NOT my bed.
Nope, this isn’t THAT kind of post. If you’ve been reading long, you’ve probably figured out that I’m too bashful to talk about my, err, S-E-X life in public. No, this is a post about the room I sleep in. The one that does the job, but doesn’t exactly knock me off my feet.
My latest post at Babble is all about my dissatisfaction with my bedroom, and how I’m trying to get over it so I can find more contentment in the home I have (instead of dreaming about the master suite in some mythical house I may never live in.)
From the post:
However, love it or not, this is going to be my bedroom for now and the foreseeable future. And while I’ve been sitting here trying to avoid my problems in the bedroom by getting lost in house porn and other forms of escapism, I’ve realized there a few things I’ve been doing that are NOT helping me embrace my home the way it is.
You know, things like scouring local real-estate listings and drooling over the bedrooms in houses I could never afford anyway, or watching shows with titles like “I Despise My Bedroom!”
Can anyone relate? I’d love for you to read my post and let me know what you think.
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Changing your attitude, you’re right, is the first thing you can do to improve your relationship with your bedroom! If you give gratitude for the ability to share those clothes with the needy, clear off that dresser with the intention of eliminating the old and ignored energy in that room, and if you keep your bedroom door closed so when you step in it feels more like a sanctuary, you’ll be even further down the road to true happiness in that space. Email me the dimensions and I’ll email you the Feng Shui floor plan for your room and you can use that to have fun with while clearing clutter and injecting the space with love!
Loved the article on Babble, and it came at a perfect time for me. I too have dream home envy. My Pinterest boards are full of pictures of what my perfect home would look like – even though I may never get it. My master bedroom is a huge sticking point for me too – with the biggest downfall being the fact we don’t have any kind of ensuite attached. I share the main bathroom with the kids, while my husband uses the basement bathroom. Pain in the a**! Both my children have beautiful rooms, but for some reason our room has never been updated!? I am full of gripes, but your article was a great reminder that I could probably make small changes that would improve the situation significantly. Thank you!
SO True!!
I actually hate hate hated our sectional couch. & was dreaming of the day we could replace it. Anyway, one day, a friend comes over and starts saying how much he loves our couch and what a great deal we got on it (he remembered when we bought it, etc.). It did occur to me later than maybe my hubby put his friend up to this couch pep talk. LOL! But either way, it did the job. I just needed to get out of my “hate” for the thing and change my attitude about it.
I am happy to say a happier attitude helped me live with it a couple of more years, but that I snapped up the most awesome and comfortable couch when I saw it on deep discount this year. Win-win! It was worth the wait, but I did stop whining about some other stuff around the house I had been whining about. My major whining was about all the compromises I made with dh (where I felt like I compromised too much on home decor) and realizing that at the end of the day I had most the final say around the house. I was just being a bit of a whiny brat, and I got over it.