How bedrooms are changing for modern life
The pressures of modern life are changing our habits in the bedroom, says Maria Fitzpatrick .
Now, that vision of the bedroom as a pared-back haven of calm is out of kilter with the way we live.
With space at such a premium, bedrooms have to wear many hats, only one of which is a nightcap.
I know this dilemma well. In a cosy Victorian terraced house, my bedroom has become more of a secondary living room and an office.
Blame Wi-Fi, too; now we can “plug in” to the internet anywhere in the house, day-to-day life, with all its paraphernalia, has sprawled with it.
Charlie Marshall, who set up the Sleep Room furnishing company in 2008, says that since then, our view of the bedroom has fundamentally changed.
“People are looking at it as a place for loafing and lounging and working; they are spending more on it, but every inch of space has to work harder.”
