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Advice on fitted bedrooms for student landlords

August 12, 2011
Posted in Bedroom Furniture, Fitted Bedrooms — Written by Sam

If you are the landlord of a student house then it is really important that you furnish your property with the wellbeing of your tenants in mind. You have to adapt to their needs in order to be a good landlord and to attract plenty of interest in your property year after year.

One of the things you need to pay close attention to is the ability of your property to accommodate all the things students bring with them. Modern students need plenty of storage – not just for books and study materials, but also for their clothes and their general interests and hobbies.

Students essentially move their entire lives into a single room for a year or two at a time and your property has to accommodate this. Fitted bedroom furniture is arguably the best way of making sure your property caters for the needs of your student tenants by offering loads of storage space and preserving living space.

If you provide your tenants with fitted bedrooms then you may even be able to attract a better rate for your property because it will be seen as a much better option than some of the other rental properties out there.

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Overcoming hindrances the process of furnishing an attic room

August 11, 2011
Posted in Bedroom Furniture, Fitted Bedrooms — Written by Karen

If you have loft conversion in your new home, then you’ll want to start thinking about how to turn it into a lovely bedroom straight away. Loft bedrooms are often the most impressive in the house because they have such wonderful character and they usually have really nice views from the top of the house.

You may already have identified a couple of issues regarding furnishing your loft bedroom – namely the sloping ceilings and the often narrow staircase leading up to the room. These features contribute to the room’s appeal but they also prevent you from moving regular items of furniture up into the room.

This is why so many loft bedrooms become fitted bedrooms. Fitted bedroom furniture is built in the room itself once it has been designed to your specs, so there’s no logistical problem related to getting the components up the stairs in the first place.

Moreover, a professional will be able to measure the sloping ceilings and draw up plans for all sorts of items of furniture that will simply slot into place. This is definitely the neatest and most space-economical way of decorating an attic room.

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Parts of the bedroom that have great potential for storage space

August 10, 2011
Posted in Bedroom Furniture, Fitted Bedrooms — Written by Jermaine

There are always parts of the bedroom that you don’t really get the most out of in terms of space and storage. However, you can start to change this fact by installing a bit of fitted bedroom furniture designed to boost your options in these areas.

Otherwise, you can take a keener approach to making use of empty spaces. Think of the area underneath your bed. If you don’t use that area for storage then you are actually wasting a rather large portion of space. If you are decorating a room from scratch then it’s wise to pick a bed that leaves plenty of room underneath for storage boxes and other items that ease the pressure on units around the room.

As far as fitted bedroom furniture is concerned, you ought to look at installing fitted wardrobes that stretch right up to the ceiling. This is the best way to ensure that you can fit more storage into areas that are often overlooked. A wardrobe that finishes half way up the wall wastes a significant area of potential storage space directly above it.

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Make a feature wall out of a practical and spacious wardrobe

August 9, 2011
Posted in Bedroom Furniture — Written by Sam

One of the most attractive trends in the bedroom in recent years is to have a feature wall. Feature walls are particularly arresting because they stand out so much. They also tend to bring out the rest of the room in a way that is very pleasing on the eye.

The key characteristics of a feature wall rest on the fact that it is a different shade (usually darker) than the other walls around the room. It may also feature a different pattern that sets it apart. Having said all this, it is not always easy to make plans to have a feature wall.

For a start, you may not have a free wall that is unoccupied by items of furniture and is therefore on display itself. However, you can actually kill two birds with one stone by using fitted wardrobes instead or ordinary bits of furniture.

Fitted wardrobes can be made to occupy an entire wall from floor to ceiling and they can be finished in all sorts of very attractive ways. Filling a wall with a fitted wardrobe with a really eye-catching finish is like making a feature wall out of a practical item of furniture.

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The team effort that goes into remodelling fitted bedrooms

August 8, 2011
Posted in Bedroom Furniture, Fitted Bedrooms — Written by Jermaine

When you have one of your bedrooms remodelled so that it features some really state of the art fitted furniture, you need to kick off the process by getting in touch with a team of fitters. The design of your room will ultimately decide how the finished product will look so this stage obviously deserves a healthy portion of attention.

Remodelling the room ought to be a team effort. You will bring all your ideas to the table because your specifications are important so the room fulfils its function in the long term. However, your team of furniture designers will also bring their considerable expertise and skills to the project so that they can accommodate your preferences, but also so that they can make suggestions on how to improve the plans where possible.

You’ll sit down at this stage and discuss possible layouts of the room given permanent features, dimensions and preferences. You’ll also discuss matters relating to the structures of the items of fitted bedroom furniture you want to introduce and you’ll talk about fittings and finishes. Once you’ve settled all of these matters, your furniture can be built.

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Fitted furniture in bedrooms shared by two or more children

Posted in Bedroom Furniture, Fitted Bedrooms — Written by Karen

If you have young children sharing a bedroom in your house then you will be no stranger to storage issues. Kids bring with them all sorts of bits and bobs that need storing away and if you have two or more in one room, the problems multiply very quickly.

Toys, clothes, bedding, towels and a whole host of other general accessories are among the things your children’s bedroom needs to find a home for. This is not easy even if you invest in items of furniture that are specifically designed to help you manage the unique requirements of a children’s bedroom.

Instead of using free standing furniture in this kind of setup, it is often beneficial to invest in fitted bedroom furniture. Fitted furniture preserves floor space – very important in children’s bedroom – at the same time as given your storage facilities a welcome boost.

If you have furniture built into the room, making use of spaces high up in the room and in tight corners, then you are much more likely to able to fit all of these previously-mentioned items into the room in a tidy fashion.

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Managing your fitted wardrobes for seasonal items of clothing

August 5, 2011
Posted in Bedroom Furniture, Fitted Bedrooms — Written by Jermaine

Storage space is really important in your bedroom, especially if you have a different wardrobe for every season. You need enough space to keep all of your clothes for all year round, even if you don’t need certain things to hand at certain moments.

You don’t necessarily want your winter clothes to hand during the summer months, but you still need a place where you can keep them so that your room is neat and tidy and you can easily swap from your summer wardrobe to your winter wardrobe when temperature begin to drop and the climate generally deteriorates towards the autumn.

This is why fitted wardrobes are such a good idea. If you have a fitted wardrobe then you are more likely to find plenty of storage space for all of these items at the same time, which means you don’t have to pack things away under the bed, in the loft or in generally hard to reach places just because they aren’t in season at any given time.

Fitted wardrobes make full use of the space in your room so that they are able to accommodate more without actually occupying too much floor space themselves.

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What to expect from your fitter furniture specialists from start to finish (Part 2)

August 4, 2011
Posted in Bedroom Furniture, Fitted Bedrooms — Written by Sam

The last article dealt with what you can expect from your fitted furniture specialists before work actually begins. It’s only right that the design stage is paid proper attention because it makes all stages thereafter much smoother and clearer.

In the immediate aftermath of your approval of the finalised plans for the design of your fitted bedroom, you and your team of experts will come to a decision regarding a date when work can take place. It’s often the case that a member of the team will be able to come round and complete the job in a single visit, although this obviously depends on the size of the job.

When you’ve settled on a date, your furniture fitters will go away and manufacture all the components of your pieces of furniture so that everything is ready for work to begin. They will bring all of these components with them on the day and they will build the furniture directly into the frame of the room.

When everything is built, your fitters will tidy up after themselves so that the room is actually ready to be used straight away and you can start moving things in.

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What to expect from your fitted furniture specialists from start to finish (Part 1)

August 3, 2011
Posted in Bedroom Furniture, Fitted Bedrooms — Written by Sam

If you’re planning on getting some fitted furniture for one of the bedrooms in your house, you’ll probably want to know what to expect from the process after contacting a team of furniture specialists. Of course, it all kicks off with the design of the furniture for your specific space.

The design stage is all about getting to grips with the space available in your room. You need to get across exactly the type of storage you’re looking for, both inside and out. You also need to point out the likely layout of the room so that your designers can take this on board in terms of their final blueprints.

They’ll probably point out a few options that you could choose to make things even more convenient or space savvy. Sliding wardrobe doors are a good example of an extra space-saving measure.

Finally, you’ll need to settle on finishes. It is likely that your chosen team of specialists will have a range of fixtures and finishes to pick from and then it is just a matter of selecting something appropriate to your décor and giving your final approval for the work to go ahead.

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Using fitted furniture for areas under the stairs

August 2, 2011
Posted in Office furniture — Written by Karen

There are some spaces in the home that it is hard to make the most of. Look at the area underneath the stairs as an example. The space under the stairs is often overlooked in terms of its storage potential, but you could transform it into a very useful part of the house.

Of course, the main problem with the area under the stairs is that it is restricted by a slightly unfortunate shape. The slope of the ceiling in this area can be problematic and it’s not unusual for further irregularities to make it difficult to unleash the potential of the space.

However, using fitted furniture allows you to overcome any obstacles of this kind. For example, fitted wardrobes fit neatly under the stairs and they offer you a fantastic place to keep coats, hats, scarves, gloves and other accessories you’d rather keep downstairs, but which you still want out of sight in a nice clean storage space.

Alternatively, you could install fitted home office furniture to allow you to manage things like paperwork and important documents in one set of drawers and cupboards that you can mark as a place for home essentials.

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