Home Improvement: How To Bring New Life Into Your Home This Year

Now that we’re all going into the new year, there’s going to be a lot of advice floating around of how to improve yourself. In fact, people are going to be giving you plenty of advice about how you should be treating your body, whether you want it or not! But in between all of the diet advice, fashion advice and whatever else, there’s one thing that tends to get forgotten a lot of the time. Your home. Despite being one of the most important things about most people’s lives, the home is one of those things that generally gets forgotten when it comes time to start improving your life. But if you want to get a really fresh start in 2017 then there really is no better place to start. After all, no matter what changes you make, it’s hardly going to make a difference if the place that you spend most of your time is still just as drab and dull as it was before. The problem is that improving your home can feel like a pretty daunting task. The best thing you can do is to split it up into specific tasks that you can take care of one at a time. With that in mind, here are a few things that you can do to bring some new life into your home this new year.

Let there be light

If there’s one thing change that you should make to your home to bring some new life into it, it’s the light. It might seem like something small, but it can make a huge amount of difference to the way that your home feels. It doesn’t matter how spacious or well appointed a room is, if it’s not well lit then it’s just going to end up feeling cramped and unpleasant. It really is incredible how much of a difference lighting can make. Plenty of people can spend endless amounts of time trying to improve their home only to realize that it wasn’t making any difference because the problem wasn’t the style or shape of the room at all. Natural light is by far the best choice. Look at the arrangement of your room and try to see if there’s some way that you can let in more light. Of course, that’s not always going to be the case. If you can’t get more natural light into your rooms, then it’s a good idea to think about using lamps instead of overhead lighting. Except for certain room, overhead lighting can end up feeling a little bit clinical. Lamps often give off a warmer light which can create a much more pleasant, relaxing atmosphere.

Go green

When people think about making changes to their home, they usually think about aesthetic and cosmetic changes. But some of the most important adjustments that you can make to your home will actually happen behind the scenes. Going green and making your home more energy efficient, is not only a fantastic way to help the environment but can also save you a lot of money. And, let’s face it when it comes to improving your home, there’s nothing wrong with saving money! Solar panels are one of the best ways to make your home greener. Not only are you going to lower your energy bills, but you’ll be helping the earth at the same time. Of course, solar panels can sometimes be a little expensive so make sure to check out the cost of solar panel installation. There are obviously plenty of other ways to make your home more energy efficient as well, from replacing bulbs to upgrading to double glazing. You just need to find which methods work for your home and your budget.

Many people are finding that they can even create their own tools and work areas to avoid shopping in big box stores. I recently stumbled across a smart router review which teaches people how to build their own smart saw with parts from a store. How awesome would that be to know that you created the tool that helped with your home improvement project?

De-clutter

Nothing makes a house feel smaller and more cramped than it actually is like every room being filled with junk. The problem is that it’s actually surprisingly easy to fill up your house without even realizing it. Human beings are pretty sentimental as a whole. And there’s nothing wrong with that! After all, who doesn’t love to hold onto mementos of things that have happened in their lives? But that doesn’t mean that you need knick-knacks that represent every single memory that you have. By getting rid of clutter and making extra space, you give yourself far more room to breathe. The key here is to be brutal. Ask yourself what you can and can’t live without. If you’re totally honest, you’ll probably find that you’re willing to throw out a lot more stuff than you might first think. Of course, if you really can bear to part with anything then you can always pack it up and store it in the attic. That way you can still get them down if you start feeling nostalgic. Make sure that you don’t go too far in the opposite direction, however. You don’t want to end up with a bare and empty house with no personality whatsoever.

Be daring

One of the biggest things that can stop people from turning their house into the kind of home that they really want is that they end up playing it safe. That’s pretty understandable really; no one wants to end up making a mistake when it comes to something as important as your home. But if you never take any risks then you’re never going to end up with anything interesting. If you’ve got something a bit unusual that you’ve always wanted to try in one of your rooms, then why not just go for it? The worst that could happen is that it doesn’t work and you have to try again. Don’t forget, it’s your home and no one but you should be able to tell you how your home should look. Take the new year as an opportunity to do something exciting with it!

Samantha

Samantha hails from Virginia and is a proud wife to a retired Deputy Sheriff and mother to two amazing little boys named Jack & William. A veteran product reviewer; Samantha has been reviewing products for 8 years and offers high quality product reviews with original photography.