Two arched padded headboards, upholstered in soft pink, stand side by side against the mural wall. They are identical in width, identical in height, and set at exactly the same distance from the window. Neither child in this shared room has the better bed, and that is a planning decision rather than something furniture can correct later.
It is the most decorated room in the 2,000 sq ft Bashundhara R/A Block-M apartment project, and deliberately so, since it is the one room whose occupants will genuinely notice. Colour, curve and pattern all appear here at a level the rest of the apartment refuses.
Shared children’s rooms fail for the same three reasons everywhere. There is never enough storage, there is one good desk and one bad one, and one child ends up in the better bed position. All three were dealt with at planning stage here rather than negotiated afterwards with furniture.
The Twin Headboards and the Ledge Between Them
The arches are cut from a single template so the two curves match exactly, then padded and covered in a washable cotton weave over a firm foam, because children sit up against a headboard to read in a way adults rarely do. The covers come off, fixed with a hidden zip along the bottom rail, so a spilled drink is a laundry problem rather than a reupholstery problem.
Between the beds runs a shared ledge rather than two separate nightstands, which saves close to a foot of wall in a room that had none to lose. Sockets and a USB point sit at ledge height on both sides so neither child has to run a cable across the other one’s bed. Reading lights are wall mounted above each pillow on separate switches for the same reason. A shared room asks more of bedroom interior design in Dhaka than any other room in a family apartment, because the plan has to be fair before it is allowed to be attractive.
The Hummingbird Mural and Its Second Panel
Behind the beds the wall carries a hummingbird and floral mural in soft tones, drawn as illustration rather than as cartoon. Murals for children are usually pitched several years too young and are being argued about by the time the child turns nine, so the drawing style here was chosen to age upward instead of downward. A bird print continues onto the study wall at the other end, which pulls the two halves of the room into one composition. Both panels are printed on a wipeable substrate. The modern master bedroom design in Bashundhara R/A Block-M keeps its walls almost entirely plain by comparison, which is how the flat balances out.
The Pink and White Study Run
The study unit runs in pink and white with internally lit shelves above the worktop. It is wide enough for two children to work at the same time without elbows meeting, which is the single most useful thing you can build into a shared bedroom. Arched backlit display shelves finish one end of the run, repeating the curve of the headboards so the two ends of the room share a geometry.
The pink is a low chroma paint sprayed on the drawer fronts only, with the carcass and the worktop left white, so the colour can be changed later by respraying six panels instead of rebuilding a unit. Each half of the desk has its own switched task circuit, so one child can work late while the other sleeps, and the shelf lighting above runs independently of both. The worktop is a single length with no joint in the middle, which matters in a shared desk because a seam becomes a border.
The Backlit Glass Wardrobe Doors
Glass fronted wardrobe sections are lit from inside, with solid doors carrying the bulk storage below them. Backlit glass in a children’s room is a calculated bet, since it rewards a tidy shelf and punishes a messy one in full view, so the glass is confined to the upper display zone and everything at floor level is hidden behind solid fronts. The lit niche detail is the same one used in the modern living room design in Bashundhara R/A Block-M, run at a lower output here. Hinges are soft close throughout, which in a room shared by two children is less about refinement than about noise.
The Pink Dresser and Its Mirrored Top
A pink dressing unit with a mirrored top sits against the third wall under a pair of abstract framed prints. The mirror is hung at a child’s eye level rather than an adult’s, which sounds too obvious to mention and is got wrong constantly, usually because the elevation was drawn for a photograph. Corners on the unit are radiused rather than square. A tall wardrobe closes the run beside it, taking the seasonal clothing and the luggage that nobody needs to reach in an ordinary week. Its top box is a separate section with its own doors, so the seldom used half can be opened with a step ladder without disturbing anything below. Storage planned to this level of detail is a large part of what our interior design service in Bashundhara actually delivers.
How the Joinery Was Built
All of it came out of a fabrication workshop in Dhaka that we have worked with for years. Carcasses are cut and edged there, the arched profiles are routed against a template so every curve matches, and the fronts are sprayed in a booth off site where the dust can be controlled, which is something no occupied apartment allows. Units arrive in sections and are assembled in the room, partly because a service lift in a building like this will not take a two metre wardrobe in one piece. The same workshop built the crockery run in the modern dining room design in Bashundhara R/A Block-M, and using one maker across the flat is why the whites match from room to room.
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