Amazing, your new home is starting to feel like home. Step by step, one room at a time, you are putting in your distinct style. If your intention is to awaken with good spirits each day, it's time to address your bedrooms.

We spend approximately one third of our lives resting and sleeping in bed. After our often jam-packed days, our minds and bodies deserve a haven of peaceful slumber to let go and slide into serenity.

"Serenity and sensuality-two prerequisites for a healthy, happy existence-are often missing in our Western culture, and the bedroom is where we find them." Terah Kathryn Collins-The Western Guide to Feng Shui Room by Room

Whether we sleep, dream, read, or have intimacy, we have the opportunity to create an inviting, cozy, sensual atmosphere in our bedrooms. Sometimes the master bedroom is forgotten or put on the back burner. When I consult with people, as a Feng Shui Design Consultant, they often admit that they aren't sleeping well, sometimes they are exhausted, and, as for romance? They knew that something was missing. The goal of bringing serenity and sensuality into your master bedroom is a priority. You will then sink into its embrace, waking refreshed and ready for a new day.

A Safe, Cozy Nest

One of the three basic principles of Feng Shui is that everything that vibrates with energy is connected. Our connection to our homes vitally nurtures and empowers us out in the world. A no nonsense approach to decorating your bedroom, with this principle in mind, is to put safety and comfort first. This means choosing art that is either lightweight or solidly anchored over your heads. It also includes selecting furnishings without sharp edges and corners that might cause injury during sleep or romance. Look in decorating books and magazines; peruse furniture stores for beautiful bedroom scenes. Then, adapt their ideas to your own, promoting safety and comfort.

What association do you have to the décor in your room?

If you plan to use furniture or art from your or your partner's past, make certain that each piece is sending you positive, nurturing vibes. Take a moment to ask yourselves this question, "Does anything in our décor have an unpleasant memory associated with it?" An example of the negative impact that a bedroom possession can have is when using furniture that came from a previous unhappy marriage. It may be exquisite, your taste, and comfortable, however, the feelings of sadness, anger or grief can prevent you from having peaceful sleep and from awakening to new beginnings in life.

What do you wake up to?

It's so important to set the stage. Eliminate any pieces of furniture that remind you of work, such as desks with computers and exercise equipment. As you awaken each day, these can taunt you rather than refresh you. What would it be like to wake up to something that makes your heart sing each day? What you and your partner wake up to each day literally impacts the quality of your days. If your room has space to create a tranquil seating arrangement, select chaises or comfortable reading chairs to luxuriate in. Select something beautiful for your eyes to awaken to.

A Room with a View

In Feng Shui arranging your bed with a view of the door, yet not directly in front of it, gives you full view of anything unexpected. Window coverings assure a cozy, sensual nest. Your energy and attention will then be grounded and at rest.

You may or may not view your master closet. Nevertheless, consciously arranging and organizing impacts the quality of your sleep each night. If you have mirrored closet doors, it's beneficial to drape them at night. Although mirrors are magnificent decorating features in almost any room, in bedrooms keep them to a minimum, because they tend to ‘wake up' the energy. Frank Lloyd Wright understood this. He created bedrooms with mirrors that were encased with doors, allowing them to be open in the daytime and be closed at night.

House your bedroom television in an armoire or a cupboard. Televisions, like computers, tend to demand attention, taking away from intimate connection.

Appeal to Your Senses
Color, Texture, Smell, Sound

The colors you choose for your walls and your bedding, the texture of your sheets, the aroma of scented candles and flowers, soft lighting, and soothing music will all contribute to a complete sensual oasis. Here is a place to splurge on fabrics such as velvets, fine cottons, silks or satin. The best bedroom colors are those that match the vast assortment of skin tones. Starting with vanilla, crème, apricot, pink, gold, beige, taupe, violet, and earthy reds, you can also step into more pigmented tones of chocolate, raspberry, aubergine, copper, or bronze. Select tones that you and your partner think of as pure pleasure. If you love greens, whites, blacks, grays and blues, it is best to use them as accents since they tend to ‘cool a room down.'

Keep It Simply Balanced Your design focal point is your bed; everything else in your room is a complement to it. When choosing bedside tables and lamps, select ones that are equal in size. Besides creating a balanced look, in Feng Shui this symbolically represents equality in your relationship! Singles evoking new relationships can do the same. Pairs of things, like flowers or candles, enhance the symbolism of being a couple. Create your intention, while creating your cozy, sensual nest. You may be creating a little magic that will reverberate throughout your nights and days.