Diy alcove bed

sleeping alcove bedroom apartment

Last year we bought an old house that needed a lot of work. We had a pretty tight budget but didn't want our house to look like a cheap re-model. Everything had…

You might have to do a little more work to make up the bed, but there's no denying the appeal of these tucked-away sleeping spaces. Alcove beds, nook beds, whatever you wish to call them, are certainly the cozy bedroom hideaway we'd love to have in our home.

Interior designers share their tips on how to design an alcove bed like a pro, no matter your room size or style.

A look at the design and construction of Scandinavian-inspired bed alcoves.

The red rectangle area is where Red's alcove bed is built. We had to wait until after we finaled with construction in order to build it...some rule about a room's definition = 7' clear space in any direction and 100 s.f. of floor space. The alcove bed would cause one dimension to be 5' across. It didn't matter that a bed would go there built in or not. I guess they thought after we built the alcove we would try and put a bed somewhere else in the room? Who knows.

This Greenwich Village townhouse was a complete demolition and renovation. Every surface and every system is new. Having lived in Hong Kong for three years, the owners decided to come back to New York to completely remodel their townhouse.

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Cozy side nook

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This house was built in Norway in the 1950s, disassembled, then moved to the United States and rebuilt here on an island in Maine.

Closet Reading Nook

The red rectangle area is where Red's alcove bed is built. We had to wait until after we finaled with construction in order to build it...some rule about a room's definition = 7' clear space in any direction and 100 s.f. of floor space. The alcove bed would cause one dimension to be 5' across. It didn't matter that a bed would go there built in or not. I guess they thought after we built the alcove we would try and put a bed somewhere else in the room? Who knows.

My current work in progress is a bed alcove. My customer was interested in a Carl Larsson inspired bed alcove. Carl Larsson was a Swedish Arts and Crafts period painter; his painting emphasized the beauty of straight lines in Swedish country style furnishings.

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