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by Jeanette Joy Fisher
Design Psychology offers new bedroom
makeover ideas concerning your bed for supporting your emotional
well-being. Giving thought to your emotional needs when designing
your bed placement and enhancements helps you create a bedroom for
joyous living.
The
bed represents the beginning and ending of life. In the
past, people were conceived, born, and died in the same bed.
You spend more time in your bed than on any other piece of
furniture. Design Psychology offers new bedroom makeover
ideas concerning your bed for supporting your emotional
well-being.
Bed Placement for Secure Feelings
Position the headboard directly opposite the doorway up
against a wall. This creates the visual expansion of the
room and underscores the bed’s importance. As the main
attraction, the bed represents the focal point of the room.
A greater reason to place the bed so that it faces the
doorway is for a feeling of security. People feel safe with
a clear view of the door. With the door behind your vision,
you feel like someone can sneak up behind you. However, some
bedrooms with a separate entry space coming into the main
area present a dilemma; positioning a mirror in a way that
reflects the blind spot corrects this problem. Convex
mirrors, those that curves or bulge outward, help you to see
down the hallway.
Beds and Enclosure
Totally enclosed beds, those with full canopies of
voluptuous fabrics, sustain the comforting feeling of a
personal sanctuary. Canopies and testers, originally hung to
protect sleepers from drafts, give a secure sense of
enclosure. Partial canopies or beds with both headboards and
footboards provide a suggestion of enclosure. Partially
enclosed beds allow views of the room. A footboard adds a
semi enclosed womb-like feeling of comfort.
Some sleepers feel most comfortable with a barrier-free bed
with nothing to clutter the end space. Decide what makes you
feel secure, a peaceful, expansive bed without enclosure, a
semi-enclosure with a bare framework, or total enclosure
with abundant fabric on all sides.
Padded headboards, easy to assemble and more comfortable
than the more expensive brass, iron, or wood headboards,
offer great support for reading. Construct a marvelous and
unusual headboard with an antique oversized fireplace
surround. Fabricate a padded insert for the fireplace
opening space.
A bed footrest, love seat, or padded old chest at the foot
of the bed offers more functions than a footboard.
Bed Dressings
Black sheets not only look seductive, they also help keep
the morning light from disturbing sleep. Because forest
green evokes feelings of deep serenity, this color is
another good choice for bed linen. High-thread count, white
cotton contributes the impression of a luxury hotel. White
bed linens give you refreshingly cool emotional support
during hot summer nights. If you want an easy bed to make,
then use a bedspread that touches the floor instead of a
comforter and dust ruffle.
Forget all the pillows! They get in the way, make it hard to
make the bed, and add needless clutter.
Giving thought to your emotional needs when designing your
bed placement and enhancements helps you create a bedroom
for joyous living.
(c) Copyright 2004, Jeanette J. Fisher. All rights reserved.
About the Author
Professor Jeanette Fisher, author of Doghouse to Dollhouse
for Dollars, Joy to the Home, and other books teaches Real
Estate Investing and Design Psychology. For more articles,
tips, reports, newsletters, and sales flyer template, see
http://www.doghousetodollhousefordollars.com/pages/5/index.htm
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