7 Ways to Introduce Coziness to Your Home
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Introducing coziness to your home and lifestyle can help you feel more at peace and relaxed. Your home should be a safe place where you can recharge from your daily activities and work life. Coziness and feeling at peace, or hygge in Danish, is primarily a feeling, but it can also translate to decorating your environment.
There are many easy ways to incorporate that feeling of coziness in your home. Read on to see the 7 ideas we have chosen for you.
1. Comfortable Furniture
There isn’t a better feeling as lying down on a comfortable couch or bed after a difficult day of responsibilities. The first step to introducing coziness to your home is to have comfortable furniture. This can include furniture from sofas to dining chairs.
If you are decorating and furnishing your home from scratch, it’s easier to incorporate comfortable furniture into the design. Even if you aren’t planning on a big redesign, you can include small decorative pieces that are also comfortable – pillows and throw blankets.
2. Small Cozy Improvements
If you are looking for smaller improvements to your home, smaller pieces of cozy furniture or decor are a good place to start. Cozy pieces can be a couple of throw blankets on your couch that you can snuggle up in, and fluffy or faux fur pillows to surround yourself while on the sofa. Faux fur or shaggy rugs are perfect for a living space or your bedroom. They are nice and cozy to walk on, and they can make your house feel warmer.
3. Natural Color Scheme
Colors have a big impact on our mood and the vibe of a room. While people have preferences to which color makes them feel comfortable, a rule of thumb is that natural or neutral colors are linked to coziness and comfort.
It’s important to create harmony in colors and fabrics you use for decor. Neutral colors like grey, white, beige, and wooden tones are perfect for a Scandinavian hygge palette. Walls painted white, beige, or light grey can tie the furniture and decor pieces in a relaxing harmony.
4. Warm Lighting
Lighting can make or break the coziness of a room. Most comfortable and cozy lights are warm, be it from warm light bulbs, candles, or a fireplace. Instead of placing one strong and bright overhead light fixture, opt for smaller lights in various places closer to the ground.
A good option can be a floor lamp with a lampshade that diffuses warm light. Multiple candles on coffee tables are perfect for a cozy atmosphere, or even a fireplace that gives both warmth and cozy light.
5. Nature Inside
What gives us the most comfort and feeling at ease? Nature of course. The easiest way to incorporate nature into your home and invite coziness is by adding plants. Plants are living things and they can put us at ease very quickly. The green color is naturally relaxing and pleasing to the eye, and it can help relieve stress and anxiety.
Many people spend their whole day looking at bright screens of a computer or phone, so having a plant friend near you can help your eyes relax after a long day. Planters can also add to your decor with many beautiful colors and shapes to choose from.
6. Cozy Decorative Pieces
Besides the big cozy furniture and color coordinating everything in your house, adding some smaller pieces to your room decor is what will elevate the coziness to another level. Candles are the most simple but cozy piece of decor you can have in your home. The more candles you have, the better atmosphere. If you are unsure about lighting real candles, even fake candles that work on batteries look amazing and can imitate the real warm light.
Don’t leave all your walls bare. Subtle artwork in coordinated colors can make the space feel cozy too. Faux flowers and greenery in neutral colors are perfect for filling up bare corners and end tables.
7. Enjoy Your Space
Coziness and hygge are not just about the decor and your surroundings – they are the feeling of coziness and relaxing with your family, friends, or by yourself. Your surroundings can help you feel at ease, as well as the activities you enjoy. It can be reading a book by the fireplace, enjoying a hot cup of tea, or chatting with your family about your day. Making a meal and sharing it with your loved ones, or enjoying it by yourself in your comfortable space.
There are many ways to feel cozy, so take your time finding out what that is for you. Make sure to enjoy the time you have with the people you care about. Creating a beautiful space and enjoying it is the essence of hygge or coziness. Use your space to recharge from your daily life, and wake up fresh the next day.
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Bio: Patrick Adams is a freelance writer and rock-blues fan. When he is not writing about home improvement, he loves to play chess, watch basketball, and play his guitar. More than anything, he loves to spend his time in his garage, repairing appliances and creating stuff from wood.
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