Your home is the one thing that needs to remain a safe place for you. No matter how stressed you are at work or how overwhelmed you may be, you should be able to come home and feel completely relaxed. Keeping your home running like clockwork is much easier said than done, especially when you’ve got kids to look after and a business to run. Everyone knows that when you have an organized home, it becomes so much easier to carry on with your day to day life without stress. This means that you need to make a conscious effort to make your home as streamlined as possible.
Whether you’re revamping your kitchen or changing up your home office, it’s time to transform your home into a soothing safe haven.
8 ways that anyone can turn their home into a soothing safe haven
1.Kitchen Clear Up
If your home is like most, your kitchen is probably the main hub of all the activities. It’s where you and your friends hang out, it’s where you sip your morning coffee and it’s where you cook your dinner. This means that your kitchen needs to be absolutely perfect for all of your needs. It might be time to revamp then entire look of your kitchen to give it a fresh and exciting vibe.
There are so many different quartz colors to choose from when you’re selecting your kitchen counter tops, so you should definitely look into these. Look at the ways in which you store your kitchen goods too. You might find that chic, glass jars look amazing on your kitchen counters rather than the original packaging of your pasta and herbs.
There are so many fun ways to clear up your kitchen from a full refurbishment to a few small touches. Get creative and experiment with some ideas that will really work for your lifestyle.
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- Soothing Scents
Imagine walking into your home after a super stressful day and feeling completely at ease. This can be achieved seamlessly if you look into soothing scents. From candles to incense you can choose a signature aroma that makes you feel so relaxed from the moment you walk through the door. Lavender, vanilla, gingerbread, pumpkin spice and pin tree are just a few of the amazing scents you have to choose from. Your friends and family will even start to recognize the amazing smell you choose for your home.
As the seasons change you can also switch it up to suit the weather and your mood. Have a browse around your local candle store and see which scents work for you!
- Separate Work and Home Life
When you work from home it can be very easy to get lured into your laptop even when you’re supposed to be winding down. In order to make your home the soothing place you want it to be, you need to learn how to separate your home and work life. This means physically separating the two and being intentional with your decisions. If you know that your main working hours are 9-5 then you need to be in your zone of genius during these times.
Whether that’s your home office or the cozy corner you created for your creative space, you need to stick to this as much as possible. As soon as you know you’ve done your hours for the day or completed the tasks you needed to do, it’s time to remove yourself from that space. This is much easier said than done, especially if you’re an entrepreneur.
Try to keep your laptop or work phone in a separate room when you are trying to switch off at the end of the day.
- Deep Clean
There is nothing better than deep cleaning your home and feeling like everything is spotless. This is something you should be carrying out every single month so that you always feel content with your clean space. Like many homeowners, you probably put this task off for months and months because the thought of it is overwhelming. Once you really get stuck into it, you will feel incredibly happy with the outcome. If you genuinely don’t have the time, then you could always hire a cleaner to help you out with part of your home transformation.
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- Find Your Sweet Space
Every single home should have a sweet space, which is the spot that makes you feel truly calm and content. This might be a corner in your living room, a bar stool in the kitchen or even your bed. Find an accessory or item that comforts you even more and make sure it’s always there when you need it.
- Enjoy Self Care
When you allow yourself to indulge in self care, you immediately give yourself a burst of energy. Your home should be perfectly set up so that you can indulge in self care whenever you like. Stock up the bathroom cupboards with your favorite bubble bath and buy in plenty of face masks; as soon as you need them they will be there waiting for you!
- Spend More Time at Home
Once you have made your home into a beautiful and welcoming environment, you’re going to want to spend more time there. Hanging out at home is an activity that you will always enjoy, so why not make it more of a habit? Pencil it in your diary and make sure you don’t cancel on yourself! You don’t have to be out and about all the time as this will eventually become totally exhausting for you. Put on your favorite movie, run a bubble bath or spend time cooking a nutritious dinner in the kitchen.
As soon as you spend more time at home you will really appreciate the space you have created.
- Say No To Visitors
Sometimes you just want to relax and be by yourself at home right? That is completely normal, so don’t be afraid to say no to visitors. Perhaps you mother likes to pop round or your partner’s friends always make an appearance on a Friday evening when you’ve had a long week. Your home should run by your rules otherwise it’s not going to feel like the soothing safe haven you want it to be. Saying no to visitors should feel empowering to you, rather than a burden to others.
Remember that this is your safe space and you should never feel obliged to host when you don’t have the energy to do so.
Some of the ideas above may resonate with you so deeply. This is because you need to take action on them right away. It may be that you already have some of these actions in place and you don’t need to make changes to those aspects.
Every household, family and individual is completely unique so it’s up to you to find balance for your home.
It is no use rushing around and struggling to stay on top of all of these important things in your life. You deserve to feel completely at ease with your home and work life, rather than overwhelmed and stressed as soon as you walk into the door. Hopefully the notions mentioned here will give you a new sense of determination to make your home feel like soothing safe haven. Remember, nobody is perfect and it can feel as though you are chasing your tail at times.
As soon as you find your balance and harmony, everything at home should fall into place beautifully.
Kori
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