H&G: Creating space for love
March 2, 2010 by Liz Canavan
Filed under Inside You, Simply You
The bedroom is supposed to be the center for your romantic relationship. So spicing it up can make for a deeper, richer love in your life — whether that love has made it to your bedroom or not.
Canavan
Here are five quick tips:
1. Clear out the clutter. (Shocker.) This will help create new energy in the room.
2. Balance your bed by adding bedside tables to both sides, even if you don’t have a sleeping partner. Opt for wall-mounted lighting if you have crowded bedside tables.
3. Add “fire” colors to your bedding with cranberry or orange pillows or a duvet cover.
4. Have art in your bedroom that encourages partnership. Ditch the image of a woman waiting at a table alone.
5. Move workout equipment or your office out of the bedroom to encourage restful sleeping and a relationship that is not “hard work.”
Bedroom bliss: Ask the experts
Source: Carolanne McKirnan, owner of McKirnan Bed and Bath, 2460 Canyon Blvd., suite L2, Boulder, 720-406-8651.
Cred: Been in business since 2004.
When you walk into a bedroom and it’s properly made, there is a sensuality there that is established immediately. Especially for women, when you see a man with a great bedroom, it’s like seeing him in a nice Italian suit.
For temperature-regulated, natural sleep that is loaded with sensual textures, choose a silk filled silk duvet. That means the outside is silk and the inside is filled with silk, too. Yum!
Look for sheets in sateen (looks and feels more like silk, but it’s cotton) or a percale texture. Both can have a sensual feeling. With neutral white or cream sheets, make your duvet, blanket or throw pillows a rich color.
Source: Gary Hendrickson, Feng Shui Design International in Boulder, www.fengshuidesign.net, 720-936-6009.
Cred: Been studying 12 schools of feng shui for more than 22 years.
Five tips for bedroom changes to increase love:
1. Have a small treasure chest (or lovely container of any kind) in the far back corner of the room (the relationships area). Write down dreams you have of how you want to behave in your relationships and place them in the container. Do the same for what you desire from your partner. Review these nightly to make those intentions come true.
2. Include photos of you and your love in your bedroom. Keep photos of your kids or family out of the bedroom.
3. Add drapes to your windows to increase the yin (softer) energy of the room. Having only blinds increases the yang, or harder energy. Having both blinds and multiple layers of drapes adds thermal, as well as acoustic value and balance to the room.
4. Stack a few books on tantra or other tantalizing, relationship-focused books on your bedside tables. (Note: Bedside tables should be of equal size to promote equality.)
5. Too much red/pink/orange in a bedroom can be damaging to the “male energy” of the house — particularly if your bedroom faces west. Metallic colors (silver, gold, bronze) can mimic the romance-fire effect because they are reflective, without damaging the male energy, which can decrease financial abundance. If you would like to try a color in your room, throw a blanket on the bed to see how you react to the vibration of the “fire” color.
— By Liz Canavan
Canavan, of Boulder, is a professional organizer with Alchemy of Order and the marketing director of the National Association of Professional Organizers.
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Liz Canavan is offering free, 30-minute, in-home consultations for Women’s Magazine readers who live in Boulder County. Contact her at 303-641-4760, liz@alchemyoforder.com or www.alchemyoforder.blogspot.com.
