5 Things to Avoid in your Bedroom

Your bedroom should be a place of rest and relaxation, but there are many things that you could be doing wrong in the interior design of your bedroom. Many elements my have a negative impact on the healthiness of your bedroom, and could take up vital storage space that is pivotal to an orderly room.

So here are the top ways you could be going wrong in your bedroom;

1. Clutter

Clutter and too many possessions are the biggest contractor to an unorganised bedroom. Whether this be under-utilised storage such as sliding wardrobes only be a home for your clothing, or desks and dressing tables taking over your room. Condensing this into single items of furniture used for different purposes is the key. Take a look at your sliding wardrobes, is there a way in which you an utilise the space within them a little better?

2. Lighting 

Lighting is a pivotal part of a bedroom, you need a space that can be as dark as possible on a night and as light as possible on a morning. People often want to make the most of their natural like, understandably. As such, they opt for sheer fabric curtains and white fabrics that let light through. However, opting for heat and luxurious fabrics for your curtains will help block out the light on a night to help you get the best nights sleep possible, giving you a healthier nights sleep. You can double this up with. Sheer fabric underneath for those sunny days where you would like light to bouncy through the room.

3. Bright Colours

Using bright and bold colour for your walls or bedding can be a tough choice to avoid, if those are the colours you naturally a drawn towards, however, they could be interrupting you sleep pattern or ability to relax. Instead opting for neutral colours and natural fibre textiles will help you to relax and create a calm atmosphere that is perfect for that all-important good nights’ sleep.

4. Electric Avenue

Many people cant stay away from electronic devices, whether this be their mobile phone by their bed, a TV at the foot of the bed or a laptop in the bedroom. Many people don’t realise the negative impacts of these devices on you ability to relax, switch off from the world and re-coup after your day.  This is such a popular issue that many people ate getting creative with how they keep their technologies but hide them away. One of the most popular ways to do this is through sliding wardrobe doors. Having an inbuilt sliding wardrobe will give you much more storage and may even mean you can create an area of your sliding wardrobe that is solely for your TV, and TV stand, with plug points for phones and shelves for laptops, with their clothes and shoes being tidied away on either side of the TV.

5. Excessive Furniture

A great way to overwhelm your bedroom is through excessive furniture. Having too many pieces of furniture can create a cramped and closed feel that can inhibit rest and relaxation. Doubling up the uses of furniture i.e. seating with inbuilt storage, sliding wardrobes with a TV stand, a desk that becomes a dressing table or even folds away, can be a great way to save on space, create a fresh environment and help you on your way to a healthier bedroom.

Top things to avoid in your bedroom

As you can see, the interior design of your bedroom should be carefully considered. There are many elements that can contribute to an unhealthy or negative bedroom. If you would like to make a start on overhauling your bedroom, by installing sliding wardrobes, we can help. Contact our team with any questions or queries today.

Top Tips for a Healthier Bedroom 2018

Your bedroom should be your haven from the world, so it should also be the healthiest. Having a healthy bedroom doesn’t just mean a space that is clean, it also means organised, calming and sleep inducing, meaning your bedroom should be a healthy all-round room.

There are many ways that you can create a healthy bedroom, here we go through them to help you achieve the bedroom or your dreams.

1. De-Clutter

De-cluttering your bedroom is the biggest key to creating a healthier space. Psychology experts have studied the effects of mess and clutter on the mind and have concluded that de-cluttering or organising your space helps calm the mind and creates an environment that is easier to relax in. Essential for any bedroom!

De-cluttering can be done in a number of ways from having a quick study, to redesigning the interior design of you bedroom. A major way to help is built in storage. Built in storage helps you pack away everything you don’t need on display in an organised fashion. Adding designed sliding wardrobe doors can take this further, with wooden front doors creating a warm and natural space, with mirror sliding doors creating an environment for light to bounce around and create a fresh and airy area.

2. Dust

Dust can build up in a bedroom in no time! Regularly dusting your bedroom will automatically create a healthier and ‘breathe-easy’ space that you can relax in. If you have allergies, then this pain is even more important. With the build up of dust mites on mattresses and pillows, they can cause nasty side-effects that are avoidable, if you dust regularly.

3. Deep Clean your Bedroom

Deep cleaning your bedroom builds on the last point but takes it further with washing carpets and mattresses, as well as pillows, cushion and mattress protectors and more. Regularly having a deep clean of your bedroom will go a long way towards creating a place that you can relax in.

4. No Added Extras

This point covers pretty much everything from pets to laptops and computers. Having ‘added extras’ can upset the balance of your bedroom. Pets can bring dust and dirty into the room and laptops can distract the brain, making it more difficult to relax and ultimately sleep easy.

5. Be Scent-sible

Scents in a room can have a big impact on the health of your bedroom. Certain smells like jasmine, lavender and vanilla can have long lasting effects on your likeliness for a good nights’ sleep. Some scents are calming and relaxing, whilst others light citrus scents have the opposite affect.

6. Only use you bedroom when you have to

Using your bedroom all of the time for any and every activity is tempting, its one of the most comfortable rooms in the house of course! But, doing everything in your bedroom, breaks the brains connection between the bedroom and sleep. So watching tV, reading, working and more in the bedroom can disturb your body’s ability to ‘switch off’ and relax.

7. Textures and Pictures

Choosing your finishing touches can have a huge impact on the health of your bedroom. Choosing fresh flowers to display will create a calming and airy environment. Choosing artwork the is neutral and calming will have a healthier effect on your bedroom over a loud and bold piece. Choosing textiles that are heavy and luxurious will give you a feeling of sensual calmness, think silks for accents, and heady woven fabrics for curtains to block out as much light as possible for that all-important good night’s sleep.

A Healthier Bedroom in 2018

Taking note of these tips to create a healthier bedroom in 2018 can make a huge difference to you life and sleep routine. If you are opting for the de-clutter option, we can help. We create bespoke sliding wardrobes and sliding wardrobe doors that can overhaul your bedroom. Contact our team today with any questions or queries, we are more than happy to help.

Salvaging Space in your Bedroom

It’s a problem that has been round for a long time and will probably last a while longer yet, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t clever ways to salvage the space in your bedroom! All you need is some clever interior design tips and tricks. 

We have pulled together the best storage solutions around to salvage back some space in your bedroom.

The bedroom is often a space that can get ignored or used as a storage facility in itself. But with our storage secrets you can transform your bedroom into a tidy, organised space that you can enjoy.

Sliding Wardrobes

First things first, wardrobes don’t just have to be for clothes, and built in wardrobes with sliding doors can add huge amounts of storage without the need for busy doors that take up vital space.

Installing built in wardrobes is a stylish space saver. Gone are the days of bulky, overbearing built in storage of yester-year. Todays built in wardrobes are fitted, available in bespoke sizes and depths, and can feature mirrored wardrobe doors to give the illusion of a larger room, or sliding wardrobe doors in any colour or material to suit the rest of the room. 

Built in sliding wardrobes are often used as an all round storage solution that come with in built show racks, document storage, jewellery drawers and more!

You can build your own sliding wardrobes here at Sliding Robes Direct. Choosing your design, materials, colours, size, fittings and more. 

To help you get measured up for your new storage, we have created a handy guide on how to measure for your sliding wardrobes.

Position of your Sliding Wardrobe

Choosing where to install your built in storage is the key to saving as much space in your bedroom as possible. 

If you have a long narrow bedroom with only a small amount of space on either side of your bed, then you should consider built in storage around the head of your bed. This will triple your storage potential whilst only taking up a small space. At worst, you may need to move your bed down the room a small amount. 

If you have a wider room, then using one end as a storage space will work wonders to store all of your clothes and accessories, documents, bedding and more in one area, opening up the rest of the room and keeping your space, spacious!

Internal Storage in your Sliding Wardrobes

When it comes to storage within your sliding wardrobes, the possibilities are endless. You can install drawers, chests of drawers, shelves, racking, sliding out shelves, hooks and more to store anything and everything you desire. You can even install a pull out shelf that can be transformed into a desk.

Maximising the floor to ceiling space is one of the main benefits of built in wardrobes and storage. 

This type of storage can accommodate awkward spaces in your bedroom from a alcoves to sloping ceilings.

Top tip: Installing mirrored sliding wardrobe opposite a window will bounce light around your room and create an airy, fresh feeling.

Under the Bed Storage

Another great space saver comes from utilising the space under your bed. If you don’t have drawers under your bed, then we recommend installing drawers, or buying storage boxes that fit in the space. If you don’t have space under your bed, you have the option of raising your bed to create your own space. You can purchase bed raisers with inbuilt plug sockets to save even further on space and the overall look of your bedroom by combining the two.

Use your Wall Space

Making use of your walls is another great tip. From floating shelfs to coat hooks on your walls, there are a number of ways you can utilise this space. Some types of shelving can take up a large amount of space, however, knowing where to install the shelving is the key. For smaller bedrooms, many people opt for shelving in areas like alcoves, between sloped was and above the door. 

Double-Up Furniture

Doubling up the use of your furniture can be a great way to save and salvage space in your bedroom. Taking one piece of furniture like an ottoman and placing this under a windowsill with some cushions creates a window seat with storage. Another idea is to mount a large shelf to the wall that can double up as a desk or dressing table. Fitting this with hinges will mean you can fold it away to save even more space!

Space Saving Ideas

There are an array of ideas out there to help you save space. Stay objective. If you don’t need something or can re-organise something to save some space, then start there. When it comes to storage, then opt for built in storage with sliding wardrobe doors for the ultimate space saver.

Contact our team, they can help with the sizing, options available, and fittings that will best suit your room and space available. Alternatively you can build your own bespoke wardrobes with our made to measure builder.