How To Make Your Bedroom More Spacious
Designing a slightly smaller space comes with a unique set of challenges. Bedrooms are a particular challenge, because they must accommodate a lot of items without becoming cluttered. This article lists a few tips on making the bedroom space more economical by using the right furniture hardware and fittings:
* Choose one-touch drawer systems.
Every bedroom needs a wardrobe, and every wardrobe needs drawers. When you order the wardrobe from a furniture store, make sure that its drawers have the best wardrobe fittings in terms of smooth and noise-free channels, soft rollers and preferably, a one-touch opening and shutting mechanism. We suggest fitting LEGRABOX drawer systems from Blum, which offer slimness, robustness and outstanding ease of operation. You never have to struggle to open and shut drawers, and they hold a lot of your personal items with ample storage space.
* Go for handleless cabinets.
An economically sized bedroom needs economical furniture solutions. This means eliminating unnecessary furniture items and even fittings. Here’s a suggestion: choose handleless drawers and cabinets. As the term suggests, these are drawers and cabinets without handles. You would be surprised at the space saving functionality and ease of use these systems offer. When there is a protruding handle or knob, you subconsciously give the furniture a slightly wider berth because you wish to avoid bumping into it. This reduces the walking space for the room by a fair margin. Handleless cabinets eliminate this problem and offer much more aisle space. Besides, they are highly functional and easy to use, with a high scope for storage in the bedroom.
* Align heavy furniture opposite each other and not alongside.
A key design principle for any space, is to create visual symmetry. This is done by counteracting a large piece of furniture with a small one, or placing them on opposing sides of the room. The latter approach works better for a smaller bedroom. Try and place the wardrobe and bed opposite each other as a visual anchor, so that they ‘hold’ the room’s visual symmetry. You should ideally leave the rest of the floor vacant of heavy furniture.
However, the most practical space use solutions will not work well unless supported by the best in class wardrobe fitting and furniture hardware. The smooth operation and space saving advantages that you seek can only be offered by high precision runner and channel systems, elegant pull-outs and best in class hinge systems.
Have you implemented your own space saving tips in your bedroom? Tell us in the comments below.
