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A window seat helps you enjoy the beauty of nature/cityscape apart from giving you a place to relax comfortably. It is indeed a timeless feature that transcends short-lived trends.
Though window seats are only a simple and minimalist design element, they can add great value to your home with the perfect combination of practicality and aesthetics. Window seats can be incorporated either into your living room, dining room and most often, your bedrooms. They bring light into the space, provide extra seating for your special guests and close family, and is also a place for self-reflection.
Let’s have a look at these amazing window seat ideas that are a perfect blend between comfort and style.
A Cozy Reading Nook
This comfy upholstered window seat designed into the corner of this grey room with a white baseboard is minimalistic. The set of drawers below allow for some extra storage of smaller items while tall windows above open up this small room and make it look more welcoming and bright. The floor-to-ceiling multi-level home bookshelf serves as a boon to all those avid readers who find it difficult to organise their bookcases.
Black And Brown Window Seat For Living Room
This white-themed room with a dark accent wall is balanced well by an intelligently-built niche window seat area that resembles a modern looking bench. Throw in some brown and grey coloured cushions over the beige seat cushion and similar-themed short curtains to make this spot extra cozy while you view the breathtaking landscape outside. Alternatively, you can take a quick nap here when you tire of working.
Compact And Cute Window Seat
This window seat, enclosed between a shelf and bed in the corner of a blue and white themed kid’s room, is a private space that’s meant for just one. This window seating design gives your kid some ‘me time’. It comes with a pair of open cabinets below for additional storage and helps you utilise a corner that would have most probably been overlooked and wasted. The simplistic design makes this space look orderly and uncluttered.
Also, check out Kids Bedroom Design Ideas For Your Home
An Elongated Window Side Seat With Curtain
Add more functionality to a window seat by incorporating it into the dining room. The wall-to-wall elongated window seat harmoniously blends into the room’s landscape, runs along the windowpane and provides extra seating area for family members and occasional guests. It looks attractive and complements the classic dining room interior with a medium-tone hardwood floor, grey walls, a glass-door, built-in cabinets and elegant dining room furniture.
For The Blue Lovers
This is a modern window seat incorporated in a sea-inspired blue bedroom. The upholstery of the window seat matches perfectly with other elements in the room such as the design of throw pillows, pair of chairs at home study/office desk and the valance. The charm of a comfortable window seat makes it seem a part of the overall feel and design of the room. A light colour palette offers for a peaceful place to relax.
A Nature-Inspired Window Seating For Bedroom
This nature-inspired window seating creates a beautiful bedroom interior. The white, light brown and green-themed colour palette, coupled with animal motifs on the throw cushions, effectively bring in nature’s vibes and creates a calming atmosphere. It makes the small bedroom interiors look airy too.
The Calming Hues
Take maximum advantage of a white-themed living room interior that is luminous by adding a portable window seat to the existing armchair and sofa combo. All the muted colours of the furniture and upholstery mix and match harmoniously with each other. Use the window seat comfortably as a reading area in a corner that separates you from the busier areas of the house.
The Girly Twist
Add a girly twist to your little one’s bedroom by transforming the corner window area to a pleasant lounging space that is well-lit, and which can double up as a reading or quick napping nook. All the layers and texture of the pink and purple textured floral pillows as well as turquoise animated accent wall, fills the entire area with warmth and coziness.
Moving on, you can keep a few quick tips in mind when you plan to designing your window seat arrangements so you don’t compromise on pleasure or functionality that it’s going to provide you:
- Cushions – Cushions make window seats much more comfortable to sit on. Carefully choose the right kind and quality of foam you will make your cushions from. The most common window seat cushions used are the rectangular-shaped box cushions that easily fit over the top of your window seat and are adjustable
- Space-saving storage options – Building in additional storage under your window seat is a great idea and it can be done in many different ways. You can design your window seat with either a hinged lift-up top that opens vertically or pull-out cupboards/ drawers
- Size – The size of the window seat will depend upon the purpose you are going to use it for. For example, if you are planning to stretch out on the sofa and lounge around all day reading books or snoozing, then your window seat will need to be long and deep enough to accommodate you properly
We hope that this blog has inspired you to design or spruce up your very own comfy corner. So, what are you waiting for? Get the ball rolling now.
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