Before and After: 6 Bedrooms That Offer Function and Style
Before: The upstairs master bedroom in this Spanish Revival home had light peach walls and light wood flooring.
Personalized touch: The toddler bed at the bed’s foot is the designated sleeping spot for Bowie, the homeowners’ dog.
Size: 314 square feet (29 square meters)
Designer: Christopher Fein of Forward Design | Architecture
Before: The owners of this master bedroom like to read in bed. But because their room was painted dark and their bed backed up to a window, they chose not to have a headboard, which would have blocked the natural light. Therefore, there was nothing to lean against while reading.
Personal touch: To solve the couple’s reading comfort issues, designer Christopher Fein came up with an adjustable headboard. When they want to read, the pair can lift up the 6-inch-deep headboard to create a backrest, which blocks the window. When they are done reading, they can flip the headboard back down.
Designer: Guggenheim Architecture + Design Studio
Before: This upstairs master bedroom was actually too big for the homeowners, who wanted to reconfigure the space on their second floor to make room for a baby nursery.
Before: The master bedroom in this beach home had a simple light blue-and-white color scheme.
Personal touch: A patchwork of warm-hued fabrics makes for assumptuous, one-of-a-kind bed covering.
Designer: Kelly Mack
Before: The second bedroom in the same home as No. 4 had a simple brown color scheme, with windows and French doors that brought in lots of light but also exposed the room to the neighboring home.
Personal touch: Mack backed the two smaller pieces of art with leopard-print wallpaper samples to give them more verve.
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Architect: Russell Taylor Architects
Before: This 1798 property was originally an aristocratic home, but after World War II, it was acquired by the government and became a hospital. When the current owners purchased it, the home was full of medical equipment and had linoleum on the floors. This top-floor room was still outfitted as a messy office from the building’s hospital days.
Erin Carlyle October 2, 2018
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