The bedroom should be an oasis for sleeping, relaxing and lounging.  If you are staring at piles of laundry, books, magazines, electronic devices, you are not in Zen or rem.  The headboard doesn’t have to be just a pillow prop.  Find one that stores books and magazines, can hold a lamp and you have triple duty functional furniture.  A single shallow shelf above the bed keeps books close at hand and will limit the number of books you store in the room.  Save space by mounting a reading lamp on the wall.  And that laundry?  Throw it in a decorative hamper, or better yet get your extra steps in and take it to the laundry room.  When it is clean?  Put it away right away!