A Panel Designed to Put You to Sleep

We spend a third of our lives in the bedroom, yet on many residential projects it’s often where the value engineering happens. The budget, space and attention go to the rooms guests see. Bedrooms are designed for the few minutes we see them with the lights on, then used for hours in the dark.

This panel brings together experts from across design and construction to make the case for the bedroom. Each shares one principle they hold to. Then a real project comes in over budget, and each names what they would keep in the bedroom and where else in the house the money should come from.

The conversation is about trade-offs rather than best-practice lists: how light, sound, air, materials and layout pull against each other, and how to keep the bedroom from losing out.

For interior designers, architects and specifiers working on residential projects, and anyone who has wondered why the room we use most is so often designed last.

Hosted by Obasan, a Canadian maker of certified organic mattresses, at its new Toronto showroom.