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How To Furnish and Design Bedrooms

When you think about it, our lives revolve around the bedroom. Our day starts when we get up from our beds and ends when we get back in it to sleep. We do the most personal, everyday rituals within the confines of our bedroom—not only sleeping and resting, but also dressing up and making ourselves ready and presentable to face a brand new day ahead. Our room is also our personal haven and sanctuary—a special space of our own where we can relax and pamper ourselves. It is only second nature that we give our own bedroom the importance and sanctity that it deserves. And this is seen in the way that we present, design, style, and furnish our bedrooms. What a person’s bedroom looks like can say much about his own personality. It can also affect his mood. So in styling your bedroom, you should take your own needs and preferences into consideration.
Here are some ideas for bedroom design and furnishing that you might find useful.
  1. Build on a theme. Designing a bedroom starts with a vision—a theme. If you have a particular theme in mind or an overall look and mood you would like your bedroom to project, you can easily gather other ideas as you go along. Explore your preferred theme, mood, design, or style first. There are so many to choose from—Traditional, Modern, French-style, Asian-inspired, English garden, Classic American, Country, Whimsical, etc. You can flip through books, magazines or catalogues, browse through interior design websites, watch lifestyle or home TV shows to get tips and ideas as you plan and customize your own bedroom look.
  2. Buy and install the basics. Remember to procure the basics first. A bed, a cabinet and some drawers for your clothes and other stuff, a nightstand, lighting fixtures, a lamp, a lounge seat or comfortable chairs, are just some of the essentials. You need not buy expensive ones, what’s important is to stick to your budget and scout all kinds of furniture and department stores, even flea markets and boutiques until you find the pieces that would go very well with the theme and overall look you have in mind. Make sure that you never sacrifice comfort, durability, and quality too.
  3. Add the extras and complementing pieces. Are you an avid reader of books and can’t call it a night until you finish a chapter before you turn in? You can put a slim bookcase in a cozy corner, with a relaxing lounge seat or sofa to complete your own reading space. However if you’ve got quite a limited space, a night table that can hold a book or two and some stuff you keep within reach would do. If watching TV can effectively lull you to sleep, get a decorative and functional cabinet with a space that could hold not just your stuff, but also your TV and hide it from view when not in use. This is also an effective space-saving technique. If you want to keep all your clothes and fashionable items nearby, it’s better to invest in a huge and beautiful armoire or cabinets with lots of drawers and storage space. If your goal is to keep your bedroom as a haven purely for rest and relaxation, free from all kinds of distractions, include items for this sole purpose. You might want to place a small Zen fountain on a corner table, a vase of fresh flowers, some aromatherapy candles, incense burner and sticks, potpourri, some decorative elements…you get the idea. Aim for balance, harmony, and beauty but don’t overdo it. These things will not only help you to relax but it could also create a romantic and dreamy vibe that would surely make your room the best part of your home.
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Tips to Buying Curtains for Your Bedrooms

After a hard day's work, you need a good night's sleep. And the bedroom, where you retire to rest must be conducive to sleep. Garish colours and bright paint can be counter effective. Muted colours and a restful décor is to be preferred for the bedroom. Soft furnishing must also be very carefully chosen as it can provide the comfort required for rest. One must also pay attention to the curtains and drapes that are hung up in the bedroom. They must be soothing on the eye. One can keep the following in mind while purchasing curtains for the bedroom.

• A bedroom should have rather dim light to induce sleep. So the curtains or drapes for this room ought to heavy and preferably of a slightly dark shade to cut out the light.

• You can also choose sheer curtain which can be used as and when desired. These curtains allow filtered light to come in and also offer a reasonable amount of privacy.

• If you choose sheer curtains, you should layer it with heavier curtains for the bedroom where privacy is a primary concern.

• If you want the sheers to look wavy, choose two or three times the width of the window for the waves to fall gently.

• Curtains can be lined or unlined. If it is unlined, they may turn transparent in the night and this may not be suitable for the bedroom. But if you like filtered light at night, this need not be a concern.

• The fabric for the curtain is important from the point of view of maintenance. Polyester curtains have a slight sheen and are easy to launder and dust will not settle on them easily. Cotton curtains are light and breezy, but can catch a lot of dust and colours will fade easily and with every wash. If you change curtains often, cotton may be a good choice and if you want your curtains to last polyester or other synthetic material can be a good choice.

• West facing windows should be shaded heavily to cut out the afternoon sun, which can heat up the room in intense climate.

• If you want to control the temperature in the bedroom and cut out the light almost completely, you can opt for blackout panels.

While choosing the curtains, pay attention to the cost, the hardware required for putting up the curtains and the care instructions before you zero in on the one you want.
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