Your bedroom is an important place, probably more important than you realise. After a busy day at work you should be able to relax and calm in a space that reflects this need for calm. Are you fed up of coming back from a chaotic day and being surrounded by chaos? Then you need to follow our guide to creating a tranquil room with simple decorating tips and home furnishings. Both sleep experts and designers agree that your room of rest should peaceful as a stressful room create an impact on both your mental and physical well being. So here are five tips to creating that oasis of calm:
1. Remove all clutter from your room, it might seem obvious but clutter everywhere can visually overwhelm you. Whether you have too many home furnishings everywhere, too much decoration or nick nacks on surface, or simply too much dirty laundry on the floor the visual impact will create a difference. The more clutter in your room the smaller and confining the room will appear.
Deal with this by organising through clutter and clearing objects away. Although Feng Shui experts advise not to place lots of items under the bed as it disturbs rest.
2. A bedroom should be a place for adults, so that means removing children’s toys and their laundry from your bedroom. Your bedroom is for you and your partner and children shouldn’t spill into this private place.
3. Keep your room purposeful, with busy working people often the bedroom now doubles up as an office. But sleep experts think this is a bad idea, the office and computer should not encroach on the bedroom. The room’s purpose is a refuge, not a working environment. If you have to have your computer in that space then make sure it’s in a place where you don’t have to wake up looking at it.
4. Decoration within the bedroom should be kept simple and personal. Bedrooms should not be designed on edginess and should have an overall homely feel. Home furnishings should be dear to your heart and dramatic centrepieces need to inspire peace.
5. Bed linen should be of good quality as your skin will be in contact with it everyday and six to eight hours every night. The linen should appeal to your sense of touch as well as fitting in with the home furnishings. Good linens can make even the simplest of bedrooms feel luxurious.
Dominic Donaldson is an expert in the decoration industry.
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