5 quick and smart ways to freshen up the interior of your home.
Now that a new year has begun, you have the best opportunity to change your surroundings substantially. We all know how the environment in which we live matters the most when it comes to our mental health and overall life condition. A noisy, crowded or uncomfortable housing setting can affect your sleep or increase stress and anxiety, which is why an uncluttered environment is good for you.
There are many ways to freshen your house, regardless of your budget. You could simply start by cleaning everything and changing the odor or adding greener colors and pigments around the house (including getting more plants) to make your house look livelier. Regardless, here are some easy tips on changing your home forever.
Create a Vignette
In home décor, a vignette can be defined as a small grouping of objects that create a pleasing focal point. A vignette has the purpose of gathering all things that unusually sit around in disarray and placing them in such a manner that looks aesthetically pleasing. This is an affordable and accessible design tip for everyone ―you only need something as a base, and the rest of the decoration depends on what kind of objects are lying around your house.
This tip is perfect for any room because clutter will be there as long as there’s a table or a cabinet somewhere. So, take for example the bedroom, where you have your nightstand that is occupied by plenty of things. Choose something that can be considered as a base (a book or purchase a tray) where you can place the other items found there in whatever order you want. You can even group objects by size or color if you want the look to be more organized.
Rearrange Furniture
The cheapest way to make your rooms look new is to move furniture around the house. Of course, this may be more challenging than it sounds because some furniture pieces are just impossible to move around. But if you have enough strength or friends to help, we recommend doing this each new season because it brings new life to your furniture and allows you to do a thorough cleaning around the house. At the same time, there are permanent solutions to moving certain objects. For example, if you have many plants around the home, you could get some planters with wheels so that it’s easy for you to relocate them wherever needed.
Rearranging furniture also gives you a chance to discover better ways of using the space available by maximizing its potential. You could position the bed, for instance, in the corner by a window instead of placing it in the middle of the room.
Plants can freshen up your rooms and might also make the air cleaner and healthier for you.
Try a New Color Palette
If you like mathematics, you’ll love this method of refreshing your rooms. Trying a new color palette is perfectly done by using a ratio of 60:30:10, where 60% represents the space that will be dominated by one color, 30% is the other color, and 10% is an accent color. You don’t necessarily need to repaint the whole room to be able to approach this strategy. If you already have your room painted in one color, you can switch the ratio options by just having other decorative motifs around the room. For example, an entirely greyish-red-painted room would need a cadet blue nuance (if you want to use complementary colors), and this combination goes well with a leafy green.
Again, you don’t have to buy new products to match the plan. You just need to think of color combinations that you can already make with what you have around the house. For example, you could use what you have in your bedroom as decorations for your living room, and so on.
Get More Plants
Nothing’s better than having plenty of plants around the house. They can freshen up your rooms and might also make the air cleaner and healthier for you. Or, if you don’t want them inside, you can redesign your terrace and have some balcony planters around where you can put plenty of different vegetation, from flowers to basil. But if you’re not sure how well you’ll be able to care for them, you could get plants that don’t need much maintenance, such as the following:
- Peace lily
- Spider plant
- Jade plant
- String of hearts
- Umbrella plant
- Rubber plant
- English ivy
Indoor plants also provide some evidence-backed benefits, like:
- Helping reduce stress levels
- Fastening the recovery process from an illness
- Boosting productivity
- Improving air’s quality
- Having therapeutic properties
Set Up a Special Space For Yourself
Sometimes, all we need is a nice place inside where we can recharge and use it for ourselves. You may use that space for studying, reading, planning your meals or just dwelling on your goals, so that corner in your house must be perfect. It can also be used as a safe space for when you need to unwind or just do something to ease your anxiety. Most of the time, this space is located in the bedroom or at a desk, where you can decorate it to make the corner more appealing and aesthetically pleasing so that it can be easy for you to get comfortable there.
However, you need to be sure of what you will use that space for because if you need to be concentrated, you should eliminate potential distractions and enhance its features. This means having enough shelves, lighting the room enough and with proper light so that it doesn’t tire the eyes. On the other hand, if you only need a relaxing spot, you can get colourful LEDs and shiny decorations to feel at ease when entering the relaxing mood.
Bottom Line
Making your house look like new isn’t that difficult. You just need to get a little creative, and you won’t even need to spend a penny on redecoration. The secret to having a fresh house is to keep it neat and change the placement of your belongings so that you’ll constantly feel like you are in a new environment.
