Often, the presence of a niche in the bedroom is designed to give it a special cosiness and a unique look. This space is used by designers to create interesting solutions that help to save useful space, as well as interesting placement of the bed in the bedroom with the use of elements of the headboard decor. Such solutions are relevant for one-room apartments and non-standard layout housing.
The possibilities for creating a niche under the bed are endless. Before deciding on the location and design option of an alcove, figure out what this kind of solution will bring to your premises and whether it will solve the issue of functionality.
Design Options
Based on the main criteria, designers distinguish the following, ways to design a niche in the bedroom:
- a small niche under the closet;
- recess for the head of the bed.
Choose an option based on your needs and evaluating whether such a design will fit an interior made in a certain style. After all, re-planning, it will not work out annually.
Niche under the closet
Designers single out two basic schemes for using niche space to set up a bed that looks like a closet. Stationary placement involves the permanent location of the piece of furniture, and the second - the ability to hide the bed if necessary.
The first option is suitable for rooms with an average or large area of the bedroom. It is convenient in that the head of the bed is a complex of lockers and boxes where you can store everything you need. Unlike the first - the second option will prove to be an excellent choice for rooms limited by free space, where every square centimeter is too expensive to simply waste it. After the night, the structure is easy to remove, hiding in the depths of the cabinet using a special mechanism. This, in turn, frees up enough bedroom space.
Headboard recess
In this case, a small part of the bed (from the side of the head) is deepened into a niche in the bedroom. With a sufficient width of the recess, on the sides of the bed you can mount shelves or put small bedside tables.
The convenience of the design lies in the fact that it is relatively easy to assemble, and it is easy to assemble such equipment of a niche even without the help of masters, fitting it to the required size.
In the children's bedroom it’s convenient to put a bunk bed in a niche, which allows you to save up to two times the area. With this design, it is easy to come up with an original design that helps to increase the space of the room.
If the niche is opposite the bed, you can arrange it so that the plasma is placed in the center, and the cabinets and shelves surrounding it are suitable for storing clothes and souvenirs.
If the niche in the bedroom is too deep and the bed fits completely, you can zonely divide the space by making a simple curtain or not limited to such ordinary decisions and build a partition from drywall.
Do you need a niche in the bedroom?
Before you start arranging a niche, familiarize yourself with all the pros and cons of this kind of design and evaluate the situation great. Think about whether you need such a design at all and whether this kind of redevelopment will spoil the general atmosphere in the room.
Niche Benefits
Among the advantages are the following characteristics, which are worth paying attention to. It is these properties that make it possible to evaluate the construction of the alcove. The benefits of niches include:
- Visual expansion of space. Having deepened the bed, which takes up quite a lot of space in the room, you can effectively unload the atmosphere in the room and make it not so cluttered.
- The design of the bedroom with a niche will allow you to create a zonal separation, when the room also has a working corner. In addition, in such a niche you can organize a small dressing room.
- The ability to use convenient cabinets or shelves in a niche. Empty structures, for example, drywall, make it easy to navigate the installation of simple cabinets or shelves for storing things, thereby saving usable space in the room.
- The arrangement in the bedroom of a practical and multifunctional zone, effectively complementing the interior, will help to recreate a unique atmosphere. The design of the bedroom is easy to diversify due to variations in size and shape.
Some disadvantages
Despite the advantages of this kind of planning elements are still characterized by some disadvantages:
- If alcove is an integral part of the layout of the apartment, then you may have to take a bed to order, which means that you have to wait until it is completed. Plus, accurately calculate the dimensions of the bed under a niche in the wall in the bedroom.
- Often in the alcove they place stationary structures, which implies the rejection of a possible rearrangement, if only you chose an alternative to a bed with a lifting mechanism or the organization of a wardrobe in a niche.
- With maximum deepening of the bed, it is worth taking care of ventilation. In such a secluded corner, separated by the main part of the room, air circulation is reduced. If you do not take care of ventilation, then in the winter season in such a niche it will not be very comfortable to sleep.
After weighing all the advantages and disadvantages of the niche closet in the bedroom and deciding that your apartment is not so interesting without an alcove, make the final decision. After all, redevelopment is not an easy thing, and it just won’t work out without a major overhaul in the room, which is laborious and will require additional funds and time.
Features of the choice of color scheme
Before deciding on what color of decoration to choose for an alcove, and whether it will coincide with the general background of the bedroom or speaking in contrast, decide on the interior design in the room and the color scheme. In this choice, focus on the same design, in harmony with the general environment of the room. You can use another, completely opposite option, highlighting the niche zone with a contrasting color, which looks special in the interior of a children's room. This technique looks interesting if the alcove is located opposite the bed. And the TV in the niche in the bedroom in this case looks like never before by the way.
Location and Lighting
An artificially created niche, as a rule, is located against a wall without a window, with the condition that daylight will not be directly directed to a berth located in a niche and will not interfere with daytime rest.
The degree of illumination of an alcove depends on how deep it is. Here, point soft light is appropriate (only 3-5 lighting fixtures), which allows to achieve lighting of the necessary part of the room.
See how the niche of drywall in the bedroom looks in the photo below.
This is a great solution, especially for rooms with a small area. With the help of an alcove, you can easily diversify the design of the bedroom, making it interesting and boring. Indeed, the bedroom should have peace, tranquility, relaxation. It is here that you spend a lot of time, because it is so important that the owner of the bedroom, whether it is an adult or a child, feel as comfortable as possible.
Pay your attention to the option of replanning the bedroom in the house or apartment, taking into account the addition of the interior to the niche, and you will definitely not regret the decision. After all, before the uncomfortable alcove only interfered, but today it has become a practical zone, using it, you can profitably beat the space, using every centimeter of space to good use.