Privacy can move
The ceiling track turns around the bed, allowing the fabric to close when the room is being used for something else. Open it again and the view extends back across the sleeping corner. The change takes a pull of the curtain.
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ROOM 77 · Other
Sleeping behind a curtain
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A compact new-build studio with a screened sleeping corner
Breakfast needn’t come with a view of the duvet. A lilac curtain gives this studio a sleeping corner, leaving a round table, proper storage and daylight to organise the rest.
See the product sourcesTHE DESIGN
Living with a permanent bed in a studio is often more comfortable than folding one away every morning. The harder part is the view: pillows, bedding and a bedside can end up setting the tone for every activity. Here, a ceiling track lets lilac fabric draw around the sleeping corner. The bed remains ready; the room can move on with the day.
The position of that curtain matters. It encloses the bed and bedside ledge while leaving the dining table and tall storage outside. Each side has a window, and the floor continues beneath the fabric. There is enough visual connection for this to feel like one home, with a small, useful act of separation when wanted. Sound will still travel across it.
A simple slatted oak bed and bentwood chairs keep the furniture legible through the folds. The grey table and chocolate cupboards give the sweeter colours something steady to sit against. Light and Shadow Impression I adds a loose wash of ink beside the cupboard edge, while the little brass-finish Sakiti base and ochre velvet shade make the bedside worth uncovering.
WHY THE ROOM WORKS
Give the bed a movable boundary, and the rest of the room a life of its own.
Colour palette
- Butter yellow
- Lilac
- Chocolate
- Natural oak
- Soft grey
Both sides keep a window
The sleeping corner has a high window of its own. Screening the bed therefore leaves daylight on both sides of the curtain, rather than giving the dining area the only good light.
The table stays useful
Two chairs serve the round table without filling every edge. There is a proper surface for a meal or a laptop, and the rounded perimeter sits more gently beside the route to the bed.
Pastels need something definite
Chocolate cupboard fronts make one solid, quiet plane beside the butter-yellow wall. They give the lilac a darker neighbour, so the fabric reads as a deliberate choice rather than a sweet finishing touch.
A bedside is still a bedside
The oak ledge holds one small lamp within reach of the pillows. Keeping that light inside the curtained zone lets the table remain free for its daytime job.
WHAT TO BORROW
Place the curtain line around the bed’s use, not just its mattress. Leave room to approach it, give the fabric somewhere to gather, and keep light available on both sides.
THE PIECES BEHIND THE DESIGN
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Casa Round Dining Table - Grey/black
Living With Luxury
£224.99
Lyon Natural Beech Wood Dining Chair
Living With Luxury · 2 used in this room
£285.95
Sakiti Cast Aluminium Table Lamp
Antique Brass
Nkuku
£135.00
Batakha Velvet & Linen Lampshade
Shades · Small · Dark Ochre
Nkuku
£40.00
Light and Shadow Impression I
ArtFab · Black (5/8″ Depth) · 24"x36"
Big Wall Decor
Example option: US$165.00
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