Bedroom Furniture

The key item of furniture in any bedroom is, of course, a bed - but it’s not the only one. Choosing the right storage solutions is crucial. When you’re buying cupboards and wardrobes make sure they blend sympathetically with the bed at the same time as being robust and as spacious and functional as possible.

Drawers, wardrobes and bedside tables are some of the items we use most and think about least. When you’re choosing new ones, as well as considerations of style, you’ll find it pays to think about exactly how they’re going to fit into your bedroom. Unless you’re fortunate enough to live in a really huge home, the chances are that your bedroom is one of the smaller rooms. Using furniture that’s both stylish and efficient in terms of space is going to maximise the area available to you.

Many houses, especially those built in the post-war period, have built-in wardrobes. These are a great use of space, but are also in design terms something of mixed blessing. Although they may have been very cool when first fitted, the chances are that the doors and fittings have dated more than a little. And because most built-ins were not made to standard sizes, it can be very hard to get replacements without having them built to order - a potentially expensive process. One option, providing the underlying wood or board is sound, is to have the existing doors re-veneered and new fittings put on. The extent to which this is possible very much depends on the quality of the original build.

A bedroom can be quickly and easily refreshed by replacing existing tables and chests of drawers. This needn’t be expensive, providing you don’t mind putting flatpacks together and you don’t expect them to last quite as long as more solid and expensive pieces. The fact with flatpacks is that they can be really excellent value, but as with all things you get what you pay for. Unfortunately, chests of drawers are one of the types of furniture that respond least well to being put together at home. They are relatively complicated, and the lack of tight, professional joinery means that there can be significant problems if you really pack things into drawers. On the other hand, simple things like bedside tables flatpack really well, and can last years. The rule of thumb is to remember that the simpler the item of furniture the more likely it is to work well and endure when constructed from a flatpack.

Buying bedroom furniture for kids can be especially tricky. It needs to be hard-wearing and resistant to all kinds of stresses and strains, but the likelihood is that furniture bought for young children isn’t the sort of stuff they’re going to want when they’ve grown up a bit. In cases like this - furniture that needs to lasts ten years or so, but no longer - you should consider either good-quality flatpack or ’solid’ furniture made to a classic design that will be easily resaleable.

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