I’m starting to get sick and tired of our bedroom being freezing cold when I go to bed. Our master bedroom is the coldest room in the house in the winter. Changing into my PJ’s each night is quite the experience as I end up covered in goose-pimples! LOL
We live in an older house. It was build in 1927 and as a result it’s probably not quite as warm as newer homes. Our bedroom is upstairs at the end of a long hallway so that likely makes it harder for the cold air that builds up in the room to escape. Remember cold air goes down (as in down a staircase) and warm air goes upward.
When we moved in we had some duct work done including adding a cold air vent in the master bedroom. I’m sure this has helped to make the room warmer than it would have been without the cold air return vent, but it’s still pretty darn cold in the dead of winter.
We did have an electric heater that we’d use in the bedroom for the first hour or so after we went to bed, but it stopped working in early December and we haven’t replaced it yet. After suffering through a very cold January (February has been warmer here, but it will get colder soon) I think it’s time to buy a new heater.
I’m going to watch for an electric heater to go on sale and hope that I can get one for a good price soon.
Our last electric heater was a tall standing one that oscillated to move the warm air around the room, but I’ve been look at this Honeywell Cool Touch heater and it looks like it might fit the bill. The description says it will heat a large living space so it might be too powerful for our small master bedroom.
What we’d normally do with our old electric heater would be to turn it on when we’d come upstairs to use the washroom and wash up before bed so that it would take a bit of the chill out of the room before we’d have to go in there to get changed. It also had a timer on it so we could set it to run for only an hour or so. That would ensure that the room was warm as we were trying to fall asleep, but we usually didn’t need it to run all night. Not once the bed was warmed up anyway.
Do you find the the upstairs of your house is a lot cooler in the winter than the rest of your home? Do you use a heater in your bedroom or do you just suffer the cold?
It’s funny reading posts about being cold. We have just had a heatwave and need the air conditioner running all night otherwise it is unbearable to try and sleep. 🙂
Our room is pretty warm. But if I had to have a heater I would probably opt for one of those electric fireplaces that give off heat (more romantic in the bedroom ;D )
I have never lived in a two story house, always ranch style. I always thought that hot air rises so it would be warmer upstairs, guess I was wrong. I know my attic was always like an oven, but I have only been in my attic in summer months, so I can’t really go by that.
In our home in PA, I thought our master bedroom was colder, so I had my husband buy one of those propane heaters that you connect to the wall and has a flame that is so pretty. I have to say tho, that when it got below zero outside, we could go thru a tank of propane fast, so it isn’t really energy efficient. We also bought a king size heating blanket that helped a lot.
I do NOT miss the cold weather or snow. I hope it spring comes fast for you 🙂
I had exactly the same problem. Each night I would get into bed and wait frantically till the initial freeze was gone. But last month I purchased an electric blanket, I turn it on to pre-heat 10 minutes prior to going to bed. How instead of jumping into an ice cold bed it’s how lovely and warm. Best buy I’ve made in years.
It may be bad at the moment, but just wait until the summer comes around – you’ll be so pleased you’ve got a nice cool room then. Until then I guess you’ve just got to stick with it!
I am the WORST about being cold, and my bedroom is on the bottom floor of the house. My roommate REFUSES to touch the thermostat…ever! I’ve resorted to a space heater, but I have to move it from room to room with me. I am soo ready for spring and summer to get here!
bedrooms upstairs are much colder than rooms downstairs. one thing i might suggest is throwing one of your blankets into the dryer while you get ready for bed, then snuggle up in it. or try a cup of chamomile tea before bed. It always works for me 🙂
-Caroline
i think you should go for geo thermal heating. basically its uses heat generated underneath the ground to heat the hot water containing pipes. these heated pipes are then used to distribute the heat around the house with low energy consuming fans. thus it pretty effcient, cheap.
Aamos while I agree that geothermal heating might be the way to go it would cost a ton of money for us to put it in and we are in a personal financial crisis right now.
Interesting post. My friends and I were just discussing this the other evening about the bed mattresses that gives heat to our body.
In the earlier days, this was reverse problem than you are facing now. Regular foam, by nature, tends to hold heat next to your body and thus, creates a hot, sweaty feel.
A memory foam mattress is made of foam which not allows air to flow much more freely than standard foam. Because of this, I’ve never had a complaint from anyone about sleeping too hot or cold.
I hope you would like to try bed mattress made of memory foam!!!
well bed mattresses I can tell from your ip address that you come from a rather warm climate so you probably can’t imagine what it’s like to try to sleep day in and day out (January through March) in a fairly cold bedroom (ie 62 F or 16 C). We do have a memory foam mattress and that doesn’t help. It’s the ROOM that’s freezing cold. Once I’m in bed with my warm husband and a thick duvet I warm up and I’m comfortable, but it’s while I’m getting ready for bed and when I first get in to bed that I’m freezing.