Ways to make your home come alive
A home is much more than a combination of walls, hallway, ceilings, attics, bedrooms and bathrooms and so on. It is where our dreams are realised and our aspirations are shaped. Your home reflects the happy moments and shelters you when times are hard. It is as much a living entity as your own desires, experience and passion.
How does your home look matters a lot in cheering up your mood for the day. If you wake up to a cheerful environment inside your home, your day is made. You can make your house livelier by adding little here and there or applying minimal changes for interiors.
Colour
Colour affects our moods to an extent much more than we can apprehend. Colours are evocative to our personality and they have cultural connotations. Psychological stimulation to colours is unmistakable and each and every person develops emotional attachment to each colour to a varied degree. Colours stimulate our reaction – red makes you excited, yellow cheers you up on a gloomy afternoon and so on.
Colours can play their part in almost everything inside a house – walls, home furniture, fixtures, etc. For some, painting wall with bright colours may be an enticing idea and some may be content with furnishing with a combination of light and bright colours. If you feel your sofa is looking drab during grey winter days, bring in a brightly textured cushion to draw positive vibes.
Corners
Corners are often ignored while setting up the home or rather they are utilised for keeping things that would not have fit anywhere else. However, your home can look a lot more livelier if you play around with the corners.
Corners can be turned in to the focal point of a room with a bit of modification and innovative thinking. You can keep a statement chair and a footstool in the corner and keep a vase with fresh flowers to transform the room. You can keep an ottoman in the corner and use it as a make up place along with a beautifully framed mirror.
Walls
What colour you prefer for your dining room wall or wall overlooking your bed is a subjective matter. Experiment with a little pop of colour before deciding on which colour you prefer for a wall or space in your home. Usually, bright colours like red are believed to brighten up your mind and green and blue are considered calming colours.
If all the walls of your home is painted creamy white, enliven them using bright wall papers or painting them anew with bright colours. Textured paint is becoming very popular with new age home buyers and they add an aesthetic appeal to your home walls. Moreover, patterns on walls like floral patterns and harlequins can spice up the walls, too.
Furniture
Furniture can spice up your living room or bedroom and make the house much more livelier. Although many of us assume that furniture in living room is the main attraction, furniture in other space of the house too can enhance the living experience. You can hang up a shack in the attic amid a small container garden and match it up with surrounding furniture; which will definitely add a charm languishing at your attic. You can add a quirkiness to your interior by bringing in pieces that exhibit comic relief. Chairs shaped like a giant door knob inspired from Alice in Wonderland or coffee tables in the shape of a vintage tape or a dresser with a missing drawer or aqua coloured crest in the middle of the room can transform the look of the house completely.
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