We already know Netflix likes to steam things up with their sexy movies, and has gotten educational with shows like The Principles of Pleasure, but now they’re taking intimacy in a new direction with home design show How to Build a Sex Room, which premieres July 8. According to the official description accompanying the trailer, “Couples looking for more spice in the bedroom hire luxury interior designer Melanie Rose to create stylish spaces where they can carry out any fantasy they wish. You’ve seen kitchen renovations, you’ve seen bathroom transformations, but you’ve never seen anything quite like this!”
On her website, Rose, who’s the host, designer and creative director of the racy new show, which Netflix describes as “quirky” and “intimate,” shares her vision for home design for those looking to make sex a priority: “Alongside traditional design and renovations, she also specializes in creating ‘sacred spaces:’ rooms, suites and areas dedicated to the sensual and erotic.”
In the trailer, Rose, who has 15 years of experience in high-end home design, says that when a client asked her about creating a sex room in their home, she immediately jumped at the opportunity, stating, “Why not? Why wouldn’t I go and design a sex room?” The trailer shows a large bed with a sex swing installed above it.
Rose says in the trailer that sex rooms are “places where couples can explore their deepest fantasies,” which means no video games, only items and decor that enhances the sensual mood. She tells a man about the video game ban as the console is carried out of the room, “You’re going to play with your wife instead.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, which calls How to Build a Sex Room one of Netflix’s “most risqué unscripted titles” in the U.S., “In each episode, Rose visits a couple who are looking to convert a room in their home into a high-end adult play space. She interviews the couple to figure out what they like to do in the bedroom and then works with a contractor to create a sex room where nobody will have any idea what the couple are up to (except for everybody who watches Netflix, of course).”
Couples explore the sexual activities they’ve dreamed of as well as ones they hadn’t thought of, with one woman saying of her bondage experience, “I would never have thought that being tied in rope would make me feel sexy.” The trailer shows Rose having her contractor test wrist and ankle restraints on a bed to make sure they’re secure, and unpacking a sculpture of a woman’s butt that she will use as part of her intimate decorations. The unscripted series will show Rose at work along with the couples whose most personal details and sexual spaces she will be helping. One woman tells Rose, “You were our angel for our marriage.”
Watch the How to Build a Sex Room trailer on YouTube.