If you have just moved house, you have gone through a lot of trouble to find the right home for you. However, not everything will be perfect. Perhaps everything in your home is fantastic except for a few things—the floor could do with some work, one room is lacking light, or you might not feel particularly inspired by your living room. You have just spent a lot of time, money, and effort so don’t feel down about discovering one or two faults. Fortunately, there are easy fixes for these issues. Energize your new home with these 5 tips.
- Repaint Your Front Door
Your front door is often overlooked when thinking about decorating your house. However, it should not be ignored as you view your front door everyday. It is also the centrepiece when looking at your home from the outside, and plays a vital role in establishing a welcoming atmosphere for anyone who enters.
Cleaning your front door and maintaining it will work wonders for reviving the appearance of your home. If your front entranceway is shabby, it can really diminish the beauty of your home. Try painting the door a bold colour—bright red or green door will provide a gorgeous contrast against a neutral colour home.
- Redo The Floors
A common situation that many people deal with is that your house has old, tattered flooring. Perhaps your new home is carpeted and you are considering a change. As such, you might want to refinish the floors. Sanding down the floors will fix broken or rotting floorboards, making it smooth and preventing any splinters. Staining and sealing will breathe life back into your floors and can make your room feel completely different. Try parquet flooring for its fantastic design, cherry wood for a darker tone, or laminate for a low-maintenance option.
Refinishing the floor is one of the more laborious tasks on this list. You will need to empty out the room as much as possible to make the job much easier to complete. If possible, try to start this floor refinishing project before you move in; there will be no , making everything run more smoothly and quickly.
- Adorn The Walls
An easy trick to livening up a room is to hang artwork or prints on the walls. These can really add more character to your home as you can pick out pieces that showcase your tastes and personality. Display works from your favourite artists or photographs. Also, artwork is a great chance to be creative and hang up your own creations!
Try to coordinate the artwork with the colour palette of your room. For example, a few cool hanging art pieces that works together with a few splashes of colour in the form of cushions or plants will improve the feel of the room.
- Use Mirrors To Reflect Your Mood
If a room suffers from a lack of light, the obvious answer is to incorporate more light. However, while opening up a space or installing new windows could be too big an investment. Luckily, with a few strategically placed floor lamps, creative light fixtures, and mirrors, you can instantly make your room feel bigger and brighter. Also, open up those curtains to let in as much light as possible. The mirrors will reflect the newly added light, giving the illusion of an opened space, which in turn improves your mood.
More light, particularly natural, comes with numerous benefits: a healthy dose of vitamin D, improved productivity, and a renewed sense of energy. Light plays such an important role in setting the mood for the room as a dark room tends to generate a negative, lifeless atmosphere.
- Brighten and Freshen Up
Adding colour to an otherwise bland, dreary room is the perfect solution to convey new moods and energy to your home. Think about the psychological effects that colour have on you; green gives a sense of tranquility, red improves energy, yellow communicates happiness, and purple is associated with luxury.
You can incorporate these colours and related moods in many creative ways other than painting the walls. Fabrics for your bed, throws and cushions for the sofa, unique rugs, or colourful lighting fixtures are a few examples. Don’t forget that plants are an easy way to add some green accents indoors and that accessories, from tabletop decorations to books, can play an important role here! Flowers liven up any space and can work together with other items in the room to create a stylish space.
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