Your Bedroom Should Be First Priority

By Jessica Hoelzel

If you have a lot of rooms in your home that could use some rejuvenation, and aren’t sure where to start, I suggest starting with your bedroom. The energy in your bedroom is the closest energy to you, because it is the most personal space, and where you spend the most time (sleeping). What can you do in your bedroom to make it more of a space that supports you? Decluttering? Cleaning? A little design sprucing? When you pay it some loving attention, it will pay you back in nurturing dividends.

Quote for the Day: About Bedrooms

“To work on a personal intimate relationship, the best room within which to incorporate some Feng Shui adjustments is the master bedroom. When there are relationship issues it is important to keep this room in a balanced and harmonious state.”

- Carole Hyder, Wind and Water, Your Personal Feng Shui Journey 

5 Things You DON’T Want in Your Bedroom

By Jessica Hoelzel

For romance and closeness to ensue, your bedroom space must be set up to encourage, not discourage it.

5 Things You DON’T Want in Your Bedroom

• TV
• Computer
• Phone
• Paperwork
• General Clutter (boxes of stuff, misc odds ‘n’ ends, kids’ things, piles of books or clothes)

Read Why Here

 

Bedroom Feng Shui

By Jessica Hoelzel

What do you see when you lie in bed? (Please don’t say a TV.) The wall opposite your bed is called a “Vision Wall”. What you see on that wall, every day when you go to sleep, and every day when you wake up should be inspirational for you. It should represent what your vision is for your life and your true purpose.

21 Quick Clutter Fixes For Your Home

By Jessica Hoelzel

REDUCE the amount of STUFF you have and LIVE GREEN

NEW blog series: 21 Quick Clutter Fixes. Keep your eye on Day to Day Feng Shui for 21 ways to lighten your load by cutting out clutter bit-by-bit throughout your home. Plus, solutions that keep the environment top-of-mind, so you keep your waste-impact down.

Less Clutter = Healthy Home

Less Waste = Healthy World

In the Bedroom


11. Clear the top of your dresser. Too much clutter in the bedroom is dangerous, as I mentioned in my earlier post about piles of books next to the bed. Clutter can affect your sleep, your mood, your general well-being. Clutter is distracting, and it needs to be dealt with for you to live at your best.

The bedroom should definitely NOT be the place to dump things for later, like receipts, papers, odds ‘n’ ends and things in general that collect dust. In order for your sleep to be restorative and deep, you need your bedroom to be a clear, serene space. And that includes the surface space of your dresser.

Clear it off, and only place a few special objects on it for peace or inspiration. Then, establish the rule that those items, and only those items are allowed to live there – for your well-being.

If you need storage for things on top of your dresser, consider these eco-friendly solutions:

(or re-purpose a box you have in another area of your home – good for jewelry, etc.)

From Pristine Planet

From Décor Universe

From Organize It


Sleep tight!

21 Quick Clutter Fixes For Your Home

By Jessica Hoelzel

REDUCE the amount of STUFF you have and LIVE GREEN

NEW blog series: 21 Quick Clutter Fixes. Keep your eye on Day to Day Feng Shui for 21 ways to lighten your load by cutting out clutter bit-by-bit throughout your home. Plus, solutions that keep the environment top-of-mind, so you keep your waste-impact down.

Less Clutter = Healthy Home

Less Waste = Healthy World


In the Bedroom

10. Organize your closet so what you need, and only what you need, is at your fingertips. I’ve written before about organizing your closet. Obviously, this is one of the places that challenges people the most. One probable reason for the challenge, though, is that your closet has too much stuff in it that you don’t need.

You’ve got to let go. A lot like the “someday” ideas I was talking about in my post on magazines, you don’t have to keep pieces of clothing you “might wear someday”. Just keep the pieces you know you WILL wear. Because “someday” usually doesn’t come.

Ways to Get ‘Er Done:

Easy 3-Step Process for Getting Rid of Clutter

Chic & Easy Organizing on the Cheap
Idea #3: Feng Shui Your Closet and Make it an Organized Place to Start Your Day

Then, after you realize how much you buy that you really don’t wear or need, you will definitely be a more saavy and waste-conscious consumer. Smart!

21 Quick Clutter Fixes For Your Home

By Jessica Hoelzel

REDUCE the amount of STUFF you have and LIVE GREEN

NEW blog series: 21 Quick Clutter Fixes. Keep your eye on Day to Day Feng Shui for 21 ways to lighten your load by cutting out clutter bit-by-bit throughout your home. Plus, solutions that keep the environment top-of-mind, so you keep your waste-impact down.

Less Clutter = Healthy Home

Less Waste = Healthy World


In the Bedroom

9. Get rid of some books. Are you one of those people that has stacks of books next to the bed? Reading in bed is a lovely, relaxing experience. I enjoy it myself, and often have a few books going at once – I never know which one I’ll be in the mood for! Sleep can be challenged, however with too many books near the bed.

The more books, the more clutter. And clutter – in the bedroom, but especially right next to your bed – can interfere with sleep.

In feng shui terms, books are ideas. Every book exudes the energy of the content it contains. What types of books do you read? If your selections include relationship complications, violence or general despair, you especially want to relocate those. If you’re reading self-help or personal growth books, these can keep your mind busy, and then you don’t get adequate sleep.

I recommend having no more than 3 books near the bed. Store the rest on shelves in your living space or office. And it’s a good idea to only have those in the bedroom that are soothing to read before you sleep.

Speaking of too many books, it’s also good to do a review of your shelves at least every 6 months, but preferably every 3. Keep only what you really love and know you’ll read or refer to again. Let the rest go. Donate them so someone else can enjoy.

“Aim to end up with a collection of books that represents you as you are today and the intended ‘you’ of tomorrow.”

- Karen Kingston Space Clearing Expert