Tips to Make Your Home Feel Alive
As we head into the few cold, dark months of winter, there’s one feeling that often begins to creep its way in. With the change of the seasons comes the change in sunlight, it gets darker sooner, the sun rises later than we’d like. Some people are particularly attuned to this seasonal change, developing Seasonal Affective Disorder. This time on the blog we want to talk about what we can do to help keep our indoors feeling alive, this is especially important now, as we’re continuing a year of spending more time than ever indoors!
4 Tips for Breathing Life Into Your Home
Bring the Outdoors, Indoors
One way to make your interior feel more alive and dynamic is to ensure great views through your unobstructed windows. If you have a wonderful backyard full of plants and what have you, open up the windows and bring that beautiful imagery indoors! The natural light that comes in as well as the beauty of natural plant life will bring a sense of calm, well-being, and most importantly here - feeling alive.
When it comes to this, despite the name, window coverings are hugely important in framing it right. Many Scottsdale homes feature large sliding doors that open up on a patio or backyard. These views are exactly what we’re talking about but with them comes some challenges like glare and heat. This can be addressed through the judicious application of window films or shades built around the window.
Leverage Earthy Tones and Colors
One of the simplest ways to bring the outdoors inside your home is through the use of colors that reflect that. You can do this through the artwork of landscapes or animals. Using muted tans, greens, blues, reflect the natural outdoor space surrounding you. You can even match your window coverings, drapes, etc to these tones thanks to the wide variety of colors, styles, and patterns that Budget Blinds Scottsdale has on hand! We work with a huge collection of designer and designer-inspired fabrics that can create the perfect aesthetic for bringing life into your home.
You can also get window coverings made from natural materials like bamboo, reeds, jutes, and grasses, available in a variety of designs that can be integrated into the perfect customized window treatment. This brings the living, natural materials into your home.
Plants, Plants, Plants!
While we’re on the subject of natural materials, why not bring some living things into your home! Plants can be so important especially during these winter months where the chill is causing the outside growth to wither, die, or just go dormant. Indoor plants can survive the cold winter just fine, and bring life to your home. Arrange them along with your natural earthy tones and colors to create great pops of color.
Organic, Natural Shapes
Don’t want to bring in plants, real or fake? You can mimic the calming feeling by using natural, organic shapes in your home. This means things with curves. Things that mimic natural shapes. Creative lamps, coffee tables made with ‘living edges;’ the use of photographs for. You can even use natural elements like rocks, pebbles, branches, leaves as decoration inside to bring those natural vibes inward.
Drapes can also bring an organic feel to any room, the way they hang loose with flowing curves, no rigidness, speaks of water flowing, wind blowing, and other organic, moving shapes.
Using these design tips you should be able to breathe a bit more life into your home during these cool winter months! Want to bring in some natural wooden shades to breathe natural life into your home? Give us at Budget Blinds Scottsdale a call! We’re here to help you find your perfect window covering solution.
