There are a few key bits of insider information you'll need when it comes to how to style a bed in front of a window. This is not an easy layout to work with, and one that should be approached with caution, in case you end up blocking the light, making it difficult to reach the window treatments or worse still, end up lying in a draft. Happily, designers have been working around unfortunate window placements for years, and have honed their skills for making a bed in front of a window look not just like a necessity, but intentional.
'The goal is to enhance the bed and integrate the windows into the overall scheme, rather than making it appear as a last resort,' says interior designer and founder of House Nine Jojo Barr. And this is how to get this tricky layout right. It's a clever optical illusion, but sometimes using a bed to hide part of the window can actually create the sense that there is more window than there is.
As seen here in this project by Dallas-based Amy's Interiors, the high headboard and equally high curtain rail – much higher than the actual window – immediately trick the eye into thinking the windows are massive. It's a brave approach, but works here due the room being dual aspect, and there still being plenty of light flooding in from the side of the bed. 'The bed was placed in front of the window out of necessity because this Park Cities home was built in the 1920s,' says the studio founder .
'The bedroom is a downstairs bedroom which is an asset. This.
