Good Morning Everyone,
Hopefully by now everyone has ad the chance to read my last article on redecorating your bathroom and making it your place of relaxation. But, we hope that it wasn't so comfy that you moved in there.
However, your bedroom might just be that place. I love the bedroom, but one particular problem I found was turning it into that special haven without the expense. A bedroom in my opinion has to certainly reflect the person you are. Ask yourself a few questions such as, is it your romantic get away? Is it your place to just escape? Does it serve as a functioning office/bedroom?
Depending on your answer to the aforementioned questions, that will be the personality your bedroom takes. However, once again I can not stress enough how clutter creates stress.
I was a person that just put everything in my room. I love clothes, always working on some paper or another, constantly reading and so the story goes. I would go home and take my clothes and throw them in the closet or shove them in the drawers and then struggle in the morning trying to find something for work.
However, after reading my favorite book Heal Thyself for Health and Longevity, I discovered that if my home was my temple, just as my body is my temple, I was being destructive to my temples and that my bedroom is actually my throne. Therefore, I needed to treat it as such.
My first step in ridding the room of clutter was simply hanging up my clothes and color coding them in my closet and drawers. I went and purchased some plastic bins, and neatly folded all out of season clothing and placed them under my bed. Out of site out of mind really does work.
As previously mentioned, my love for beautiful things simply envelops me. And, just as I mentioned previously, colors make all the difference in the world. So, after organizing, then came time to strategies about my throne. I love purple and green and wanted very much to keep it in accordance to my bathroom decor and colors. Primarily because my bathroom was in my bedroom, but also because the colors in my bathroom have done wonders for my mental state. So, once again the green and purple combination called out to me.
My primary concern was how to display my personality in my bedroom at an inexpensive cost. Bedroom decorating can be very expensive with the comforters, window treatments and so forth. So, I decided to let my creativity take a new twist. Most of us have sheets that we really don't use. My favorites are flannel sheets because they provide warmth and comfort and because they are inexpensive.
So, I took two of my lavender flannel sheets, and one pastel green flannel sheet, making sure they were older one's I really did not use much. I cut the green sheet into inch wide and 5 inch long strips. Once I had about 30 strips cut, I tied two of them together in the middle making sure they were tight. Then, took a needle and lavender thread and sewed them onto one lavender flannel sheet. After tacking the 15 tied strips onto the lavender sheet, I took an old comforter, ripped it open and removed the stuffing. I then placed the stuffing in between the 2 lavender flannel sheets and used fabric glue to seal all edges and corners. This is for the non sewer like myself.
After letting it dry for a couple of days, I purchased some ivory lace and once again, glued the lace on both sides of my lavender comforter and when I was finished, I had a new comforter in the exact colors I wanted. In addition, it reflected beauty and had the unique quality of a hand made quilt. My final touches to it was sewing thru the middle of the ties all the way thru to the bottom sheet and back up to the middle of the ties to avoid slippage of the comforter stuffing I had placed in the middle.
Satisfied with my new comforter, I then used the rest of the pastel green flannel sheet to cover my pillows. In addition, the other half on my pastel green flannel sheet set was cut evenly around the edges and used as a dust ruffle.
However, there was still work to do. So, while waiting for the comforter to dry from the fabric glue I used, I decided to work on the rest of my room. As a lover of art, music and books, I decided I needed that part of me in my room. But, I did not want it to look like I had stepped into a museum or something. My 14 year old daughter has an artistic talent that makes me cry over the beauty and detail she always manages to capture. My other daughter who just turned 12 today has a fashion eye that a designer would die for. And, as previously mentioned in an earlier blog, we as parents save all the little art from school, all the little affections and tokens of love our kids give us, so I knew I had more than enough to do something with.
Working in the motion picture industry also meant I was constantly getting posters for whatever production I was a part of, needless to say my collection was abundant. And, the beauty of it was, the movie posters were always presented to me mounted and framed. So, while so many of them were sitting tucked away in a hall closet, I pulled them all out and dismantled them. I then took all the pictures my 14 year old had ever done in her freestyle drawing and placed them in the frames and glass and put them back together. I placed all her black and white sketched art in one frame and all the pictures in which she had colored with paints of lavender, purples and greens in another and hung them on my bedroom walls.
My fashion daughter who always made doll clothes had a case of them she no longer used as she constantly kept the dolls fitted in her new and latest creations. So, once again, I dismantled two frames, took the left over bathroom border and used it as background and glued all the little clothes to it. I then reassembled the frame with glass and all and hung those.
This was my bedroom wall art and it was simply beautiful. Not only was it beautiful but it made me realize that each of my daughters has a personality trait similar to my own. One daughter and her love for beautiful fashion and the other with her love or art. This certainly made me feel as if they were always with me, even as I slept.
However, my project was still not quite done. I still needed that live green as I have so often mentioned. So, of course I got a plant and a stand and placed it near my bedroom window, allowing it to feed off the light. But, stil yearning for that color, I needed some fabric orchards. I'm one of those people that simply adores full bouquets. So, I purchased some shallow wicker baskets that were pink from one of my favorite online spots, then purchased approximately 5 orchard bouquets that were in these square little glass vases. Removing the bouquets from the vases and placing them in the pink baskets and placing the basket on one nightstand, finally gave me my satisfactory effect.
However, I still had the little square vases. I simply took a few strips of the cut up pastel flannel sheet, soaked them in lavender oil, poured a little of the oil in the vases and stuffed the soaked sheet strips in the vases. I then took some colorful marbles and placed them in the vases on top of the strips adding color. I placed one of the vases on the other nightstand, one on my dresser, one in my closet shelf and another in my armour. By strategically placing the vases with the lavender scent around my room that way, I always had the calming effect of the oil whenever entering my room and carried it with me thru the day in my clothing, relieving me of stress on a constant basis.
As previously mentioned, these were my methods for creating my haven according to my taste. However, I hope they opened up your artistic and innovative gateways to allow you to create your individual havens. Below, as usual you will find a few links referencing where I obtained some of the items I used for creating my haven. I hope these links will be as useful to you as they are to me.
I sincerely appreciate everyone who reads and enjoys my little tidbits and idea and certainly hope you will all join me next week for my new blog subject on natural nutrition and ways to get the vitamins and minerals our bodies need. Of course from writing about decorating without the stress, many people have requested more information on juicing and natural nutrition. So, until next week, here's wishing everyone less stress and more relaxation.
Thanks Again
www.stylistemporium.com
Orchards - http://www.stylistemporium.com/orinwaglva.html
Flannel Sheets (if you don't already own them) - http://www.stylistemporium.com/household.html
Pink Wicker Baskets - http://astore.amazon.com/styliempor-20/detail/B000FR99ZK
Heal Thyself for Health & Longevity -
http://astore.amazon.com/styliempor-20/detail/1886433763
Pure Essential Lavender Oil - http://www.stylistemporium.com/sweetalmond.html
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