Few Wardrobe Tips

Your goal should be to create a peaceful environment in your bedroom so that you wake up to date, but not tense. Be careful about how you protect the property. As years pass, your items – clothes, of course – to increase, so bear this in mind when planning your storage (wardrobe, closet, etc.)

A very important thing in your linen closet or wardrobe -whatever storage you have is to get rid of anything that does not function for you- that is too small, dated, too old and not appreciated anymore. It is extremely important to fold your linens and other bedding material before putting them into wardrobe,  because everything that you have should be in your view and you should be able to access it  and see what is in your entire collection. Only then you would be able to rotate, make sure that you are utilizing everything and that your fabrics are going to wear more evently. Then you would enjoy them for a much longer time.

In your bedroom you can create an additional storage unit side cabinet or chest of drawers, dressing table, positioning and linking them to the storage cabinets that can be screwed to the ceiling. Try doing a cushion, but as it can cause headaches and feeling boxed in. Space is often available under a bed, where pull-out drawers can be a practical answer. In small spaces, especially in children bedroom, you can use the two-level decision to increase the bed above the cabinets, table and hanging space.

Please share your own tips of what difficulties you face when organizing a wardrobe or a closet of your bedroom, and how you sort them out

Additional Furniture In Your Bedroom

Additional soft furniture for example small divan, sofa or soft chair could lay in your bedroom next to your bed or at the foot of it.  You could also have a small nice table to hold the lamp. However make sure that the correct height, allowing you to read comfortably in bed. Bookshelves, perhaps daily, tables or storage may be useful as well as an attractive chest of drawers. Bedroom can become so much more comfortable

What Is The Most Important Room In Your House?

One of the most important rooms in your house is your bedroom. You will spend more than one third of your life in it mainly asleep. As we all know the quality of our sleep highly determines the way we live our life when we are awake. It does affect our health as well.
Your highest privacy and biggest intimacy is also hidden behind your bedroom door. You keep your most personal possessions in it and more often than not you get away from everyone there and deeply relax. This is why it is vitally important to make your bedroom the way you would feel safe and cosy in it.

How To Create And Implement A Cozy Swedish Bedroom Interior Style

Concept And Nature Of Swedish Design

Swedish (Scandinavian) design style aims to get most out of little (same as maximalism which also is a trendy approach). This style successfully marries both- sort of elegancy and informality. It is also highly influenced by Swedish nature colours and patterns. Furthermore, what may appear to be a disorderly mass of different colours and shapes actually turns out to be a collection of different interesting stuff that were gathered together in order to bring the best visual appeal.
As mentioned before, this design was highly influenced by the Scandinavian climate (light and air). Long, depressing winters, early dawns and the lack of natural sunlight- all have formed a very special attitude to Swedish interior design and furnishings. Anything that is dark and heavy was replaced with bright, light and gloss elements. Whitish walls, floors and furniture are used to reflect and use those so tiny and rare rays of sunlight to create more joyful, happy and positive atmosphere at home even in the darkest winter afternoons.

What About Bedroom Planning And Structure?

All is based on simplicity, light and easy structures, lots of naturalism and ergonomics. You would find plenty of pictures and other forms of art hanging on walls. It would kind of merge everything (all surroundings) into one harmonious “painting”. It is also very important that all accessories would be very functional and aesthetic.

Bedroom Colours

Think brightness and light- whitish, mint cream, ivory, light blue, ghost white. You would find these in their furnishings, walls, bedding and accessories. Pale yellow and rose (misty rose), greyish, lavender blush, light khaki would also fit in to the spectrum. You would sometimes meet green and even shades of red.
Especially popular (as much as white) is blue with all its nuances as it does associate with a deep blue and clear sky even it is gloomy and greyish outside. This blue would easily go with seashell, golden or even red colours. Red is becoming more and more popular in Swedish design. You would often find it in patterned bed linen, bed covers, carpets and paintings. Besides, it would also be quite frequent in flowered materials (think bed covers, bed runs and cushions).

Bedroom Furniture -Scandinavian Style Bed

The lines are usually straight but slanting. This interesting duet would appear in details, accessories. The legs of their bedroom furniture wardrobe/chairs/armchairs/cabinet) would often be posh, waxed and a little bit narrowed at the bottom. You would sometimes however see them roundish or even squaring. Beds have simple, straight, “clean” lines, the wood, if it is used, is light and the bed board is usually soft. Bed hangings are usually made of white batiste and attached either to ceilings or to the wall just above the bet board.

Bedroom Furniture- Other

A proper settee is the main element of Swedish design. They are often met in narrow spaces. These would usually have 6 legs and not too soft backs. However, they would have plenty of small cushions.

Bedding Fabrics And Material

It is very likely that all bedding fabrics are mostly natural. Linen and cotton are the most often used as bedding material. Texture varies however- from plain colours to checked, patterned or even flowered with small flowers. Coloured fabrics would usually consist of two colours and one of these colours more likely than not would be white.
The colour of wood is usually light or painted white. They usually use birch wood, light pine wood or alder wood to complement Swedish design style in bedroom or other house premises.

Bedroom Architecture

Huge glass windows, high ceilings, niches, hard wooded floors and traditional Scandinavian stoves. Walls are also bright, usually pale white as well as floors. Designers are taking all possible means to obtain the impression of an open, spacious and light space.

How To Pick The Right Bed Sheets & Bed Linen

It is a pity that when speaking about the home improvements the first thing that comes into one’s mind is a new kitchen or a bathroom. So many people still do not think of their bed linen and bedding as a part of home improvement process, and that is a shame. After all, you can completely change the appearance and the experience in your bedroom simply by changing your bed linen and that is such a tiny cost to pay for this significant renewal.

Easy care bed linen was very popular in the past, which is so not surprising, if taking into the account the amount of hard work that had to be done at a home laundry. Long time ago the washing of bedding and other items could have taken all week. Fortunately, the quality as well as the convenience of washing machines nowadays allow people finally to be able to feel free to find and use bedding that is really desired for their bedroom. There are hundreds and hundreds of choices out there for all the different colours and designs.

The choices are excellent, but one may be wondering how they can be narrowed. There are three main factors that are used to describe sheets: type of material, fibre length and touch. If you want your sheets to be strong, soft and good quality you should strongly consider 100% cotton. Polyester sheets are not completely bad, but not so pleasant to touch, however do not require so much ironing. Cotton is advantageous because it can absorb moisture, and sheets are more pleasant to touch. Egyptian cotton is a more expensive version in the family of cotton bed linen, but it makes softer sheets and also has some additional advantages.

Fibre length has nothing to do with benefits to your health, but it is very important in making the decision of which bedding to choose. If you are expecting to get the high-quality sheets, you should expect at least 200 thread count. The higher this number becomes the better and more luxury sheets you can expect. However the price is also something that depends on the thread count. High thread count has a lot of advantages including better performance during washing, increased softness and overall appearance. Low thread count tends to become thicker and quickly fall apart. Typically, most people tend to look for 200-400 thread count to increase the quality, but to minimize costs.
The third and last point is a touch. This can be determined by the type of the cotton, thread count, weaving, colouring and other processes. Italian weavers often work very well so naturally their fabrics are one of the best in the world but prices also tend to be higher.

There are several reasons of choosing different bedding materials such as flannel, silk, satin or linen. Some obvious advantages of flannel are that it performs excellent thing during cold winters. On the other hand satin and silk can have the same effect but be of a “higher class” because of their luxury. Silk is a fabulous material, but it can be expensive to dry clean your sheets every week, if you want to take a proper care of them.

There may be a lot of choices out there, but the number of key performers is not so overwhelmed. If you start to narrow it down say to the range of 200 – 400 thread or start looking for some more sophisticated material like silk you can realise that the number of choices has dropped . This may take some effort and you may even have to do some decent research until you find exactly what you are looking for.

4 Reasons Of Not To Have A TV In Your Bedroom

Pros And Cons Of Having A TV In Your Bedroom
Today we (me and my boyfriend) had a serious argument on whether or not a TV set should be included into our bedroom’s design. Some say that this is a good and even a luxury while others do oppose to the idea as it is not good for your health and a good sleep. One of the opponents of having a TV in the bedroom I found was Joshua Becker (I still have to find out if he is an interior designer as he simply introduces himself as a minimalist in his byline.

Anyway after years of having a TV in his room he ran an experiment of actually removing it out of his bedroom. Believe it or not he could come up with 18 (18!) good reasons to get rid of the TV and it was extremely fun to read them. He lists things like getting more sleep as Americans are likely to spend over 35 hours a week in front of a TV and some of those hours must be taken from a sleep. Things like ability to reflect or plan your day can also be influenced by having/ not having a TV close to your sleep place. Well for sure I agree with many of the causes like “a good example for kids” or “more conversation with your partner”. I was particularly interested in the arguments that advertisement in fact does influence you while you are at your weakest – just before or after your sleep. Nobody of us likes or wants to be controlled. Basically I would categorize his ideas on why it is good not to have a TV in your room to four major groups:
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1. Better relationship with your kids/spouse
2. Better personal performance (more peaceful mind, etc.)
3. Better time management (less rush, more valuably spent time)
4. Good impact on your home atmosphere (energy saving, less dusts in bedroom, less potentially-harmful- waves, etc.)

Now on the other hand it is so cool – particularly in cold winter nights to come back home after a tiring day and dive into the soft bedding of your bed, turn on a TV (or a laptop with a good movie in our case) and turn off your mind. TVs can be a stylish accent in one’s bedroom. I looked into this further and found some nice examples of a TV incorporated in bedroom’s design. The fun thing is that apparently a TV can be included in many different style bedroom interiors.

While some of those pictures (and designs) are awesome, in the end however we finally decided against placing a TV in the bedroom. The main reason was that we both love never ending discussions so much especially when we are in bed – and a TV might bit by bit take away this awesome tradition from us.

Bedroom Colours: White

White is more popular in the bedroom than in no other room, and no wonders – white does symbolize peace and calm after all. White is also believed to be the colour of sanctuary. Where else would you need to enjoy such qualities than in the bedroom?
Steven Whitehead, who has been a bedding stylist for 15 years, says that the white bedding has a certain mystique and when you go into beautiful spa hotels, the beds tend to be all variations of a white theme and it all allows people to completely unwind and just to be.

It is believed that white is very delicate, and it will instantly let you know when it’s soiled. Because of this and many other reasons, a successful white bedroom should, in principle, be the easiest of all concepts to achieve. However, in fact, to decorate a white bedroom that really works requires just as much – if not more – thought than any other room in the house.
Mr Whitehead also emphasises that the “great thing of a white bedding is that it’s so easy to update. you can simply add a new element, a new coverlet, a new sham, a new decorative pillow and all of sudden you have a beautiful new room It is timeless, it’s classic and you will always be able to use it.”
The tone or tones of the background white in a bedroom require a deal of thought: brilliant, bright whites are possibly too unforgiving for a room should be designed to soothe, and can look unwelcomingly stark – quite the opposite from the required effect. Better to look at the palette of creamy whites — buttermilk, parchment, cream — tones which give warmth while retaining their neutral status. Again, two or three shades of these whites used together gives a much deeper, more satisfying appearance than one shade alone, particularly when the woodwork is coloured in such a way that an imperceptible difference can be seen between it and the colour of the walls. Accents of contrast colour are fine, of course, but, on the whole, the bedroom is not the place for making your most challenging colour statements. Not only is it a room generally used to relax in, it is also where you wake up and the space to which you retreat in times of illness.

Another interesting thing is mentioned, that they “can take on any number of personas, it can be very clean and masculine, very organized and geometric, it can be very romantic with ruffle with beautiful heirloom linens, it can take on any type of identity you need it to take on”. Mr Whitehead also explains, that seasonally it can be done with lightweight, wool blankets, lightweight cotton blankets to make it from summer to autumn, from winter to spring and then again to summer. HE also mentions one good trick how to easily and quickly freshen and to ease out wrinkles- simply take a bottle of water and spray it all over. That can be done in your guest room to freshen sheets or a duvet just before your guests arrive.