You deserve to relax in a luxurious main bedroom suite. Your personal retreat within your home should be designed just for you and your needs. It’s a suite of rooms that should be as beautiful as they are functional. We spend more time in our bedrooms than in any other rooms in our houses, because we sleep there. You use these rooms each and everyday, why wouldn’t you splurge on them? Investing in your primary bedroom suite is an investment in yourself.
Establish Your Program Needs for You Primary Bedroom Suite
Everyone has different things they want and like in their most personal spaces. Lily Allen and David Harbour famously don’t have windows in their main bedroom! While most of us want windows, you might prefer a well lit space that opens up to the sky if you’re an early riser and a more intimate room that feels cozy and comfortable if you’re a night owl. Everyone’s needs are unique, so any primary bedroom suite design starts with the program.
Bedroom Suites: More Than Just a Place to Sleep
These days a luxurious primary suite, is far more than just a room to sleep in. Primary suites usually incorporate a bathroom and a closet, but they are increasingly tacking on additional functions: laundry rooms, gyms, storage rooms, his & hers bathrooms, sitting rooms, private libraries, rooms for… other activities. *wink*
So as you start thinking about what your want your main bedroom suite to be, decide which functions are most important to you.
Multi-functional Bedrooms: Space vs Activities
Now, that you’ve determined the functions, it’s good to address whether those those activities need their own unique room within the primary suite or if they can be combined with others into one space. Remember, if you are building or adding onto your home, every additional square foot adds cost and sprawling homes can easily turn gaudy if the architecture isn’t carefully thought through.
Mr. Big from Sex and the City infamously kept his Peloton bike in a transition space between his closet and bathroom. Incorporating laundry machines directly in a closet saves space and time moving clothes from one room to the next. If you want a sitting space, does a chair in the corner of the bedroom suffice, or do you need a private media room complete with a sofa and tv?
Storage & Space Needs
The final aspect of designing your dream bedroom suite, is assessing your storage and space needs. At Laurel Design Collective, we recommend creating a spreadsheet to analyze this. You can find a whole break down on analyzing your closet storage needs in our blog post on designing a dream closet.
Generally, assessing your storage and space needs means answer if this, then what questions. If you want a gym, then what type of equipment do you want in it? Inputting this into a google sheets document can help concisely document your needs to speak with your partner, pass on to your design team, and get an overall idea of your scope.
Elegance & Luxury: Creating Your Dream Bedroom Suite
A dream bedroom isn’t just a bunch of rooms accessed off one another, though a good layout is key, especially in a larger suite. Creating a luxurious primary bedroom suite is all about the materials. When we dive into material selection at Laurel Design Collective, we call it the touchy-feely stage, because that’s a key part of it. We experience so much of our space through feel, so if we’re choosing your tile and carpet, we want you to see it in person so you can touch and feel it.
Finding the Perfect Floor Plan
A well designed floor plan is essential for any space, but especially a luxurious home. So often newly constructed homes sacrifice design, adding on rooms here and there to create sprawling monstrosities, that may fit every function the owner required, but certainly don’t do it elegantly. Working closely with professionals is the best way to ensure a smart and elegant floor plan.
Sumptuous Design: Materials Matter
Quartzite, marble, granite, soapstone, quartz. When you work with Laurel Design Collective, we carefully review the differences between various natural and man-made surfaces to determine the best one for your space. Then we pair it with wallpaper, rugs or carpets, paints, lighting, hardware, and everything else that we need to fully design your space.
The materials, fixtures, and hardware create the overall sumptuous look of your primary suite and are just as essential as the functionality. That’s why we say our design work is where function meets beauty.
Opulent Bedroom Suites: Splurging on Spaces You’ll Use Every Day
You are going to use your bedroom suite longer and more often then any other room in your home. Why wouldn’t you splurge on it? Investing in your main bedroom suite is an investment in yourself and your ability to relax and recharge.
Ultimately, a Luxurious Bedroom is an Investment in You
And we think you deserve it! Through careful analysis of your storage, space, and activity needs you can determine exactly what you need for your primary suite. Working with professionals to create an efficient, smart floor plan will help simplify the suite and ensure every square foot is used to the fullest extent. Then selecting luxurious materials, fixtures, and finishes will create the space of your dreams!
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