall
It is better to place a narrow bed along one of the walls. It can even be placed in the middle of the room, closer to the window or near the door itself. Bedside tables, ottomans, chest of drawers, linen closet are placed near the bed.
On the other side
It is better to place a wide bed or two narrow beds across the bedroom. Definitely close to the wall. There must be at least 70 centimeters left for the passage to the opposite wall. Between two narrow beds, placed across the room, a passage of 0.5 meters is left.
Regardless of the position of the bed, it should not block the path to the window.
In the back of the room, near the window
The bed can be placed across the room or along the wall, near the window itself. With this arrangement of furniture, there will be a lot of free space in the center of the bedroom. This space can be used to create a sitting area by placing an armchair, a coffee table and a bedside table with a TV.
Additional tips and ideas
In a small, narrow room there should be some kind of bright accent that draws attention to itself. For example, a picture on the wall, wallpaper with an original print.
The accent object will distract attention from the small proportions of the room.
Minimal decorative finish
In a small room, it is better not to use stucco moldings, there are a lot of decorative elements (candlesticks, frames with photographs, paintings). The abundance of accessories creates a cluttered effect.
Visual expansion of space
Mirrors will help visually expand the space. True, in the bedroom they are hung only on one of the walls, preferably not opposite the bed. Wallpapers with an optical illusion, paintings with a pronounced perspective visually expand the space.
Podium
The area near the window can be raised slightly. A bed is placed on the podium, and the lower niches are used for drawers.
Style features
Several styles are suitable for a small room - minimalism, modern, Japanese, Scandinavian, English, Provencal. All these design directions will help to arrange a small bedroom.
Minimalism
The small room decorated in the style of minimalism is characterized by a minimum of furniture and functionality. Pastel or gray tones are used to decorate the walls.
For decoration, glossy finishing materials are used, visually expanding the space.
Furniture - modern, multifunctional, regular geometric shape, without patterns.Textile upholstery, rugs, curtains - plain and calm tones.
Japanese style
This style is characterized by emptiness, the absence of superfluity, the light making its way through the shoji lattices. Each element has its place. Nothing interferes with free movement in the room. The interior is simple and laconic. The bed is low, geometrically correct.
Scandinavian style
This style is characterized by maximum whiteness and an abundance of sunshine. No curtains on the windows. Furniture - solid, made of natural materials, multifunctional. Fur, glass, leather, linen fabrics, tracks with jacquard ornament are used as decoration.
To study
In the bedroom, you can even set up a work space or a real office. It is better to put the table near the window. The table top can be combined with a window sill. Instead of a wooden table, it is better to put a glass table. It's not that bulky and looks great in limited space.
A home office cannot be imagined without shelves. It is advisable to hang them on the wall next to the table. The workplace can be made secret, that is, hidden behind the door of the built-in cabinet. True, inside such a structure there will be no shelves for clothes, but a table, a table lamp, shelves for books, drawers.
Features of the design of the children's room
A long and small room for children is not so easy to arrange. Indeed, in such a room it is imperative to put a bed and a table. Also, there should be as much free space as possible for children to run around and play. The children's room should have several areas: a bedroom, a play area, a work area.The room is decorated in light and calm colors.
Toys or decorative items are used as bright accents.
If the family has two children, it is better to put a bunk bed. It can be placed along the wall. The older child usually sleeps upstairs. You can put a table near the window, always with drawers. On the wall it is desirable to have a story of shelves on which to put books or toys.
Near the door you can equip a sports corner, for example, install a Swedish (gymnastic) wall. Nursery furniture should be multifunctional, with plenty of shelves and drawers.
Examples of out-of-the-box design solutions
Ideas for the correct design of a narrow room:
- Bedroom in white. The ceiling, walls and floor are white. Furniture - laconic, snow-white, with a glossy surface. The bed is low, with a white bedspread and brightly colored pillows.
- Use of contrasting shades. The walls, floor and ceiling are painted in a pastel color. Dark wallpaper on a narrow wall, a dark brown coffee table, a rug, a floor lamp are used as a contrasting decor.
- Asymmetrical arrangement of furniture of different sizes. They set up a table near the window. Next to it is a chest of drawers, on the other side is a bookcase. A bed is placed opposite the window, near one of the walls. There may be a linen closet near the door. All furniture is made in one color (white, cream, pink, light brown).
- Arrangement of furniture in the form of the letter "G". This layout is suitable for a very narrow bedroom. A linen closet, a chest of drawers and a console table are located in a row near one of the walls. The bed is placed near the window. It can occupy the entire cross-sectional area of the room.
- Eastern style.The room should be divided into three zones. First, a coffee table and poufs. In the second there is a bed in the middle of the room with two narrow aisles on the sides. The third zone can be elevated on the podium and create a comfortable place for smoking a hookah.