Designing The Perfect Primary

Designing the Perfect Primary Bedroom Should Take the Following into Consideration:

1. Shades/window treatments. Aesthetics matter from curtains to roman shades, but 100% darkness may make all the difference for a good night's sleep.

2. Sound. If your bedroom is noisy, chances are sleep will be impacted. What about noise-canceling windows? Acoustical curtains? A water feature outside the window to soften street sounds?

3. A great mattress and bed linens. This is different for everyone, but can make a huge difference in quality of sleep, especially quality pillows!

4. Lighting: what lighting do you desire just before you go to sleep and when you wake up? Do you read in bed?

5. Additional furniture: a bed alone may not be as attractive as adding additional furniture to give your room a living room feeling.

6. Colors: what colors soothe? What colors inspire? Choose wisely.

How Can You Make Smaller Rooms Feel Larger? Some of out Favorite Designers Shared Their Ideas:

1. Painting a room in a darker, cool-toned matte can make it feel like the walls are receding.

2. Floor-to-ceiling built-ins reduce visual clutter and create a more open, streamlined look.

3. Painting the ceiling the same color as the walls draws your eyes up and creates the illusion of higher ceilings.

4. A small-scale, simple wallpaper motif can make rooms feel larger.

5. Large scale furniture and rugs are associated with larger spaces and can 'trick' the eye to make a small space feel larger.

6. Breathing room around the perimeter of furnishings, and being able to completely walk around them, will make the space feel roomier.