How to position a bed in a room?

[PrettyCandles]

Since we moved ds2 from cot to big bed, his room has loooked odd to me. At first I thought it was just the difference in sizes, but tonight I realised that it is because the head of his bed is not against a wall. Every other bed in the house is placed with the head against a wall (other dcs' beds are in corners, ours is head-to-wall), whereas ds2's bed is lengthways against a wall. A bookcase fills the rest of the wall-space from his head to the window, and a wardrobe fills the wall-space from his feet to the door.

Is it a weird arrangement? Would you always put a bed with its head to the wall?

both my dc's are lenthways, you've made me think now! depends how much unbroken floor space you want, yours sounds ideal for a young ds
now you mention it I might turn my ds's (7 )round to break the room up a bit so he has a sep area for desk
I don't think there are any rules as such!

It does sound a little odd, Somehow. But surely there is actually anything wrong with not having the bed head against a wall?

Is there any way you could rearrange the furniture.

Could you put the bookcase next to the wardrobe so the bed either starts or finishes next to the wall.

My DD's bed is like that and I think it works well. Probably depends on the shape of your room I guess.

Maybe I'm not understanding. The furniture is all placed against one wall, which has a door at one end and a window sort of in the middle? Is that right?

If so, what's going on on the other 3 walls?

Long room. Door at one end, window at the other end opposite the door. One side of the room has built-in wardrobe, shelves, toy storage. The other side has freestanding wardrobe, bed, shelving unit. Door opens toward the wardrobe (ie wardrobe is behind the door)

The bed can't go under the window because of the radiator. It could in the corner behind the door, but then the door could only open 90degrees before hitting the bed.

This arrangement does give maximum floorspace for playing, but also turnign the bed 90deg would only leave about 30cm to get past it at th foot. Possibly an arrangment to consider once ds needs less toy and playspace, and more desk-and-chair space.

Well, it sounds like a really sensible and practical arrangement then

Does the free standing wardrobe have to be in the room? You'd have a lot more space if you could get rid of it. Is there any chance of culling enough stuff from his room to make that possible?

We need the built-in wardrobe for other things ATM. Besides, even if we got rid of the freestanding one, he would need a chest of drawers. Boys tend to need more drawers than hanging space. The freestanding wardrobe combines drawers and hanging.

Floorspace is not the problem. Just the weirdness of the layout.

we have a third bedroom like this and i took the door frame off ,reversed it and now have the door opening outwards. It has given me so much more room to manoevre in the little bedrooM

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ill try again,if it doesnt work this time i will give up

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no sorry its not worked again...it looks fine until i send it......sorry again...maybe you getb the gist.