How often do you sit in your bedroom?

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Our bedroom is the last room to be tackled in long house renovation (5 years).

I've lived with baby blue walls, some weird wooden trellis glued to the walls in place of coving, a disgusting makeup stained beige carpet and railings instead of a wardrobe.

But we finished it last week! Restored the wooden floors, new bed, F&B Elephants Breath on the wall, pictures, lamps, candles - the lot. It's so ridiculously cosy.

But now DH is getting funny with me because I want to sit up there and not in the living room. I had a bath earlier then just sat on my bed chilling and looking around the room and enjoying the peace. I'd like to do this more often, take a book and a glass of wine up there, if not, it just becomes a room we sleep in.

But DH came up looking for me to see if I was ok (to be fair, he'd made dinner and I didn't realise it was ready) and thinks it's odd to sit up there alone. For context, we have a three year old so the peace is welcomed!

So how often do you just 'sit' in your bedroom?

Bertie Botts - my electric blanket scares me too, but it's been fine for two winters now. You can switch it off before you get in bed. I'm always trying to convert people to electric blankets!

Rarely.

If home alone in a morning, or having a lazy Sunday, I might stay laid in bed reading. I also read in bed at night. But that's it.

We don't have a tv or radio in our room, and no chairs.

Regularly. My bedroom is big, I've got a glider rocking chair in there and I love to sit up in my room and read in the evenings.

However i do sort of see DH perspective that it's like you've had no evening and gone to bed ridiculously early if I'm up their literally from after the kids go to bed at 7pm.

I spend more time in there when DH is late home or away from work.

I love just being in my bedroom! Everything is white with pale carpets and white cotton bedding. So relaxing!

I said never, but I can see that might be different if the house didn't have other spaces for me to escape to. We have a nice sitting room that is separate from the kitchen/dining/living space. And I also have a study that is just for me.

Mainly just to do my hair and make up each morning, other than that never really.

Lots of time now! Like you, it was pretty much the last room in the house to get done and I now find it is my sanctuary. I love it. I've got a fabulous armchair in there where I can sit and read in the window and in the evening with the curtains drawn and lamps on it's wonderful.

We renovated our whole house and on the advice of a friend did our bedroom first, it was so nice to have somewhere relaxing to go when the rest of the house was a building site. I use it less than pre ds though as every time I try and relax and read a book lying on the bed, I fall asleep. So tend to read downstairs more now, we have a morning room with bookshelves a desk and a big comfy chair, that is the only room that still feels adult. I'm sitting on my bed now browsing the internet, as DH is out and I just had a shower, but I can see several toys, the tiger who came to tea and a baby blanket. It's not the sanctuary it was.