Winston Churchill was once asked “Mr. Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life?”Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.” If you view things similarly to Winston Churchill, sitting rooms in bedrooms beg the question – why have a sitting room when lying down is optimal? I love that Winston Churchill anecdote, but for many activities I prefer sitting… reading, surfing my iPad, thinking to name a few. If you have a full house with kids, a sitting area in your master bedroom can be a quiet and private sanctuary. In my view, it’s a wonderful luxury… and the best part you don’t need too much space or all that big of a budget to make it happen. This article suggest seating options for a master bedroom. Table of ContentSeating Options at the Foot of Your Bed1. Detached daybedsDedicated Reading AreaSmall Living Rooms in the Master SuiteDesk Area in Your Master SuiteBed ChairsBalcony off the BedroomRelated Galleries You May Enjoy:
This is my favorite bedroom seating option when space is limited. All you need to do is place a loveseat at then end of the bed and voila, you have a small sitting area. Shop this look and these loveseats If you prefer something less expensive and simpler, a simple bench (with or without cushioned seat) offers a decent sitting option – although it’s ideally suited as a sitting option when getting dressed. Ottomans are popular and serve many more purposes than merely a footrest. they can serve as coffee tables and of course seating. You can opt for one long rectangle ottoman placed at the foot of your bed or go for two smaller ottoman (round or square) placed at the foot of your bed. Shop this lool amd these ottomans (plus many more) You place one or two sitting chairs at the foot of your bed. Shop this look and these chairs (plus many more) Place a chaise lounge in place of a bench. You can also place a chaise lounge elsewhere in the room.
Shop this loo and these chaise lounges (plus many more) Instead of one long bench, you can place 2 mini benches side-by-side at the foot of your bed. A wonderful design feature is a daybed built into the bay of a window. It’s a great use of space and looks fabulous. You can buy a daybed and place it against the wall. Add some pillows and you’ve created a wonderful sitting area without taking up much space. By “dedicated reading area” I’m referring to one or two reading chairs (or armchairs) angled toward one another. If space permits, add a small table between the chairs for your mini private lounge area. If space permits (and it does in many of today’s larger master suite designs), you can place a full scale living room in the bedroom – a couple of small sofas, a small L-shaped sectional and/or a couple of reading chairs. Of course a coffee table will round out the space. This turns your master suite into a luxury hotel suite making spending time your bedroom a mini-get-away.
You may love or hate this idea – but if space permits, you can easily add a desk and chair in your bedroom. Today’s computer age means we spend a great deal of our social lives online so having a comfortable place to get online in your bedroom isn’t necessarily a bad idea. Also, if your bedroom is the only quiet place in your home, having a work space there may be the best place for you. We have one and it’s fabulous. It makes reading, using a tablet and watching television easy… and relieves neck pressure from lying on propped up pillows. A bed chair is a bedroom accessory that makes sitting up in bed easy and comfortable. We have a bed lounger like this – read our review here (after having it for 5 years). If you’re one of the fortunate few to have a private balcony off your master bedroom (or any bedroom), your seating options are many… but of course restricted to the size of your balcony. 50 Professionally Designed Master Bedrooms |
58 Luxury Master Bedrooms | 43 Spacious Master Bedroom Designs aqua, beach, blue, caribbean, chair, coast, couple, cozumel, destination, dock, enjoy, enjoyment, escape, feet, horizontal, island, kids, landscape, laying, legs, lounge, mexico, ocean, paradise, peaceful, pier, play, relax, relaxation, resort, sand, sandy, scene, scenic, serene, setting, sunny, sunshine, swim, their, toes, tourism, tourists, travel, tropical, vacation, view, warm, watching, water No thanks, this deal is just too good for me. I get this question all the time in interviews: What is the #1 mistake that people make when designing (or shopping for) their home? After doing so many makeovers over the last 5 years of real people, I’ve found some consistent solid mistakes to avoid. So, I started writing a post about it and that post was like 15 pages long. I figured that obviously this could be a series. I’m not sure there is a #1 mistake, but buying cheap generic furniture is up there. So often I come into a house and the people have good taste, but they already had a sofa that we had to work with, and that sofa was bad.
They didn’t want to replace it because it wasn’t that old and they didn’t mind it. I’ve had to break the news to them over and over, that with this sofa they will never get the room they want. Sure, we have worked with said sofa, and done the best we could, but trust me that a big bad sofa in your room is a bummer (and I’ve never even really blogged about those projects).But just saying ‘don’t buy cheap generic furniture’ is kinda a dick thing to say. I’m not saying buy expensive sofas (at all) nor am I suggesting to buy super stylized sofas. No one loves a simple sofa more than me because they are so easy to style. But there are some sofas that transcend bad in a way that is hard to come back from; bad fabric, bad shape, weird curved legs or winged arms, multiple fabrics and just what I like to all ‘try-hard’ details. Those are the details that are screaming at you, saying ‘HEY!!! LOOK AT ALL MY TUFTS AND NAILHEADS AND CONTRASTING SEAMS, AND SHINY FABRIC, ETC’.
Its like putting a hideous, yellow, 80’s bad prom dress on your screaming pet hyena. You are already embarrassed that you have a hyena as a pet, so you don’t really need to attract more attention to it, right?Here are sofa shapes/styles that you should avoid. If you need more examples simply google image search ‘couch’. It ain’t pretty out there. Some of the things on that list could be fine, by the way. I really like this winged sofa, this winged sofa and I don’t mind this vintage two-toned sofa, so if your sofa fits into any of those categories and now you are crying, know that I’m speaking in generalities and it still depends on the sofa (and if you actually own one of these, I’m sorry!!). Also some of those could be fine if the fabric was different, or if the legs were updated (see me backtracking?? I feel bad already).I started to think about why people buy generic/bad sofas and I think its two different reasons: cost and availability. These are sofas that are generally inexpensive, and don’t have a long lead time – you can get them in under a week, not the usual 8- 10 weeks that even Pottery Barn and Room and Board have.
They tend to be from those ‘furniture liquidation’ or ‘Dave’s Furniture’ stores that are in every town. You can actually go in and sit on them, make the decision together, get it within a week, etc. I can’t really solve that last problem – those stores just need to start carrying better furniture.But, until stores across America start selling better furniture, I wanted to present to you some other super inexpensive options that you can buy online and have shipped to you. These sofas are all under $600. That, my friends, is crazy. 1. Target Grey Convertable Sofa | 2. Roscoe Grey Sofa | 3. Zuo White Sofa | 4. Everett Sofa Grey | 5. UO Grey Convertable Sofa |6. Brown Leather Sofa | 7. Navy Convertable Sofa | 8. Grey Tufted Sofa | 9. Retro Chestnut Sofa | 10. Bradley Grey Linen | 11. Tufted White Sofa | 12. Light Blue Sofa | 13. Sienna Futon Grey | 14. Black Leather CouchYou can’t argue with those prices.Have I personally sat on them? Can I vouch for their quality, comfort and the conditions of where/how they were produced?
But are they such better options than your average $500 sofa? Plus, they are all available for purchase online with no lead time (besides delivery, obviously).For those of you who can spend a bit more ($600 – $1000) I’d like to introduce you to some SURPRISINGLY good inexpensive sofas. Some are from fine retailers that you know (Cb2, West Elm, Target, Urban Outfitters, etc) and some are from surprising retailers that happen to have pretty good inexpensive sofas (Lamps Plus, for instance). 1.Grey and Wood Tufted Sofa | 2. Grey Haze Sofa| 3. Cherie Teal Sofa | 4. Larson Grey Sofa | 5. Tufted Tan Velvet Sofa | 6. Pink Rue Sofa | 7. Albion Sofa | 8. Rachel Slipcover Cream | 9. Grey Wool Tufted | 10. Tufted Highback Blue | 11. Black Leather Sofa | 12. Grey Sofa Bed | 13. Tufted Grey Chesterfield | 14. Midcentury Modern Grey and Wood |Of course my best recommendation for buying inexpensive but better quality furniture is to go the used/vintage route (Craigslist, KrrbLA, flea market) plus it’s better for the earth.
A $399 sofa does provoke the question ‘How is that possible???‘ and I’m really scared of the answer.But you know what always irritates me is when rich pretentious fashion editors advise us that we should simply save and ‘invest’ in that perfect $600 blazer or $1200 pair of boots that will last for 6 generations, Its like obviously, that is a good idea, if you have that kinda cash lying around in your walk-in LisaVanderpump closet. I remember being so broke in my 20’s that every time I read that in a magazine I would scream, YOU ARE RICH AND YOU PROBABLY GOT THOSE BEAUTIFUL ‘INVESTMENT’ CHLOE BOOTS FOR FREE!!!!! For us normal people when its Friday afternoon and you have fun plans to go out that night and you have $450 in your bank account, a trip to Forever 21 to buy a fun top whose hem will probably rip out within weeks, just makes you so happy. Same with your home – when you don’t have an extra $2 -$4k to drop on that awesome sofa, sometimes just having a new, simple, inexpensive one will make you so much happier when you walk through that door.