Steps to Turn a House Into a Home

Hello World!  Welcome Friends!  Please welcome Alek Sabin to the blog.  Today he will be sharing the Steps to Turn a House into A Home! 

The time when you buy your first home is very exciting. You’ve never had a place that you could so much call your own. However, as you’ll quickly learn, buying a house doesn’t mean that it feels like you are at home. Buying a house takes money, but creating a home takes work. The good news is that there are pretty simple steps that you can take to make your house feel personalized, which is a great way towards creating a lasting feeling home. Here are some steps on how you can turn a house into a home…

Pick an aesthetic to build around

First of all, a house is much more liable to feel like a home when the entire place feels like a cohesive environment. To do this, you need to pick a consistent aesthetic that everything in your home feeds into.

This may mean updating your home with the latest tech and giving it more of a modernistic feel, or it might mean playing into a more natural color aesthetic for a rustic, outdoorsy feel. This all depends on your own personal preference, but keeping to that aesthetic will make your home feel less slapped together and more like a complete home.

Decorate with artwork

The items that you use to decorate your home are anything but extraneous and frivolous. Indeed, your home decor should be an expression of yourself and your personality. For this reason, it’s a good idea to get as creative as you so desire with the artwork you put around your home.

This may involve putting up pictures of you and your friends or some sloppy art that your nephew made just for you. Likewise, you could also go out and find more extravagant pieces of art that you feel like fit in with your whole aesthetic.

Have ample amounts of storage

If you want your home to feel convenient to you, then there’s no bigger step you can take towards that goal than setting up smart and easily accessible storage. It may sound simple, but simply having an ample amount of room to store your things goes miles towards feeling like you belong in your home.

If your home is fairly small, you can increase your storage solutions by using wall space to set up shelves and hooks where you can put your things. Not only does this make more space, but it makes it easier to get things when you need them.

Make your bathroom relaxing

There are two rooms that you absolutely want to feel at home in, when it comes to your house: your kitchen and your bathroom. There’s a reason that improvements to these two rooms come with some of the highest ROI.

While people usually are good at setting up their kitchen to be convenient for them, making your bathroom a relaxing place to get ready or take a shower goes a long way towards making a comfortable home.

Have softer lighting

Lighting has a profound impact on the psychology of a home environment. Large windows tend to have a high ROI on a home solely because they let more sunlight in, which makes for a more relaxing environment. However, you can’t depend on sunlight all of the time. For this reason, you want to be strategic with the lighting fixtures and types of lights that you put into your home. Harsh directional lighting isn’t very conducive to making your home a place where you want to be, but using aesthetically pleasing lighting fixtures to disperse soft light makes a home a much more relaxing place.

Landscape your backyard

One of the big benefits of buying a house instead of living in an apartment is that you get to actually have a yard that belongs to you. To take full advantage of having a yard and wanting to be in it, landscaping goes a long way to creating an aesthetically pleasing environment where you can relax and unwind on a lovely summer day.

Landscaping can involve planting some trees, making paths, building arbors, or even just having a garden along the side of your fence. Whatever your preference, your home won’t ever feel complete until you cater to both the exterior and the interior aspects.

Alek is a conman who somehow tricked people into paying him to write. Whether you want to talk boxing statistics or Gilmore Girls episodes, Alek will fervently get into any topic that you are passionate about. On weekdays, you can find him eloquently babbling in tongues to businesses about their marketing. On weekends, you can find him daydreaming about hosting a wine-and-cheese tasting travel show on PBS. There’s definitely an audience for it!

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