17 Ideas to Improve 189 800 Hours - I counted! - of Your Life

 

  The average person spends 8 hours a day in their bedroom. Or 'on the nest', as someone I know refers to it. That's a whopping one third of your life. There is no need to state the importance of proper and enough sleep to you, you know yourself how grumpy you feel after too little or bad sleep. 

If you spend 8 hours a day in a horizontal position — or you should, anyway —  multiplied with 365 days a year, times just 65 years because you didn't get proper sleep, you will be in there for a whopping 189 800 hours! 

  Naturally, having a good mattress is vital, and experts say you should get a new one every 8 tot 10 years. There is more to good sleep than just a good mattress, though. Your environment plays an important role. Is it quiet enough? Dark enough? Do you go to bed at the same time as you should? No munching a snack for at least 3 hours before bedtime?

Because I broke all the good rules above, I had a really bad week. But a problem is an opportunity for a solution, right. I surfed the net and came across some photos of bedrooms, and it was an eye-opener. And, mind you, pretty cheap to set up something similar in your own bedroom as well. 

Here the photos are, and I added some text to each photo. Hope it gives you some ideas for your own bedroom. As I mentioned on the photo above, a DIY-course in home interior design is the best gift you can give yourself. Or — wink wink — to the person in your life you're going to drum up to turn the bedroom into a fairyland, because it's fairly cheap to make all these alterations yourself.

We all know Dreamland is blueish, and a bedroom like this should get you right there.

How difficult can this be to make yourself? Take an old broomstick or three, nail them like on the photo, paint it black, add LED-lights to the one side, and turn it, so the lights face the wall.  Total cost: A wife wondering where her flying brooms disappeared to, and two blue thumbs.

This is really cool, even for adults. Just make sure the fluorescent stuff you buy is the safe, non-toxic ones. You can use it with the other ideas on this page too.

I am certain that all princesses in animation movies have beds like this. Connect the LED-lights to the bed lamp, one flick of the switch, and it is off to sleep. 

Satanist alert! 🤣 Definitely not the color I should recommend for any bedroom, anyway not for sleep. Remember to get matching whips then too.

Beautiful! What a great theme. The white picket fence is perfect as headboard, I'd probably just add a (fake) plant or three in there as well. It will feel like sleeping in the garden. And how about those fluorescent stars on the ceiling too, after you switched off the little garden lights. This is guaranteed to create the right relaxed mood you need for wonderful sleep.

Kind of my current setup. Very formal. No kicking out shoes, instead properly taking it off, then carefully positioning yourself onto the bed as not to cause crinkles, then lay down and don't move for 8 hours. 

Great idea. If you don't have cats. 

Cheap and easy and really a cool idea. 

 

Stunning! Add an ocean theme to the bed, or a snow landscape, and you're set to feel like you're in Finland. 

Well-suited for the guest bedroom, it's so formal that they'll know not to mess with your stuff in your house. 

Pure hotel-style. So little in there, the staff will spot a missing hotel towel straight away. Look at the base, it's the 'floating bed' principle. 

Hm. The photo itself does not do it for me, but the idea has merits. 

 “How did your rich uncle die? Coronavirus?”

“Kind of. A book about Covid-19 fell on his head.”

Another idea with electrical lights. Apologies for the small photo, I tried saving electricity. LOL. Fortunately LED's consume very little electricity. 

This is certainly one of my favorite looks. Easy to see already at the door if the Boogeyman is hiding under the bed. 

For a quick and easy DIY-book about home interior design (why pay an expensive expert when you can do it all yourself?), consider this one.