A classic dressing room contains clothes, shoes, bags, hats, belts, and jewelry. There are also mirrors and a place to change clothes. It seems impossible to fit all this into a small area. But it’s possible to set up a small dressing room, even if you don’t have free space in your apartment. You can do this improvisedly - plan a large closet where you can place shelves with maximum functionality. In the article we recommend where exactly to carve out a place.
Deciding on style and decoration
First, let's put forward a few important points. Some we’ll reveal later, some you’ll have to believe in.
- Choose white as your main background color. Not gray, not beige, not coffee. White.
- Maximum of 1 additional accent color in trim. Better than 0. Bed linen, curtains, clothes - everything has its own color and there are enough of these colors. There is no point in adding color with trim.
- Bed linen is the first most important thing in a small bedroom. No matter how cool the design you make, choose regular bed linen with flowers and there will be nothing left of the design. Only one color. Look at the photos.
- Don't go crazy with the ceiling. The best ceiling for a small bedroom is a smooth white matte ceiling without any complications.
- Lighting color temperature 3000K. This question will be discussed further from a biological point of view.
Choosing a Design Style
The main thing is to decide whether we will make the bedroom in a modern or classic style. Our deep conviction is that you should always choose modern styles. If for large apartments this is just an opinion, then for small apartments it is the rule.
In a small area, you should always choose modern design styles.
This is also true because of money. Let's be honest, the vast majority of people don't have an unlimited budget. Actually, if this were so, then why would we have small bedrooms? And since money still matters, you should choose modern styles because... In addition to their main advantages, they are also cheaper.
Here is a photo of the ideal design for a small bedroom:
Modern interior design styles combine well and there are no clear boundaries between them. TOP of the most current design styles for small bedrooms:
- Loft
- Minimalism
- Scandinavian style
All three styles can be perfectly combined in one room, even in a small space. There are enough interiors in which it is simply impossible to determine the dominant design style. We discussed the topic of mixing modern styles in detail in an article about modern trends in apartment design.
Apart from the classic loft, the basic template for most modern styles is minimalism. Other styles are achieved by adding details to it. We advise you to start getting acquainted with modern bedroom design with bedrooms in the minimalist style, and then consider other bedrooms in a modern style.
Choosing wall color
We have already written about the choice of color for bedroom walls, but there are nuances in a small area:
- We choose only light colors.
- Accent colors in decoration are often not needed at all. Enough textiles.
- If it turns out too simple, add texture rather than colors.
Typically, an accent wall is placed behind the bed. But the selection criterion is workload. The less busy the wall, the better suited it is to serve as an accent wall. Because There is always a door on one wall, and a window on the other; the accent wall is either the wall behind the TV or behind the bed. Attention is drawn to it either by some cool wallpaper or simply by a bright color. But be careful when choosing wallpaper for the bedroom, although this material has been used longer than others, it is with it that there are the most nuances.
In addition to the walls, the bedroom has bed linen, curtains, possibly a carpet and other items. All these items have their own colors. If we also make the walls bright, it will turn out to be a mess.
Decorative plaster has been around for a long time, but was used only in classical styles. This material has experienced a rebirth and burst into modern styles. This is the most practical material, it is not afraid of anything, and is easy to clean. Can have any texture and color. The only downside is the high cost. But we don’t need to decorate all the walls in the bedroom with it; it’s enough to apply it to the wall behind the bed. This is the most modern way of finishing the wall behind the bed, and has no restrictions on implementation. The price for a meter of turnkey application of decorative plaster is $10-30, considering that our bedroom is small, the wall area behind the bed is approximately 3×2.7 = 8.1 square meters. Not cheap for one wall, but worth it.
The base color of the walls, when there are no special preferences, is white. It is always relevant and will never go out of fashion. The perfect neutral color that goes with anything. Because In the bedroom there is minimal danger of smearing the walls; this is where the white color is at its safest.
Floor and ceiling in a small bedroom
The biggest mistake in a small bedroom is to play tricks with floors and ceilings. The floors are almost invisible, because... Most of the space is occupied by the bed. If ceilings are made too complex, they attract an unreasonable amount of attention. A good place for multi-level plasterboard ceilings is the living room, but not the bedroom.
Ceiling in a small bedroom
Since we are making the ceiling simple, any material will do. The shape of the bedroom, even in apartments with a non-standard layout, is usually rectangular or square. The combination of a small area and regular shape is ideal for a stretch ceiling. In this version, there will be no seams or unsightly corners (since all angles are 90 degrees). This means there is no point in overpaying for plasterboard ceilings.
In a small bedroom we create a simple, minimalist ceiling.
Here is a good example when they thought that the design was too simple and decided to complicate it with a ceiling. In a vacuum it might not have been so bad, but in this particular example, such a ceiling design is completely out of touch.
Many people recommend choosing glossy ceilings for a small bedroom, supposedly this increases the space. On the contrary, we categorically do not recommend making glossy ceilings in a small bedroom . In addition to reflecting light, gloss also reflects everything else. As a result, we will get x2 of all items concentrated in a small area. This is chaos, not design. Interior design is about balance, not complexity. And in general, glossy ceilings look like a collective farm. In terms of price/appearance ratio, the absolute first place is occupied by suspended matte white ceilings.
Floor in a small bedroom
The most insignificant point is that the floor in a small bedroom is practically invisible. Choose any parquet or laminate with a chamfer you like - you can’t go wrong. The only recommendation that can be given is to take a closer look at dark colors. Ideally, if you can create the illusion of a gradient from a dark floor to a light ceiling - it looks very stylish. Otherwise there are no rules.
