Monday, January 2, 2012

Affordable Methods To Perk Up Your Home For Spring

By Reggie Goodpasture


After having a long dismal winter, springtime is when it is time for a change, not only in our lives, but also our houses. Does your home look and feel somewhat lifeless and have you been still stuck in the doldrums of winter? Let's consider some suggestions of easy, low-cost strategies to bring the bright, cheerful feeling of Spring into your home.

White is a wonderful clean, refreshing color that can lighten your home, so you should add some. If the colors within your rooms may be reds, yellows or browns, then work with a creamier white, such as ivory. Try utilizing brighter shades of white should you be trying to blend with shades of blue or green. One of the ways to lighten a room is to paint the most noticeable wall with a brighter shade of the current wall color. While not changing the scheme tremendously, you can add lightness to your room, and if it doesn't do the job, it is easy to repaint the original color. Color has the capacity to affect the way you are feeling in both positive and negative ways. Enhance the way you are feeling by utilizing color all through your home.

Fabrics offer another excellent way to brighten up a room by using colored floral prints that complement the colors used in the room. When you go shopping for fabric, try to find something that has a minimum of one of the primary colors used in the room. You'll be able to incorporate these colors through seat coverings, place mats, and pillow cases. If you'd like to personalize your look even further, consider combining it with well-matched solid color fabrics. You can find affordable colored glassware at a dollar store which will then add color, and use them as pencil holders, vases or candy dishes. If you will keep your glass windows sparkling clean, your house won't look so dull and dirty. Gleaming glass from the nice and clean windows tends to make your rooms brighter and seem larger.

Pick up a few house plants from your local garden center and make use of them in your home. You'll want to select ones that are brightly colored and nice-smelling to help make your rooms more pleasing. Include some less colorful, green plants as well, as a way to cleanse your indoor air. Rather than overloading your walls by using too many pictures and works of art, pick out just a few larger, more modest items to display. Use items on your walls that make your rooms appear bright and fresh. While people enter your home, the first thing they see is your entry way. Take care to perk up this area with a pot of spring flowers.

Most of these tend to be pretty inexpensive and will make your house more cheerful. When you include brightness to your home, you're going to encounter a more pleasant mood and so will those who come to visit.






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