Does your place feel cold and impersonal?
Does it fail to show your personality and lack comfort? Sometimes it’s difficult to know where to start in decorating a home to make it cozy and inviting. Here are five easy ways to instantly create a cozy home, and none of them break the bank!
Create A Reading Nook
A place that beckons a person to lounge and enjoy their favorite book, or sneak a nap, adds coziness to any room. Start with a comfortable chair in a soothing color and plush fabric. Add fluffy pillows and a luxurious throw to snuggle into. Bring the outside in with a leafy hanging plant basket or charming succulent and place a small upholstered ottoman in front of the chair to prop up your feet. Finish it off with a small side table to hold books, a drink, and a reading lamp.
All these ingredients add up to a wonderfully cozy nook that you can enjoy for many hours.
Implement Layers
Textures are essential in creating a cozy living room. Upholstered sofas topped with fluffy pillows and blankets in complementary colors are pleasing to the eye and nice to be touched. Bring in end tables that offer nice wood textures and top them with lamps with printed shades. Hang window treatments in a sumptuous fabric from ceiling to floor, place a thick rug, and interesting, unique artwork, and you have a stunningly inviting and cozy living area.
Don’t believe the assumption that everything in a room must be matchy-matchy. The sofa and chairs do not need to be upholstered in the same fabric. In fact, it creates more harmony and interest if they aren’t. The same can be said of end tables and lamps. Keeping it cohesive and complementary, but not uniform creates a warmer, cozier space.
These same ideas work to successfully create a cozy bedroom, too!
Include Whimsical Touches
Harsh, stark interiors quickly turn guests off and keep them on guard. That’s why it’s smart to add personal touches to soften up your home. Think about what you like. If it’s an animal, buy some figurines and scatter them throughout your home. If it’s a particular color, use it as a theme. Buy some colorful flower pots and plant pretty greenery in them. Collect picture frames, or pottery, or candles, and group them into interesting vignettes.
Adding interesting touches throughout your home helps create a cozy house that shows your personality and puts guests at ease within the space.
Add Warm Tones
When trying to create a cozy rental or cozy home, colors can make or break the effort. Start with the paint. Pick a rich, warm hue like medium blue, deep gray, or rich tan for the walls. Accent the main color with lighter colored, but still warm, furniture, plush rugs, and window treatments. Choose a third, bolder color, to use in the smaller objects in the room like throw pillows, picture frames, lamp shades, and wall decor.
Warm tones go a long way toward making a room cozy and inviting to both residents and guests.
Transform with Lighting
Lighting might be the most important asset in creating a cozy space. Harsh, bright lights are not the way to go here. Plan the room so you can use lamp light when possible. Invest in high-quality lamp shades that create warm light, similar to natural light. Buy some nice pendant lights or a modern chandelier to hang from the ceiling as a focal point. And don’t forget the multi-watt light bulbs. Sometimes you’re going to need bright light, so it must be available. However, when creating a cozy room, use the lower settings for ambiance and a relaxing atmosphere.
Overhead lights, lamps, and multi-watt bulbs together will ensure you have options that serve all your purposes within the room.
A cozy home is comfortable to those who live there, and attractive and inviting to guests. Taking the time to think about colors, textures, and lighting are sure to result in adding appeal to each room in your house. Top your space off with a bit of whimsy and a few snuggly nooks here and there, and you’ll have a cozy home people will envy!
