Your Bedroom —Creating a Personal Sanctuary

The home as a sanctuary takes on even greater meaning when it comes to the bedroom. As you navigate all the unique parts of your dynamic life, balancing family, children and work, the bedroom can offer the ultimate refuge to relax, reflect and simply be an escape from your day-to-day life. Here are tips to create a mood in your bedroom that reflects your vibrant culture and style, while providing a sensual space to recharge your energy and soothe your soul.

Change the Mood with Textiles
Textiles including pillows, throws, duvets and other accessories are an effective, yet economical way to transform the style and mood of a bedroom. The color scheme that you choose should reflect your feelings for the purpose of that room.

Warm Harmony
Warmth and comfort emanates from this room in a color palette, especially an earthy orange and brown color. Adding a luxurious silk fabric creates a sensuous, sophisticated atmosphere. Rich neutral hues like taupe and ginger supplement the room with an element of restfulness.

Flaunt Your Flair for Color!
Your passion for color is associated with the richness and diversity of your culture. If you love color, use your innate ability! Reds, golds and orange are stimulating colors that can be used to create a dynamic, inviting bedroom. For extra vibrancy and impact, choose a complementary motif of colors that are opposite each other. This is a trick that designers use to select colors that sit opposite to each other on a color wheel.

A combination of stripes and solids offsets against the plain background and creates a unique, colorful space. Utilize lighting to add a warm and inviting atmosphere.

A combination of vibrant hues in different patterns creates a joyous array of color. Don’t be afraid to create a splash by mixing up these great prints.

Light Serenity
Classic white bed linens and curtains are relaxing and soothing, and promote a calm atmosphere. Dark and earth-toned furniture provides a foundation that combines elegance and peace. Use cool, light colors to generate a serene feeling that is fitting for a stress-free bedroom.

Lighting for Ambience and Tasks
Bedrooms need to serve a number of lighting needs. Mood lighting should always be considered, your bedroom should help you relax and prepare for sleep. Small, low wattage lamps in a few different areas of the room create soft spots of light. If overhead lamps are used at all, consider adding a dimmer light to reduce glare and create a relaxing feel. For reading in bed, try focused task lighting positioned slightly above eye level on a nearby nightstand or securely attached to the wall. For safety’s sake, never use a clamp-on lighting fixture near a bed, as it may accidentally become detached and fall into bedding.

Wall Decorations
Transform and spice up your bedroom by decorating your bedroom walls. Hanging pictures and art work is a fast and flexible way to enhance and change the feeling of your bedroom and create a sense of balance in the overall room design.

Your Sacred Space
As a modern Latina you can create a space in your bedroom that is about your personal expression with objects you find inspiring, peaceful, beautiful, or provocative. Here are some ideas to get you started:

Candles (Velas)
Set a peaceful atmosphere in the bedroom with candles to create a cozy, intimate place at the end of the day. The gentle light, pleasing aromas, and vast selection of colors and shapes enhance every decorating theme. Utilize the aspects of aromatherapy in scented candles to promote therapeutic benefits.

Photos of Your Familia
Photos of our loved ones inspire good memories, and photos of our ancestors remind us that we are part of something greater than ourselves. Bring life to your bedroom by displaying special photos in a cluster. Add visual interest by mixing and matching a variety of frames in different shapes.

Fresh Flowers
Fresh flowers create an element of tranquility and add beauty to a room. For a dramatic affect place flowers in tall colorful vases.

These tips should help you create a mood for your bedroom. Don’t be afraid to try it, trust your intuition and enjoy your efforts.

We would love to hear any of your home décor questions. For more information on home design visit www.latinastyle.com. To all our readers, we’d love to see before and after pictures of your decorating efforts. Send jpeg photos with your contact information to editor@latinastyle.com.
 
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By Janice Simonsen