Yea or Nay: Beds Under Windows..

As a compulsive re-arranger (that's another post!)

this weekend I shuffled around our master bedroom..

and the bed landed under the window.

this is a room in progress, so please do not judge me by those awful lamps :)
I haven't found the exact right ones yet and so we are living with
old-shades-plunked-on-too-small-not-as-old lamps..
I have learned the hard way to wait and buy the perfect lamp or I will just be replacing them yet again..

The bedside table are the right height for our enormous bed,
but are going to be receiving a bit of a makeover in the coming weeks.
On a side note, we just added the orange sheets.. which is what started this rearranging madness..
aren't they a little bit of happy?
 I have thoroughly enjoyed waking up to them the past couple of mornings..

But I digress.. beds under windows - it seems I'm not alone



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I've never placed a bed under a window before, or recommended it to anyone for their own space.

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there's the draftiness issue..
although I've been known to crack our window open in the dead of winter for lack of oxygen

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and the majority of the textiles then live in the same spot -

so no curtains, or the curtains must complement the bed..

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then my husbands cousin seriously informed us this weekend placing your bed under a window lets bits
of your soul escape while you are sleeping, which seems rather unpleasant  ;)

of course that goes along with the Feng Shui principles as well, which advocate placing your bed solidly along the back wall to the right of the doorway..

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but with this current layout my bedroom feels enormous!

AND we are facing the fireplace,
with my soon-to-be-recovered chippendale sofa tucked the end of the bed,
 both of which I love..

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Have you placed a bed under a window?

What are your thoughts on this?

til next time..