The Hidden Flat-Pack Furniture Secrets of the Bedroom

Bartholomew Hearn
3 min readMay 11, 2016

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The bedroom is an island of calmness, quiet and seclusion. It’s also a place for the hundreds of thousands little conveniences, which turn sleeping, waking up and preparation for the day in a satisfying ritual. With flat-pack ready to assemble furniture fittings, you can turn your bedroom into a mystery item-vanishing place.

A bedroom’s purpose doesn’t exhaust with simply being a place for sleeping. It welcomes under its wing a place for reading, too, for dressing up, for rest, and, sometimes, although I recommend you to never do it, for work.

All that shouldn’t take from the air in the room, especially when you don’t have the opportunity to inhabit a palace.

It’s important to pick the flat-pack furniture items which offer different solutions for storage, while, at the same time, making sure the room’s not overcrowded.

A bed with drawers will provide space for the winter and for the summer covers, for any additional pillows and for all those clothes which you don’t wear every day. IKEA’s got some ideas, but I suppose you’re either one of those people that gets their instructions from the first look, or gets stranded in some seemingly written in Elvish tongue gibberish. Flat-pack RTA furnishings are a piece of cake for the experienced furniture assembly service providers, to which I came to realise the hard way after I completely failed with installing the bed I bought last month.

There’s an unprecedented potential in the bed head to collect items. You can put the books you’re reading these days, your children’s drawings, and even a pretty knotted basket for the underwear. You could try and find a proper small flat pack bookshelf, but if you can’t fit it, take advantage of the unused space of the bed table.

Another clever way to hide the many items you have, is a bed lift mechanism. A whole new (under)world will appear in front of you after you assemble it. There you can find a place for the seasonal clothes, the bedsheets and anything else that comes to your mind. Finally, just cover with the mattress on top and the chaos mysteriously disappears.

Here’s my last tip before I leave you look through some photos with different IKEA suggestions for the small bedroom: pick white colours and shiny surfaces. They reflect the light and make the room seem bigger.

The most important thing is to create the illusion of emptiness.
Space-savvy flat-pack furniture solutions.
On the scale of 1 to 100, how favourite will this bed be for you?
The bed table shouldn’t only have the sole purpose of supporting your head.
An elevating mattress or a drawer bed? Opportunities are plenty.
The whiter, the lighter!

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Bartholomew Hearn

Born as a freelancer. Curious. Thinker. Sometimes a doer.