Bedroom design in Batumi: bed, lighting, darkness and wardrobe

Where bedroom design starts

We start bedroom design in Batumi with questions about sleep. How wide is the bed, who sleeps by the window, who gets up earlier, does the room need a TV and a desk. The answers decide where the bed goes, and that decides almost everything else: the walkways, the wardrobe, the switches, the air conditioner and the curtain recess.

A bedroom needs its design before the renovation, because the main decisions go into the walls. The cable to the wall lights, the air conditioner pipe run and the boxing for the curtain track go in at the rough stage, and after plastering they can only be moved by cutting a chase and repainting. How the crew builds from these sheets is covered on the page about bedroom renovation.

The bed and walkways: dimensions for the plan

We draw the bed at its real size, together with the bedside tables and the wardrobe doors open. A 160 × 200 cm bed with 45 cm bedside tables needs a wall of about 2.6 m, and a 180 cm bed about 2.8 m. The other dimensions we work from on the plan:

If the bedroom is narrower than three metres, a 160 cm bed across the room and a wardrobe opposite it often don't fit together: less than 50 cm is left for the walkway between them. Then we compare options on the plan: the headboard against the short wall with the wardrobe at the foot of the bed, the wardrobe in a recess by the door, or a shorter wardrobe and a bed with drawers. On the plan, moving something 10 cm takes a minute, while a wardrobe that has already been ordered has to be remade.

The air conditioner on the bedroom plan

We choose the position of the indoor unit together with the bed, so that the airflow runs along the bed and the pipe run to the outdoor unit stays short. The plan shows straight away where the refrigerant pipes will come out on the facade, where the drain will go and whether the unit will end up above the curtain recess. Fabric in the airflow moves all night, and cold air that hits a curtain just stays by the window.

We don't recommend hiding a wall-mounted unit in a box with a grille. It draws its own cold air back in, switches on and off more often and is louder. If the white casing doesn't suit the interior, we choose a wall that can't be seen from the doorway, or fit a ducted air conditioner in the corridor ceiling. In our experience the corridor ceiling is lowered by about 25–30 cm for it, and the chosen unit model gives the exact figure, so we make this decision while the ceiling plan is still being drawn.

Blacking out the window: what to choose in the design

A floor-to-ceiling window and a balcony door are blacked out in different ways, and the system is chosen before the renovation: the ceiling, the fixing points and, if the blackout is motorised, the cable all depend on it.

In a bedroom we most often combine blackout roller blinds on the sashes with a light curtain in the recess. It is dark at night and light in the daytime, and the curtain fabric can be chosen for colour and texture without worrying about how thick it is.

Lighting and switches: bedroom scenes

A bedroom needs light for four things: tidying up and getting dressed, reading before sleep, getting to the bathroom at night and finding something in the wardrobe. On the plan each of these has its own circuit and its own switch, and we check where it can be reached from: the door, each side of the bed or the wardrobe.

We don't put downlights above the bed. Lying on your back, you look at the ceiling, and every light above the pillow shines straight into your eyes. We move the general lighting towards the wardrobe and the walkways and leave wall lights or downward-facing pendants by the bed. The light is warm, about 2700 K, and the night light near the floor is dim enough not to wake the other person.

A “switch everything off” button by the bed goes into the wiring diagram before the rough work: after the renovation only a wireless version is possible. How we plan lighting and scenes for the whole apartment is covered on the page about lighting design.

Storage: the wardrobe, bedside tables and suitcases

We work out the length of the wardrobe from your belongings, not from the free wall. A guide from our practice: one adult with clothes for every season needs about 1.2–1.5 m of wardrobe, a couple about 2.5 m, and a list of your things gives a more exact figure. If your winter clothes stay in another country, the wardrobe will be shorter, and it is best to say so at the first meeting.

People who live between Batumi and another country need their suitcases close at hand, so we give them a top compartment or a bottom section rather than the space on top of the wardrobe under the ceiling. In the wardrobe drawing we specify the doors, the interior fittings, the interior lighting and the gap from the external wall, and any furniture maker can build the wardrobe from it. How hardware and interior fittings are chosen is covered on the page about made-to-measure wardrobes and walk-in wardrobes.

If the apartment has room for a walk-in wardrobe, we reduce the bedroom wardrobe to a small one for linen and a week's worth of clothes. The room feels more spacious, and seasonal clothes are kept where it is easier to look after them through the damp winter.

A bedroom for yourself and for rental

In your own bedroom we work around your habits: your side of the bed, books at night, a TV or no TV, a work corner. We don't know the habits of a guest in a short-term rental, so we design for anyone: access to the bed from both sides, a socket and a lamp on each side, complete darkness, and a main light switch by the headboard that is easy to find in the dark.

We make the headboard with a removable cover or from a material that can be wiped clean. We usually choose a 160 × 200 cm bed, because spare bed linen sets and mattress protectors are easier to buy in this size. Instead of a rug we put down a bedside mat that can go in the wash. How to separate the guest's storage from the owner's in such an apartment is covered on the page about rental apartment design. For long-term rental we bring back a full-size wardrobe, because the tenant arrives with clothes for every season.

How much bedroom design costs in Batumi

A design project for one bedroom costs from 1,980 to 3,000 ₾. The price includes the measured survey, the placing of the bed, wardrobe and air conditioner, 3D visualisation, and drawings for the lighting with switches by the door and by the bed, the sockets and the finishes. The lower end of the range reflects our minimum order: the survey, site visits and the set of sheets hardly depend on whether the room is 10 or 16 m², so a small bedroom doesn't come out cheaper.

If you don't need drawings, a 3D visualisation of one room costs 660–960 ₾, and a collage of colours and fabrics 330–480 ₾. A wardrobe drawing with interior fittings, an upholstered headboard wall, a ducted air conditioner and a second 3D option take the design towards the top of the range. The price covers only the designer's work: a made-to-measure sliding-door wardrobe costs 1,500–1,800 ₾ per linear metre, and the renovation to the drawings is priced in a separate estimate. The final cost of the design is set after the measured survey and once the set of sheets is agreed.