Residential space
A bedroom has three real jobs: hold your clothes, get dark, and stay quiet. A room that does those three well feels calm before anything has been styled.
Before anything is drawn
Wardrobes get specified by length rather than by what is going into them. Counting hanging metres, folded shelves, and the suitcases and duvets that need a home changes the design. It is a fifteen-minute conversation that saves years of irritation.
Street light, corridor light and standby LEDs all reach the bed. Blackout layers, a curtain track that closes past the reveal rather than stopping at it, and switching that kills everything from the bed are worth more than any headboard.
If you have to get up to turn the light off, the room is working against you. Two-way switching, bedside power at the right height, and a reading light that does not wake the other person are basic, and constantly missed.
It sounds backwards, but the wardrobe is the constraint. It is the largest fixed volume in the room, it wants a wall without a window, and its depth decides how much floor is left for everything else. Once it is placed, the bed usually has only one or two sensible positions and the rest of the room follows.
We plan wardrobes by contents rather than by length. How many metres of hanging you actually use, how many folded shelves, whether anything is long enough to need a full-height section, and where the luggage goes. Most people are surprised by the answer in one direction or the other, and it is much better to be surprised on paper.
Light comes in around the edges of a curtain far more than through it, so the track needs to run past the reveal on both sides and the curtain needs enough fullness to close properly. Quiet is a soft-surface problem: curtains, a rug and an upholstered headboard between them take the hard edge off a room with tiled floors and plastered walls.
In a compact bedroom the honest options are a smaller bed, a shallower wardrobe, or storage under the bed, and each costs you something real in comfort. We would rather put all three on the table than quietly design a room you have to edge around.
The room itself
Specification
Come prepared
These are the questions that decide the design. Having answers ready makes the first meeting worth twice as much.
ResidentialWardrobes & StorageThe difference between a flat that feels spacious and one that feels full is almost always storage planning.
ResidentialKids' RoomA room that has to survive a toddler and still suit a teenager, without being redone twice.
ResidentialBathroomThe room where waterproofing and falls matter more than tile, and where mistakes are expensive to reach.Draft wording.This page was written by us from your brief rather than by you. Read it, change anything that is not how you work, and we will set it exactly as you want it.
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