The lowered, beamed ceiling was designed with a large storage area above it, reached from the sleeping platform.

If you're designing a sleeping platform, be sure to incorporate sleek, modern downlighting underneath it to illuminate your new-found living space.

Although it has little more than 250 sq ft of living space, there's a light, airy feel, thanks to the well-designed sleeping platform, whitewashed timber-effect flooring and stable door.

Up the open-tread stairs beside the kitchen, at the back of the big room, perches the mezzanine sleeping platform, with mercifully decent head clearance under the roof.

Instead, she clambers up a ladder onto her sleeping platform - and shimmies down the rungs again each morning.