Moving into a new home, particularly if it’s your first mortgage and familial property, can be an extremely intense time. Not only do you have many responsibilities to take care of in getting set up, but you might also have a new child to watch out for. It might be you’ve moved a considerable distance away from your old life, or you’re not sure where to get started with your new decors. It could be the fact that now – this is it. This is the life you have been dreaming of crafting for so long present and ready for you to interact with. That can feel like quite an intense revelation on its own. However, despite all of these changing tides, there’s no reason you should feel pulled under the currents. This can be a wonderful time for everyone involved.
For the purposes of this article, we are going to discuss how to get started with your decors and home space. Fixing your entire abode in weeks or months might not happen, and it’s ideally going to be an ever-shifting series of choices, improvements and renewals that you embed during your time there. Still, getting started might be best enjoyed with some solid advice.
You might have some tastes that differ from the regular person, but on the whole what makes an authentic, fairytale home (however you define ‘fairytale’) can be more than possible to achieve. Here’s how:
Never Be Afraid Of Wood
When it comes to developing a nice new home, it’s sometimes tempting to go for the full minimal and modern look. This can be beautiful to look at, but it can rob some of the character of your space. For an earthy, more homely atmosphere, never be afraid of wood furniture and wood countertops in your kitchen. Wooden bed frames, wooden tables and wooden chairs can all serve your home by sporting beautiful engravings, or being of a particular kind of wood open for expert craftsmanship. The true beauty of wooden furniture is that you can have it customized with a carpenter to truly gift you an original piece you can proudly flaunt.
Wood is also relatively cheap considering all other options, can be painted or refurbished at your will, and truly does add a sense of comforting luxury to any room it is embedded in. Stay away from the overly polished acrylics, the plastics and the faux metals if you can, unless you truly are in love with the piece itself. Wood is the best symbolic display of stability, wholesomeness, longevity and history that you home your family home will emulate.
Wood is also timeless, meaning that installing faux beams, trimming your skirting boards or theming your furniture will never dictate the era of the home to a degree. You can be sure that this will offer you plenty to be proud of, and before long you’ll be inviting your friends around just to show off the new decors. ‘Woodn’t’ that sound like a great idea? Okay, we’ll stop.
Get The Bathroom Right
The one room that many people neglect is the bathroom. This is one of the most important rooms in the house believe it or not. It might not seem like it, but try living with a bathroom in disrepair for a few weeks, and you’ll absolutely understand what we mean. If you get this bathroom right however, you will find that the setup grooming duty of your morning is spent positively and with a sense of tidy organization.
It’s important to allow for this grooming me-time to be beautifully taken care of, and environment means everything. Change things up a little! For example, it might be that you decide to use traditional implements that separate the washing apparatus apart from one another, like a freestanding bath or sink. These can certainly add to the regal charm of your household, and certainly impress newcomers. Also, they are much easier to clean, and do not spoil your interior with unsightly silicon waterproofing all over the place.
For more tips akin to ours, and to take this design to the next level, we’d suggest reading this article detailing how to design a traditional bathroom with pride and ease. Before long you’ll be finding any excuses to wash your hair and sing into your toothbrush in the mirror.
Personalize Your Art
The expression of art, particularly in your own four walls, is important to get just right. If you manage to, you can potentially elevate the ambience of your home to a completely new degree. With this, you also get a chance to express your internal personality and the macro personality of your family as a whole through the decors you provide. The best part? You needn’t overdo it to have an impact.
Try and stay away from the mainstream home furnishings you see in your local store. You have probably seen a million ‘live, laugh, love’ signs over your friends houses. This has become something of an internet meme thanks to their prevalence. While there’s nothing wrong and actually something profoundly correct with that message, it doesn’t show any personality or unique attributes which allows you to make your home you.
In order to change things up, you have to imbue your home with the things you love. For example, are you deeply emotionally fond of film noir from the 40s and 50s? Well, it could be that framing legitimate vintage movie posters on your wall with a top or backlight can help you chart a story along the corridor introducing your front door to the depths of your home. It might be you purchase a tapestry with pre-sewn or personally-sewn quotes from a Zen philosopher you enjoy the teachings of. It might be that you have personal art commissioned of photographs taken of you and your family, or you and your partner on your wedding day.
With this, you will find that your home brings out that personal consideration that truly makes you, you. What could be better than that to celebrate the individual and connected personalities of your family home?
We hope that this advice will help you develop a more profoundly individual, authentic and wholesome representative of who you are and why your home is so beautiful.
*This is a collaborative post*