Bedroom interior design ideas: layouts, bed sizes and spacing

Bedroom ideas often start with a headboard or a paint colour. The floor plan decides more: which wall can take the bed, and how far the door and the wardrobe doors swing into the room. The layouts below are the eight sleeping spaces in HomePrint's four portfolio design packs, each drawn to scale with the measured sizes of real retail furniture.

What should you decide before designing a bedroom?

Decide where the bed goes and how big it can be. Everything else, down to the size of the rug, follows from those two answers.

1. Find the bed wall: a solid wall with no window, long enough for the frame and, ideally, a bedside table each side.
2. Mark the door swing and the wardrobe fronts. The bed, bedside tables and any desk must stay clear of both.
3. Choose the sides you get in from. A shared bed needs a walkway on both sides. In a guest room or a child's room, one long side can go against a wall.
4. Take the frame size from the product page, not the mattress size. An upholstered frame can be 35 cm wider than its mattress.
5. Note the sockets, the AC unit, the light switch and any curtain track. The apartment measurements checklist lists what to record.

Eight bedroom layouts from four design packs

Each layout solves a different room size, and the figures come from the scaled layout plans in each pack.

Bedroom	Room on the plan	Mattress	Frame	Bed side to the wall or nearest piece	Foot of the bed
Studio sleeping zone	560 x 490 cm, the whole studio	140 x 200 cm	148 x 209 cm	192 cm and 150 cm	Low cabinet, 2 cm gap
Guest room and work space	300 x 460 cm	140 x 200 cm	148 x 209 cm	91 cm to the desk chair; 32 cm on the window side	83 cm to the end wall
Small guest bedroom	340 x 360 cm	160 x 200 cm	167 x 222 cm	75 cm and 98 cm	70 cm to the wardrobe
Child's room with a desk	340 x 380 cm	160 x 200 cm	184 x 223 cm	87 cm to the desk; 8 cm off the wall	109 cm to the door wall
Guest room with a desk	360 x 380 cm	160 x 200 cm	167 x 222 cm	104 cm to the desk; 8 cm off the wall	130 cm to the door wall
Primary bedroom	400 x 460 cm	160 x 200 cm	168 x 209 cm	116 cm and 116 cm	181 cm to the wardrobe
One-bedroom main room	450 x 540 cm	180 x 200 cm	202 x 223 cm	158 cm and 180 cm	159 cm to the wardrobe
Main bedroom suite	480 x 460 cm	180 x 200 cm	215 x 226 cm	76 cm to the vanity, 79 cm to the chest of drawers	226 cm to the window wall

A bed centred between two walkways

Centre the bed on its wall when there is room for a walkway and a bedside table on each side. In the coastal two-bedroom pack, the 400 x 460 cm primary bedroom puts a 160 x 200 cm bed opposite the built-in wardrobe, with 116 cm on each side. A narrow two-drawer chest stands at each side of the headboard, 4 cm from the frame. A four-drawer chest on the side wall stays 19 cm clear of the open door, and the foot of the bed is 181 cm from the wardrobe front.

The Scandinavian one-bedroom pack has more space. Its 450 x 540 cm bedroom takes a 180 x 200 cm bed on the long wall, facing the wardrobe, with 158 cm on the window side and 180 cm on the other. That spare floor holds a reading chair in the window corner and a full-length mirror leaning on the wall across from the window.

A small guest bedroom, about 12 by 12 feet

A room of 340 x 360 cm, slightly under 12 x 12 feet, takes a 160 x 200 cm bed. In the four-bedroom pack, the headboard goes on the only wall with no window, door or wardrobe. The 167 x 222 cm frame leaves 75 cm on the window side, 98 cm on the door side and 70 cm between the foot of the bed and the wardrobe. The open door stops 8 cm short of the bed.

A 180 x 200 cm bed in a 202 cm wide frame would leave only 48 cm on the window side, under the 60 cm minimum, which is why this room takes the smaller bed.

Bed against a wall to make room for a desk

Push one long side of the bed against a wall when the room also has to hold a desk. Two bedrooms in the four-bedroom pack do this. The bed sits 8 cm off the side wall and is reached from the other side, where a desk stands under the window. The gap from the bed to the desk is 87 cm in the 340 x 380 cm room and 104 cm in the 360 x 380 cm room.

Check the desk chair pulled out as well as tucked in. Pulled back from the desk, the chair leaves 24 cm and 41 cm beside the bed, so the route along the bed is clear only with the chair pushed in.

The coastal pack's 300 x 460 cm guest room pushes the bed towards the window instead. The headboard is on the long wall and the far side of the bed sits 32 cm from the window wall, clear of the curtains, so you get in from the other side. A 120 cm desk stands on the end wall, to one side of the foot of the bed, with 91 cm between the bed and the desk chair. The open door stops 5 cm short of the desk. Two wall reading lamps at about 130 cm, one each side of the headboard, leave the narrow window side free of a table.

What does a master bedroom design need?

A master bedroom needs room for dressing as well as sleeping. The four-bedroom pack's 480 x 460 cm main bedroom centres a 215 x 226 cm bed on the wall opposite the window. A 200 cm vanity table with a mirror above it stands on one side wall and a chest of drawers on the other, 76 cm and 79 cm from the bed. A reading chair fills the window corner, 226 cm from the foot of the bed to the window wall. A 90 cm opening with no door leads to a 320 x 200 cm walk-in wardrobe.

Both larger bedrooms give the headboard wall its own finish. The four-bedroom plan uses a clay-coloured mineral-paint panel. The one-bedroom plan uses a 370 x 290 cm linen-look peel-and-stick wallpaper panel, made to measure for the bed wall. Measure the wall on site before you order one.

A sleeping zone in a studio

In a studio, a low cabinet at the foot of the bed can mark where the bedroom ends. In the Japandi studio design pack, the 140 x 200 cm bed has its headboard on the wall opposite the window of a 560 x 490 cm room. A 179 cm low oak cabinet backs onto the foot of the bed with a 2 cm gap, and its sliding doors face the sofa. The bed keeps 192 cm on the balcony side, where a small side table stands, and 150 cm on the kitchen side. The same pack's sofa and rug spacing are in living room design ideas for Dubai apartments.

What size bed fits your bedroom?

Plan the room around the frame, because the frame is larger than the mattress. These are the frames in the four packs, with sizes from the retailers' product pages in late September and early October 2026:

Mattress	Frames in the packs	Larger than the mattress by	Rooms they went in
140 x 200 cm	148 x 209 cm, slim wooden frame	8 cm wider, 9 cm longer	300 x 460 cm guest room; studio
160 x 200 cm	168 x 209 cm wooden; 167 x 222 and 184 x 223 cm upholstered	7 to 24 cm wider, 9 to 23 cm longer	340 x 360 cm to 400 x 460 cm
180 x 200 cm	202 x 223 and 215 x 226 cm, both upholstered	22 to 35 cm wider, 23 to 26 cm longer	450 x 540 cm and 480 x 460 cm

The slim wooden frames add 8 to 9 cm each way. The upholstered frames add 22 to 26 cm to the length. For the width of the bed wall, add the frame width, a bedside table each side and a 60 cm walkway on every side you get in from. The guide to buying furniture online that fits covers checking the delivery route for the headboard and mattress as well.

How much space do you need around a bed?

Keep at least 60 cm of clear floor along every side you get in from, at the foot of the bed if you walk past it, and in front of the wardrobe. These are the gaps the packs use:

Gap	In the packs	What it allows
Walkway beside the bed	At least 60 cm; 75 to 192 cm on the sides used	Getting in and out, and making the bed
Foot of the bed to a wardrobe that faces it	70 to 181 cm	Opening the doors with room to stand
Bedside table to the bed	4 cm	A lamp and phone within reach from the pillow
Bed to a curtained window	32 cm	Curtains that open and close past the bed
Open door to the bed or the nearest piece	5 to 40 cm	A door that opens fully without hitting anything

A hinged wardrobe door needs its full width to swing open, plus space for you to stand in front of it. Measure the door leaf before you place the bed. Sliding doors need no swing space, which is why they suit a small room.

What size rug goes under a bed?

Lay the rug under the lower two thirds of the bed, so it shows on both sides and past the foot. The plans size it to the bed and then check it against the wardrobe and the door:

Bed frame width	Rug	How it sits
148 cm	133 x 195 cm	Starting 87 cm down from the head of the bed
168 cm	200 x 300 cm	Lower two thirds of the bed, stopping before the bedside chests
167 to 184 cm, rooms with fitted wardrobes	200 x 290 cm	8 to 22 cm short of the wardrobe front
202 to 215 cm	240 x 340 cm	Lower two thirds of the bed, centred on it

Check the rug against fitted wardrobes too. In the three smaller bedrooms of the four-bedroom pack, a 240 x 340 cm rug would run 40 to 50 cm under the wardrobe doors, so those rooms take a 200 x 290 cm rug.

How should you light and dress a bedroom?

Light each side of the bed separately and use blackout curtains if you sleep after sunrise. A table lamp on each bedside table is the usual choice. Where floor space is short, wall reading lamps at about 130 cm free up the floor, as in the coastal guest room. A ceiling light covers the rest of the room.

HomePrint specifies blackout main curtains in bedrooms, floor length from a ceiling track and wider than the window. A sheer layer gives daytime privacy, and the four-bedroom plan hangs the two layers on separate ceiling tracks.

Centre any art on the bed, with its bottom edge 11 to 30 cm above the top of the headboard. The packs hang two or four 30 x 40 cm frames in a row over the slim wooden headboards and one large piece over the upholstered beds: a 102 x 152 cm painting in the one-bedroom and a 120 x 120 cm shadow box in the four-bedroom.

Which style suits a bedroom?

Any style works once the bed and the walkways are right. The four packs dress their bedrooms in four different ways:

Pack	Style	Bedroom materials and colours
Studio	Japandi	A low timber bed, oatmeal textiles and a clay accent behind the sleeping zone
One bedroom	Scandinavian	A grey upholstered bed, timber bedside tables, a beige rug, a white linen-look wall panel and cream velvet curtains with sheers
Two bedroom	Coastal	White-stained wooden beds, blue-green bedding, an off-white low-pile rug and a rattan pendant
Four bedroom	Warm contemporary	Upholstered beds, mostly in beige, oak bedside tables and a clay-coloured panel behind the main bed

To compare palettes, upkeep and budget priorities side by side, see the eight interior styles HomePrint plans.