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Create Your Own Retreat with These Stylish Bedroom Seating Ideas

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By Southern Living Editors December 02, 2010
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Coastal Bedroom Built-In Seating
Credit: Laurey W. Glenn

If you have the space, create a reading nook or seating grouping in your bedroom where you can retreat from the hustle and bustle of the rest of your house.

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Coastal Bedroom Built-In Seating

Coastal Bedroom Built-In Seating
Credit: Laurey W. Glenn

Instead of letting this window nook go to waste, the designer turned it into a seating area in the bedroom with a down-cushioned window seat framed by linena-and-wool curtains. Club chairs and a skirted ottoman round out the arrangment.

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Calming Colors

Calming Bedroom Seating Area
Credit: Laurey W. Glenn

The painting by Kiki Slaughter inspired the calming gray and blue color scheme of this primary bedroom. An oversize cornice and curtains hang over a pair of windows, creating a perfect seating area.

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Bay Window

Bay Window
Credit: Photography Van Chaplin, Charles Walton IV / Styling Buffy Hargett

For a little extra floorspace, this homeowner added a simple box bay window. The natural light in this area makes it a perfect place to sit and read a book.

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Bright Sofa

Wherever space allows, it's great to have a seating area in the bedroom. It gives couples a place to get away and chat privately. This is especially important in a beach house where you always have guests
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This window-side sofa gives couples a place to get away and chat privately. This is especially important in a beach house where you always have guests.

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Fireplace
Credit: Photo: Laurey W. Glenn / Styling: Anne Turner Carroll

This homeowner enjoys cozying up to this bedroom fireplace in elegant upholstered wing chairs.

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Window Seat

Window Seat
Credit: Photo: Laurey W. Glenn / Styling: Anne Turner Carroll

This lovely window seat is not only a great place to curl up with a book or magazine, but it also doubles as a storage trunk.

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Reading Corner

Reading Corner
Credit: Photo: Laurey W. Glenn / Styling: Anne Turner Carroll

A chair with an adjustable reading light offers a place to perch and read.

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End of the Bed Bench

End of the Bed Bench
Credit: Photo: Laurey W. Glenn / Styling: Anne Turner Carroll

Place a bench or flat-top trunk at the end of a bed so you have somewhere to sit while you put on your shoes.

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