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Well if you think about it we spend about a third of our lives sleeping so you really want to have a good rest and also depending on how we sleep it affects our mood, it affects our motivation and our general well-being so you really want to have a room where you can feel relaxed, comfortable and really wind down at the end of the day and fall asleep easily. Now my mom is one of those ladies who spends obviously a lot of time also sleeping at night but before she goes to bed she has to obviously put a little blot over any kind of light in the room. She likes absolute darkness when it's in there so maybe looking for some advice from you why is color of the wall so important to a bedroom? Because color has a huge effect on you and also the space you're staying in so color can cool or it can warm, it can energize or it can relax you, it can comfort you or it can give you confidence so color has an effect. If you understand the different effects that color have on a space then you can use it to your advantage. For instance blue is very calming and relaxing and can help you sleep better whereas if you have a red in your room it's more energizing so it's understanding the energy of color and using it to your advantage in your room. So maybe we should advise her to use a little bit more blue so she can go to bed slightly more calm and less like every light in the house on everything must be turned off as she goes. And another thing with light blues it also helps relieve headaches so these are all kind of things you know that are really helpful when it comes to choosing color in your bedroom. Okay so color is important and I think a lot of people always go with their gut, they go with what they've seen, they go with what they think will fit as a color palette within their rooms themselves but I want some advice from you. What do you think are some of the techniques and potential colors that people are definitely doing wrong? What should people steer clear of all the time? Well one of the biggest mistakes people make is if they're using one color they use too much of that color so it's all about having a balance of colors. What I always think is a good idea is for people to use references to find things that they like in day-call magazines or colors that they like keep a reference of it so when you do decide to change you've got something that you can refer to and that's what I would really suggest when planning your bedroom. Okay so when it comes to steering clear of it's don't use too much of the same thing all over the place. If you've got a blue don't make everything blue. Exactly not too matchy-matchy that's one of the mistakes and also not too bright if you are going to use bright colors be sure to balance it with some neutral colors and if you are going to use neutral colors introduce some different textures and maybe something a brighter color into it so it doesn't become boring. So one thing that I've always been fascinated by is that when I've heard conversations with you quite a lot and been inspired by what you're saying but how often do people really go out and paint their walls and so let's let's imagine we've got a blank canvas whether it be we renovating a house whether it be we just looking for something to change or whether we being our contestants here who are producing three beautiful apartments and have to create this beautiful master bedroom what should we try and look for what are we trying to do? Well first of all decide what atmosphere you want in the room that would be your first. Hopefully sleep atmosphere. And then have a look what you have in your room for instance how we've got this beautiful carpet there's a lovely moody blue in there you could we've already said blues are very calming and relaxing sort of match your blue to that carpet and paint one wall with it and you'll be amazed how that ties the whole day coarselying together or it could be you've got a painting and you pick out a blue from that painting paint one feature wall in a dark blue you've got the wonderful energy of that calming relaxing blue and you've pulled your whole scheme together by introducing a feature wall in in one of the colors that's already in your in your day core scheme just pulls the whole thing together. Okay so you want to keep it's kind of like symmetrical so it all works together in the room when you step in you don't feel like this is jarring effect of a whole bunch of different colors that don't necessarily go well together so find a theme our theme is useful. Yes absolutely definitely useful decide on a theme that you want to go for or just as I said just pick out a color from one of the items in your room one of the day quick accessories fabrics or something and that will also pull your whole scheme together and it was good to have you thank you it's such a pleasure contestants I hope you are listening because decorating the master bedroom is important it's where you end off your day it's where you start a brand new day so make sure there's a space you can shake off the day and relax but also the one that you'll wake up to and feel inspired to take on a new day in so visit plascon.co.za for more color inspiration and see what can work for you so I'm here filling out the colors that I'm going to be using for my future wall from the master bedroom I feel like I went very safe in the guest bedroom just using one color so here I'm exploring the plascon and showing the potential of the paints and what it can do I'm going for a very earthy texture which picks up most of the colors that I use in the guest bedroom so the colors are going to be transitioning from the blackest night up to the lavish lemon for my future wall I'm going for a very distressed feel and look so I'm not looking for anything perfect I'm going with the local artist Nabila for my very earthy to work with since we've gone through the colors and discussed how we're going to achieve this earthy feel that we're going for so now the job is on me not to see which color goes first and which color follows what do you guys think so I'm in my exposed closet in my main bedroom and I chose to go with in the mood from Plascon again I know Anne didn't like it but it really suits well with my caesar stone bench that I'm going to be putting here so I am a bit worried that you'll think that it's matchy matchy again this time I'm bringing in some bold elements bold color choices like my black trusses and a few black elements in the room I really hope Anne sees my vision and she likes my choices of trying to make the space bigger with the color choices that I make so I've selected this artwork by another interior designer called Natalie Bulwer and she uses inks to create this trending technique called ombre and which is a mixture of different colors so that is really the center point of this room to match the artwork I've selected four Plascon colors we have Addiskin over here we have Distant Storm which is the 2016 color forecast and we have bovine over here and red wine but I think I prefer my red wine in a glass so I think I'm leaning more towards the greens and the grays but we'll have to see because I don't want the space to be too dark since I'm putting a block out behind the gray coats instead I'm going to pitch out so I think it's going to be cool Votes for your favorite bathroom are now closed but from today you can head over to privateproperty.co.za and vote for your favorite design contestant's master bedroom here's how you can win it's not called win a home for nothing you the viewer can win one of the three completed apartments at the Valdivia state valued at over three million rand by voting for your favorite design contestant's master bedroom on privateproperty.co.za win a home is proudly brought to you by private property in association with netbank