How to Create a Smart Bedroom

Sleep is pretty important. After all, a good night’s rest has a huge range of benefits like boosting immunity, reducing stress, and improving cognitive function. So, optimising our bedroom for the perfect slumber should be top of everyone’s list. And what better way to do that than by turning your bedroom into a smart bedroom? Check out our smart bedroom ideas to get you started.

Voice Control

Picture this – you’re snuggled up, cosy in bed, and there’s a light that needs switching on or off, or the blinds need shutting. You don’t want to crawl out from under the comfort of your blanket to deal with it, you’re far too sleepy for that. Luckily for you, you have voice controlled smart home devices. Now you can stay in bed and command your lights to switch off, blinds to close or heating to come on without even lifting a finger.

Simply use a third-party assistant like Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant, to sync with your TaHoma switch – our handy smart home hub that controls all of your smart home appliances.

Smart Lighting

Did you know that lighting has a huge effect on your sleep? Research shows that bright light is amazing for making you feel awake in the morning but should be kept to a minimum before bedtime so that you can get to sleep as quickly and easily as possible.

Smart bedroom lighting is a great option to help with sleep. Set your bedroom lights to dim two hours before bedtime, perfect for settling down. Then, once you’re cosy in bed and have completed your nighttime ritual, don’t worry about getting up to turn the lights off. Do it from the comfort of your own bed with a smartphone app. Or time your lights to switch off at your chosen bedtime with the TaHoma switch. Then, when it’s time to wake up in the morning, sync your lights to come on at the same time as your alarm, for a morning wake-up call that has you bright eyed and bushy tailed for the day ahead.

Smart Blinds

Smart blinds are another fantastic way to control the light in your bedroom. Time them appropriately to close when it’s time to go to sleep, and then rise to let the sunshine through the morning. Or raise and lower to varying degrees for a dimmed light effect.

No need to fret over forgetting to close your bedroom blinds when getting dressed or when tucked up in bed. Just snap them shut at the push of a button on a remote control or tap on a smartphone, and you’ll have full privacy.

Automated blinds are also a great way to keep your bedroom at an optimum sleeping temperature, blocking out draughts in the cold weather and rays of sun in the hot weather.

Smart Heating

Speaking of temperature, why not introduce smart heating into your bedroom too?

We all hate waking up in the night from being too cold or feeling stuffy in the heat. And it’s a chore to have to head downstairs to tamper with the boiler, or even haul out of bed to fiddle with the radiator. But with a smart thermostat or a thermostatic radiator valve, you can get the temperature in your bedroom just right without your head even leaving the pillow. Bliss!

Or why not treat yourself to the Thermis io? This nifty device will monitor the temperature levels in your room and adjust the heating accordingly to an optimum sleeping temperature – typically around 18.3˚c, assuring that you’ll always be snug as a bug.

Are Smart Bedrooms the Future of Homes?

Smart homes are on the rise, with 29% of UK homes using smart electrical appliances as of 2022. And it isn’t hard to see why.

Added Value

Did you know that making your home smarter can add up to £16, 000 to your home’s value? So, not only will you enjoy the fabulous benefits of smart tech, but when it’s time to sell your home, buyers will be so keen to experience those benefits too that they’ll shill out the big bucks – cha-ching!

Easier Way of Life

Fiddling with blind cords before you can get dressed for the day. Being cosy in bed after completing your night-time skin routine and realising that you have to get up to switch the lights off. Being cold in bed and having to crawl from under the duvet to turn the radiator on. It’s all such a pain! But with home automation, you have ease and convenience. Operating all of these things with handy remotes, snazzy switches, a smart home hub, or a nifty app on your phone means you can take care of everything whilst remaining in your comfy, sleepy state.

Energy Efficiency

Energy prices are rising, which means we want to restrict our energy usage as much as possible. However, we don’t want to feel like we’re depriving ourselves too much. Smart home tech is amazing for this.

Use the Thermis io to only use heating when needed, or a thermostatic radiator valve to only use heating in the necessary rooms. Or close your automated blinds to use no heating at all!

Do you hate leaving the home and realising you’ve left a light on – wasting precious electricity? With our smart light switches, synced to your smartphone through the TaHoma app, you can remedy this disaster from wherever you are. No electricity wasted!

Are you ready to have the dreamiest of sleeps in a super smart boudoir? Of course you are! Just take a peek at all of the smart home treasures on our online shop or get in touch with your nearest Somfy dealer.