Checklists · Living & bedrooms
Living & Bedroom Planning Checklists
Living rooms and bedrooms are judged on how they feel at particular moments: an evening with the television on, a morning with the curtains open, a night when someone else is awake. These checklists help you describe those moments before anyone proposes a layout.
Heating, electrical work and any structural change are professional matters. Nothing here specifies a product, sizes a radiator, or confirms that an arrangement will be comfortable.
24 checklists in this category
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Each checklist prepares one specific conversation or decision point. None of them determines compliance, suitability or cost.
- How each room is used across a day and a year
- Seating, circulation and furniture decisions
- Storage and what has to live in the room
- Comfort questions for qualified professionals
Checklists in this category
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Each checklist sits at the earliest point in a project where it becomes useful. Every checklist in this category appears in exactly one stage below.
Thinking it through
Before anything is committed — working out whether the idea suits you at all.
Living Room Layout →A way to read the shape of a living room, its doors, routes and fixed features, and to record layout decisions before furniture is chosen or joinery is drawn.Fireplace Discussion →How to prepare for a conversation about a living room fire: what the household wants from it, what is already in the wall, and what only qualified professionals can settle.Open-Plan Living Questions →Questions to work through before combining living and dining space: what the household hopes to gain, what one shared volume changes, and what belongs with professionals.Bedroom Acoustic Comfort →A way to record what a bedroom actually sounds like at night, separate the sources from one another, and turn that into questions for the people planning any work.Bedroom Storage Audit →A way to count what a bedroom actually has to hold, from rail length and drawer contents to the chair clothes really land on, before any storage is designed.Bedroom Heating Questions →Records how a bedroom really behaves at night, from the temperature two people can agree on to pipe noise, the cold wall behind the bed and the window nobody opens.
Early planning
Gathering what you already know and shaping the project before drawings begin.
Living Room Seating Planning →A structured way to work out how the household really sits in the living room, and to record the seating brief before anything is chosen or an order is placed.Media and Screen Questions →Questions to settle about screens, sound and cables in a living room, so a viewing position is chosen deliberately rather than by whichever wall happened to be free.Living Room Storage Planning →A way to work out what a living room genuinely has to swallow, where it could go, and what to settle with a joiner before any cabinetry is drawn or ordered.Dining Area Planning →Preparation for a dining area that gets used: how the household really eats, what table the room can hold, and the questions to bring to a designer or supplier.Living Room Lighting Brief →A way to describe how a living room should be lit after dark, so that a designer and a qualified electrician have something specific to work from rather than a vague wish.Living Room Flooring Decisions →Work through the flooring decisions a living room raises: how the room is sat in, thresholds into other rooms, warmth, sound carried below and laying day itself.Main Bedroom Planning →Sets out what a main bedroom is asked to do from waking to falling asleep, so bed position, dressing routine and the room's quieter jobs are recorded before anything is drawn.Children Bedroom Planning →Prepares a child bedroom brief around how the room is really used: floor for playing, somewhere to concentrate, storage a child can reach and the parts that must outlast them.Shared Bedroom Questions →Questions for a bedroom two people have to share: dividing it fairly, different bedtimes, belongings that must not get muddled, and what has to be undone if the sharing ends.Nursery Planning Questions →Gathers what a nursery has to do in the dark, from where the cot can stand to the storage that has to change as the child grows out of it.Guest Bedroom Planning →A spare room is only tested when somebody stays. This checklist records its everyday use, the bed it can really take and what a visitor cannot work out alone.Dressing Room Planning →Gathers the questions a dressing room raises before joinery is drawn: what the space was, who is asleep next door, light to judge colour by, air, reach and the mirror.Living Room Heating Questions →Turns an evening of watching a living room into heating questions: the sofa across the radiator, the cold end, the controls, the draughts and the fireplace opening.
Brief & professionals
Writing the brief and preparing the conversations with qualified professionals.
Bedroom Wardrobe Planning →Covers the wardrobe as a piece of the room rather than a box of rails: which wall it takes, how the fronts open, where it meets ceiling and floor, and the order of work.Bedroom Lighting Questions →Prepares the lighting questions a bedroom raises: walking in with full hands, reading while somebody sleeps, the fitting seen from the pillow and the switch nobody can reach.Bedroom Blackout Questions →Works through how dark a bedroom really has to be, where light gets in once a covering is down, and what a covering has to clear at the window itself.Bedroom Flooring Decisions →Works through what a bedroom floor is judged on: bare feet in the morning, creaks over sleeping rooms, fitted wardrobes, dust under the bed and the day it is laid.
Before & during the work
Site logistics, coordination and the questions that arise once work is under way.
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Related Build Design Hub guides
Explanatory guidance behind the decisions these checklists prepare you for.
Living & dining rooms →Explanatory guides on living and dining room planning.Bedroom design →Explanatory guides on bedroom layout and comfort.Style & material palettes →How palettes and material directions are usually discussed.All checklist categories →Back to the full Project Planning Checklists library.