Brighten Your Design: Tips to Energize Your Home in Time for Spring Cleaning
We know the feeling. It’s the winter months when the cold air and freezing temperature has us moving around the house in dull fatigue. This seasonal slowness seems to accumulate over time, and by late winter, we can’t wait for the warmth of spring to come rushing in, awakening us with a new sense of energy and enthusiasm.
Spring cleaning gives us that sense of renewal when we dust out those cabinets, change the linens, and give our home a full seasonal makeover that helps usher in the coziness of the change in weather. But it doesn’t come down to just a few dustings, washes, or junk removal to give your home a touch of vibrancy. In this article we look at a few design tips that can help enhance your home’s spring seasonality and revitalize its interior look just in time for spring cleaning.
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Open and Welcoming Spaces
With spring comes a new feeling of vigor. This energy emulates within the home, casting an added radiance around spaces such as your living room or hallways. There may still be cold nights here and there, but spring brings with it a more active season. More fresh air and movement within your home space leads to a more welcoming overall environment. But opening your windows to let some fresh air in isn’t the only way to make your indoors ready for spring.
Walkable Rooms
Ensuring that you have more spacious, walkable rooms is one of the foremost design tips for spring cleaning. Rearranging your furniture to create different patterns for sunlight to be let in and foot traffic with large amounts of activity can add an energetic feel to rooms where your family meets and communicates day-to-day. Make certain that you’re not blocking any pathways and that natural light can flow with the surroundings. This gives a radiant glow to each sunlit room.
Spacious Shelving
Utilizing floor-to-ceiling shelving is another bit of helpful advice, which can eliminate some of the clutter that piled up in various rooms during the winter. Safe storage is essential for any type of spring cleaning. This type of shelving can store everyday items while also making efficient use of vertical wall spacing. Putting this new shelving in your living room, bedroom, or home office can add a touch of style convenience for any homeowner.
Gather Up the Garden
If nothing else, spring is renowned for its blossoming flowers and how nature rejuvenates at the start of the season. If you have a garden, then pick some flowers and herbs, and bring them into the kitchen or living room for an excellent home display. This extends the fragrance of spring from the outdoors to your interior design. If you don’t have a home garden, buying some flowers at a nearby supermarket or nursery can add an equal amount of spring aroma to your home.
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Adding Color that Blooms
We talked about adjusting some furniture arrangements to let additional sunlight into rooms where your family interacts. However, there are bits of color configuration and other design aspects that you, as a homeowner, can utilize, which add even more energy to your home during your spring cleaning mission.
Change That Set
Do you have another color set of pillows, blankets, and cushions in your living room ready for the spring season? If not, it may be time to get one. A set of lighter colors in shades of orange, cream, blue, or bright green match the seasonal look and feel of spring’s illumination. Grey, purple, and yellow are also popular colors that coordinate with the style of spring.
And as an added tip: you may want to switch out your heavier blankets for lighter ones, such as cotton, throw blankets, or coverlets. These utilize less weighty materials and will be more useful as the weather starts heating up in the later months of spring.
Windows Fit for the Weather
You don’t get sunlit rooms or colorful energy without windows, so you’ll want to pay careful attention to your window coverings. Fabrics that are heavy and dense may have been useful to help block out the wintry cold. However, it’s time for a seasonal change and to let some of spring’s liveliness into your home. Sheer coverings, or grommet curtains that have light filtering, add extra sunlight to the room and enhance each window’s interior look.
A bonus tip: adding an extra mirror opposite of a window in the spring can enlarge a room’s reach and feel, and augment its spaciousness.
Prime for Paint
If you’re ready, spring may be the perfect time to put a new coat of paint on that bedroom, kitchen, or living room that you’ve been planning to for ages. While paint jobs are long-lasting, and the color choice is indeed up to you, a lighter tone that coordinates with spring’s luminescence may give that room a zestful feel. We recommend paint with a semi-gloss finish, giving it a slight shine that reverberates spring’s sun.
Spring is a time of renewal and rejuvenation, when nature awakens from winter fatigue. So too do we, as homeowners, start each of our spring cleaning missions with a sense of spirited purpose. Our homes need to be cleaned and organized, but most of us miss a much more important factor: how design tips can help us get our houses ready to embrace spring’s energy. In utilizing these bits of advice, we’re confident that you can energize your home for your family.
About the Author: Jennifer Bell is a freelance writer, blogger, dog-enthusiast, and avid beachgoer operating out of Southern New Jersey.
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