Media Room Ideas II

My head has been swirling with ideas. I have been looking up inspiration for the rooms and researching the things projects I want to do. I'm so excited!

A sofa that can act as a day bed would be perfect for overnight guests.

We priced out media consoles and they are just too expensive for our purposes, so we're going to try to build out own.

We're working a few hours each night to clean out the rooms. We're boxing, bagging and trashing. If we can't use it, it's finding a new home.

Simultaneously, we've been working on the other room. It's coming a long. I'm excited to see what these rooms look like without a large chunk of furniture in the center.

For this room, we're going to build a day bed like this. I had one when I was a teen and it's really easy to build. I'm really looking forward to this DIY. I just need to research how to paint raw wood.

Media Room Ideas

One thing our house lacks that we wish we had was a family room or den in addition to the living room. It would be good to have another room where we could put our feet up, so I am thinking about turning our guest bedroom into a media room/office/guest bedroom. The room has to be multi-functional - The room would serve as a TV room, a guest bedroom, and a place for storage of crafts and clothing.

Here is the room currently: I love it and so do our guests, but it's most unoccupied 90% of the time with the exception that this is where I store my clothing and crafts. I hope turning this room into a media room will give us more usable space.

The bed takes up too much room, so we are going to replace it with a pull out sofa or day bed.

From Decor Pad. This is the arrangement that I think would be more functional.

On the opposite wall:

I am thinking a combination of these two - a TV console/bookshelf/wardrobe.

While in Italy, my friend had a large wardrobe system on one side of her bedroom and it was storage, a closet and also where she put her flat screen TV. I thought it worked very nicely and you could just slide the doors over.

On Pottery Barn, I played around with their room planner and this is how I would like to lay out the room.

The pieces need to be flexible since eventually this room would be a play room or another full bedroom again. We don't want to invest too much in the furnishings, but we do need it to be functional and fun!