When you are a family, everything becomes a little more important, a little more urgent and a little more of an adventure. This couldn’t be truer when it comes to moving into a new house. You have a new space to call yours, but you will want it to feel like yours as soon as possible, which is no easy feat as it can take months if not years to make a house a home.
Sure, once you have celebrated your first Christmas there, or had a birthday party or done the garden, then you will see this house start to feel like home, but no one wants to wait for those milestones to come around. You want to have that homely feeling start to sprout so fast that it will feel like home before the removalist company rings the doorbell. Well, the good news is that this dream of yours is totally possible to achieve. And that is what we are going to help you with right now.
Kid’s Room Is The Number 1 Priority –
If you want your new place to feel like home then you need to make your kid(s) room the priority from the very moment you open the front door. Build their bed, hang their favourite posters, line up their collection of dinosaur toys on the window sill, put their books in height order on the shelves, lay that rug they love own and put their favourite bedding on the bed. This is the safe haven, that little piece of home they can enjoy while you bring the rest of the house to the same level.
Don’t Underestimate Immediate Cosiness –
The little things in life always have a way of making the biggest impacts. So make sure that you are calling in these little things in your early days. Scented candles, playing the music you love, putting up that cuckoo clock that oozes with familiarity every hour and make sure that you have food in so that you can make a first home cooked meal that is worth remembering. Yeah, pizza would be easier, but it won’t make your new space feel like home.
Put Up That Art –
Just don’t hang it right away. That is because where art goes needs to be carefully considered; it needs to be thought about so that it can add the right vibe and feel to each room, which can take some time. That said, your collection of art – the one you have built up over so many years – has an incredible way of making a space feel so much more homely. So instead of hanging it, lean your bits of art up around your house. That way you can escape the bare wall syndrome and enjoy your collection until you have decided on where to hang each piece.
Curtains And Lighting –
Very little can change the ambiance of a room quite as drastically and warmly as the way a room is lit and the way the windows are framed. It is just a quick and affordable way to spruce a room up, which is why you should make both of these elements a real priority. Bring in some lamps to each room – living rooms, bedrooms, kitchen – and then swap out the tired blinds for more bubbly curtains. You could even do this yourself with some DIY curtains, the kind that really celebrates the personality of your family.
Love,
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