Feng shui in the bedroom – there’s an art behind it
In honour of the Chinese year of the dragon we thought we would take a look at how feng shui might help you improve the energy in your bedroom and how this can compliment your contract beds and contract bedroom furniture. These tips are applicable to both personal and commercial usage, at home or at the hotel. Continue reading »
Feng shui your contract bedroom furniture: Making a harmonious aesthetic
Millbrook Contract Beds continues its exploration of the art of Feng Shui in this final part of our blog series.
In the previous blogs we introduced you to the concept of Feng Shui for businesses that use commercial beds and followed that up with a blog on how to create the right environment with contract bedroom furniture to the most positive, balanced and harmonious effect using this ancient Chinese method.
As stated before, feng shui is actually a mathematical science that deals in aesthetics designed to orient places and people in an auspicious and positive way. The reflection of a room reflects on the person, and that can often dictate their impression of the place they are staying in. If a hotel, care home or academic residence wants to make good impressions and provide peaceful, affirming surroundings and environments for their guests, then feng shui is a great place to start in accomplishing that goal.
As we have looked at contract beds and their effect on a room’s aesthetic, mood and feel, we thought it best to offer some ideas to what else contributes to making a room the right environment for sleep and relaxation.
1. Colour contributes to the atmosphere and energy of a room and in fact creates the biggest aesthetic impression. Use soft pastels in shades of beige, blue, green, white and yellow which are ideal for tranquil, peaceful sleep. Think of soothing colours for both the decor of the room and the sheets and pillows for the contract beds.
2. Consider adding a potted plant to the room on a desk or by the window, but not too close to the bed. By observing nature it is easier to see that the rhythmic movement of plants and trees which are the foundation for cultivating essence and energy. While this may sound preposterous, it really does help people to relax, focus and feel good. Ultimately, that is what you want people to feel after a stay at your hotel or residence.
3. Keep the rooms aired when no one is staying there. If the air is stale, any chance at accomplishing feng shui in the room is already compromised. The same standard applies to having freshly prepared sheets everyday on the contract beds. This is a regular practice for most hotels in the hospitality industry anyway.
4. Choose the imagery for the room wisely. Make sure the paintings, photos and artwork (if you choose to have any) reflects positive, aspirational images, not sad, lonely or depressing images.
5. In an ideally designed feng shui bedroom, every item, colour, spacing and position should reflect clear intent for healing and relaxation.
Whether you believe in the healing benefits of feng shui or not, it can provide amazing aesthetic designs and ideas that help people to instantly feel at home.
If you are looking to find the right contract bedroom furniture or contract beds for you business, please contact us for more information.
Feng Shui your contract bedroom furniture: Creating the right environment
In the previous blog, Millbrook Contract Beds took you through the ideas and concepts behind Feng Shui for businesses that use contract bedroom furniture. You can read that blog HERE.
In this second part of the Feng Shui blog series we want to take you through what can be achieved through implementing Feng Shui techniques and ideas. These methods can apply to hotels, care homes, academic residences and even private homes. In part it can be used as a form of interior design. The idea behind Feng Shui is that its about finding and maintaining a healthy balance through aesthetics in an environment which helps to orient places and people.
Most commercial bed buying businesses want to create a guest experience for the people that stay with them. So, how can you make a normal bedroom into a really good feng shui bedroom that helps to improve the guest experience?
You have start with the most important feature of a bedroom – the contract bed. Everything else is designed to fit around the bed from the wardrobes and desks to the carpets and general decor. The goal is to promote a harmonious environment that lures people in to excite and to calm them.
First of all, a pleasing aesthetic is crucial. Design, style, appearance are highly beneficial to attaining good feng shui. Light colours, practical design. A good looking and well-balanced contract bed that is comfortable and attractive helps set the right tone for the room.
A good mattress and supportive base make all the difference to a guest’s mood and sense of refinement. Make sure that the bed is easily approachable from both of its sides with two symmetrical bedside tables on each side too.
One of the biggest feng shui tips is to never have the bed in direct line with the door as it unconsciously promotes a feeling of uneasiness in the sleeper.
Contract beds with headboards make a big difference. Firmly affixed headboards represent protection. A solid fabric headboard is your best choice.
Purchase contract beds that are comfortable but also “feel” right for a room. Contract beds should help guests to achieve a restful night’s sleep so they can wake up feeling refreshed and renewed. Sometimes you can tell when a certain bed doesn’t belong in a room.
The Hotel contract bed
Many of these things operate on an unconscious level, but can make a guest experience better for having tried them out.
Millbrook’s contract beds have been designed to optimise better sleep, and the International Collection’s Executive and Hotel bed ranges are the ideal choices to suit a feng shui tailored environment. Take a closer look at the collection choices to determine for yourself, or alternatively, contact us for further information and advice.
Feng Shui your contract bedroom furniture: An Introduction
Millbrook Contract Beds has been doing some reading up on its Feng Shui history. We’ve been wondering just how important the positioning and spacing of your contract bedroom furniture really is. As it turns out; it’s very important. This blog is an introduction to the concept of Feng shui being used for businesses that use contract and commercial beds and other contract bedroom furniture.
In a nutshell; Feng Shui is a mathematical system of aesthetics designed to orient places and people in an auspicious and positive way. Over the years this ancient method has been westernised into a pseudo-philosophy that many have mistaken for something that it isn’t. Feng shui teaches that finding a precision in distance, positioning and space is key to creating the right environment, atmosphere and aesthetic. This “right” environment helps relax, focus and leave a positive effect on the body and mind.
So how does this apply to contract bedroom furniture you may ask?
For any hotel, hospital, care home or academic residence that use contract bedroom furniture, particularly contract beds, they often arrange their rooms by placing the furniture in any old position just as long as it fits in. If the essential necessities are in the room then very little thought goes into what can be achieved through improving the positioning and spacing between objects. As a method for creating aesthetically pleasing rooms, Feng Shui is a successful interior design technique; as a method for improving a person’s state of mind it can and has been known to generate positive effects on the people who practice it. It’s all about finding a balance.
Imagine the guests at a hotel or the patients in a care home or students in a residence being in this kind of balanced, healthy environment. It can do wonders for them in terms of their attitude when they are in their respective rooms whilst also improving their quality of sleep.
Here’s some basic tips to help get you started with changing up the “feel” and “mood” of your rooms:
1. Clear some space from the rooms that seem too cluttered. Excessive debris and objects scattered about the place lead to a scattered mind.
2. Try to get the right lighting, avoiding the harshness of fluorescents bulbs or strip lights. Softer lighting reflects a softer and more peaceful environment.
3. Brighten up those walls with lighter tones. Dark, drab walls make people reflect that in their moods.
4. Any potted plants and greenery will help promote a natural feeling environment. Plant are unconsciously soothing to people.
5. When it comes to the placement of your contract beds and bedroom furniture within the room it may come down to factors such as the room’s shape, size and the number of items that need to be in it. This is not always such an exact science.
In the next, follow-up blog, Millbrook Contract Beds will take you through the process of Feng Shui for contract beds and contract bedroom furniture with some more examples and ideas of what you can do to improve the mood and feel of a room.
For general information on our ranges contact us and we will be happy to help you.