Rest and Intimacy

Bedroom

A third of your life happens in this room. It is worth designing for.

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Why this space matters

Sleep quality shapes health, mood, patience, and how the rest of the house feels to live in. The bedroom is also the one space that protects privacy and intimacy, needs that show up nowhere else in the plan and get designed for almost nowhere else in the house.

What most plans do with it

Bedrooms are commonly sized by furniture, will the bed fit, will the dressers fit, and located by what is left after the public rooms are placed. Sound, light control, and the path from bed to bathroom at 2am rarely enter the conversation.

What changes when it is designed consciously

Placement away from noise, with a buffer between the bedroom and the busiest parts of the house. Light you can control completely at night and welcome fully in the morning. Air that moves.

Storage that keeps the room clear, because a room that reads as calm is a room that helps you sleep. And, where a couple shares it, room for two people to have different routines without one waking the other.

The conversation

A few of the questions we ask

  1. What do you see yourself doing in your ideal bedroom? Do you spend awake time reading, watching something, talking with your partner, what time of day, and for how long?
  2. What have you had or seen elsewhere that you wanted? What have you always wanted?
  3. What has bothered you about bedrooms you have experienced?
  4. Considering everything, which design elements matter most to you?

These are a handful. The fuller work, including the questions about your values, your relationships, and the life you are building, is what we do together in the Lifestyle Design Brief™.

Talor is a practical, heart-centered architect with real integrity. He listens so well and has a deep understanding of the importance of social and personal needs.

Patty Holton

From Licensed Architect Talor Stewart, author of the #1 bestseller Conscious Home Design.

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