The interior, color scheme and layout of the bedroom should be thought out to the smallest detail. Because here a person relaxes after work, gains strength and prepares for tomorrow’s work day. Even if the room has a small area and you need to place a lot of furniture in it, you can still make the interior stylish. We offer owners of standard apartments ideas on how to design a 16 sq.m. bedroom. This is not the easiest task, but it is doable.
Black and gray modern bedroom
Zoning and room layout
Before you start renovating your bedroom, you need to think through all the details of its layout. It depends on the number of people who will be located in the room and the functions performed. In a one-room apartment, the bedroom can simultaneously serve as a nursery, living room or dining room.
Beige, brown and white colors in the bedroom
At an early stage of interior planning, it is recommended to think about the zoning of the room. Here, of course, there should be an area for sleeping and relaxing. If the apartment is small, you can allocate a work area in this room by the window. To arrange a beautiful table you will need a couple of square meters, but you will have a small office. It can be fenced off with a screen or curtain.
Bedroom in hunting style
There should be room for a closet in the bedroom. This will give the room room to store clothes and bedding. You can place a tall mirror next to the closet, separating this area with a screen.
You can zone a room using curtains, plasterboard partitions, screens or cabinets
If there are niches in the bedroom, they should definitely be used. Even a small meter deep recess can be turned into an excellent dressing room. Place shelves, hanging rods and install folding doors or roller blinds. Renovating a bedroom in a modern style with a dressing room can be done with your own hands and without extra costs.
Bright bedroom in pastel colors
If there is an infant in the family, then you need to make an area in the room for his cradle. It should be in the warmest place possible, where there are no drafts, next to the parents’ bed.
Beige and brown bedroom in minimalist style
Arranging a dressing room
In a small dressing room, ergonomics is important, so choosing furniture for it should be especially scrupulous.
The design can be stationary or rod (racks).
- Ceiling cabinets without doors are an ideal option.
- Racks with compartments of different heights and widths are also an excellent solution. The depth is selected taking into account the purpose of the department - for shoes or accessories, for folded items or for outerwear.
- Pull-out cabinets with a bottom for underwear or crossbars for scarves and trousers.
- Storage system for coats, blouses, jackets. It is estimated that a height of 0.5-0.7 meters is enough for short clothes on hangers. For outerwear and dresses you will need 1.5 m. Since we are using the entire height of the walls, it makes sense to place these two sections on top of each other.
- You will need shelves for bags (but they can also be hung on a vertical hanger, the hooks of which go in a spiral), crossbars or shelves for shoes, shelves for folded clothes (sweaters, T-shirts, bed linen, etc.), drawers for gloves.
It is worth leaving space for storing umbrellas and ironing boards. And put baskets on the free shelves.
Bedroom finishing features
If you decide to decorate your bedroom yourself, remember a few simple principles:
- use only natural materials;
- do not clutter the space with unnecessary furniture;
- use techniques that allow you to visually expand the room;
- the design should be in a calm color scheme;
- zone the space.
Yellow accents in a white and beige bedroom
The location of the zones depends on how many functions the room performs. Depending on this, the bedroom can be divided into zones using screens, plasterboard partitions, paper, wooden or plastic niches.
White, green and black colors in the bedroom interior
If the room has a balcony, even if it is narrow and small, it can be attached or converted into a dressing room. Or you can make a study or relaxation area out of it. For the balcony to become part of the bedroom, it needs to be insulated and decorated in the same style as the room.
Classic brown and white bedroom
Finishing materials, accessories, furniture and textiles should be only natural. Even if you are doing a budget renovation, give preference to wood, natural stone, paper wallpaper, cotton, and linen. The walls in the house must breathe, then, with regular ventilation, mold and mildew will not appear here.
Brown and white bedroom
The bedroom should be decorated in calm shades. The following colors calm and relax a person:
- green;
- blue;
- blue;
- beige;
- brown.
White and purple bedroom with emerald curtains
Use these colors and their shades, but don't forget about accents. An interior without bright spots turns out boring and faceless. Use black, red, turquoise, pink colors. A few touches and the interior will be transformed.
White and gray cozy bedroom
Creating lighting in a dressing room 4 sq m
A beautiful dressing room 4 square meters photo design is impossible without proper lighting. Today, spot lighting is most often chosen, but wall lamps can be used, especially with a U-shaped layout. Mirrors should be illuminated with bright, preferably daylight, lighting. In the women's dressing room you can choose professional mirrors for dressing rooms with lighting.
Store clothes in the dressing room seasonally, that is, hang up those that you are wearing at the moment, and hide those that are currently irrelevant in a small closet or chest of drawers.
Important! Daylight does not distort the colors of clothes, and therefore it is recommended to choose it for dressing rooms.
Decorating the ceiling
If the ceiling is flat, you can simply whitewash it - quickly and cheaply. Usually there are irregularities, cracks and other flaws on its surface. To hide them, as well as hide pipes and wires, you can either use drywall or order a suspended ceiling. The last option is suitable for those who want to renovate a room quickly. The ceiling can be plain or with a pattern. Depending on the style of the interior, photographs of flowers, animals, modern or ancient cities, and landscapes are applied to the canvas. A popular option is the starry sky.
Bedroom 16 sq m in modern style
The ceiling in a classic interior can be decorated with textured tiles made of polystyrene foam, plaster or other materials. If you like a loft, leave the ceiling concrete - this design looks bold, but very impressive. Wires and pipes remain visible here.
Black and white bedroom in Scandinavian style
Interesting solutions and options for wardrobe in the interior
- Corner project.
There is no niche in the house, but you dream of a spacious mini-wardrobe? Make your dream come true thanks to empty corners. Natural wood colors contrast with the overall pastel palette of the room and emphasize its style. Effective use of angles - Vertical space. When square meters are running out and you need a closet, move to the vertical plane. For example, there is a built-in dressing room below, and a sitting area above. The main thing is to provide a safe ladder.
Using Vertical Space - The place under the stairs is a treasure trove for imagination. It is enough to build in a few shelves, add a couple of drawers - and the dressing room is ready. In the photo it looks roomy.
Using the space under stairs
We decorate the walls
To decorate the walls in the bedroom you can use a variety of materials:
- wallpaper;
- plaster;
- paint;
- wooden panels;
- decorative brick.
Brown and white bedroom in eco-style
You can choose matte or glossy paint. And then there are those that feel like silk or velvet. Such coverings are suitable for a room in a classic style. The paint must be of high quality and absolutely safe. It will fit perfectly only on a smooth wall, without cracks or flaws. Plaster is suitable for classic interiors. You can choose a coating with golden sand.
To decorate the walls in a loft-style room, use decorative bricks. He always looks stylish.
If the wall has defects, it is recommended to use wallpaper. The cheapest option is to buy paper canvases. They are easy to glue, but do not last long: they quickly fade and the design is erased.
Black and gray minimalist bedroom
The right design solution for a loft-style bedroom would be concrete or brick walls. Brick looks especially impressive. It can be left red or painted white or gray. Decorate the walls in a room in modern or country style with wooden panels. So, even in an ordinary Khrushchev it will be possible to create the atmosphere of a country house.
Photo wallpapers are back in fashion today. Decorate the wall above your bed with them.
Use photo wallpaper for decoration. Today they are back in fashion. Usually, they are glued to the wall opposite the double bed. If you choose the right image (let it be a forest or mountain landscape), the space will seem larger.
Beige and brown chalet style bedroom
Photos of the design of a dressing room with an area of 4 sq. m:
Modern wardrobes are easy to combine with any room in the apartment. How to properly organize a storage system, see the selection, which presents photos of real interiors with built-in wardrobes with an area of 4 square meters.
Choosing flooring
For the floor in the bedroom you need to choose a high-quality, beautiful covering that will be pleasant to walk on barefoot. Even if your family can't afford to make expensive renovations, don't put linoleum on the floor. It looks cheap and quickly becomes unusable.
Brown and white narrow bedroom
Laminate or parquet will look impressive. The laminate can be chosen dark, light or natural wood. It does not require special care and lasts a very long time. Sometimes tiles are chosen for this room. But then the bedroom should have a “warm floor” system. If you don’t have one, consider having beautiful rugs next to the bed, closet, and sofa.
Black wall in a white and gray bedroom
Varieties
To choose a solution for yourself, let’s figure out what to choose from. There are three main types of dressing rooms:
Wardrobe.
Classic wardrobes are divided into zones for specific types of items. The fittings are fixed on vertical surfaces, which increases the capacity of the cabinet. Doors are hinged or partially sliding.
Closet.
Suitable for oblong rooms - for example, a hallway. The main difference is exclusively sliding doors. The filling is similar to that of clothes.
Partially built-in dressing room.
Inexpensive option without side and rear walls. Chipboard shelves are mounted on the walls of the niches. The remaining part of the built-in wardrobe is assembled from the cabinet structure. If there is a niche more than 1 meter deep, use that. Shelves are located along three walls - there is more capacity, things are accessible and everything is in sight.
There are many classifications of built-in wardrobes: open or closed, triangular or rectangular, modular or prefabricated... Don't limit yourself to specific types, combine. Start from your wallet and the free space in your apartment.
Choosing an interior style
Absolutely any of the existing interior styles is suitable for a standard bedroom:
- loft;
- Scandinavian;
- Provence;
- minimalism;
- country;
- art deco;
- shabby chic;
- classic;
- Mediterranean;
- eco.
White and cream bedroom in Scandinavian style
The choice depends only on your preferences, on the location of the room and on who this bedroom is for: a married couple, a guy or a girl. If spouses will live here, then the interior should be calmer and more restrained. For one girl, a design in pastel colors is suitable, and for a guy, something laconic or brutal.
Use only natural materials to decorate the room. It's not worth saving on buying them.
If the windows face the shady side, and even during the day little light comes in, the interior should be done in light colors. And if the bedroom is sunny, you can furnish it with dark furniture, use dark blue, brown, and burgundy colors for decoration.
Black and white attic bedroom
Black and white classic bedroom
Project development
Example drawing of a built-in dressing room
Every dressing room starts on paper. You can hire a specialist or do the work yourself. The designer option is better, but more expensive.
If you decide to act on your own, calculate the dimensions - sufficient for everything to fit. Start with two questions:
- Who is the wardrobe intended for? For a child, man, woman or family?
- What is the cabinet for? The option for jackets in the hallway is different from the compartment in the bedroom.
Organize your shelves into zones to keep men's, women's and children's items separate. Divide your clothes into piles as you would for a real closet. Count the sizes and number of items in each pile. Pay special attention to long items that will hang, such as dresses. They should not lie on the bottom. An example of the calculation result is in Figure No. 1.
Shoe storage system
Consider convenient storage of hats and accessories. Place your shoes separately. See the photo for the original example. Don't forget to provide space for sports equipment, knick-knacks, long-term storage of bulky and out-of-season items.
You may be interested in: Arrangement of storage systems in the dressing room
“Try on” a built-in wardrobe for your home. You may have to cut or change something.
Incorrectly selected furniture is a big problem that is best avoided. Therefore, when choosing a location and developing a project, you should not rush. Calculate everything and only then start drawings.
Room for a girl
A girl’s bedroom can be made in Provence style. Put a light laminate on the floor, leave the ceiling white or creamy. For walls, choose wallpaper with a small floral print or paint in olive, turquoise, powdery, or dusty purple. In such a room there will be a lot of textiles and various little things: boxes, photo frames, boxes for storing things. Wooden, artificially aged furniture is suitable here.
Beige and white bedroom in neoclassical style
Black, white and brown colors in the interior of a bedroom 16 sq m
This is just an example of interior design. A room for a girl can be made in a classic style. Then there will be a calm color scheme, furniture on carved legs, paintings in gilded frames.
Black and white bedroom in pop art style
White bedroom with wooden walls
Such a room must have three zones: a place to rest and sleep, a closet or dressing room, and a chest of drawers with a mirror. To make it more comfortable, the space is divided by rectangular niches in contrasting colors.
White, beige, green and brown colors in an eco-style bedroom
Modern bedroom in Art Nouveau style
Advantages of a dressing room with an area of 4 sq. m
A 4 square meter wardrobe has many advantages:
- Excellent capacity, allowing you to place all your clothes, shoes and home textiles.
- Compactness means the dressing room does not take up much space.
- An opportunity to save space and money, since you do not need to buy and install wardrobes and chests of drawers.
- A stylish and functional solution for a modern apartment.
Designers recommend paying attention not to closets, but to small dressing rooms that can accommodate an incredible amount of things.
Installing a wardrobe will allow you to get rid of numerous closets in different rooms and make the apartment more spacious and bright.
In addition, all things will be in one place, which is convenient for maintaining order in the house.
Bedroom decor for a guy
In this case, you can choose loft, minimalism or Scandinavian style. Decorate the room in soothing colors. Brown, grass, blue, gray, beige shades are suitable. Decorative brickwork, concrete screed, wooden panels on the walls - typical features of a loft - will look good here.
Beige-gray bedroom 16 sq m
White and gray minimalist bedroom
The men's bedroom should also be divided into several zones. Not only a bed is suitable for sleeping, but also a large comfortable sofa - it will fit better into such an interior. You can put a corner cabinet - it will take up less space. Set up a workspace here as well. A desk with a computer will fit perfectly into one of the corners of the bedroom. There should be nothing superfluous in the men's bedroom, but only the most necessary things.
Black, white and beige colors in the bedroom interior
White, beige, gray and brown colors in the interior of a modern bedroom
Useful tips
Modern apartment design allows for any design fantasies. The classic option is to order or purchase a storage system with shelves, hooks, and hangers.
Space organization options:
- Install shelving. Buy boxes for things.
- Place coarse mesh on the walls of the dressing room in the bedroom. In this case, the boxes are hung on standard fasteners, moving them for greater convenience.
- Use hanging organizers. Suspensions should be built not only on the walls, but also on the ceiling.
- Place cabinets not parallel to the walls, but perpendicular. In this case, the furniture becomes a decorative element.
- Build one rod into the niches and place an old chest of drawers - the dressing room is ready. And to separate the space from the room, hang light or thick curtains.
Photos of decorators' projects will help you choose a dressing room option for your bedroom:
Bedroom for a married couple
When decorating a bedroom interior, you need to look for compromises. The design should please both her and him. Rooms for two are often decorated in eco-style, which is characterized by a predominance of all shades of green and brown. There are only natural materials here: wood, cotton, linen, metal, glass, natural stone. It will be comfortable to be in such a room after a hard day at work.
White bedroom design with photo wallpaper
Beige-brown bedroom design
The room can be decorated in a classic style, and to make it even more cozy, install a fireplace. It’s impossible to make a real one in an ordinary apartment, but an artificial one will do - candles or real logs are placed in it.
Golden, white and brown colors in the interior of a bedroom 16 sq m
Beige, white and brown colors in the bedroom
In such a bedroom you can find space for both a desk and a chest of drawers with a mirror. The main space here will be occupied by a double bed. But if there is a small child in the family, you need to find a convenient place for a crib.
Bedroom 16 sq m in white and gray tones
Gray and white bedroom in Art Nouveau style
Advantages and disadvantages of placing a dressing room in the bedroom
The practicality of such a structure as a dressing room in the bedroom cannot be denied. Not only clothes used every day are stored there, but also quite bulky items, for example, coats and fur coats, shoes for the season that has not yet arrived. There are a huge number of supporters of this design solution, and for good reason, since it has many advantages:
- The possibility of a rational arrangement of things inside, due to which the need to constantly look for the clothes that will be useful at one time or another disappears. This helps save time and effort.
- Sufficient size for use by several people at once. So, when one member of the household is looking for clothes, another may not wait, as is often the case when using a closet.
- Savings on creation, since it is possible to choose the equipment option that will be much cheaper than ordering a full-fledged wardrobe. In addition, materials for several walls will not be taken into account; you can only pay for the filling and doors.
- Saving space in other rooms of the house, for example, in the hallway, where there is usually little free space.
- Stylish bedroom interior design with a dressing room that can decorate any home or apartment.
- Possibility to arrange a place inside for ironing and fitting clothes.
There simply cannot be any disadvantages to such a solution. They appear only when the size of the storage space does not match the area of the room. It is important not only to choose the right location for such a cabinet, but also its dimensions. Otherwise, even the design of a bedroom with a dressing area of 18 square meters. m will be spoiled and the room will become cramped and uncomfortable, despite the initially sufficient space.
Bedroom color scheme and lighting
Choose a calm color scheme for the bedroom. Avoid orange, yellow, red and other irritating colors. For walls, floors, ceilings – any large surfaces – light shades of brown, grey, blue, green are suitable. The door to the bedroom should match the color of the floor and walls.
To make the interior cozy, there should be several light sources in the room. Lamps on the bedside table are a must.
Beige and white bedroom design
But you definitely need to place bright accents - without them the room will be boring and faceless. Place a turquoise blanket on the bed, decorate the window with purple or pink print curtains, pick up a few bright accessories, and the room will immediately become interesting.
White and gray bedroom in a modern style
White, beige, red and brown colors in the bedroom interior
There must be several light sources in the room. The first tier is the ceiling. If it is level, place a large chandelier. It should illuminate every corner of the room. If the ceiling is attic, use ceiling lights. When placed correctly, the room will appear taller and more spacious.
Brown, beige and white colors in the bedroom
Bedroom 16 sq m in light colors
The second tier is floor lamps. They can be placed near your desk, bed or at the entrance. There may be one or more floor lamps in a room. The main thing is that they have the same lampshades.
Also, wall sconces will fit perfectly into the bedroom - they are placed near the mirror or TV. And, of course, you need to put lamps on the bedside tables. The bedroom should be filled with warm, soft light.
Gray and white bedroom
White bedroom
Location options
The design of a dressing room 4 m photo 4 sq m should be created after the place for its creation has been chosen. Which option is most convenient and practical? The answer is not always clear-cut, since much depends on the layout and size of the home.
If your home has a separate room with or without windows, a 2x2 m storage room, or an attic, you can arrange a convenient mini dressing room here. The main thing is to make sure that it is well ventilated. Then things will be safe, and the musty smell from clothes will never bother you.
If this is not possible, you will need to fence off part of another room, allocating 4 sq. m of space for storage systems. But where is the best place to organize a dressing room? You can install a small storage system in a bedroom in a city apartment. For example, fence off a corner of a room or part of a room if it has an elongated shape. You can install a storage system in an existing niche here, on a balcony or loggia. This is a fairly logical decision, since in the morning a person needs to change from home clothes to formal clothes. The main thing is that the size of the bedroom allows this to be done.
It is convenient to have a dressing room in the hallway if it has a niche or a blind end that you can block off with your own hands. Often, apartments in houses from the Khrushchev era are distinguished by precisely this strange corridor layout. It is unlikely that it will be possible to use such space in any other useful way, but it will be quite possible to place a wardrobe here.
And in a private two-story mansion, a small dressing room can be created under the stairs to the upper floor, in the attic or veranda. Often such premises become cluttered and do not provide any benefit to their owners. At the same time, a dressing room in the attic or veranda is quite comfortable and practical.
As for the configuration features of the room for storing personal belongings, the most common options are as follows:
- along one long wall - a linear arrangement is appropriate if the dressing room is a walk-through room. It is distinguished by a high level of comfort, since all items of personal clothing always remain in sight;
- in a niche - such a solution will balance the proportions of the room, because it will take on the correct shape. If desired, wardrobe doors can be used as a decorative accent when creating an original interior for a bedroom or children's room;
- corner - corner space often remains unused, so an excellent solution would be to use it for storing things, shoes, and accessories. To expand the space of a corner room, the partition can be made not linear, but semicircular, and sliding doors can be used;
- n-shaped configuration - this option for storing things is highly comfortable and provides the opportunity to divide the space into zones for men's, children's, and children's clothing.
It is more practical to create a closed dressing room with sliding doors. For an area of 4 square meters, experts recommend using one door if the dressing room is square. It is worth installing two doors if the dressing room has an elongated shape. But everyone is free to choose the features of the location of compartments for shelves, rods, and accessories at their own discretion.
