The bedroom that leaves the day outside

THE DESIGN

Bedrooms accumulate the evidence of a day surprisingly quickly: the jumper that can be worn again, the book that is half finished, the spare bedding with nowhere convenient to live. This room begins by finding places for those things. Its calm comes from a few useful pieces, supported by colours and textures that are pleasant to wake up beside.

The white Aspire ottoman frame combines a slatted headboard with a solid, panelled lower outline. The selected super king size takes a 180 by 200cm mattress, so the imagined room gives it proper space on both sides and at the foot. Hidden storage beneath the mattress platform keeps extra bedding close. The mattress itself is a separate purchase.

Two Iya bedside tables introduce reclaimed timber at hand height. Their open shelves can take a book without using the whole top, and the Thottam wall lamps keep their bases off the tables entirely. The lamps plug into sockets, so their leads are part of the arrangement. They are off in the daylight image.

The broad Denver chest adds eight drawers without a busy pattern of handles. Against a pale wall its simple front is less insistent than the timber beside the bed. A sage Peplu quilt supplies the smaller pattern: quiet lines that reward a closer look. Plain bedding, the fitted carpet and the window treatment complete the styling and are not included with the furniture selections.

There is enough softness here to make the bed the place you want to reach. There is also enough storage to keep a clear patch beside it. That combination matters more at the end of a long day than another perfectly positioned cushion.