A bedroom is a room used primarily for sleep, rest or sexual activities. It may or may not contain a bed. In some cultures, dedicated bedrooms form an important part of a home. In others, spaces used primarily for other activities by day become bedrooms at night. Bedroom - Bedrooms in North America and Europe. Many houses in North America and Europe have at least two bedrooms – usually a master bedroom (dedicated to the heads of the household, such as a husband and wife) and one or m ...

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Bedroom in Arles (French: La Chambre à Arles; Dutch: Slaapkamer te Arles) is a painting by 19th-century Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The painting is a depiction of van Gogh's bedroom at his "Yellow House" in Arles. Van Gogh painted Bedroom in Arles in October 1888 while staying in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, shortly before his admittance to the psychiatric centre at Monastery Saint-Paul de Mausole. The painti ...

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A strange bedroom, pleasantly furnished, indicates a change for the better; your own bedroom signifies harmony in current affairs.

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Important Points While Planning the Bedroom in accordance with Vaastu Shastra:

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Feng Shui In The Bedroom: Romancing the Bagua

If one of your goals this year is to call a partner into your life or to enhance a partnership that seems to lack the thrill it used to have, the best room to adjust in your home is your master bedroom. This is true whether your master bedroom is in the Partnership corner of your house or not. The master bedroom represents a primary relationship, no matter where it's located. Anytime there are relationship issues, particularly in personal relationships, it is important to keep the bedroom in order and in a balanced and harmonious state.

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Feng Shui is the chinese Art of creating harmonious environments that support our wellbeing on all levels. Sleeping is something we all do approximately 1/3 of our lives and it is therefore a very important factor for our overall health. This article gives you hands-on Feng Shui ideas on how to improve your bedroom.

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How many of us fritter away the gift of the present moment by wondering when our lives will finally take off? What do you think will do it for you? A five-bedroom house, the latest model of Mercedes Benz or BMW, a world tour, a diamond ring, winning the lottery or becoming rich and famous beyond your wildest dreams?

"Man is engaged in an eternal quest for that 'something else' he hopes will bring him happiness, complete and unending. For those individual souls who have sought and found God, the search is over: He is that Something Else," said Paramahansa Yogananda.

(See also: Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

Bring God into Your Living Room

It is easier to visualise God in the starry heavens than in our own homes. The stars, so remote from our humdrum earthly existence, suggest to our minds infinite stillness, harmony, and wisdom. By contrast, our homes are often scenes of strife and rivalry.

To the extent that we hold God aloof from our daily realities, we alienate Him from the life we know. We need a concept of God that will bring Him into our kitchens, our bedrooms, our living rooms - yes, even when those living rooms are crowded with guests.

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A chambermaid is a maid who cleans and cares for bedrooms. Other related archivesbedrooms, maid

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A boudoir is a lady's private bedroom, sitting room or dressing room. Other related archivesbedroom, dressing room, lady, sitting room

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In the period up to the 1980s, Chawls were buildings occupied by middle class families in parts of India. They typically consisted of 4 to 5 stories with about 10 to 20 tenements on each floor. The tenements or "kholi"s as they were called had one living-cum-bed-cum-all purpose room and a kitchen that served as the dining room, doubling at night as a bedroom for a newly married couple (who got the privilege of having, at least for a period, a special and separate bedroom). Rent ...

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A bonus room is a relatively recent term that is mainly used in the United States. It is used to describe a large room in a house which could be used as a multi-purpose area. A bonus room, unlike an American bedroom, does not usually contain a closet. A bonus room might be used as a sewing or hobby room, game room, or office. It is sometimes over a garage or in an attic area with partially reduced ceiling he

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For media works titled Changing Rooms, see Changing Rooms. The term dressing room may be applied to different places. In architectural parlance, and in the larger houses, a dressing room is a small room next to a bedroom, used by the occupants to give privacy during dressing and undressing. In a theatre and a concert hall dressing rooms are provided for the performers to assume their costumes and makeup. The star dressing room is used by the principal actor and ...

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Aida D. Fariscal (1940? - ) is a former policewoman and watch commander in the Manila Police Department in the Philippines. She is now a retired grandmother living on pension in a one bedroom apartment. Fariscal spent seventeen years as a homemaker before enrolling in the police department in 1977. The widow of a slain police officer, she rose through the ranks of the Manila Police Department, and in 1983 won an award fo ...

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A bed and breakfast, often referred to as a B&B, is a lodging typically operated out of a large single family residence where guests can be accommodated at night in private bedrooms (which may or may not be equipped with private baths) and where breakfast, sometimes Continental and sometimes the full English variety, is served in the morning. In Ireland, most B&Bs serve a traditional Irish breakfast as a point of pride. The business may be operated either as a primary occupation or as a secondary source of income, and t ...

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The best man is the name given to the male assistant to the bridegroom at a wedding. Usually the groom gives this honor to someone who is close to him, either a brother or his closest male friend. In the context of a traditional American/British white wedding, the best man's duties typically include: Planning all of the details of the wedding Organising a Bachelor party for the groom Getting the groom to the wedding on time, generally by sleeping in the groom's bedroom the night before Su ...

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A chamber pot is a bowl shaped container that was kept in the bedroom, under a bed and used as a toilet at night. Chamber pots were usually ceramic and often had lids. A peculiar form of chamber pot was the Bourdaloue, made specifically for females urinating. The Bourdaloue name is said to come from the name of a famous French Catholic priest whose sermons were so long that females of the aristocracy attending them had their maid bring in such pots discreetly under their gown so that they could urinate without leaving attendance. They were in common use until the 19th centu ...

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A bunk bed is a type of bed in which one bed is stacked on top of another. They are typically used as furnishings in children's rooms, or university residence hall bedrooms allowing two people to sleep in the same room while maximizing available floor space. They normally are supported by four poles at each corner of the bed. To get to the second bunk a ladder is used, though taller children often find other faster methods of climbing into them. The top bed normally is surrounded by a railing to prevent the sleeper from falling out. B

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A waterbed or water mattress is a bed or mattress filled with water. Waterbed - Construction. Waterbeds primarily consist of two types, hard-sided beds and soft-sided beds. Early waterbeds were hard-sided consisting of a frame resting on a deck and platform, upon which was the water-containing mattress. Soft-sided waterbeds look very similar to conventional beds and are designed to fit on existing bedroom furniture. First generation waterbeds had only one water chamber, hence when distu ...

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