Luxury Bed Sheets
In many ways, I am a pretty typical guy. Although I have done better in recent years, I am still not the best housekeeper. When I am living on my own, I use whatever sheets and blankets I happen to have around. The last ones I had, in fact, had holes in them and had not been replaced in years. I keep things reasonably clean, but I’m not the type of person to worry about appearances. I certainly don’t invest in such frivolities as luxury bed sheets.
When I first got involved with Lorraine, my current girlfriend, everything changed. She was definitely a Luxury Bed Sheets kind of girl. I’m not talking about luxury silk sheets either – those are reasonably affordable nowadays. She would use nothing but Egyptian cotton bed sheets. You might assume that she is rich and spoiled, but she isn’t. She spends little money on entertainment, preferring to stay at home and read a good book when she gets some free time. She just enjoys the good things in life – comfortable clothing, a home-cooked meal, and excellent sleeping arrangements.
When she first told me that Luxury Bed Sheets help her sleep better, I was quite skeptical. Bedsheets are bedsheets, or so I thought. I have slept on what I thought were luxury hotel sheets before, and I didn’t notice much of a difference. The first night I spent at her house, however, I was in for a pleasant surprise. The Luxury Bed Sheets were actually amazing! They felt so smooth and comfortable against my skin that I fell right asleep almost as soon as my head hit the pillow. She hadn’t really expressed disapproval of my house, but nevertheless I quickly changed the way I was living. Maybe there was something to be said about leather furniture and Luxury Bed Sheets after all!
Fortunately, I took her with me when I went out to buy a Luxury Bed Sheets. I am so glad that I did. Bedding is not an area that most consumers know much about. There are a lot of people there, in fact, who will fleece you, selling you mediocre products for greatly inflated price. Unless you know good quality from bad quality (or happen to have a girlfriend who does) you won’t get the real, genuine article. Trust me, you will know the difference when you experience it. Luxury Bed Sheets are worth doing a bit of research before you shop!
Kids Bedrooms
If you have a child, you have to deal with your child’s room. You may remember being yelled at as a kid to keep your room clean, and you may have wondered what the big deal was. Today, I totally understand why my mom was always on my case to get my room cleaned up, and why she would get so upset when I let it go. For parents, seeing messed up kids bedrooms is something that will never be acceptable. When you spend a lot of time keeping the rest of the house clean, chaos in the bedrooms seems to make it seem like you have done nothing at all.
Kids bedrooms are a place where many kids play. If you can, you should have a separate room for toys, and if you can do this, the bedrooms will remain cleaner for longer. Most of us don’t have this extra space, and if we do, we have to use it for something else. If at all possible, you should give your children the bigger rooms when moving in to a new house if you don’t have room for a toy room. That way, they can keep a better handle on the toys they have.
If you find that your kids bedrooms are always a disaster, you have to come up with a plan to keep it picked up. This will be hard, and I have to tell you, I have failed on every attempted. My kids bedrooms have always been a disaster, and no matter how hard I try, I cannot get her to pick up the toys and clothes. We can help her, but the mess is back the next day. Short of cleaning her room for her, or moving, I am at a loss as to what to do next.
You may want to get storage units to put into your kids bedrooms if they seem to have too many toys on the floor all the time. This hasn’t worked well for me, but maybe it will for you. My daughter is spoiled rotten by my family, and I don’t know how to get them to quit. As a result, she just has too many toys. Before each holiday I must go through her stuff and throw things away, and give away the good stuff to charity. Otherwise, she’d be living in Toys R Us. The very best thing to do if your kids bedrooms are driving you nuts is to close the door and try to forget about it. It works for me.
Bedside Tables
Of all the things that we could have fought about, I never assumed that it would be about bedside tables. Ok. I feel I need to explain this to you. In our house, the bedroom is the smallest room. I’m not kidding when I say that it is smaller than our smallest bathroom. I don’t know how we could have skipped noticing this fact when we were moving in, but there you have it – the world’s smallest bedroom. A fact that makes it all the smaller is that we have what can comfortably pass off as the world’s largest four-poster bed. Again, I’m not kidding you. I bought this mammoth at a garage sale because it seemed too good to pass up, and believe me when I tell you, I’ve never regretted anything as much as I have regretted buying this bed. Hang on, that’s not entirely true. I do regret the bed, but maybe it’s the bedside table that I regret the most.
You see, this dainty little bedside tables came along with this huge bed. And since I’m never good at passing up an opportunity to claim a freebie, I took the bedside tables home. Trouble is, the bedroom is far too small to accommodate me, the missus, the mammoth bed and the bedside table. And since my missus was used to her comfort and fell in love with the bedside table at first glance, it was me who was unceremoniously booted out of the bedroom on the first day. Being too weary to argue after lugging the mammoth bed home, I quietly went to the living room to slump on the couch. But day two again saw me being booted. This time I put up a good fight with the missus and got hollered at for my effort (Oh yes! The woman can holler!) So back to t good old couch it was.
Day three came by and I decided to be a little proactive. Well before the missus got all bleary eyed, I snuck into the bedroom and smuggled out the offensive bedside tables. I placed it (rather too much concern on my part, if you ask me) out on the balcony. In a way, you could say that after being banished to the couch for two straight days, I was keen to get my revenge. But all hell broke loose when the missus discovered that I was in the bedroom while her ‘lovely bedside table’ (her words; not mine!) was out in the cold. Now snide remarks may slide over my skin, hurtful words can be absorbed by my hide, but being passed over for a miserable old bedside table (my words; not hers!) was too much hurt for my pride to swallow. So I did what every hot blooded man in my position would do. I stormed into the balcony and threw the offending bedside tables over the side.
Big mistake. The bedside tables landed on poor Mrs. Jane and left her bed-ridden for a month. My society members fined me for wanton and dangerous littering. The missus never forgave me till I bought her a similar bedside table (and a really expensive one this time around; turns out the bedside table I had smashed was a collector’s item of sorts!) and I got banished all over again to the couch (this time, minus the cushions!) Moral of the story? Try a mattress on the floor and enjoy happy, wedded bliss!
Comforter Set
My neighbors have been remodeling their house for most of the summer. They are updating the cabinets in the kitchen as well as their counter top. They also replaced the carpeting in the living room area as well as the bedrooms. My neighbor knows that I have done a great deal of painting so she asked me if I would help her paint the room. I told her that I would be glad to.
The color she picked for the walls is a dark sand color. They have white woodwork and ceilings so the room had a very crisp look to it during the daylight hours and a very relaxing feeling in the evenings. Once we finished the painting she asked me to go shopping with her to find a comforter set. She had a quilt and bed skirt in the room, but she was tired of looking at it and she wanted to complete the new look for the room.
We went to an outlet store that is close to our homes. The store had comforter sets that my neighbor loved, however they only had it for a twin size bed. That particular color line was discontinued so the store could not order her one. I suggested a bedspread instead of a comforter set. I saw a white woven bedspread. I thought the bedspread would look very nice and neat. Because it was such a neutral tone she could place many multiple colored pillows on the bed. The pillows could change with the seasons. The only thing the bedspread did not have was the warmth that the comforter set would provide.
My neighbor was not convinced that she wanted to get the bedspread. The clerk told her that she could take the bedspread and the comforter set home with her to see what they would look like in the room. She was given forty eight hours to make a decision. I thought this was a great offer on the part of the store. It insured her a sale of at least one of the items and it gave the neighbor a chance to see both of the bed covers in the room.
We arranged the bedspread on the bed. It looked very nice I told my friend that she also needed to in vision several pillows on the bed also. We then put the comforter set on the bed. The puffiness on the batting and the bold colors made the room feel warm ad cozy. She decided to buy both the comforter set as well as the bedspread. She thought it would be nice to change the color schemes in the room periodically.
Bedroom Decor
When it comes to Bedroom Decor, you should think more about it then you may have realized. There are many sleep disorders out there, and you might be surprised to know that how you decorate your bedroom and what you put into it might make a difference in how you sleep. Though a sleeping disorder might have a different root of origin, the colors you choose and the stuff you surround yourself with might make a difference in how much sleep you get and how well you sleep in general.
When you choose a color for your Bedroom Decor, you should always go for something low key or darker. Don’t get bright sunny colors or your walls will stimulate you and you won’t sleep well. Bedroom should be for sleeping and sex with your mate. Everything else should be done elsewhere. This might help your sex life as well. You should choose colors like dark reds or perhaps even blues. You can offset with white accents for some brightness, but you want to keep your Bedroom Decor on the muted side and it should not be something for the whole family.
When planning the accessories for your Bedroom Decor, keep it simple. You don’t want family photos and your child’s artwork hanging in there. Your sex life might suffer if you have mom and dad smiling down at you from your last family portrait. You love your children but reminders that they are in the house might also put a damper on your intimate moments. The Bedroom Decor is one thing that you might want to go at as if you were still a childless couple. You can put the family stuff all over the rest of your house if you want to, just leave it out of your bedroom.
Also remember to keep your Bedroom Decor very sparse. Don’t have anything in there that might look cluttered. Keep clean lines and soft surfaces. Anything that reminds you of work or chores will keep you awake because you are aware that it is sitting there undone. If at all possible, don’t have a computer in your bedroom, and never leave clothes sitting out. Make sure you have an adequate clothing hamper in your bedroom. If you keep your Bedroom Decor simple and demur, you will get better sleep, and as a bonus, you might also find that your sex life improves as well.
Contemporary Bedroom Furniture
What is the most peculiar piece of Contemporary Bedroom Furniture you have come across? I mean, take a look around your bedroom. Most of the Contemporary Bedroom Furniture there is just that – functional, bedroom furniture. This furniture has a specific function to perform and excels at performing that. Take the bed itself for instance. It comes with a mattress and facilitates lying down. Which is what most people do with it anyways! Or take the bed stands for instance. They are meant to serve as convenient storage spaces for items related to the bedroom, which probably need to be tucked away from sight. In some cases, these bed stands come equipped with shelves of sorts so that people can store their books. So far these examples of Contemporary Bedroom Furniture are fairly straightforward. In the rare case, I have come across Contemporary Bedroom Furniture that reflects the style or personality (or sometimes, just the quirks!) of the owner. But in some of the houses I have had the opportunity to visit, I have come across some really strange Contemporary Bedroom Furniture !
The strangest of these kinds of Bedroom Furniture was a centuries old alarm mechanism. I use the word mechanism on purpose. Because, unlike the digital clocks of today, this truly was a mechanical device that would wake the sleeper up with a veritable shudder. Based on the principle of the spring mechanism, it could be set for hours and half hours. Once the set time arrived, the device would release a spring on the underside of the bed, literally pushing the sleeper off it. In order that the sleeper not hurt him/herself, there was a barricade of sorts to prevent them from flying completely off the bed. This whole contraption (I quite frankly don’t know what else to all it!) fit snugly under the bed and lay there until disturbed.
In some of the older houses I have visited, I have found Bedroom Furniture that includes the quaint mosquito net holder. Basically, this comprises four posts of the bed on which the mosquito net is hung or suspended from. But when the net is off, it does look like a pall of sorts. In fact, the first time I saw it, it gave me quite a fright. But the one Bedroom Furniture that totally freaked me out was the rotary meal deliverer. I really don’t know what else to call it. It was a mechanical contraption (again!) that delivered food to the person reclining comfortably on the bed!
Bed Quilts
When my husband and I were first married, we had our first fight over Bed Quilts. I was in love with the plush, lacy quilt I’d had on top of my own bed for several years, and he thought that something more masculine would be appropriate since we’d now be sharing a bed. He wanted some Bed Quilts in dark colors, with geometric shapes, when I’ve only ever slept under blankets decorated with flowers and girly frills. We eventually had to sort it out and move on with our lives because, as we would soon find out, there are so many more interesting things to fight about in a marriage to waste much energy arguing about the Bed Quilts.
We had to come to an agreement, somewhere between lace covered roses and darkly colored geometrical designs. We tried to find Bed Quilts with patterns we both liked but it was practically impossible. Our tastes in bedding were so different that if I saw something I liked, I could immediately assume my husband would think it was the most hideous design ever created. I liked checks, he liked stripes. I liked bright colors, he liked earth tones. I didn’t mind paisleys, he would rather sleep on the sidewalk than under some Bed Quilts covered in paramecium-shaped designs. On it went until finally we decided to buy a plain white down comforter for our bed to get us through the winter, and then we would resume our fight about the Bed Quilts once spring came again.
Luckily my mother-in-law intervened before we had a chance to segregate ourselves into separate rooms. She is a quilter and she offered to design a quilt for us, using fabrics we picked out ourselves. The possibilities were endless. If you’ve ever been on a trip to a fabric store then you know how much there is to choose from. They have plain fabric, textured fabric, they even have fabric made out of muppet fur! I knew we’d have lots of options.
When the day finally arrived for us to visit the fabric store, we realized that while we both had individual ideas about what the pre-made Bed Quilts should look like, we also had our own ideas about what a custom-made quilt should look like. In the end, we decided to each create one side of the quilt and flip it on the bed every once in a while. And now our time is freed up to fight about more important things like who left the toothpaste gobs in the sink.