alcove design advice for kids bedroom
Hello everyone,
I have a design dilemma with the alcove pictured in the attached photo. This alcove is in my son's bedroom and it's the place where I want to store his clothes and other belongings. A fitted wardrobe taking all the space of the alcove is out of question because too expensive. So my idea is to have some shelves installed and create a tidy open storage space, with the teak chest of drawers at the bottom. Do you think that would look nice? Any other suggestion? The problem that I see with the shelving are the side walls: they are unequal in lenght. The left wall is 42 cm deep, the right one is 11 cm deep.
It means that one corner of the shelves will stick out. Will it look strange? Is it a hazard? (can someone hurt their head with the corner of the shelves sticking out on the right?) I was thinking that the shelf could be rounded on the right side but wouldn't it look strange?
Anyway, my idea is to have some kind of twin slot shelving system with lots of big baskets as storage and a clothes rail on the lower shelf. I'll keep the mid-century chest of drawers at the bottom. What do you all think?
The space
The idea I have in mind
Bigger view of the space (before painting)
Inspiration: Twin slot shelving spray painted in gold + plywood shelves (credit Alice in Scandiland)
Inspiration 2: rounded shelf on the right...
Here is the kind of baskets I would use as storage on the shelves (made of natural fibres)
Comments (12)
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4 years ago
Sonia
4 years agoI think a flat pack wardrobe with doors will be a neat and budget friendly solution as Helen suggests. Open shelves full of stuff rarely look tidy. Here’s images of the PAX system, but it can be made up in any configuration you want.
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Lisa
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4 years agoHi Kids Rule Interiors, thank you very much for your reply! Yes, I am planning to store all his clothes in this alcove (which are not that many when you try to be a minimalist :D)... In the teak chest of drawers, there are two drawers, where I would put his clothes for the current season. Above it, there would be a shelf with a hanging rail. I was thinking that the fact that the shelf is modular would help to place it higher as my child's clothes get bigger. But by the time his clothes get really big, I might come up a new wardrobe solution! I looked into Svalnas in the past but it's not the right dimensions for my alcove :( the closest I could find is a twin slot shelving system...
The other thing I'm considering is an ikea billy bookcase turned into a wardrobe like the one below, but I hesitate because in this case, I cannot put anything on display! Thank you so much for insisting on the fact that the corners of the shelves have to be safe in some way.
Lisa
4 years agoHi Sue,
Thank you so much for your reply.A mixture of open and closed shelving would indeed be the best compromise! My boy is 3.5 years old, so yes, not very tidy! Were you thinking of something like this?
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