Want to learn how
to enhance your personal space, and discover more comfort and delight in
daily living? Just look below for ideas.
1. Start by de-cluttering your home, room by room. Keep only those items that bring you joy or serve a purpose. Minimalism in your surroundings can promote calmness and help reduce distractions, allowing you to feel more present in each moment.
2. Ask yourself if you notice certain décor and clothing colors relax, soothe, and comfort you. For many people who live in our culture, colors with low saturation and earthy notes makes them feel comfortable and relaxed. Science, design, and fashion experts often categorize these soothing shades as cool, tranquil tones, grounding neutrals, earth tones, and warm inviting hues.
3. If bright colors appeal to your senses and relax instead of excite you, it is not wrong. Color preferences are unique to each person, and what works for others does not have to apply to you.
4. Plan for and create a private relaxation area in home and another in your office. Consider choosing colors and textures that resonate with your emotional needs for a calm environment and gentle vibes. Soft and/or plush clothing, warm or weighted blankets, and comfy pillows may add to your enjoyment. Seeing soothing hues including pale blue, green, and neutrals on the walls, in a picture, or lamp shade may make you feel more at ease. Task others who live with you for planning and creating personal spaces of their own.
5. Connect with nature by going out to a patio, balcony, or other area outside. If you're indoors, read a few pages from a nature book as you sit by a nearby window. Display a plant, fresh bunch of flowers, and/or natural objects like driftwood, sea glass or shells, pinecones, or a natural stone or fossil artifact to keep a nature theme going.

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We have lots of earth tones in our house. I also like lots of windows that let in all the nature lighting as I find it really lifts my mood.
ReplyDeleteThanks Joanne for your comment and visit. It's fun for me to learn about your color and lighting preferences. Wishing you a sunny day. Nan
DeleteA lovely reminder that small changes can make a big difference. I especially agree with bringing nature indoors and keeping only the things that bring joy.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lisa for your visit and comment. You are so right about bringing nature indoors, and keeping only things that bring joy. Have a beautiful day and please come back for another visit to the place where colors and a healthy lifestyle intersect.
DeleteI like my "clutter." It is not (usually) messy but there is lots of "stuff." Things that bring back memories, things that I delight in looking at, lots and lots of plants, things I think are pretty or whimsy. A lifetime of memories and adventures that speak to me through these "things." Not everything brings me "joy" but a moment of pleasure. There are projects I am working on and projects I may work on some day. (I am getting old, I better hurry--or not.) I think my house that is full of "stuff" is full of life. I do agree that "messy" is unsettling and I find just putting things in a neat pile brings a bit of calm.
ReplyDeleteHear you Nan and say, "More power to you dear friend." Have a beautiful day.
DeleteExcellent ideas, Nancy. Personal space is so, well, personal and it's important to make it nurturing for yourself. We completed a renovation in 2023 which helped us make our home feel even more our style, with lots of colour and places for entertaining.
ReplyDeleteWay to go April. Remember seeing pictures of your home renovation and it's so you! Have a lovely day April and be well.
DeleteI love all of these suggestions, but I think #4 is especially important: a private space to retreat to relax (and regroup). The colors are a great thing to consider, too! Visiting from The Hearth and Soul Community on FB.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jennifer for the visit and comment. Wishing you a calm and fun day.
DeleteI'm doing a round of decluttering to welcome summer. I hope a calmer decor will make the house seem cooler. So hot here already.
ReplyDeleteAmalia
xo
Thanks Amalia for the visit and comment. You may have something there with less clutter more cool. Here in Arizona where I live, temps easily go over 100 degrees in late spring and summer. Wishing you a lovely day and lots of fun, no matter what the season.
DeleteSuch great tips, especially the decluttering one. I recently decided my bathroom needed a spring refresh, so I brought in some color in a previous all-white bathroom by adding a new shower curtain, rugs, and towels.
ReplyDeleteYes, decluttering sure is good for creating comfort and delight in our surroundings. Sounds like a great way to inexpensively update your bathroom. By the way, what color or colors did you choose Amy? Would love to know.
ReplyDeleteThese are great tips. So informative indeed.
ReplyDeleteThanks bunches for sharing with Sweet Tea & Friends this month Sweet friend. I'm so happy you're here.
Thanks Paula. Wishing you a beautiful Sunday and great week ahead,
DeleteI love neutral colors and plush blankets to cuddle in. I'm working on simplifying meals when entertaining.
ReplyDeleteWonderful to know your preferences and understand about simplifying meals when entertaining. I usually make double the amount of food I need, but understand why. I love to cook. Wishing you a wonerful July and best of health.
DeleteI have really been working on decluttering and only keeping things that have meaning. Great tips you have here! I think I didn't know my own decor style when we first moved in, either.
ReplyDeleteThanks Amy for the visit and comment. Wishing you a wonderful July and be well.
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