One room had to do the work of two. This is the largest of the three secondary bedrooms, planned for an older child or a long staying relative, which in practice means a bedroom that also has to serve as a sitting room and a study.
The extra width it holds over its neighbours is the only reason that was possible, and almost all of it went into one wall. That wall carries the television on a fluted white panel with a backlit bookshelf built into the same elevation.
Nothing else about the room is generous. It has one window, one door and a single power wall, so every fixed item had to be positioned before anything was ordered. Of the three bedrooms in the 2,000 sq ft Bashundhara R/A Block-L apartment project, this is the only one that could absorb a full media wall without losing the floor.
Putting a Screen and a Bookshelf on One Elevation
A television and a bookcase in the same bedroom normally end up as two unrelated objects, a black rectangle on one wall and a shelf unit stranded on another. Here they share a single fluted white panel spanning the wall, with the screen recessed into a flat section and the shelving cut into the fluting beside it. Nothing projects past the panel face. Shelf lighting is warm and deliberately low output, sized to make book spines legible rather than to contribute to the light level of the room, and it runs on its own switch so it can be the only thing left on in the evening. The same fluted panel idea carries the television in the luxury living room design in Bashundhara R/A Block-L at a much larger scale.
Finding a Desk Position With No Spare Wall Left
There was no free wall for a study desk, so the desk went into the corner where the television wall meets the window and was built in rather than bought. That position brings daylight across the surface from the side and keeps the desk clear of the walking route between the door and the bed.
An oval back chair sits at it, and the chair shape matters more here than it usually would. A high backed office chair would have blocked the fluted panel from the bed and turned the room into an office with a bed in the corner, so the seating gave way rather than the wall. Brown curtains cover the window wall, matched to the pair in the bedroom next door.
Getting Pattern Into a Room That Could Not Take Much
Against the beige fluted headboard, a narrow mosaic strip runs vertically with a gold sconce mounted above it. That strip is about the width of a hand and it is the entire quantity of pattern in the room. A full mosaic wall would have become the third element competing for attention in a bedroom that already carries a media wall and a desk. At hand width it behaves as a detail instead, and it picks up light differently depending on where you stand, which a flat feature wall does not. The other decorative gesture in this apartment, the sunflower sculpture in the luxury dining room design in Bashundhara R/A Block-L, earns its place the same way, by being the only one.
Five Doors of Storage Without Giving Up Floor
Storage for someone who is not moving out soon meant five doors rather than four. The wardrobe is white with gold handles and fluted base panels, run tight to the wall so it takes no floor beyond its own depth, and the fluting on those base panels repeats the headboard and the television wall. Carrying one texture across three separate pieces of joinery is what stops a room holding this much cabinetry from looking as though it was furnished in stages. The repetition costs nothing extra once the profile is already being cut, which is a saving that only exists when the whole room is drawn at once, as it was in the modular kitchen design in Bashundhara R/A Block-L. A second mosaic panel is set into the wardrobe run so the two ends of the room answer each other.
One Metal Finish, Locked at Schedule Stage
Mixed metal finishes are the most common avoidable fault in a Dhaka bedroom, usually because handles get chosen with the joinery, sconces with the electrician and the fan with whatever the shop had on the shelf. Everything metal in this room is brushed gold: the wardrobe pulls, the wall sconce, the gold ring sconce beside the dressing unit, the round mirror frame and the ceiling fan. All of it went onto one schedule and was ordered together, which is a standing rule across our interior design service in Bashundhara. The round mirror hangs over textured white drawer fronts with a dark stool beneath, and that texture is the only other surface treatment allowed into the room.
Lessons This Room Hands to a Similar Plan
The lesson from a bedroom carrying a screen, a desk and full storage is that every wall has to be drawn as an elevation before anything is cut, including the walls that look like they are doing nothing. Two of the decisions holding this room together, the chair back height and the mosaic width, came out of looking at a drawn elevation rather than a plan. Neither would have been visible on a floor plan and both would have been expensive to discover on site. Elevations are standard on our projects rather than a paid extra, and the process itself is described under bedroom interior design in Dhaka. Put beside the two smaller bedrooms it sits between, this room shows exactly what the extra width was spent on.
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