Home Sweet Home.…How you want it to be cozy, to feel warmth and peace when you return there from work, so that even the walls are waiting for you, understand you and lift your spirits. Unfortunately, not everyone can say such words about their home. It often happens that we treat the place where we live as a temporary shelter and we just can’t bring ourselves to create home comfort. This happens for various reasons, mainly because of dissatisfaction with our own home. For example, you dream of a spacious private house, but you have to live in a small one-room apartment. How can there be comfort here? I wish I could quickly save up money and make my dream come true! But the money doesn’t want to accumulate, time passes, and there is neither a spacious house nor a cozy, albeit small, apartment. You begin to feel irritated, annoyed, and returning home turns into an obligation for you, not a desire. And one fine day you understand that you can’t live like this any longer, you need to do something, change your principles, forget about your dream for a while and try to live in the present. And then the question arises – how to create home comfort? How to make your home not just a place to spend the night, but something more, something necessary…
Textile
The opinion that comfort depends on square footagemeters of housing, from a luxurious renovation and expensive furniture - is a mistake. Following the advice below, you will make your home cozy, even if it is just a room in a communal apartment. The first step towards transformation will be the choice of textiles. Undoubtedly, this is an important component of the home environment. Pay attention to the windows - it is not good at all if you have not changed the curtains on them for several years. Do not rush to buy blinds, they will not help you achieve the desired result. No matter how you look at it, blinds are still an office style. Even the simplest and most inexpensive, but tastefully selected curtains can change the appearance of the room beyond recognition. In addition, they reliably protect us from prying eyes and the outside world. Get a beautiful tablecloth for the dining table, a bedspread for a bed or a soft blanket - a very useful multifunctional thing in the household. After all, it not only warms you up on cold winter evenings, but is also able to hide unsightly places from strangers, while pleasing the eyes of others with its attractive colors. Try to choose the right color scheme for textiles. You don’t need your home to shimmer with all the colors of the rainbow. The only exception here can be a children's room. Think this issue over very carefully. Make sure that there are bright things in the room. But at the same time, they should not ruin the overall atmosphere.
Lighting
A few words should also be said about lighting.In addition to overhead lighting, you need to additionally acquire several sources of local lighting. For example, a nice table lamp or floor lamp will be suitable for both working at the computer and for comfortable evening reading. Moreover, such elegant things are simply irreplaceable in creating a cozy home environment.
Plants
Houseplants.Their role in the home environment is very important. Violets on the windowsill, climbing plants in pots on the walls or a ficus in a floor pot - all this can bring freshness and vitality to the room. If you do not have a special love for flowers, or you have no time to take care of them, you can buy beautiful artificial plants, fortunately today there are a great many of them on sale, and some of them are quite difficult to distinguish from real ones.
Furniture
Change your old furniture!There is no need to chase fashion and create an "operating room" style in the room with shiny and metallic surfaces. Well, think for yourself, what could be better than a soft comfortable chair located next to a bookshelf. Here you can relax, read your favorite book, drink a cup of aromatic coffee and, forgetting about the diet, eat a delicious chocolate bar!
Kitchen
The kitchen is the place where we spend most of our time:Family breakfasts and dinners, chatting with a friend over a glass of wine, a romantic evening with your husband. Therefore, you need to pay no less attention to the kitchen decor than to the living room. Get rid of old dishes, even if it includes your favorite flowered cup, from which you have been drinking for five years, and cannot imagine your morning coffee without it. Buy a new one, it will soon become your favorite too! And at the same time, buy some nice dishes for the rest of the family. Hang some bright curtains, put a couple of flower pots on the windowsill, and never let old kitchen towels accumulate in the kitchen! They spoil the overall look the most. Bright, sunny kitchen potholders, napkins to match the curtains, a polka-dot sugar bowl, the same salt shaker… That's it – your kitchen has become unrecognizable! It is very important that the interior of the apartment becomes exactly “yours”. Each room should have some little things that are inherent specifically to the owners of the house. Photos with images of people close and dear to you or dear places, reminding you of important events in your life, will not only decorate the interior of the room, but will also give the feeling that at home even the walls really help. Children's drawings in homemade frames, a herbarium given to you by a child on March 8 or a model of a ship assembled by a son, of course, not without the help of dad... All these tips will help to transform your apartment beyond recognition. You will be happy to return to it in the evenings, and all your friends and acquaintances, coming to visit, will definitely notice the changes and exclaim - how cozy it is! We recommend reading:
