Best Ways to Modernize Your Bedroom

You spend nearly half of your life sleeping. If you’re like us, from time to time, you get up from the sofa, or your work desk, and sleep in your bed. Some people make their bedrooms a place that unsettles them, even without realizing how. Here’s the best ways you can modernize your bedroom, and reinvent your room in to fashionable, domestic place of rest you deserve. Although to some a bedroom is easy to arrange, ( as you just need a bed right?), it isn’t a room worth rushing. With time and care, these tips will not only reinvent your room, but you’ll feel a million times better from the settled rest you’ll be getting.

With very little time to relax in this sometimes stressful world, your room isn’t somewhere you want to stress, and there’s some simple tips to let it work for your relaxation.

Whether you want to think, sleep, or spend time with your loved ones on a rainy Sunday afternoon, the bedroom is often the place. We’d never turn down breakfast in bed, would you?

So, where do we start, you ask?

Funnily enough, you start with the bed. Some skimp out on a nice bed, to save money, but is that worth doing? Not at all. You want a comfortable place to rest, and to sleep, and to re-energize yourself, right? So a bed should be the starting point for all of that. Find a frame that will last 10+ years, and a mattress that will provide the ultimate comfort for all of the hours you’ll be putting your head on the pillow. A classic, metal frame, and a memory-foam mattress is often the way to go. Whether black, white, red or blue, is up to you, but you can’t go wrong with this timeless classic.

Next- Whether you like yours or not- maybe fresh wallpaper/paint and carpets would be good. You can change an entire room, and the feel of it, by taking these steps. So, perhaps find something that will ease your mind. When we are young we often want our childhood heroes on the wall, and that often revives one’s mind. We are trying to rest now, so something delicate, elegant and simple, yet equally as effective will work brilliantly here. Pick something that represents you, and what you want your room to say.

Build around the view. Place your bed in a place where you cannot see it straight away. As you walk in you’ll want to see the window. Whether it’s the children’s toys, the birds, or the trees, you’ll appreciate that view as a warm welcome to your kingdom of rest. Then as you turn in to your room, you can make eye contact with your oh-so comfy bed.

Also, by placing your bed out of sight, you’ll be able to keep your door and window open for hours, and not be the center of attention as people walk by your room.

Last but not least consider your furniture. What dressers and nightstands do you want? You could have a television or a desk, but to get the most rest from your room, it’s advisable to leave them to the ‘living’ room, and use your bedroom as your ‘rest’ room.

Pick out a nice wardrobe, dresser and units that goes well with not only your bed, but the wallpaper and carpet. The overall finish will amaze you.

We’re willing to suggest you’ll be sleeping like a baby in no time. The bedroom is the most important room you’ll ever enter. If you haven’t been taking care of it, now’s the time to modernize, and revitalize the room. Rest is coming your way after all.

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Rasha writes about family, parenting, and home décor for Unfinished Man. Drawing from her experiences raising her own kids, she provides tips on creating warm, welcoming spaces. Rasha also shares home staging expertise to help transform houses into magazine-worthy dream homes.

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