Bedroom a Decorating - Creating Your Refuge, Your Sanctuary!
Bedroom Decorating for Your Sanctuary
Bedroom decorating is so very important! Most people will spend over half their lives in their master bedroom suite. Stop and think about it. You do a lot of sleeping, tidying up, dressing exercising, reading, writing, talking on the phone, napping, and loving – just to name a few. For this reason, the bedroom suite should be decorated and furnished to be your very own private sanctuary – a personal refuge. It should be a pleasing and inviting space created especially for you!
Bedroom Decorating - Bedding and Mattress
When considering your bedroom decorating, your mattress and bedding are very important. Since you spend almost one-third of your life in your bed, it should be comfortable. It should take you into its arms every night and lull you into a peaceful sleep. You should wake up in the morning relaxed and refreshed.
One way to make your current bed feel better is to consider the quality of your sheets. Expensive sheets with higher thread counts do feel better, and are less likely to pill up over time.
Another thing to consider is your pillows. A good pillow will cradle your head in such a way that you will not wake up with a painful and stiff neck. Pillows can also we placed between your legs when lying on your side to help keep your hips better aligned, or keep your knees from rubbing together painfully. A pillow can also be used to support and cradle your upper arm when lying on your side, reducing pressure on the shoulder and even providing some support for your back. A pillow can be used under your knees when you are lying on your back to help relieve pressure on your lower back.
Bedroom Decorating Should Provide for a Nourishing Environment
It is unfortunate that the master bedroom is often the most neglected room in the home.
A bedroom should be a place where you are able to go to recharge your soul, and your body. It should be furnished and decorated in such a way that it calms your mind and draws you into its relaxing embrace. All the details, even the small ones, are important. Choose furnishings and decorative items that nourish your spirit and soul. Your bedroom should provide you the peace you would feel laying in a hammock on a warm day, feeling a wisteria scented breeze lightly caressing your body, while listening to the birds and watching the butterflies float overhead. There is serenity and peace in this environment. That is what your bedroom should provide.
Bedroom decorating should provide:
Your bedroom should be:
- A place of renewal
- A place to escape in times of stress
- A place to recharge and refresh
- A place that encourages serenity
- A place where you can let your hair down and just be you
Your bedroom should be a place to which you can retreat to recapture harmony and a sense of self and purpose. You can create an environment that is rich, sentimental, whimsical, sensuous and/or luxurious. You can create an atmosphere that provides mystery, or exhibits dreams, hopes, loves and fantasies.
Other lighting options: Salt Rock Crystal Lamps
When Decorating Your Bedroom Incorporate the Senses
When decorating your bedroom, consider all the senses.
Incorporate the sense of touch:
- The soft feel of cotton sheets
- Soft pillows and comforters
- Have a soft, warm throw available that you can curl up with or pull over your lap while in a chair
Incorporate the sense of smell:
- Scented candles
- Potpourri
- Linen sprays
Incorporate the sense of sight:
- Use soothing colors to paint the walls
- Choose prints that relax you
- Vary your sheets and pillow cases each week
- Low level ambient lighting for medication and relaxation, or romance
- Choose pictures that add to the serenity of the environment
Incorporate the sense of hearing:
- Incorporate a way to have music in your sanctuary
- If noises at night are a problem, incorporate white noise
Your bedroom decorating should allow you to create a place you want to escape to. When you are in your bedroom, you should be able to shed your worries and your cares. Consider the following, and then make an effort to incorporate that environment into your bedroom.
Think about a place that has given you great happiness such as a flower garden humming with bees, a beach where you can hear the surf, an isolated mountain retreat beside a vast blue lake, or a secluded path beside a babbling brook. Knowing that you will be spending half your life in your bedroom, find a way to re-create those places to provide these feelings of happiness and peace over and over again. Create your very own get-a-way by thinking about bedroom decorating as being necessary for one of the most important rooms in your home - your refuge, your sanctuary!
To read more about Bedroom Decorating, Creating a Sanctuary and a Refuge, read the next article.
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Bedroom Decorating – Creating a Refuge and a Santuary. - using a thematic approach to bedroom decorating to create a room that provides a place where you could be relaxed and refreshed.
Bedroom Decorating - Choosing a Color for Your Bedroom - The color you choose for your bedroom could have an impact on how well you are able to sleep and relax.
Bedroom Decorating - Finishing Your Sanctuary or Retreat - personalizing your special living space and making it into a place that conjures up many happy memories.
Comments: "Bedroom Decorating - Creating Your Refuge, Your Sanctuary!"
Interesting ideas. My bedroom IS my sanctuary and I like to make it the most comfortable and beautiful!
So glad your first pix was a red bedroom. I read once that bold colors were wrong for a bedroom because they were not soothing. I love my burgundy bedroom and generally don't care what anyone thinks - but it's nice to get some validation for my choice!
I am so into how decor, color can affect our moods. I loved this! I love my bedroom, but I will admit, it could be much better. You've inspired me : )
Voting up, and sharing.
hey! I loved the ideas you presented here. Yes, most people do sometimes forget that their bedroom should be inviting and relaxing. Your ideas are great! I'm sure that it'll help a lot of people. Thanks for sharing! :)
hi!! loved your hub, i like the pic where the balcony overlooks a picturesque sea and some greenery. would love a bed room like that :))
-carrie
Really pretty bedrooms. I loved the shower wall in the master suite. Our room is comfortable and cozy. The cats enjoy our queen bed to take their naps during the day. Great info and beautiful ideas! :) I voted up, useful, beautiful, interesting and Awesome! :) take care
Just wanted to stop by and say Hello to Homesteadbound! As usual, you are keeping up with yourself! I don't know how you do it! Keep it up and Never Stop! Nice Job!
JSMatthew~
many ppictures show a chair here ,but it is a goos design ,very convinent , i think ,i like it and maybe i will design my bedroom l;ike that
I love the colors of the top picture on your article Homesteadbound. It looks so relaxing. I really enjoy your little series here Honesteadbound and there are very informative. You do spend a lot of time in your bedroom. It only makes sense to have one that is soothing and relaxing.
why there is a chair besides the bed ,but i love it . it looks so comfortable .
This is highly effective hub because of the way you balanced the visual elements with the text. I particularly enjoyed the image with the fireplace. It made me want to grab a book and a cup of hot cocoa and snuggle down for a nice read in the bed! I'm sharing this with my other book loving friends who, like me, are in need of a sanctuary.
HST: beautiful, I loved the shower picture the best. Voted up and awesome.
Hiya homesteadbound, this hub is AWESOME! But.. but how did you get a picture of my messy bedroom? lol Great read and lots of useful advice. I love all the beautiful bedroom pictures.. the one with the ocean view is to die for. Voted up, awesome and most definitely useful. Cheers!
Have a nice day,
Rosie
H hsb, nice hub, good reminder to do some cleaning, I should show this to some other family members :)
Hi Homesteadbound,
My bedroom says, "She doesn't spend anytime in here." And I don't. But you have given me a lot of good ideas for the day I hit the lottery.
All My Best,
JT
A brilliant hub and thank you for sharing.
Take care and enjoy your day.
Eddy.
Nice comprehensive hub about creating a beautiful, luxurious master bedroom. There's nothing like wonderful fresh smelling linens and a great mattress and pillows in the bedroom.
Voted up, useful, beautiful and interesting.
I love my bedroom. It's warm and cozy and done in blue, my favorite color. The bedroom photos you have chosen are much too fancy for my taste, though. Good informative Hub. I voted it UP, etc.
So true! My bedroom, which I redid this summer, isn't necessarily empty or simple, but it provides me with a sense of home and comfort. I am currently working on a hub about a cool wall decorating technique which personalizes your wall. Great hub, really informative! :) Voted up, useful and beautiful!
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