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Do you have a 3 storey semi detached?

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LuckyNumberFive · 25/08/2025 20:43

With a single master bedroom and en suite on the top floor?

If so.. how have you styled it?

We've been here 5 years and it's a functional space but I want to do something nicer with it.

I've attached a picture of the floorplan, hopefully it's made it through the MN spam filter. Not sure if the measurements are right, I stole it from a Rightmove plan of a house very similar to ours.

Green lines are where we currently have two chests of drawers. Purple are radiators. Red are sloped walls (so no good for hanging pictures on for example). Black sqaure is the bed.

We have one of those awkward spaces above where the stairs are where there's like a stepped flat surface. (In yellow on my picture). Feels like lots of small walls and corners and crappy space.

I love our bed, we've got a gorgeous mirror above it. Hoping to pain the wall with our headboard a light mushroom/neutral colour.

Other than that... I'm stumped. Really want to make it a lovely space with some sort of cohesion rather than just a dumping ground of bedroom stuff.

If this was you... Would love to see pictures of what you've done! If this isn't you but you're just great at this sort of interior design.. appreciate the help. Thanks.

Do you have a 3 storey semi detached?
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OttersAreMySpiritAnimal · 26/08/2025 17:17

I don't have a three storey home so no pics to show you. Do you have enough clothes storage? What do you use the space for other than sleeping, showering and the obvious? Do you do your ironing? Watch TV? Read? Morning cuppa?
Any good views from the windows? Do you catch the morning or evening sun?

OttersAreMySpiritAnimal · 26/08/2025 17:22

And would you be up for a little building work?

LuckyNumberFive · 26/08/2025 17:23

We have enough clothes storage, two chests of drawers and a built in wardrobe opposite the en suite.

We have a TV on one wall, I read in bed a lot. We get the morning sun but with a toddler we don't get the chance to lie in and enjoy it!

With the walls being sloped, small or at lots of right angles it just feels like we can't place much on the walls, no plants etc. I'm just really struggling to style it, I'd love for it to feel like a grown ups bedroom rather than what feels like a bed and a lot of empty walls.

I'm open to painting, but no idea which of the walls would look good in a different colour. Open to floating shelves if there's a wall that will look good with them. Just that sort of thing.

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LuckyNumberFive · 26/08/2025 17:24

OttersAreMySpiritAnimal · 26/08/2025 17:22

And would you be up for a little building work?

It depends how much, but in theory, yes!

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OttersAreMySpiritAnimal · 26/08/2025 17:51

Ok. The bed is in the right place imo.
I'd reconfigure the ensuite and wardrobes, effectively making it one room across the back of the house. I'd then have room for a big walk in shower and possibly a double vanity unit. I'd keep the wardrobes but shorten them a little. Put the door into this new room next to the wardrobes and you should have room for another wardrobe or shelved storage cupboard the other side of the door, so when you walk in it feels like a walk in wardrobe. You could leave the door off if you wanted.
Then I'd put in large lower level drawers either side of the bed, filling the space as much as possible. These would be nightstand and storage. Good lighting on this bed wall would be essential to facilitate the reading.
I think built in units are best for awkward spaces, so I'd probably build a cupboard and shelving unit in the nook where you have the stairs bulkhead, cupboard at the bottom then shelves fully across the space incorporating the bulkhead. you could get the same effect with a free standing cupboard or drawers and then shelves. That's likely to be a dark corner so I'd add lighting and make this area a feature with colour, books and pretty things. This space would also make an excellent dressing table area if you like a spot to do your make up or store jewellery, so you configure it to suit you.
I'd probably paint the entire room in a favourite colour, one that will look good in the daylight and cosy in the evening, so probably a warm mid tone, maybe a good sage green.
I've done a terrible pic, give it a moment to upload

Do you have a 3 storey semi detached?
RubieChewsDay · 26/08/2025 18:03

I have a 3 storey semi but don’t have a master suite on the top floor so can’t help with pics. The best place to see a lot of pictures would be rightmove, probably somewhere in London where there is likely to be a lot of attic conversions.

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