Your home is your castle and you should feel comfortable there if anywhere, that's why it’s so important to design your home's interior to fit with your personality and your moods. But that's easier said than done. How exactly do you design a home that meets your needs and interacts positively with your moods? Read on to find out more.
Make It Personal
If you were to strip everything back and look at your home as if you were seeing it for the first time, do you think it would still feel like your home? It might to some extent, but equally, it might feel like an empty shell devoid of any personality.
Now consider what things you would actually need to make that space your own. Would it be a certain chair, a flat-screen television, or a piece of artwork? These are your comfort items.
Keep It Tidy
Some things impact our mood more than others, it's well known for instance that colors can make us feel happy, calm or sad depending on the room we're in, the same goes for clutter. When a room is cluttered it can easily increase our anxiety levels.
To avoid this you need to regularly declutter your home and keep it tidy. A good way of doing this is to tidy your home in short 10 or 15-minute intervals every day. It doesn't take up too much of your time and means your home is comfortable and clutter-free.
Introduce Plants
Like selecting the best colors for each room of your home to inspire a different mood, plants can affect the way you feel in your home and the way your home feels. Plants are living beings themselves and they interact with the atmosphere and change it in healthy ways.
If you want to feel more comfortable in your home, introduce some aerating plants that will absorb the excess carbon in the air and emit oxygen instead. You will notice the difference in your home with a fresh crop of aerating plants.
Choose Nice Furniture
The ancient cultures of Asia have known for generations that the furniture you choose for your home and the way you set your home up can have a significant impact on your psyche and your comfort levels. That is why choosing nice furniture is so important.
Nice furniture can mean anything that speaks to you, but in general round furniture is associated with a calm comfortable feeling in the same way as the colour blue. Consider these marble coffee tables, they are a fine example of comfortable furniture.
You can also use handcrafted furniture to elevate your living spaces. Intricately crafted pieces have a unique appeal to infuse a personal flair into your living area, something lacking in mass-produced furniture. Unsurprisingly, handmade furniture pieces are celebrated for their raw, natural, and often imperfect features that offer a sense of character and authenticity to a space. Several retailers, including Amish furniture stores, offer handcrafted pieces made from natural materials to add character, creativity, and originality to your living area.
Soft Throw Blankets
Soft, fluffy blankets are perfect for winter evenings spent at home. Get creative with colors and designs to make your house feel more like a home. There are loads of stores that stock soft, cozy throws online or you could make your own.
Cheerful Paint
Paint is a cheap and quick way to change the mood in any room. Choose colors that will put people at ease and give them an enthusiastic feeling with paint like blue or yellow - it doesn't have to match either! Get creative with color combinations too, there's no rules when it comes to painting as long as you're happy with how it looks then all else is irrelevant.
Candles
There's nothing quite like lighting candles on a cold evening; they provide warmth for not only our physical selves but also our minds too helping us feel more relaxed and comfortable around our home environment. They may be small but they can make a huge difference.
Aromatherapy Candles or Diffusers
Lighting some aromatherapy candles or diffusing essential oils can help create a relaxing atmosphere in the home without having to do anything else. It's a great way of making your house feel more like home and it doesn't take up much time or effort!
Beanbag Chairs
They may not look like the most comfortable things in the world, but beanbag chairs are surprisingly so. A beanbag chair can be a useful piece of equipment when trying to make your home feel cozier. They mould to your body and give a sense of being enveloped by something soft which is perfect for those who don't want too many hard lines around their home. This means that they can work great for areas where you don't want sharp lines or furniture that feels too hard as it's made out of cushions.
Most importantly though, a beanbag chair can be a useful when trying to make your home feel cozier. Plus, they are easy to move around from one room to the next.
You may have heard that beans do not smell very nice after they've been used in bags but this isn't true, especially if they are new and clean.
You should only need an air freshener to remove any odor from within the bag itself which is what most people seem concerned about anyway! The bottom line is; these chairs give comfort without taking up much space.
Let More Light In
Another aspect of staying comfortable in your home is the levels of light you receive. As with having plant life in your home, it's important to get enough natural light for your circadian rhythms and your vitamin D levels.
There are several ways you can let more light into your home. You can hang light curtains or net curtains, make a skylight or invest in some mirrored furniture that will reflect natural light in all directions.
