Setting up and decorating a room can be challenging, especially if you want to create a cozy ambiance that is perfect for sleep. Wealthy families spend thousands of dollars just to turn their bedrooms into fantastic dreamland. They see to it that they buy the best furniture, gadgets and upholstery aiming to get the best sleep and rest experience every night.
But you don’t have to buy the most expensive stuff just to make your room fit for nightly rest. An intelligent selection of bedroom items on a shoestring for one’s room can not only make it fit for sleep, but it can also please our eyes and our other senses.
Design hacks
Placing and installing these materials should not be as expensive as it should be. By using your keen and artistic eyes, you can turn the design hacks below in your bedroom as tools to make your room attractive to stay in and to sleep.
Dress your bed with canopy
Installing bed canopies can not only make you feel regal, but it can also filter light and air to produce an atmosphere of lazy Sunday mornings. Bed canopies can also add a romantic touch, which makes sex, your second most essential bedroom activity, more fulfilling.
Add nostalgia and memories in your room
Valuable personal things can make you more attuned to your senses and personal awareness, which we lose touch during work. The medals you and your family members received, the prized gifts that you got, and other simple memorabilia that evoke positive memories. These items can make you stay in your bedroom longer and more valuable.
Put on plenty of pillows
If you think pillows are just to support head on the bed, you will miss the benefits of sleeping on a pile of them. Aside from your most comfortable gel memory foam mattress, soft, cuddly pillows can make you feel that you are sleeping on the clouds. They can also bring back the child in you (Remember “pillow fights” and “pillow talks”?).
Use soft lighting
Lighting is a powerful mood setter, especially during sleep. Dim light coming from lamp shade or chandeliers can give this drowsy and romantic effect. You may also try healthy alternatives such as aromatherapy candles and Himalayan salt lamps.
Paint your room with dark hues
Light colors can make your room appear large while darker tones make you feel confined, and therefore relaxing and cozy. Dark colors can also provide a powerful contrast to pillows and beddings, which are usually light-colored.
Bring potted plants in your room
Potted plants can bring the feel of nature inside your room. Some species can also provide sleep and health benefits. Lavender, for example, is a potent sleep and anxiety-relieving potion. Jasmine can also calm your senses while aloe vera can improve air quality.
Bring a part of your library in the bedroom
Reading a book is a favorite bedtime habit of many highly successful people, including Bill Gates and US President Barack Obama. Besides filling your mind with information, books can also improve the design of your room.
