The Bedroom Furniture Problem Nobody Admits They Have

You start with a bed, and then it goes on and on. A wardrobe, a chest of drawers, two chairs, a dressing table, and finally, a chair, because you see so many magazines with bedrooms dressed with a far lovelier bed than yours, including a chair in the background, that you feel the need to have one too.

That’s when you reach the doorway, and you suddenly think: Wait a minute, is this to go to sleep in or to display furniture in? Don’t worry, you’re by no means the single most common culprit in over-furnishing your bedroom.

It’s simply that over-furnishing is the result of solving a problem at a time rather than standing back to look at the whole and realising that this particular combination of furniture has outgrown this particular box. Not because of bad taste, although it’s rarely the result of bad taste.

If you over-furnish, you take away one of the bedroom’s main functions: to be a restorative space. And even though it might seem to serve its original function all these years, we forget that the main function of a room in your home is to provide you and anyone else entering, with a place to rest and breathe in, not just your eyes, but your soul.

People buy things thinking that this will be the solution to their problems, and then, on the contrary, it ends up being the opposite. However, there is hope, and it’s always there in your room, just waiting to be seen. For Bedroom Renovations, contact //www.thekitchenrefurbishmentcompany.co.uk/bedroom-renovations/

Let’s be honest, nobody wants to edit. But in the end, everyone is always glad that they did.

So let’s start with the other side of the story. With the edit, not the shopping.

How do you know when you should shop? When editing, the question to ask yourself is: What is the new or chosen function of this object? Does it serve that function? Is it still honest and earning its place? Does your chair make you more productive or relaxed? Does your chair hold tomorrow’s outfit or last week’s jumper?

The top two drawers of the chest of drawers haven’t been opened? Are there units that are never used? You get the gist. You go through all your furniture and ask yourself: what’s the chosen function? Does this serve it? If not, out it goes.