14 Small Bedroom Ideas That Are Big on Style

Designer Mike Moser made the most of the primary bedroom of the house he shares with husband Tyler Thomas by floating the bed. By doing so, it opens up the perimeter of the room for furniture or open wall space.

«When designing this small bedroom, we opted to include a wall-to-wall rug to ensure the space felt bigger,» designer Meg Lonergan says. «Additionally, draping the windows across the full width of the room helped enhance the overarching sense of space.»

Drape the bed with a canopy which can do double duty as a room partition. Designer and event planner extraordinaire Rebecca Gardner covered the bed in her downtown Manhattan apartment with a pink linen and tassel trim.

Designer Peter Dunham gave the primary bedroom of his Paris pied-a-terre a cozy, enveloping feeling by covering the walls and curtains in a Hollywood at Home fabric.

Architect and designer Sally Mackereth worked with the round structure of a lighthouse she renovated into a home on the coast of England. Here, custom built in bunk beds curve with the shape of the room.

Work with slanted ceilings by covering the walls and ceiling in the same pattern, as did ELLE DECOR A-List designer Nick Olsen in this humble Hamptons home. It helps extends the eye upwards.

Using roman shades over curtains helps keep a small space from looking cluttered. ELLE DECOR A-List designer Sheila Bridges paired roman shades in the same print as the wallcovering of a guest bedroom of a Vermont project.

In designer Augusta Hoffman’s first New York apartment, the walls are covered in a tweed Phillip Jeffries fabric to add depth and texture to the primary bedroom.

In a New York apartment by ELLE DECOR A-List designer Hendricks Churchill, the low bed in the primary bedroom emphasizes the ceiling hight of the room.

In the children’s room of a New York apartment by Churchill, a built-in surround with a playful scalloped edge provides optimal space in the room and utilizes spaces high on the walls for storage.

In a Brooklyn townhouse designed by Georgia Tapert-Howe a reading nook features clever storage above and below the bed optimizing the surrounding floor space.

And of course, there’s the oldest trick in the book: go neutral. «Light, airy hues on the walls and soft, natural textures help reflect light and expand the room visually,» says Blair Moore of Moore House Design.