A letter to the Designer.
Dear Designer,
Hello, my name is Samantha and I live in Saugus. Over the last few months now I have noticed your help column and love the advice you give everyone that writes in for help and suggestions. You always have the exact remedy for the illness. My friends and I think you’re wonderful and I hope you can remedy my problem like you do everyone else.
My husband and I just bought an older home in a well-established part of town. We scaled down from a much larger home; know that it’s just the two of us. We fell in love with this home because of its charm and warmth. The reason I’m writing you is to get your help with a problem that I have been having with my master bedroom. I can’t find a way to layout the furniture in the room. The issue is not the size of the room, but the wall space. The room is actually very large with a little sitting area. The problem is that my king size bed won’t fit between the two windows in the room and won’t fit on the other four walls because of doorways, openings and/or closets. The previous owners had a queen size bed that fit perfectly and I didn’t even think to measure the room for my own bed. The wall that I would like to keep the bed on has a window on ether end and the king bed overlaps the windows by about five inches. Should I just get a new bed in quean size or can you think of anything that I can do? Please help.
Hi Samantha,
Thanks for the vote of support. You will be happy to hear that even your dilemma has an easy fix. Unfortunately, architects, contractors and builders don’t always have the eye for room planning. That’s why I recommend working with a designer, like myself during the planning phase. When your home was built, they probably did not work with a designer on the layout or depending on the year it was built, furniture was much smaller. Anyways, back to your dilemma, the answer to your problems is in your window treatments. I don’t know what is there now, but you need to hang panels on either side of the window and create an illusion. What I mean by this is by playing with the placement of the panels, you can make the window seem smaller, larger and even in your case, shift it over by several inches. A good window designer can help lead you on the right path. I think from what you’ve described, once you hang panels behind the bed, you will solve your problem.
The panels will soften the windows hard edges and eliminate the overlapping effect you now see.
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