1. Include Pro-Sleep Habits in your Daily Routine

Consuming less caffeine and increasing your daily exercise can improve sleep by ensuring you don’t have excess energy to keep you awake at night. Also getting ample amounts of natural light helps your body stay in-tune with its natural circadian rhythms and encourages the production of melatonin.

2. Create and Stick to a Sleep Schedule

The human body naturally has a sleep-wake cycle, so sleep schedules are about maintaining the regularity of that cycle for optimal rest on not just one night but the long haul. So, it’s important to stick to your sleep schedule every night so that your body learns a healthier pattern of sleep.

3. Implement a Relaxing Pre-Bedtime Routine

For better sleep, your bedtime routine should be all about calming your mind and relaxing your body. This can include taking a bath, meditating, or reading; but it should not include any activities that expose you to bright or blue light (like your TV or smartphone produces) as that can stimulate the brain and keep you awake.

4. Design a Sleep-Inducing Bedroom

Finally, optimize the place where you are sleeping to create an environment that promotes sleep. This includes controlling the temperature, sound, and light in the room as we sleep best in cool, quiet, dark rooms.



It is step 4, Designing a Sleep-Inducing Bedroom, where window treatments become especially important as they contribute to the control of temperature, sound, and light in the space. And perhaps no window treatment is better at creating a sleep oasis than cellular shades.

Cellular Shades and Temperature Control

Most Americans sleep best in the range of 60° to 67° Fahrenheit with the most popular temperature for sleeping being 65°F. Cellular shades, sometimes called honeycomb shades, help regulate indoor temperature because their insulating properties assist with control over one of the biggest areas of energy loss in a home, windows, and glass doors. In other words, cellular shades keep the heat out in the summer and during the winter making maintaining your ideal sleeping temperature easier and more consistent.

Cellular Shades and Sound Control

Thanks to their cellular construction, honeycomb shades have sound-absorbing properties that both improve the interior acoustics of a room and block external noise. Creating a quiet sleep environment is most conducive to sleep, and Duette® Honeycomb Shades can block up to 70% of the noise coming in from outside making cellular shades a useful tool for sound control.

Cellular Shades and Light Control

The material cellular shades can be made from and the variety of operating systems that work with them give this type of treatment a plethora of options from light-filtering to backout. This means cellular shades are great at night to block light and keep your sleeping area dark. For the ultimate in light blockage look at treatments that pair cellular shades with shutters, like the Norman DayNite™ Shutters, which are the ultimate for light control in the bedroom.

Contact Harmony Blinds & Shutters to discuss using cellular shades to create a sleep-inducing bedroom environment. Located near San Diego, California, Harmony Blinds & Shutters serves the greater San Diego area as well as Coronado, La Jolla, Chula Vista, and El Cajon, CA.