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Bedroom
Relaxation Makeover
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Bedroom Decorating for
Soothing Your Senses
Your bedroom may be the most important room in your home.
You wake up to it every morning and spend one third of your
time sleeping there. If you fail to relax after a long hard
day, you will likely spend your night tossing and turning.
But what if your bedroom could become your private
sanctuary, where you could forget your troubles and relax?
Whether you are married and sharing your room with your
spouse, or single and not sharing it at all, there are
things you can do to turn your bedroom into your favorite
room in the house.
Choose a Theme
Think of a photograph or a place that makes you feel
relaxed, then keep that image in your mind as you start
planning your new room. It can be a snowy mountaintop
flecked with clouds, or a lush green forest with a stream
running through the trees. Whatever your inspiration, in the
end, your choices will have captured its spirit, so that
your bedroom will make you feel as that picture or place
always do.
Color Is All-Important
Plain white walls have no character and will leave you
feeling empty and indifferent. Earth tones, on the other
hand, make you feel warm, while blues and greens make you
feel cool. Home improvement stores have free color
coordinating postcards in their paint section. Pick up a few
and take them home. Once you are in your room, choose the
colors that capture the place that inspires you. If you find
it hard to decide, some paint companies sell small pouches
of paint, to enable you to paint a small section of the
wall. However, the more affordable paints offer no such
solution, and so it is best to simply lie on your bed, hold
the color swatches up, and use your imagination. There are
no right or wrong answers, and it’s always possible to
repaint a wall that doesn’t meet your expectations.
Wall Design and Texture
You can paint your walls all the same color, or you can pick
an accent wall and give it a different color from the rest.
If you prefer to color in patterns, you can use three
different colors at the same time and pat them onto the wall
with a sea sponge, a plastic bag or even a crumpled aluminum
foil. Each of these will create a different pattern when it
blends the three colors together. For a striped effect,
paint the wall once and let it dry, then paint it again with
a different color and use a wide comb to form a pattern of
streaks that reveal the base color. Have fun with the
patterns you draw.
Don’t Forget the Ceiling
In a bedroom, especially, the ceiling gets stared at a lot.
If you have a tray ceiling, paint the layers in different
colors, to add elegance and accentuate the architectural
beauty. If you have a flat ceiling, and especially a low
one, painting a faux tray ceiling will create the illusion
that the ceiling is higher, and the room more spacious. Just
draw three large rectangles on your ceiling, one inside the
other.
(If the ceiling is not a rectangle then adapt your shape to
the shape of the ceiling.) After this, paint in the three
areas created by the rectangles using three different
colors, so as to create a two-dimensional illusion. Make
sure to use the lightest color on the central triangle, as
this will give the added illusion that the ceiling is higher
than it is. (Read the full instructions on creating a faux
tray ceiling.)
Hang a Candelabra over Your Bed
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