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Turning your master bedroom into your personal retreat

Posted: 15 September 2009 by Metricon Homes

Tags: furniture, lighting

With some great master bedroom decorating you can create the perfect sanctuary for reviving both your body and your spirit. No room in your home is more personal than the master bedroom. It is the core of your private space, where you can truly be yourself. It is the sanctuary where you go to rest, relax, rejuvenate, and restore your inner self.

Master bedroom decorating ideas should reflect all your preferences relating to these activities. If you only use your bedroom for sleeping, you are missing out on a fabulous opportunity to create a personal retreat.

Just by moving a reading chair and a small table into the room you can create a cosy retreat from the demands and noise in other parts of the home.

If you like to have your coffee in bed in the morning, set aside a space in the bedroom or the bathroom counter for a coffeepot.

In order to keep your room both functional and comfortable, here are some decorating ideas for lighting your master suite:

  • If you can only sleep in perfect darkness, room darkening shades are a must
  • Wall lamps or nightstand lights on each side of the bed are needed for comfortable bedtime reading
  • If you use your dressing table for applying makeup, there are lights available that can switch from daylight, evening, and natural light.
  • A great luxury in warm weather is a ceiling fan with light included
  • Don't forget to put a lamp in your reading corner
  • And last but not least, this is a bedroom and perhaps a room for romantic encounters. Nothing beats a dimmer for creating romantic ambiance

If there is any room in the home where you want peace and quiet, it is the bedroom. Not only is plush furniture luxurious and inviting, it also reduces sound. Heavy drapes, carpeting, pillows, and comforters, all combine to help dull sounds and keep the room quiet and restful.

If you have wall to wall carpeting, a great master bedroom decorating idea is to place area rugs over the traffic paths to keep the carpet cleaner and longer lasting. It is much less costly and an easier job to clean small area rugs rather than an entire room.

When you are looking for master bedroom decorating ideas, remember the Golden Rule: It's your room and you don't have to please anyone but yourself.

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