Hi June, can you tell us a bit more about whats going on outside of the window, is there a pretty courtyard or are you not on the ground level? any ideas of what it might have been previously, has something been converted? whats on the other side of the wall to the left of the window, are the walls brick or framed timber, are you able/interested in making structural changes (for example installing a sky light or converting to a door or reclaiming the space from the other side of the wall or giving it back to what ever is on the other side to make that space larger etc..) or just looking for ideas to utilise the space as is? thank you, with a bit more info Ill put my thinking cap on. I must say it is a peculiar little nook isnt it? cheers Kate

I agree with turning the bed parallel with the window. Bedside ‘tables’ can be a repurposed stool, and or a chair borrowed from another room. White bed linen in Queen size is ideal for a single bed giving it a luxe look and can be used after you sell. (A Queen doona with white cover will luxuriate the bed more) A painting above the bed with a throw at the foot in a colour taken from the painting, will complete the look. All the best with your sale!

Ok so French doors are on the street frontage. In that case I would leave bed where it is, but I would add a wide high curtain rod above the window behind to form a backdrop for the bed with shears always closed, creating illusion the window is wider and allowing the bed to be further from fireplace, centred between front of house and fireplace. Matching sets of curtains on both windows to the floor.

You need to work out first what you want this room to be. If your preference to keep it as a bedroom,then to remove the pole would be priority. This can be done. You have room between the two windows to put a post- timber or steel. A beam (steel one due to stronger and no sag) can be put on top of post and across to other side to be bolted to wall frame or on top of another post which is bolted to the wall. Then close in gap of other ceiling by boxing it in. Remove the post and you have one big room. A little bit more work but it will be worth it.