No matter how you choose to decorate your bedroom, sometimes you need to make a few changes to ensure that both you and your partner are comfortable within the space. You have to share the area equally and still manage to have your own little zones – how’s that possible when you only have the dimensions of one bedroom with which to work? Using the tips and tricks set out below, you may just be able to figure it out and ensure you’re comfortable as a couple when you hit the hay.
Buy an extension lead
If you have a plug socket next to your bedside table and your partner doesn’t, it’s time to either invest in getting one fitted on the other side as well, or simply buy an extension lead that both of you can use.
You can conceal the lead behind the headboard; buy 10-foot-long charging cables for all the items you want to use when in bed (phone, Apple watch, etc), and then use cable tidies to ensure the wires aren’t a tangled mess. You can get ten times the function out of a set-up like this without compromising on style, and you won’t be having any arguments over whose turn it is to have their phone charged!
Invest in a bespoke wardrobe
A bespoke wardrobe will fit any wall you design it for, meaning you can have literal wall to wall closet space for the two of you. Then, separate the wardrobe into two halves and only use your side for your clothes, shoes, and accessories. This’ll save you both a lot of space and keep issues about clothing to a minimum when you’re getting ready in the mornings.
Get as big a bed as you can
If the bed is big, you’re going to have enough space on both sides for the two of you to spread out at the same time. No more bumping into each other as you turn over, or only having enough duvet to cover one of you at once. Similarly, if you or your partner tend to get hot at night, neither of you will have to put up with the radiator lying in bed next to you!
Instead, seeing as you surfed through a catalogue of emperor beds and fitted one against the wall, you can now sleep peacefully and soundly without having to be apart. It may be a bit pricier than you’d like to buy such a bed, but it’ll save you a lot of frustration in the early hours! You get a good amount of bed to yourself and thus a very restful night’s sleep.
Install dimmer switches
If you like to stay up on your phone, laptop or reading a book, but your partner likes to fall asleep as soon as possible, a dimmer switch is a relationship saver. You can still have the lights on when the other is trying to fall asleep, but they’ll be low and non-invasive.
This means no one has their slumber interrupted, and no one needs to try and fall asleep staring up at the ceiling when they’d rather be getting stuck into a murder mystery novel. And dimmer switches are a lot easier to install than you may think!
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Forget artwork, put up photos (or make something together)
If you have a different taste in style to your partner, or one of you loves art and the other hates it, why not compromise and put up some beloved photos instead? Or if you have a spare evening when you’re both free, create something together that you can hang up?
The latter option can be a lot of fun, even if you’re not artistic and don’t know the right end of a paint brush! But if you like the photo idea, get a big collage frame and split it between the two of you. One side has all your memories, the other has theirs, or you can mix them and place them one after the other. Then you’ll have the perfect item to go on that empty wall.
If you want to have an equally comfortable bedroom as a couple, design with these kinds of principles in mind. It shouldn’t simply look good – it needs to be functional enough for the both of you to use and enjoy as well.