A romantic room needs to possess emotional appeal. Romance is all about the senses and creating the perfect mood. Do you feel cozy and secure when you enter your room at night? Do you feel unencumbered, as if you have closed the outside world on the other side of the door? Here are a few inexpensive ways to help create more intimate surroundings.
Color
Colors may be the single most important factor in creating the mood of your room. Psychologists have been studying the effects of colors on the mood for many years and believe that colors play an important role in eliciting responses. For example, a yellow room is thought to be playful and optimistic while a red room signifies stimulation and passion. Fortunately, we do not have to limit ourselves to the primary color palate. Each color has a broad spectrum of hues, saturation and brightness. You only need to choose a color that you like and there will be a softer tone more befitting a romantic setting. If you like green but feel that it invigorates, just move down the spectrum to a sage. It is still green but it is now warm and calming.
Bring home a quart of the paint before committing and actually paint a wall. See how it looks with the light at different times of day.
Lighting
Keep the centralized lighting as long as you add plenty of ambient lighting. Smaller lamps should adorn side tables with a floor lamp and a few uplights rhat will help to create intimate shadows and open up the room by exposing those darker nooks and crannies.
Furniture
If your room is large enough to accommodate furniture pieces, pull them together into small intimate groupings. If you have an armchair by itself in the corner, pull it away from the wall and add a side table, footstool and floor lamp. Toss a throw over the chair and put a few books on the side table to invite yourself to enjoy a cup of tea by the window.
Add plants
Plants can add intimacy to any room. Scatter a few of your favorite plants about the room on coffee tables and furniture. Taller plants, like a rubber tree or ficus, can give height to a room and serve as a focal point. These look especially nice placed in corners as part of a furniture grouping with an uplight behind it, creating dimension and interest.
Make the bed the focal point
Dress it up with piles of pillows, draw the eye upward with a curtain behind the bed and add plenty of mixed textures to add warmth.
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