Watch 3 Interior Designers Transform The Same Loft Bedroom | Space Savers

[Narrator] These three interior designers

have been given a photograph

of a young professional’s bedroom.

They have free reign to design it

in any way they please.

My name is Darren Jett

and my design style is cinematic, seductive,

and narrative driven.

I’m Noz and my design style is eclectic,

colorful, and joyful.

My name’s Xavier and my design style

is narrative, layered and artful.

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My first impressions of the space

are that we have a lot to work with.

The ceilings are incredibly high.

I can see that they’re actually

even visible architectural beams,

which makes me very happy.

Pretty nice room actually.

It’s a big for a bedroom,

but it’s a little bit plain.

It just needs a little bit of charm added in.

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This room feels kind of special

in an old world kind of way,

and so I think I’m gonna lean into that

and really try to make it feel

like this very special old world space.

My vision for the space overall

is I wanna take full advantage

of how large this room is to create a separate

sleeping area and a separate living

or lounge area.

What I wanted to achieve was a space

that was completely calming, absolutely serene.

I am a young professional myself.

Whenever I have a long, tiring day,

I just want to go home

and just sort of disconnect.

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So I actually love the hardwood floors here

and I don’t wanna lose them completely,

but I do want there to be some

cozy stuff underfoot.

I would love to install a whole platform

across the entire length of the room.

Where the bed is gonna go,

that will get warm hardwood floor,

and then down in the lounge area we’ll do carpet.

It’s a checkerboard that actually waves

almost like a checker flag,

and that’s just enough subtle weirdoness

that it makes it not exactly repetitive.

What I wanna do here is actually

carpet the room.

I think it’s perfect for a bedroom.

It’s very soft, it’s very luxurious.

I love the sort of green color right here.

So what I want to do

is create a raised platform made

outta the same carpet in the middle

of the room as a feature.

So the floors in this room

are actually pretty nice,

but I wanna make a space

that feels really soft, really luxurious.

So I’m gonna replace it with carpeting.

I’m gonna do this really beautiful, plush,

creamy off-white carpeting,

which is from Nordic Knots.

No shoes, please.

I’m gonna layer on nice vintage Afghan rug,

which brings in a little bit more pattern,

but doesn’t overwhelm the space.

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Right now, the walls

are just a plain painted white.

That is not going to get us the effect

of this serene environment.

We’re gonna paint the room a little bit

of a moodier color,

but instead of just doing regular paint,

I want to do a Roman Clay.

And it just gives an overall aged effect

that I think is very satisfying

when you are decompressing after a long day.

Additionally, the wall on the left is slanted.

I think that’s a very cool feature,

and what I want to do is to make sense

of why it stops at sort of waist height

and create a datum line

that wraps the entire room.

I would love to have this wainscoting down here,

be actually a high polished metal,

maybe more of like a mirror polish,

something just to give some reflection

and some interest to this room.

For the walls,

I want to make something really beautiful

that feels a little transportive.

It feels to me like we’re up at the top

of a building like that window is looking

out onto some vista.

I’m thinking of doing a beautiful mural in here

that basically depicts in a very illustrative,

painterly way, the treetops

of some surrounding parkland.

Now the walls, this is the largest surface

in the room.

I wanna do a graph-paper grid,

and I’m gonna do it all over.

I’m gonna put it in the dormer window.

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What I wanna start to do is think

about the closet that’s incredibly important

for our bedroom.

We have this alcove over here that I would love

to take advantage of, and I think the best

thing here would be to do some sort

of closet system from Ikea.

I actually have this closet

in my own apartment right now,

and the beauty is that over time,

if you have more hanging or more drawers,

you can easily just pop them off

and add something else in its place.

This room doesn’t have any storage,

so we really need to add that in.

On the wall on the right side,

I’m gonna use that nook

to create a built-in wardrobe system.

And then I’m gonna continue the wood paneling

across that wall so that it feels a little bit

more like an entire millwork piece

and it kind of ties it

all together architecturally.

And then around the perimeter of the room,

I’m gonna do a built-in bookshelf.

And so there’s gonna be two shelves

of bookshelves and a row of drawers on top.

Storage is a big, big part of my focus here.

And in the recess I’m going to put closets.

Actually, Ikea has great units that come

in lots of different widths so you can sort

of tailor to the best size,

how wide or how many units.

And then any space left over,

I wanna do little shelves.

And my plan for the bed is also to orient

it this way.

So your head is here and your feet are over here.

And that does mean of course,

that there’s the issue of am I gonna sit

up from a nightmare

and bonk my head on the ceiling?

So the way that I’m planning on resolving

that is actually pushing the bed

into the loft a little bit more,

and then filling that whole space in

with a big squishy headboard.

I love foam headboards.

And now that I have the bed up

on a raised platform,

well, I certainly don’t want anyone to roll off

and flop into the sofa,

so we should have some kind of a barrier here.

I actually think that a very

open wood trellis would be incredible.

In front of the window,

I thought it would be really nice

to do a little like built-in day bed

and then one of my favorite pieces,

which is the Eileen Gray side table.

For the bed,

I found this lovely upholstered bed from Ikea.

It’s really soft, kind of neutral.

I think it fits into this space really perfectly

because I’ve got that wood behind it

and I wanted something a little bit lighter

in color and softer to go in front of that.

Love these two little very utilitarian

USM Haller bedside tables,

their chrome and enameled metal.

So at the end of the bed,

I put this classic campaign style bench.

These were used in military campaigns

in the 18th, 19th century.

They always have a nice patina.

Down in the loft area,

I want to continue the built-in energy

that we have in the closet.

So that same lovely wood finish

from the closet doors I’m gonna have also

on the stairs.

And because the stairs are already custom built,

I love the idea of drafting off of that

with a big built-in media console

that has drawers in it.

And then that’s a perfect place for you

to have your TV on this wall right here.

Over by the window, I would love to do a desk.

Whenever we have a room with a slanted window,

you can’t walk under this space.

So it’s the perfect place to have something

like a desk.

With a space this big,

let each element be large and unapologetic.

It could be the entire length of that wall.

So now that I know where my TV is going,

the perfect and most logical place

for seating to go is across from it.

I found these wild sofas from Ikea

that actually start as almost

like short little sofas and then pull out

and extend into a really unusual shape

that you can actually use as like an extra bed.

There’s even an option to have storage

inside of the sofa.

So for the coffee tables,

there’s an artist named Kelsie Rudolph,

whose work I absolutely adore.

And she made these two side tables

that have a very interesting

almost Minecraft sort of geometry about it.

And this is where I’m gonna go Vintage.

Vintage was a really cool way for me

to find collectible unique pieces

that I wasn’t gonna see in all

of my friends’ apartments.

So this is a beautiful Dutch mid-century

little wooden table.

I’m gonna use these two lovely

like Ikea display cabinets,

which are very simple,

almost utilitarian glass cabinet.

But I also think these display cases

are really nice

because it feels a little more contemporary,

a little newer, a little cleaner,

and then against that wood,

which feels a little bit more antique,

a little bit more vintage.

And then a Corbusier chair on the right side,

which kind of frames out the rest of this room.

So the focal point of the bedroom

will be the bed, and we’re going to have it

on the raised plinth.

We could do some really cool

side tables for Ikea.

I wanted to design a headboard

that had multifunction.

Around the bed area, it acts as a headboard.

On the other side though by the closet,

it also acts as a screening area.

It really takes the idea of this larger bedroom,

but it starts to subdivide the spaces

in a very intelligent way.

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I’ve recently been into chandeliers

that you can kind of drape all over the place.

So there’s actually a beautiful collaboration

of lighting that is a combination

of like woven rope

and beautiful hand-blown glass

from Brightbound with artist Wendy Chen.

It’s time for the lighting

and I want the idea of indirect lighting

to be paramount.

The first thing we’re going to do

is within that wainscoting, what I want to do is

to have an LED embedded within that

that goes across the space.

It would be on its own dimming switch.

It could also be one of these LEDs

that actually can change color temperatures

and colors even if you want

for a completely different look.

For a bedroom lighting scheme,

I like to keep the lighting mostly kind

of on the lower side at eye level,

something really kind of moody and atmospheric.

I used matching set of sconces and floral lamps,

both in a polished nickel finish

with a really nice green glass lampshade,

which I actually found

on a nautical supply store.

But I think it’s a very classic thing

and I think it brings in the perfect little

pop of color to this room.

For the overhead lighting,

I love this Ikea piece that actually sort

of looks like I took a silk scarf

and then pinched it up from the middle.

And so I like that it has a very sort

of organic flowing shape and looks

very sort of milky and soft when it’s turned on.

I love the idea of there also being

like little table lamps in the lounge area

and in the bed area.

I actually found these from Ikea,

and I think they’re so cute.

They’re these perfect battery

operated little units.

I think they’re so sweet.

I love also that the shade tips.

By the closet,

we’re definitely gonna wanna have a light

right by that area.

And there’s the Ikea light right here

off to the right.

I think every desk needs a lamp.

And this lamp is actually more of an art piece

by this company called Casal-Ferreira

based in Santo Domingo in the DR.

Additionally, I wanna have two floor lamps

that flank the bed.

They would be tucked right

behind the side tables.

There are these Ikea lamps that are actually sort

of 1970s inspired.

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So now let’s decorate.

As for bedding, I love the idea of continuing

to repeat this gridded situation.

So I’m choosing this gingham linen bedding

from Piglet in Bed.

And then for pillows,

the little blue pillow is just

like a chic, fun, cozy.

And then the other two pillows are actually

by CH Herrero,

these incredible interior designers

who I admire so much.

And this wild spiky pillow,

I love her.

It is vintage Japanese kimono material.

I love the idea of doing a beautiful vase,

quite simple, but still has

some playful elements such

as the Sophie Lou Jacobsen vase

that’s on the bedside table.

Place some poppies in there,

have a little bit of color.

And I love the idea of a sort of bonsai tree.

I think that’s very cool.

Something that has been trained and formed

but still retains its natural element.

To sort of finish the space off

with some decoration,

we have some nice antiquities,

some statues, some busts here and there,

some other textures.

And then I’ve hung a painting of a tennis court

by a friend of mine, Andie Dinkin.

And I think that that also brings

in this beautiful kind of green,

mysterious energy to the space.

I’ve always loved this wild planter.

It’s like inspired by ancient aqueducts in Rome,

I think by Virginia Sin.

Pothos are so easy to grow.

And because you’ve only got this one window,

why don’t we put like Pothos vines over here,

and then I’m just gonna

like sneak a couple of pieces

of beautiful vintage ceramics over here

on the media console.

A little blue horse is always welcome.

This one in particular is a vintage mid-century

Italian piece from Bitossi.

As young professionals should be doing,

get involved in the art scene.

If you love design

and you love decorating your home,

it’s such a natural thing to just go

to local art galleries, local art fairs,

anywhere that someone is displaying art.

Other young artists are also

starting their careers,

which means that you can buy art at most prices.

So these pieces that I have in mind

are by an artist named Maya Fuji.

I adore what she does

and one of the things that’s wild

is that how she depicts shiny hair

in her girls in her artwork,

almost feels like a wavy checkerboard.

What would a project that I do

be without drapes?

It’s quite actually difficult

to do drapery on a slanted wall,

but my favorite thing to do is

to have a very simple rod at the top

and have a little rod at the bottom,

and then just let a beautiful linen drape hang

very, very softly, very elegantly.

I think because we have a dormer window,

that window treatment inside of

that dormer window could actually be blinds

or something that comes down

and blacks out the room if you want.

But this right here would be something

that would be more linen, more transparent.

What I want to do is to also take

that same drapery and hang it above the bed.

I love the idea of heightening your sense

of drama and your sense of space.

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I think if I were a young professional

in this bedroom, I would feel inspired.

I feel like this is a room

that would feel really relaxing

and restful to me.

It’s a place that I’d wanna spend time reading in

and that would be really functional for me.

I’m really excited by the final result here.

I think that it achieves all of the things

that I was trying to do from the beginning,

which is to essentially create a retreat

for this young professional,

someone who is working a lot,

who needs to recharge their batteries,

who needs to have a space

that is a bit still and a bit more quiet.

My final thoughts on this space are, I love it.

I did put a little bit of baby early twenties me

into this, well, aspirational me.

I wanted this to be a space

that would feel like such a great restorative

and generative place for a young person to be.

Feels like something

that perhaps a younger version

of someone like me would look at

and be like, Oh great, this is home.

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[crosstalk]

[Xavier] Did we all carpet?

[Noz] I think so.

[Xavier] Yeah, we did. Oh my God.

[Darren] Seems like it.

Okay, Xavier, I really love these murals.

I mean, I kind of assumed based

on the shape of the room,

it was an attic space or the top of a building,

but it only had that one little window.

So I thought, let me like bring

in the outside world a little bit.

[Darren] Yeah. I love it.

Now I need to know Yes, well, so I love tape.

It is a friend. I mean it is.

So if you have, you know,

you can like rent a laser that lets you

like shoot the beams all over the room.

You trace those over with tape

and then you can just paint a mural

or a wallpaper finish onto your walls.

[Xavier] My god, fabulous.

And I really actually like the grid structure

like completely also transforms the geometry

[Darren] of this space, I think. Yeah.

[Noz] Thank you.

Wait, the bed is incredible.

I love that it’s floating.

[Darren] I just really

[Noz] thought the room was huge. Yes.

And I thought it’d be really cool

to have a bed that was central to the room.

So raising that up on a platform,

like a rounded platform maybe.

[Xavier] I think that your bedroom is inhabited

by actress of the stage.

Oh, I love that. No, I agree.

Especially I see the vanity right

at the window. Yeah.

So you get perfect natural light

right on your face while you’re doing-

And there’s like a dressing room

behind that bed. Yes.

There is.

You’re raised up

on a platform, you know? Totally.