Comfort is a vague concept, in many waysintangible and even unnoticeable. When we get into a cozy house, we simply understand that it is cozy here, but we cannot explain why. We just feel good, comfortable, warm and light here. And what is interesting. Many, even the richest and most stylish houses are not always cozy, and sometimes in a small and cramped apartment, decorated without any special frills, a person feels quite comfortable and happy. What is the secret of coziness, and how to create coziness in the house? Let's try to figure it out. In the explanatory dictionary, the word "coziness" is explained as the quality of the living environment. The distinctive characteristics of this quality are comfort, convenience, kindness and warmth. And the most important quality of cozy housing is considered to be adaptability to a specific person, his lifestyle and thoughts. By the way, cozy housing is so natural for any person that people soon stop paying attention to coziness, perceiving it as something self-evident. But in a house where there is not enough comfort, a person feels "out of place", feels anxious and uncomfortable, becomes overly irritable or falls into a depressive state. So a cozy home largely determines the quality of life as such. We suggest you use the seven commandments of a good housewife, which will help make your home truly cozy.
Cleanliness and tidiness
It is no coincidence that cleanliness in the house is considered the firsta good housewife's commandment. A dirty house cannot be cozy. We are not at all calling on you to make a fetish out of cleanliness and to achieve the sterility of an operating room in your home (although, in some places, such sterility would not be superfluous). But still, cleanliness must not only be brought in from time to time, but also to be maintained constantly. Yes, yes, this is a "sore" topic for many women: we do not have enough time, and we are tired at work - all this is true. However, if we are talking about coziness in the house, then we cannot do without cleanliness and order. And we are not only talking about dishes washed on time, or floors quickly wiped. Cleanliness must be real! And this means that there should be no cloudy window panes hidden behind blinds or curtains, and dust should be wiped not only in places accessible to the eye, but also from above shelves and cabinets. By the way, order should also reign behind closed cabinet doors. Now look at the doors and walls: greasy doorframes, dirty door handles, not very clean switches on the walls - all this also does not add coziness to your home, just like the wallpaper that has come off in some places or the relief of the plaster emphasized by dust. By the way, the curtains on the windows and the upholstery fabric of the upholstered furniture should also be clean. In general, any textiles in your home should always be clean: fabrics easily absorb odors and even if they do not seem dirty on the outside, they can add a solid fly in the ointment to your barrel of honey. By the way, the smell in the house is also an important component of coziness.
Smell
The smell of any home is made up of many thingsaromas, as well as neutral or even not very pleasant smells. If you maintain cleanliness, then there should be no unpleasant smells (from the trash can, toilet, cat litter box) in your home. However, the source of such a smell can be a stale towel in the bathroom, and a damp rag in the kitchen, and a “suffocated” umbrella in the hallway, and curtains on the windows that have not been washed for a long time, and books gathering dust in the cabinets. In short, almost any object in your home can easily become a source of an unpleasant smell. Therefore - cleanliness and once again cleanliness. In addition to the good natural smell of the House, its “olfactory” image can be supplemented with other aromas. Use for this both ordinary air fresheners and special devices (sachets, scented candles, essential oils, etc.). The coziest and warmest smells are considered to be vanilla, bergamot, mint, lemon or grapefruit, as well as cinnamon, verbena, fresh wood and coffee. And, of course, the smell of baking, which no other (even the most exquisite) aroma can compete with. But it is advisable to neutralize all other kitchen smells. By the way, a hood that copes with this task perfectly will help get rid of the smell of rancid fat, as well as the greasiest plaque and soot on the walls and kitchen furniture.
Style and interior
Decorating your interior in a single style is not at allfashionable feature. Note that almost all interior styles have been formed over many decades (or even centuries!) taking into account the living conditions of people in different regions, in areas with different climates and with their own cultural traditions. Therefore, each style is a kind of complete and perfect example of harmonious interior design. Of course, you need to choose a style taking into account your personal taste preferences and your own ideas about the beauty and comfort of living space. Nevertheless, adhering to the laws of a certain style in the design of your home is half the success in solving the problem of creating a cozy interior. And it is not true that only a house whose interior is designed in some unpretentious country style with frills on the curtains and pillows on the sofa can be called cozy. Fashionable styles such as loft, high tech, minimalism also have the right to claim the title of cozy if people living in such interiors feel comfortable and happy.
Light and color
A cozy home should be light and warm.Light – in the sense of well and correctly lit, and warm – in the sense of decorated in a warm color scheme. By the way, about warm colors. Oddly enough, but traditionally warm shades of the color palette are not always able to make a house cozy. Here, rather, their presence in the colors of the house and harmonious combination with any other colors are important. And even a completely dull black and white interior can look not only stylish, but also quite cozy. Such colors as blue, beige, sand, green, terracotta, lilac are considered cozy. Too bright colors, as well as multi-color will make the interior of your home memorable and catchy, but hardly cozy. Although the presence of bright colors as separate accent spots is welcomed by many interior designers. Well, each artist has his own vision of aesthetic perfection, and each owner has his own idea of comfort. Therefore, the main rule for choosing the main color of the interior is to please the eye and make the heart happy. There is no need to say much about light as an important component of a cozy home. Everything is clear - a cozy home should be bright. Therefore, no dim or burnt-out bulbs and dirty lampshades. And it is also desirable that in each room of your house there is not one single chandelier under the ceiling, but at least two light sources.
Houseplants
Living green plants in the house is anotheran essential element of a cozy interior. Do you think why all respectable offices try to decorate the interior with indoor plants (though more often than not, artificial ones)? Because they create an atmosphere of coziness, make people feel comfortable in the workplace, and therefore, they will work better. What can we say about living space then? Naturally, indoor flowers will not only decorate the interior, but will also bring undoubted benefits. Firstly, indoor flowers can purify the air and have a beneficial effect on the energy of the house. Secondly, plants in the house can become healers of physical and mental ailments. And thirdly, indoor flowers can act as talismans.
Textile
A house without textiles would rather resembleoffice than living space. Fabric is a “living” substance, breathing and capable of storing the smells of your home (not only good ones, by the way). Therefore, a truly cozy home simply must be decorated with textile elements. These are all kinds of pillows and dumochki, curtains and tablecloths, napkins and bedspreads. And, in addition, fabrics can be used for wall decoration, creating panels or other decorative elements of the interior. Naturally, the fabrics must be natural, and all textile decorations must be clean. This applies not only to decorative elements or upholstery fabric on upholstered furniture, but also to things of quite practical purpose (towels, bed linen, blankets, rugs).
Individuality
If you feel calm, comfortable and at ease in your homenice, then your home can safely be called cozy, because it meets one of the main conditions of cozy housing - adaptation to the habits, character and lifestyle of the person himself. And each specific person is an individual, so a cozy home should be distinguished by its individuality. What does this mean? And this means that the interior of your home should not only not be a copy of some other (even very stylish) interior, but have its own "face" and "character". What? Depends on who exactly lives in the house. Coziness is a good mood, peace and contentment with life. By and large, coziness is a feeling of happiness, the happiness of having your own home. This is the main secret of coziness, and how to create coziness in the house, you probably already know. Go ahead! We advise you to read:
