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hi it's Lindsay Diane from Diane
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decor.com in today's video we're going
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to talk about six ways to arrange a
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small bedroom with large furniture the
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challenge of arranging a small bedroom
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with large furniture is something you're
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probably going to run into at some point
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in your life it can happen when you
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inherit furniture or you downsize or a
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variety of other reasons but it's a
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challenge that lots of people don't know
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how to approach so in this video I want
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to share six tips for how to arrange a
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small bedroom with large furniture tip
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number one is to opt for a low profile
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bed frame stay away from the bulky
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frames like sleigh beds or those heavy
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wood four poster canopy beds and instead
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go for a plain metal frame with a
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headboard or just a low profile platform
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bed this is really going to cut down on
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the amount of space that your bed is
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taking up and it's also something that
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you can do without having to replace
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your mattress sometimes mattresses are
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more expensive than the actual bed frame
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so it's important if you have a mattress
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that you love and that you invested in
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to try to keep it and instead think
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about switching out your actual bed
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frame to give you a few more inches of
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walking space in your small bedroom tip
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number two is to use open leg
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nightstands it will really open up the
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space visually if you don't have a need
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for the extra bedside storage skip the
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nightstands that have one or two drawers
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in them and all these extra Cubbies and
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instead look for something that has a
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clean table top and like peg legs or
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something like that tip number three is
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also about nightstands and that's to go
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for a half moon or a half round
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nightstand those are the ones that are
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kind of rounded on the outside but sit
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flat and flush against the wall the give
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you or those few extra inches that you
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might need to move around on the side of
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your bed tip number three is to try to
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stick to three pieces of furniture Max
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this could be a bed and two nightstands
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or a bed a nightstand and a desk or even
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a bed a bench and a nightstand or an
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accent chair something like that if you
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try to stuff too much Furniture in a
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small space you're it's just not going
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to work so A good rule of thumb is to
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try to stick to three key pieces that
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you know you really need or are really
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going to use tip number five is to use
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wall mounted shelves to hold some of
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your bedroom accessories if you've opted
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for an open leg nightstand you may be
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losing some of that storage space so to
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gain it back just Mount some shelves on
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the wall they'll hold some small set of
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alarm clock charging station things like
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that and it will really give you the
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opportunity to open up some of the
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walking space on either side of your bed
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tip number six is to consider using
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off-center bed positioning now there are
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two ways that you can go about doing
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this you can push a bed all the way
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against the wall I don't recommend this
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for couples or if there are two people
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sharing the same bed because somebody is
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going to have to crawl over the other to
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get into the bed and that's just
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annoying but if it's a single person in
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that room it's perfectly fine to push a
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bed against a wall we do it a lot with
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kids bedrooms dorm bedrooms things like
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that but if you're a couple that want to
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consider off-center bed positioning that
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could work for you as well by just
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creating one larger aisle and one
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smaller aisle so one side of the bed
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would be larger and that's where you
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would have an additional piece of
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furniture let's say it's a dresser or an
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accent chair and the other side would be
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skinnier you may only have a nightstand
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on that side but it's at least a walking
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path for the the other person to be able
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to get around the bed and on to their
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side by using the off-center bed
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positioning like this you can better use
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the furniture that you need in the room
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so if you have a desk or if you have a
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dresser you can have that in the larger
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aisle and be able to pull out your
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drawers or pull out your chair without
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bumping into the bed if you had your bed
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centered in the room you might not have
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the space to do that so it just
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maximizes the layout in your bedroom and
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it makes it work when you have larger
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Furniture in a small room that's it for
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this video I hope you found it helpful
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don't forget to visit me at Diane
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decor.com and I'll see you in the next
