Did you know that National Sleep Awareness Week runs through this Sunday March 10? We hope you take the time to pay special attention to your bedroom, as well as your sleeping habits. National Sleep Awareness Week always falls exactly one week prior to Day Light Savings Time, in which we “Spring Forward” and lose a valuable hour of sleep. The results of this day are more dramatic than you may think. In fact, during this week, there is a statistically significant increase in heart attacks and automobile accidents. It just underscores the vital importance of sleep.
One of the most important steps you can take toward better sleep is to pay special attention to your bedroom and bedroom set to create a restful environment.
Primrose Hill Cane Shelter Bed
How does this Primrose Hill White Cane Shelter Bed make you feel?
Does it call to you and make you want to dive in, curl up and go to sleep? Your bed should not only be the main focal point when you walk into the bedroom-it should also be your sanctuary at night when you turn the lights out. The embracing shelter headboard in a soft white finish on cane creates the instant peaceful haven that your bedroom should provide.
Shelter bed creates haven
In addition to creating a haven environment in your bedroom, follow the tips below to minimize the ill effects that Day Light Savings Time has on your personal health!
- 4 nights before DST: move your bedtime back 15 minutes Instead of going to bed at your normal time, try going to bed 15 minutes earlier. 3 nights before you should go to bed another 15 minutes earlier. By Saturday you should be going to bed a full hour earlier than your normal sleeping time which makes up for springing forward an hour!
- Limit caffeine intake. Coffee drinker? Consuming caffeine 6 hours before bedtime can disrupt your natural sleep cycle, so put the mug down!
- Put a cap on nightcaps It is a common myth that alcohol makes you sleep better. While it’s true that it may help you fall asleep faster, you will probably find yourself sleeping more restlessly throughout the night. That’s because alcohol actually decreases slow-wave sleep, which is needed to help restore your mind and body and allows you to wake up feeling rejuvenated and refreshed.
- 2-3 hours before: change your clocks By simply changing your clocks before going to bed on Saturday, the effect of losing an hour isn’t as shocking to our bodies.
- 1 hour before: Wind Down Say goodnight to Facebook, TV, and texting! Before finally lying down, take a warm bath, turn on some soft tunes or even read a book.
- Bedtime: lights out Our bodies are regulated by temperature and light. Your bedroom should be a fairly cold environment and pitch black. This is going to provide you the best possible sleep.
- Sunday, March 10, beginning of Daylight Savings Time: 1 hour after waking up, soak up some sunshine
Get outside! By exposing yourself to sunlight early in the morning, it simply helps you wake up and get you out of that “sleepy stage” that can make you feel groggy.
We hope these tips are helpful, as well as making your bedroom furniture as inviting as possible. Here are a few other beds that we think help create your personal sanctuary of sleep and rest:
- The Sanctuary tufted bling bed. This bed is alluring as a focal point and as a place to escape the daily routing and rejuvenate.
Sanctuary bling bed allures
Restful light surrounds Sanctuary bed
- The Harbour Pointe woven panel bed With its woven sea hyacinth head and footboard, this bed brings to mind the peacefulness of the outdoors, the tranquility of the sea and the charm of a cozy cottage. Just what you need to pamper you at night!
Harbour Pointe woven sea hyacinth bed
Harbour Pointe bed has peaceful vibe
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Please donate The Sanctuary tufted bling bed to me. I haven’t had a new bedroom suite, mattress and boxspring since I was a child. Thank you
Great article! It makes me want a new bed:)
some nice tips, i found that changing my mattress and pillow to ones that were slightly harder improved my sleep, the old soft mattress was causing me to sleep in an un natural position and i didnt get the support i needed.
Glad you all enjoyed the article, and yes–a mattress and pillow that are too soft definitely may not give you the back and neck support you need to feel good the next day
Where you arrange your bedroom furniture in your room also impacts how you sleep. Centering the headboard in between windows in a bedroom is a good way to keep light off of the bed. If your bed faces the windows any light that comes through gets projected right onto the bed, whereas putting the headboard against the window wall creates a nice alcove from outside light.
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