6 simple tricks that will make you love your home
Get personal. Whether you live in a custom-built home, an older house or a rental, you can make it feel like you. Honoring your tastes — in color, art, heirlooms and accessories — will help you stay true to yourself and make your home beautiful, too.
Forget perfection. Sometimes looking at photos of beautiful houses can make you feel anxious about perceived shortcomings in your own home. Feeling like your house could never live up to your dream standard? Start with something small- whipping that junk drawer into shape or diving into a home project can be very inspiring.
Create a calm place. What makes a home peaceful? We know as soon as we see or feel it, but creating it in our own homes can be difficult. Most peaceful spaces share certain things in common: serene color palettes, filtered light and plenty of easy-to-implement tidiness tricks.
Feed your creativity. At the end of a long day, I'm more inclined to hole up on the couch with my phone in hand endlessly scrolling social media than to whip out my knitting needles or a good book. When you feel the need to jump-start your artistic self, find a corner to call your own, eliminate distractions, make it easy to access your materials and add a dose of humor to keep your mind fresh and the ideas coming. A basket with your knitting supplies next to your favourite chair or place that stack of books that you keep putting off neatly arranged on your coffee table.
Pare down. Simplifying your life can give you more time, space and happiness. Now, this doesn't mean giving up all of your favorite furniture — it's about embracing what you really love and learning to let go of the rest.
Follow your heart. When it comes to being happier in your home, sometimes it's the big decisions that matter most — like learning to follow your heart. But sometimes it's the little things — like putting new soap in your bathroom, painting your front door or simply setting the table — that make the biggest difference.
