retroglamour
stranger
Reged: 20/06/2009
Posts: 1
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Hi everyone
This is kind of a longshot (especially without pictures, but my camera is broken as we have wooden floors and I dropped it on the floor!!!)
I've just moved to a new house, and my room is quite small. I have a single bed on one wall which is next to the hall, with the door on the same wall. The wall to the left of that wall has a big window. The wall opposite the wall where my bed is has a bit of wall that sticks out and then a fireplace (Victorian house) which I love and want to keep - although I wont use it. In the "alcoves" or whatever they're called, I have a dressing table in the one next to my window, and the last wall has my Ikea Pax wardrobe with sliding doors. The wardrobe is 200cm long and I am now having problems shutting my door - it gets half way across and then hits the wardrobe! The wardrobe can't go any closer to the wall. I could put it on the wall where my bed currently is, but then I'd have to put my bed where the wardrobe currently is. The problem is: the bed would need to be around 160cms (my old wardrobe was this long and there were no problems closing the door) ! I'm 5'7" which I think is around 170cms!
It's been suggested that I could just hang my door differently - but then I'd have to keep it shut 24-7 as it would open out onto the landing, and no one would be able to get past!
Any ideas what I could do?
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vicky_cb
enthusiast
Reged: 13/11/2007
Posts: 318
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Hi retroglamour and welcome! I hate it when you get something new and it doesn't quite fit! The only thing I can think of is putting the bed in the alcove where the dressing table is if it will fit - so that the bed is under the window, the wardrobe where the bed used to be and the dressing table where the wardrobe was... hope this helps?
One way to play around with the furniture is to make scale pieces of paper and draw out your room to scale and move them around to see where they fit - making sure you have measured how much space the door needs to open!
Good luck with it!
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KitzieG
enthusiast
Reged: 05/02/2009
Posts: 276
Loc: Home sweet home xxx
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What about a bi-fold door? These often work well where space is tight...
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Rhineblaze
journeyman
Reged: 21/06/2009
Posts: 73
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Measuring up your bedroom and drawing it to scale on paper should be a first step. Do put in the constraints (radiator, doors), windows (hight of the window sill might be a good idea to put down too). And then cut out the furniture. A good scale is 1:20 (one meter equals 5 cm). Try to leave at least 50-60cm space to walk between furniture. Good luck!
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Bex76
stranger
Reged: 14/07/2009
Posts: 8
Loc: North London
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How about a sliding door? They often work well in difficult spaces.
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garibaldi8
stranger
Reged: 16/06/2008
Posts: 5
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Instead of hanging your door so that it opens into the corridor, could you just hang it so that the hinges are on the other side of the door (so they are in the corner of the room, not on the side nearest the bed)? This is much easier to do - having the door open into the corridor would mean making alterations to the door frame. This could mean that you could open your door wide enough to get into the room, although not fully open.
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