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If you covered the lower part of the "longer" window you'd have two similar windows left. Furniture? Frost it? Build a wooden frame, cover with plywood, paint it, paper it, .....?

Depending on how tight your tight budget is, I'd do the following, possibly bit by bit, as quickly or slowly as money stretches:

a) raise that bed:
There are lots of solutions on the internet: some on AT:
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/5-diy-bed-frames-with-built-in-114077

and many, many more on the aforementioned IKEAhackers:
http://www.ikeahackers.net/search/label/bedroom

One solution I could imagine is actually putting the bed on top of three Expedit 2x4s (like in the first suggestion on AT).

Then, maybe later on, you might want to fill the gaps between the 3 Expedits with two smaller Expedits on casters (you'd have to consider the additional height when mounting the first Expedits, of course, so they all line up in the end.)

Something like this:
http://www.ikeahackers.net/2012/04/expedit-for-compact-living.html
but with three long Expedits not on casters and two short ones on casters.

b) I'd also try to find one of the high Pax wardrobes (2,36 m), or rather a wide one and a slim one, so that you have a width of 1,50m, which should fit between the window and the radiator.

c) As suggested, use paint to pull things together. For example, if you go for white shelves, spray paint that minishelf on top of the chest of drawers white.

d) Declutter or cover. That open nook is an eyesore - maybe find a small curtain rod and cover it with the blue scarf you have got on the wall. Then center the print over the bed.

e) Use the space underneath the windowsill. Build very slim shelves from wood bought at the DIY. At least here in Germany they do cut it to measure for free. Paint them white so they blend into the background and use for paperbacks and CDs.

Check out ebay for both Pax and Expedits: http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=pax%20wardrobe&_clu=2&_dlg=1&_dmpt=UK_Bedroom_Furniture&LH_PrefLoc=0&_sadis=100&_fpos=AB1&_fspt=1&LH_Distance=AB1..100

f) Do something about the curtains. They stick into the space a lot AND don't pick up any colour or pattern that's already there but add another one. Therefore they take away space and at the same time add visual clutter.

g) It's difficult to say how much space there is between the bed and the wall with the radio. Also, I'm not sure if the main door to the room is at the top end of the bed or at the bottom (top, I understood, but I'm not sure).
Do consider the idea suggested here:http://www.ikeahackers.net/2012/03/ikea-self-hack-pax-as-walk-in-closet.html#more

Good luck!

Anyone remember this?
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/small-cool-2006-entries/50-vinces-high-tech-hideout-007462

Another variation on the same theme:
http://www.ikeahackers.net/2010/10/turn-your-studio-apartment-into-1.html

There used to be another Ikea-room divider hack, but I cannot find it. It was very pretty.
If I remember it correctly, it had open shelving on top (to let the light through, and to hold some decorations), and closed storage at the bottom. The storage opened to the "hallway", and the back of the cupboards doubled as the headboard of the bed.

Using Expedit, you could use the drawers or doors that are now available, making the shelf semi-see-through.

Maybe I'd paint the walls a light grey - Benjamin Moore's Beacon Grey might be a choice.
Like this, I feel there's too much white and other bright colours making the colour scheme appear somewhat random to me.

Sounds great, BUT..... when I googled borax to see if I can buy it here in Germany, I found that it shouldn't be used in the household because it's classified as "toxic for reproduction": it can affect fertility as well as the unborn child.
Apart from that, it's not as if it doesn't affect the environment (like all cleaners).

I tried to find some information in English:
http://www.passionatehomemaking.com/2009/05/borax-is-it-safe.html

http://greenlivingqa.com/content/borax-cleaning-product-not-ver

As for cheapness, it might still win over commercial products, of course. I just wanted to utter this word of caution....

The bluetooth foxLs are 199$, not 169$.

Please change "Wein" into "Wien". (Wien rhymes with sheen, Wein rhymes with wine, and means just that.) You might even want to translate it as Vienna.....

The point is that if you go to the knock-off wood-website you will be forwarded to exactly the website mentioned above.... so it's the same Ana and she has just changed her web address.

Maybe they changed that the aforementioned anniversary date and / or other significant numbers? (And wanted to avoid the more obvious incorrectness of "having the game" on a Wednesday.)

I am wondering how many posts in a week or two can revolve around this question.....