How this room was sized

Everything is drawn to real size. Some numbers come from a tape or a spec sheet, the rest are read off the photos and can be off by a few inches.

Twenty ways to use this room

The room is about 9 and a half by 11 feet, one 5 foot wall under the roof, two closets cut into the opposite roof, a big window over the bed. Floor is the scarce thing; wall and ceiling are not. The four layout buttons at the top are the first four; the rest are things to add or change in any layout.

1. Turn the bed around. Head at the closet end, feet under the roof. Costs nothing and makes every raised bed possible, because the first 7 feet 8 from the closet wall has the full 7 foot 6 ceiling.
2. Storage bed. Twin captain's bed with three deep drawers in place of the bare platform. Mattress at 2 foot 10, so it clears the window sill line and keeps 4 foot 8 of headroom.
3. Loft bed as pictured. Four drawers plus a roll-out desk under a full-size platform. Fits with the head at the closet end, but it is 4 and a half feet wide in a 9 and a half foot room and hides the bottom 20 inches of the window.
4. Bed under the roof. Bed along the 5 foot wall, desk on the hallway wall beside the door. Frees the window wall and the middle of the floor, but the whole bed is under the slope with about 3 foot 6 above the mattress at the wall. Sitting up clears by inches, so this is the one to measure before trying. The two storage beds avoid the slope altogether.
5. Low storage the length of the knee wall. Anything under 4 feet tall lives happily under the slope. A row of cubes or a low dresser beside the desk holds records, games and comics where nothing else fits.
6. Knee-wall drawers. If there is roof space behind the 5 foot wall, drawers or a small door cut into it give storage that takes zero floor. Worth one look in the attic before buying furniture.
7. Monitor arms. Three screens on two clamp arms give the desk top back. Cheapest desk upgrade there is.
8. Shelf the full length above the screens. A single 4 foot 6 high shelf from the bed to the corner, under the light string, takes the figures, bottles and Blu-rays off the desk.
9. Second rod in the curtained closet. It is 2 feet wide and 6 foot 8 tall with one rod. A second rod at half height, or shelves on one side, roughly doubles what it holds.
10. Hang every guitar. Wall hangers for the two acoustics inside the guitar closet's back and side walls, in a row with the bass and the green one. Clears the closet floor for the record shelf and the purifier.
11. Record cube instead of the crate. A 13 inch cube unit (LPs are 12.4) as the turntable stand in the guitar closet: player on top, records below, one unit instead of a crate and a box.
12. Shelf over the door. The hallway door is 2 foot 8 wide with 10 inches between its trim and the ceiling. That is a Blu-ray shelf that nobody bumps.
13. Real shelves on both closet headers. The Berserk ledge shows the idea. A 12 inch deep shelf over each closet opening is a bookcase that stands on nothing.
14. Under-bed bins. If the platform stays, the 8 inches under it takes two flat rolling bins for off-season clothes. Free storage until the bed changes.
15. Hamper off the floor. A hanging hamper on the back of the door, or inside the curtained closet. The wicker one uses a square foot and a half of the walkway.
16. Window unit instead of the portable AC. The portable box and its hose take the corner under the window and need the box fan to help. A window unit gives that corner back.
17. Wall fan instead of the box fan. A 7 foot 6 ceiling is too low for a ceiling fan, but a wall-mounted oscillating fan over the TV wall gets the box fan out of the middle of the floor.
18. Floating media shelf under the TV. One long shelf for the console and snacks, cables in a raceway down to the outlet. The TV corner reads as one unit instead of a pile.
19. Records that store as art. The seven on the wall could be a flip-through wall rack that shows one face-out and holds thirty behind it.
20. Cube tower at the bed's head. Under the slope the corner ceiling is about 5 foot 6. A 15 by 15 by 58 inch cube tower there carries the third screen on top and three cubes of manga underneath, in the side table's footprint.

The designer rule that keeps coming up for rooms like this: it is not the room that is small, it is the scale and count of what is in it. Keep the bed a twin, keep the tall things against the full-height walls, and let the low wall take the low things.

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