Designing baby's bedroom to promote sleep

What could be better than an imposed quarantine to do all those things that are usually at the very bottom of our To Do List? Today, we'd like you to think about interior design and its positive impact on the well-being of the whole family. What's more, it can - and will - help solve baby's sleeping problems.

To help us with this project, we met Mélusine Silva, interior designer for over fifteen years. Hypersensitive to spaces, she specialized in Interior Harmonization by becoming a Feng-Shui and Geobiology expert, and created M-COSI Mélusine COach & Interior DeSIgner 5 years ago. Since then, she has put all her expertise to work to help people balance and harmonize their living spaces.

Why do mothers come to you?
Either because their child sleeps poorly, or because he or she doesn't sleep through the night, sometimes for 2 or 3 years... These mothers end up giving up, telling themselves that it will happen in the end. And yet, solutions do exist, including the harmonization of spaces.

With her, you can balance your private or professional habitats using age-old, tried-and-tested techniques such as Feng-Shui, Geobiology or wall memory cleansing to bring the physical, emotional and mental systems into perfect balance.

Why is this harmony so important?
Whether sleeping in the nursery, in the crib or co-sleeping with parents, children need healthy reference points.

Everyone's heard of the northern head. Indeed, this is a Geobiology recommendation that respects inertia, the direction of blood circulation. Feng-shui, on the other hand, is even more precise, thanks to statistics gathered over thousands of years that have enabled us to define rules for treating the individual as such. Everyone is different, and certain calculations based on date of birth will determine which bed orientations are beneficial, to be avoided or proscribed.

This calculation also makes it possible to determine which colors, shapes and materials are best suited to a particular child, and to create a customized environment that's soothing and calming. Not forgetting basic decorating rules (e.g. cold colors calm, warm colors excite).

Here, the cycle of the 5 elements (Fire-Earth-Metal-Water-Wood), the basis of Chinese medicine, informs us of the benefits of the environment.

There are also some logical ground rules to respect: children must be able to see their bedroom door from their bed. Who would like to feel insecure without knowing who is entering their space? The head of the child's bed should be against a wall, to create support. No one would like to have their head in a vacuum.

What else do we need to watch out for?
Waves... Even without seeing them, we know they're there, picked up by radio, TV, internet boxes and smartphones.

They also arrive with wires close to the headboards of the beds where we're supposed to be recharging our batteries. They even go as far as our bedside lamps, clock radios or telephone chargers sitting quietly on bedside tables, since they often double as alarm clocks.

The same goes for our little ones, with their lamps, nightlights, baby-phones and connected cameras.

All these waves are highly disruptive. So it's important to identify them and move them away, or even switch them off whenever possible. Among the solutions I propose are these remote-controlled sockets (with radio waves triggered only on command) which make our lives easier, since they enable us to cut the current at the base of all sockets with a small remote control.

Colors are also waves, just like infra-red and ultra-violet, which are recognized by science. They influence our feelings, contrary to the generally accepted idea that it's a question of "taste and color", depending on what we want at the time, a whim...

Last but not least, we've all heard of dowsers coming to detect water under the ground. Water too, just like metals underground, can have negative effects, and it's very important not to place a bed above it.