For decades, the bedroom’s role was relatively simple: people slept in it, got up, and left. It was one of the least conscious rooms in the house (because, of course, you were asleep in it) and one of the least attended to (because, of course, it’s where you slept). The least flashy room in the house, the room with the least attention – it was given one job, and that was it.
Then 2020 happened. Everything changed.
The bedroom got not one but many new jobs. This hybrid bedroom – the site of a video call, a thinking space, a decompressing space – was never designed for this combination of activities. It had one job, and now it had several.
Over the course of those long, dark pandemic mornings, it slowly dawned on people that the 11 hours spent in the bedroom that day were not just spent there. Unsettled by the video call that showed a colleague’s bedroom, they realised that the colleague’s bedroom was calm and more considered than one with piles of dirty laundry three feet from the bed. They realised that mixing together activities where we sleep, and activities where we work, wasn’t such a good idea.
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With the rise in importance of the bedroom, its priority list has changed. Bedrooms are now being considered more carefully, both aesthetically and functionally. Not just do bedrooms have to look nice, they also have to support. Is this bedroom suitable for a morning of calls, or do I need to mentally leave work at the foot of the bed? Do I need this room to work for meetings at 2 pm and also function as a space where I’m winding down at 10 pm? How might the lighting in this room serve two very different needs?
These questions simply weren’t being asked in 2019.
The result.
The bedroom, once the afterthought room, is no longer an afterthought. It is, for many homeowners, the most considered space in the house. Its brief is complex, and its needs are layered. It asks a lot of design decisions, and those decisions are very personal.
It’s been given many jobs when it used to have one. The bedrooms we renovate today are being renovated with these changes very much in mind.
