How would you layout this room? *diagram included*

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Our bedroom, bit of an awkward space but not sure if we could work it better.
Hope the diagram makes sense I've tried to keep it as to-scale as possible.
What the issues are:

• The window side and the wardrobe side feel like 2 completely different sections, you have to wiggle around the foot of the bed (and the door if it is open) to get to the window side where the mirror/ hairdryer etc is. Also awkward for the drawers.
• I hoped to put the bed with a low headboard backing onto the window but there's the dang radiator and I don't think that is allowed or will work very well in winter when they come on and we will roast.
• Where the bed is at the moment there are actual plugs in the wall on either side for chargers and lamps so clearly meant to be a space for the bed and bedsides but we can't even open the door fully as it catches the foot end.

Any better way to lay this room out or have we exhausted our options and can't improve on what it currently is?

The problem can be solved in one of two ways, one that is furniture-based, while one requires construction.

1. If you put a bed with a short headboard as in the "after" image, you get better use of your space, without blocking light. The key is that you must move the bed away enough from the radiator to not impede heat distribution.
2. The second way to improve the design is to change the orientation of the doors and possibly make the bathroom door a pocket door if that is possible so that it does not swing out and is less intrusive. Changing the orientation of the door going into the bedroom so that it is closer to the corner near the bathroom, while the bathroom door is a pocket door, will give you more usable wall-space to orient the wardrobe to that wall.

I’d move the hamper from near the end of the bed for a start - that doesn’t help. And swap the drawers with the mirror to open that pinch point up a bit more too. Is your bed a divan or does it have a wooden frame? Beds that are literally just the size of the mattress are often a little shorter and that helps. Maybe a wall mounted headboard to reduce any separation from the wall? Plus change your bedroom door so it opens out into the hallway to reduce having to dance around it perhaps. Are wardrobe doors sliding? Can you move the bed a tiny bit closer to the wardrobe to open up the tight gap a little?

Could you move the radiator? Or could you fit the head of the bed along the en-suite wall where the wardrobe is? And change out for a smaller wardrobe on the right hand wall behind the opened door?

I'd move the radiator. Buy a tall one and put it where the drawers are. Then whoever likes to be warmest sleeps on the side. The bed won't be up against it but you still be more warm than whoever is sleeping on the other side.

If you absolutely need drawers then I'd move them to where the hamper currently is.

Thanks for all the suggestions! Can't change the wardrobe out as we are already struggling with it's size hence adding the drawers to the room.
The bed is already one of those that just about fits the mattress. Feel like I need to get the measuring tape out and start doing some serious thinking!
I am also wondering what is in the wall that the drawers are on as from the hallway there is no dip anywhere its a straight wall whereas the bedroom narrows inside 🤔

Would it help to rehang the door so it opens on the other edge?

Interesting about the wall! Chimney stack perhaps? Or maybe it used to be a built in storage cupboard? Any neighbours got similar houses and you can nosy at their floor plans from previous sales? (Or ask them like a normal person 😳 😁)

What type of radiator is it? Assuming water filled central heating type and not something which is a fire hazard, I would put the bed there. If you have a headboard just leave a small gap in front of the heater. Try it for a while and see if you can tweak the heat to be right for sleeping. If you can tolerate it, I'd build a sort of extended windowsill over the heater with legs/board down to the floor. Something you can push the bed right against. If necessary it could have holes in the top here and there to let heat out, but so long as you don't block up the sides the heat will come out there.

Or yes if you could remove the corner by the drawers you could put the bed there. You can buy a wee camera with a light on a wire cheaply..drill a hole and poke it in, see what's in there!

I think I would keep your current layout but try to 'slim down' your current furniture....over door laundry hamper, tall thin drawers. Maybe floating shelves for bedside tables. I actually have a narrow ladder shelf as my 'bedside table'. I have some storage boxes in it as well as my mirror etc. As other pp's have said re hanging the door and changing to a sliding door for the unsuited would also help.