Ever been to a local coffee shop or outdoor dining where you almost feel at home?
What makes it very inviting is the creative homey living vibes that just screams out warmth and coziness. It makes you picture out yourself in your own living room, looking out the balcony, sipping your coffee, and with contentment.
Everyone must always have the sense of security and satisfaction on their own space.
With that being said, you are now decided to make your home to be one of those “I just love your home so much!” feels.
Here’s some of the tips on how to make it possible:
1. CREATE “WARMTH”
The first tip to making a space welcoming is the “warmth” it brings since it brings the sense of balance, relief and soothing feeling throughout the house.
These feelings we get comes from the decoration, lighting and colors you see when you open and enters the front door.
A. DECORATION
We often and mostly consume our time in the living room sofa just scrolling down on social media or watching Netflix.
It’s time to make your “sofa” standout! Bring out those fluffy pillow and throw sets to make your sofas more inviting.
One of the tricks you can make to constantly transform the looks and feels based on the season, event or if you just feel like it is to change those pillow covers!
Another essential decoration is to add some plants, flowers, vegetable or anything organic in any room as it breathes out so much life in every space.
Accessorizing your plants, flowers and vegetables with those eye catching pots, planters and baskets adds a pop of a very cozy interest to any room.
In time, you may learn on how to better mix and match those patterns and styles, for now, experiment and explore what make you most comfortable!
B. LIGHTING
Create an ambiance by placing a smart lighting to a room. A warm feels naturally comes from choosing the right lighting that can accentuate the concept you want to achieve.
For a more comfortable feel try to choose an ambient lighting with warm lights. Try to avoid using those white and bright lights like the ones used in kitchens.
Go for those warm white (more yellowish-white) lighting or soft white (warm and yellow) lighting. These lights gives a warm and cozy feeling that is best suited for living rooms and bedrooms.
C. COLORS
When it comes to choosing a color for a room, you may want to coat it with a cozy and comfortable paint color. There’s a wide range of color you can choose. From hues of red to earthy tones that can instantly warm up your space.
Warm colors have the combination of yellow, orange and red hues. It mostly indicates energy, positivity and sunshine to any room. Warmer color tones make larger spaces feels more inviting and are most popular in in kitchens and living rooms
Cool colors includes green, blue and purple hues that contributes a calm and freshness attributes. Cool color tones on the other hand make smaller spaces feel more expansive and are most popular in bathrooms and bedrooms.
You may mix or just use both color tones in the same room, whichever will dominant - warm or cool tone - that will mainly influence the room’s personality the most.
Some color ideas you may opt to is/are: creamy white, mustard yellow, moody green, shades of gray rich red, soft blue, or tangerine.
2. COZY UP CURTAINS
When it comes to blocking and obscuring daylight or just controlling your indoor lights, the best option to go to is to cozy up with your curtains.
Adding some curtains to your home have a huge impact especially when creating that cozy vibe. It can determine the ambiance, theme and drama you want to project when someone enters your home.
When you want to have that charm and romantic atmosphere, remember to go for an earthy or pastel colours with a flowy yet lacy fabric for a dim and inviting light.
Curtains also provide some added elegance and as such, can also make the small room look so much bigger. Put up curtains that is longer than your window to build that impression of a wide and more open space.
If you are currently using a normal and plain linen curtains, time to switch up your game to another level. Replace it with those silk drapes or heavy curtain to create that cozy mood and complete your room.
3. GET TO HANGING!
You already have that perfect lighting plus that preferred color for a wall paint but something seems odd, right? That is because you have a completely empty walls! If so, let’s go get to hanging!
When hanging something on your wall, you can consider to put up an art, textile wall hangings, personalized frame of your photographs or even mirrors.
Explore which will best
Just remember to never leave your walls EMPTY!
4. ADD TEXTURE
What is texture? Texture is the appearance and consistency of a surface. Picture yourself wandering on the linen section, do you consciously touch those fluffy, soft cotton blankets that just compels you to TOUCH? That’s what texture is!
A simple cheap way that you can do to add texture to your home is to organize a shelf full of books. Add those collections and those that is still waiting to be read.
Or, place some inviting fabrics, those wooly rags around the living room and some of pillows.
Trust me, guests and visitors would just unconsciously feel and touch things those up!
5. SCENT
Visual is important when you want to project that cozy home feels. But why do account the fragrance / scent of your home? Hmmmm…..
Imagine, you invite your peers and friends over for a house warming party or just some random invitation and your home smells like your fried fish the night before? That is a BIG NO NO! You’ve done an impressive job for your cozy ambiance but the “funny” smell may serve you injustice.
There are a lot of ways that you can add scent to your home up. You can use essential oil diffuser, scented candles, incense or some freshly picked scented flowers or just a scent you love and whatever makes your nose happy. Style your home with fragrance. Nothing is more memorable than a smell.
These tips will surely help and spice up your home to make it more inviting and cozy. All in all, experiment, be more adventurous by creating your own mix and match and do just what make you most HAPPY!
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