Where to Put Your Bed in the Bedroom: What the Research Says About Door, Window and Wall
Key Takeaways The rules about where a bed should sit (solid wall behind the head, a clear view of the door) usually don’t come with a study that tests them. I didn’t find one. A German study found most people, given a paper floor plan, place the bed to…
Bedroom Noise at Night
At 3:40 a.m. the refrigerator downstairs clicks off, and the quiet that follows is so complete it sounds like something. You never heard the compressor running. You’d have told anyone the house was silent. Then it stopped, and you found out it had been…
Bedroom Temperature for Couples: Why You’re Both Right, and What to Do About It
Key Takeaways Most bedroom-temperature advice gives one range for one sleeper. The popular guide I checked cites no source for its range and says nothing about two people sharing a bed. In the research I could read, too much heat costs more sleep than a…
How to Black Out a Bedroom: Blackout Isn’t a Curtain, It’s an Audit
KEY TAKEAWAYS A blackout comes from finding every light source, not from buying a curtain. Lie where your head goes, give your eyes at least five minutes, and look once at night and once at first light. Phone light-meter apps aren’t reliable enough…
The Bedroom Audit: Eleven Minutes, Lights Off, From the Pillow
KEY TAKEAWAYS Most bedroom checklists are done standing up with the lights on. A bedroom audit works better lying in your usual position with the lights off, because the pillow sees a different room than the doorway does. In a laboratory study, room…