9 Ideas to Decorate & Fill Empty Bedroom Corners

One of the go-to ways for filling an empty bedroom corner is to add seating.

This all depends on the size of your room and whether there are any built-in wardrobes. But when mapping out what furniture you’re going to place where, it’s worth looking at whether there’s an alternative, feasible layout that means you can add in a seat in. Think as big and small as you desire and your room allows.

Bedroom corner ideas aren’t all a case of physical things that occupy floorspace. Don’t underestimate the effect that wall and window treatments can have on making a corner feel fuller.

For bedrooms where your luxury bed dominates most of the width of the wall, you can extend the headboard beyond the frame, taking it to the edges of the wall it’s against. The result is an edgy, design-led aesthetic that entertains your eye so much that the corner asks for nothing else.

Anything more would feel cluttered and cumbersome. This is a look that doesn’t translate as well when the edges of the bed are far away from the two corners of the room–the headboard becomes far too elongated and out of proportion.

The perfect bedroom corner furniture solution for smaller spaces. Matching bedside tables that slot either side of the bed are an expected sight in a bedroom, making them a natural filler. In a room short on square meterage though, you expect to see less furniture.

Chosen bedroom curtains rather than shutters or a blind? Instead of a pole, hark back to tradition with a curtain track, but instead of a flouncy pelmet to cover it, have it recessed into the ceiling and take the track into the corner of your bedroom, even if your window ends sooner.

Similar to the extended headboard idea, supersizing makes more of a statement, but with a window treatment, it adds texture into the very crease of your bedroom corner.

Curtains on a pole, even with the slimmest of finials, always means there’s a bit of a gap, but the concealed track approach allows the snuggest fit of all.

Taking the focus back to somewhere to sit down, this next idea is linked to how you might use bedroom corner seating. Having an armchair is one thing, but designing the seat to be as cosy and comforting as can be is another. Cue the reading nook. 1508 London’s bedroom corner seat shows how you can achieve bedroom glamour and sophistication along with curl-up appeal in one swoop. By upholstering this modern chaise longue in a neutral fabric and pairing it with a deep blue cushion, 1508 have shown just how the experts tie a room together.

Bedside tables aren’t the only bedroom corner tables to think about. Installing a vanity table (or even a writing desk) reveals a whole new part to your bedroom–a dressing area. Lots of furniture in a room can quickly become overfilled and overcrowded, but too little furniture and the environment feels sparse.

Adding extra pieces like a dressing table and stool pad it out and mean you make the most of the available floor space. A dressing table corner unit and pouffe will also alter your bedroom’s atmosphere, embodying serenity and femininity.

Floor lamps and sitting rooms go hand in hand, but floor lamps and bedrooms are less commonplace.

Conversations in bedroom lighting fixate on bedside lamps, overhead pendants or perhaps wall sconces. But a floor lamp will take pride of place in an empty bedroom corner, bringing a warm glow to what could be an otherwise dark and sombre spot.

One of the main interior design principles but one that most people quote time and time again is to use mirrors as a tool to bounce and amplify the level of light in a room.

There’s no reason why this philosophy can’t apply to a bright bedroom corner.

Keep things simple by introducing a freestanding mirror or a floor one that can be angled and leant across the corner.

In bedrooms where the window runs into the corner, or corners, of the room, and partially blocking them with furniture is a no-go, use the window ledges as opportunities for decoration.