You can get a better night of sleep with some simple design changes to your bedroom. It could be your decor that is keeping you up at night, so check out our top tips and see if you can redesign your way to better sleep.
Pick a Sleep Friendly Color Scheme
Many people decorate their bedroom to suit their personality or interests and not their sleep. If you are looking for a way to redesign your bedroom to help you sleep, changing the color scheme is a great way to start.
Subtle colors work best in a bedroom. Light pastel shades of your chosen color will suit your bedroom walls, but be careful in your color selection. Something too bright may be too distracting, making relaxation more difficult. Calming sea and sky blues are a good choice.
Organize Your Room - Plan Storage Spaces
Storage in a bedroom is very important. Our bedrooms have become multi-use spaces, with different parts of our lives dominating areas of our bedroom.
You may have an office space in your room for work, a hobby, or crafting space for your interests, and then you need somewhere to store just about everything else. Have a look around for some storage solutions that will work in your space. You want to have a space to store most of your things, so you can tidy your room and make it a calm, sleep focused space.
Choose the Position of Your Bed Carefully
Where your bed is positioned in a bedroom can influence the quality of your sleep. Your bed is also the single most important piece of furniture in your bedroom, and its location will influence all your other furniture positioning.
Some people don’t invest well in their bed and mattress and doom themselves to poor quality sleep, no matter how they redesign and decorate their bedroom. If you want a high-quality mattress, and still want to save some money, then look out for mattress sales on Labor Day. You can save hundreds of dollars on top brand mattresses in these sales, and make a huge investment in your sleep.
Lighting is an Important Aspect for Decor and Sleep
The lighting in your bedroom, both the artificial and natural light, can have a large influence over the amount of sleep you get, and the quality of the sleep.
Getting good natural light in your room can be a delicate balance to find. You want good natural light in your room through the day, as well as good airflow, but you don’t want natural light to disturb you through the night. Using a combination of drapes and cellular blinds can frequently provide you with the range of options you demand.
Both used at the same time can give you a full blackout from the light of the moon or street lights. Rolling the blinds up and pulling the drapes back will give you the maximum amount of daylight possible, and you can gradually close one or the other throughout the day to control the amount of light in your bedroom.
Bring Some of the Outside to the Inside
Nature has a solution to most of our problems, and sleep is no exception. There are a number of plants you can bring into your bedroom that can help you get a better night of sleep.
Aloe Vera is a fantastic plant for the home. It cleans the air, and produces a lot of oxygen compared to many other plants, making it a natural air purifier and dehumidifier. Chamomile is a more attractive plant when in bloom, and its sweet scent has been known to relax, soothe, and help a person sleep.
Just a few of these redesign tips should help you get a better night of sleep from your bedroom. Many don’t cost a lot of money either, giving you a budget to invest in a better bed or mattress.
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