Jeremiah Brent Just Suggested This Surprising Bed Placement, and People Are Shocked
Similar to working with small spaces, large spaces can present certain design challenges. A large room can actually feel a bit too spacious and empty depending on where the furniture is placed. Designer and Queer Eye star Jeremiah Brent addressed the topic of large bedrooms in a recent Q&A with Architectural Digest, making the case for an unusual bed placement.
“Every rule you’ve been taught is bulls***,” Brent said in a clip from the Q&A. “The truth is, design is supposed to be personal at its core. That’s it. How can you live beautifully? How can you live authentically?”
One of the design recommendations that Brent argues can be tossed out the window is the one that suggests all furniture, especially your bed, should be placed against the wall. In fact, he says that a bed totally belongs in the middle of a room. (Floating your bed is actually something that Apartment Therapy has encouraged in the past, too.)
Jeremiah Brent Says Your Bed Should Be in the Middle of Your Bedroom
“We have been conditioned to think that you need to push everything against the walls to make it feel big and expansive, but sometimes it’s the complete opposite,” Brent said in the Q&A.
“I have done this before, where I actually put the bed in the center of the room, which sounds really divisive,” he continued. “But by creating an upholstered headboard with the bed in front of it, you’ve got the bedroom area, you can have, behind it, a seating area where you have the TV, so the TV is not the center point of the room.”
People in the comments agree that floating the bed could make a huge difference. “I had a client who had their bed in the middle of the room with an oversized headboard,” one commenter wrote. “Behind the headboard was the closet, which was actually open to the room with beautiful mirrored antique closet doors. The designer who did it, did a fantastic job.”
“I like the idea of placing the bed in the center of the room to break up the space,” another person said, with someone else adding, “Bed not against a wall! You just blew my mind!”
With the bed in the middle of the room, surrounded by other pieces of furniture, you’ve instantly created a space that feels somehow larger and cozier because you can have several furniture pieces floating around it.
“Have some fun, take some chances, and float the bed in the center of the room and see what happens,” Brent encouraged. Having your bed in the center of your bedroom might just change the game for the better!