He gave her an apologetic look. "I'll keep figuring out how to work that with what we've got for later down the line, but for right now, best I can offer you that stacks like that is a regular old dresser. Which I could certainly do, instead of a third trunk."
He held up a finger, letting her know he wasn't quite done, but he had to sketch out what he was thinking first.
It didn't take him long, but it required another room diagram, one facing the back wall from the bedroom door, and the end result wasn't neat and tidy and blueprint-ready, but it was clean and clear to see what it was.
The main piece of furniture, the new one he'd be designing, was a headboard of sorts that'd form fit to the back wall, with space between the bed and the outside wall enough for a trunk to slide in under an open space that had a shelf that stuck out farther than the edge of the headboard. The inside wall side of the bed had a similar shelf, though there was a bit of room between it and the bed. Under that shelf was space for another trunk.
The area immediately above the bed was open for a couple feet, and a spiral squiggle hugged the bottom of the shelf that settled over the bed. That shelf had quite a bit of room above it for something taller than the average book.
The rest of the headboard was almost nothing but shelves, though there was another empty space sectioned off from the extended shelf and accompanying trunk space that he put a question mark in.
The top-down sketch of the layout of the room showed that the headboard had a relatively low profile, for all it'd fit on there, and the shelves that extended out on either side of the bed would easily function as those end tables she wanted. With the shelving she wanted, the tables, the bed, and at least two trunks all packing into a low-profile, but efficient and comfortable-looking piece of furniture on their own, that left room for a small sitting chair in the corner of the room between the door and the outside wall, sat at an angle to not only minimize its footprint, but give it a more open view of the room. A very small end table that would have little more function than to be a place to set a drink and maybe a book on was tucked against the wall between it and the door frame.
With the essentials packed in so well, that left room for a small vanity, and a full-length mirror, both things that Bolson hadn't mentioned, but Leop had already guessed the queen might be needing, and hadn't thought to say anything, or had assumed she wouldn't have room for them.
There was space at the end of the bed that could conceivably hold another, small trunk if she wanted it, or even a dresser, though a tall one would ruin the view of the room from the chair, and potentially be a little too crowded.
"I'd been thinking of doing something like this for an end table by the bed," he said, turning the book back around to show her the rough design. "Those shelves on either side of the bed actually extend out to be tables. Since they open back to the back of the headboard, same as the regular shelves, there's plenty of room for a glass of water, or that weapon you mentioned. The space underneath them can hold trunks.
"I put this question mark in this third space here, because that could either be a location for a third trunk, leaving the space here at the end of your bed open for now, and maybe dog-eared for a fourth trunk later, if we haven't gotten the castle repaired for you to move into by the time you need it. But if you'd rather have your third trunk at the end of the bed, that space can be used any way you want, including more regular shelves.
"The shelf right over the bed would be good for decorations, or maybe keeping that circlet Link gave you while you sleep. That little spiral would be lighting."
((More: IJ has character limits and the creative nerd is leaking out.))