If you do not have the financial ability to invite a professional designer, you can completely cope on your own. Read this article for ideas for creating coziness and comfort. 7 cool tips with photos!
Every person at heart is soft, fluffy and prone to comfort. A few deliberately prefer extreme sports and living in spartan conditions. Some tend to categorically not notice the disadvantages of living conditions, either hoping for “maybe” or due to natural laziness. Moreover, this trait of indifference to comfort is inherent in both bachelors and single women, and if a married couple completely ignores the establishment of order, comfort and improvement of the place where they live together, this is unlikely good sign For .
"My home is my castle!". If in our early youth we are guided by the standards that our parents instilled in us while we were raised in a family atmosphere, then with the acquisition of our own personal life experience, most likely we will want create your own, comfortable style of living just for you.
And this is simply wonderful, because in adult life everything depends only on us! What kind of man should be around, how to eat right, what kind of clothes do you like, do you need to get additional education, how to earn decent money? There are a lot of questions, and, of course, one of the most important ones remains the question “How to arrange your place of residence in your individual style?” And preferably cheaper!
As you can see, there is nothing difficult in creating home comfort. Even if you have enough, it is quite possible to bring beauty to your apartment. The main thing is to set a goal and carefully think through all the nuances.
Changes in the interior design of an apartment can be done step by step, gradually. Don't frighten your loved ones with sudden big changes. A wise woman is always a little cunning for the good of the family!
Comfort is defined as the quality of the living environment. This is accurate, but too dry. Creating comfort at home means breathing soul into it. It's vague, but truer. No one ever says or writes: make it cozy or build comfort. Souls are different, and similar souls also want to express themselves materially, in things and objects, in different ways, otherwise they would not be souls, but programs. In this article we will look at how to create comfort with and for the soul.
...by design. Comfort in the interior is created according to the principle: we carefully, perhaps for a long time, think through everything to the end, and implement it in things slowly, piece by piece. Comfort is created not only for yourself. If you do everything planned at once, your family and guests will experience something like a culture shock, and what is truly cozy will never seem that way to them again - they will not perceive it as a subcortex.
When thinking within yourself, you need to be even more careful and as concise as possible. Let's imagine that comfort is being developed computer program. There is one thing that creates comfort; it needs another one that is in harmony with the first. The third item must be included in the ensemble three times so as not to disrupt the interaction of the first two. The fourth must be coordinated 6 times already: it should not only be in harmony with the first 3 separately, but also not destroy the coordination of 3 pairs: 1-2, 1-3 and 2-3. As the material expression of an idea expands, the number of necessary approvals grows so rapidly that no analytical abilities and computing facilities not enough to bring the idea to even a sketch. Therefore, comfort in an apartment is thought out intuitively, and this requires a lot of time, trial and error, thinking and rethinking. Finally, just a suitable mood and physical condition: best ideas creations of comfort come in dreams.
Note: at one time D.I. Mendeleev found himself in a similar situation. Chemists for centuries have been trying to find some kind of order in the world. chemical elements and they were completely desperate. Dmitry Ivanovich also puzzled over this, for a long time and without success. And then suddenly periodic table elements, in which a successful schoolchild now freely navigates, Mendeleev... just dreamed it, all that remains is to jump up and write it down.
The comfort of the entire house is also thought out step by step. They start with the living room or the most significant room, it could even be the kitchen. For a bachelor-intellectual, this will most likely be an office, for an artist a studio, and for a woman leading a free lifestyle, it is most natural to start creating general comfort from the boudoir or bedroom. When the comfort in the room, so to speak, of the first rank, is embodied in things and properly appreciated by home or visitors, they begin to think about the next most important room, etc. In general, there will be enough work for years, but it is a rewarding occupation, and beneficial influence on health, psyche and appearance he has few competitors. The results of this approach, coming out of diligent minds and hands, are simply amazing, see Fig., it doesn’t matter whether the work was done by a professional or an amateur.
Note: In a one-room apartment or studio apartment, comfort is created gradually by zones, as in a house by rooms.
In a complex business it is difficult to avoid mistakes, and creating comfort is no exception. The first thing you need to follow when thinking about how to create comfort in a room is not to make it small or flicker. And after all, they buy potatoes by weight, but how many potatoes there will be, that depends.
Here, for example, on the left in Fig. – the most typical, even under glass and in a museum, interior in fashionable style shabby chic. Formally, from the point of view of how designers are taught, everything is correct. And the room is not small. But even the owners here need to walk carefully, so as not to catch something and knock it over. What kind of comfort can there be in cramped circumstances? It's like the freedom of a bankrupt. And most importantly, everything clutters each other. In order for there to be comfort in the house, you need some kind of idea, a super task, a connecting rod. In the author’s thoughts, something similar, if it existed, was lost in things. Do not forget: comfort is a material expression of the movements of the soul, and things have their own properties and things require appropriate treatment.
The example in the center in Fig. - a case when there was no single basis for the interior in thoughts. A living illustration of the saying: we wanted the best, but it turned out as always. We wanted comfort - what we got was a bunch of rubbish. Example on the right in Fig. – the approach was the opposite, too purposeful and tied to one subject, fixated on it. Specifically, on the coffee table. The table is excellent, but it clearly doesn’t fit into this interior. And only because of too light varnish and slanted legs. But everything else is correct (see below): light, a contrasting spot, trinkets, pillows, elements of chaos, even a wicker pouf.
But what and how should you do to create comfort with your own hands? An inveterate idealist will not deny that the soul needs not only a material container, but also a material basis for existence outside it. So comfort is created first of all on the basis of weighty, rough, visible primary material factors, and only then the decor is thought out and embodied in things that directly create comfort; This, so to speak, is already materialism of the highest order.
The primary basics of comfort are simple:
Why is clear. If the house is damp, stuffy, cold or hot, dusty to the point of sneezing, then no cute little things will create a comfortable living environment. Ideas for creating coziness are appropriate after proper physical comfort has been achieved and consistently maintained, including regular cleaning and maintenance of furniture. And also for cute little things, remember this when considering their quantity and estimating their properties.
Natural light is especially important; it kills germs. Pathogenic bacteria survive on average 1.6 hours in the dark; in diffuse sunlight for 15 minutes, and in direct sunlight, most of them die instantly. The average, again, for many types of diseases, infection time is 35 minutes. No explanation required.
Air temperature and humidity are of particular importance. The atmosphere of comfort is not a metaphor: excessively dry or steamy air in the house aggravates the effect of all other harmful factors on people and simply spoils things that create comfort. It is quite simple to increase air humidity, for example, by using trays of water on heating radiators. But reducing it is much more difficult. If the dampness is small and occurs periodically, you need to introduce more wooden things into the interior (MDF is also good) and/or line the walls at least partially with soft natural stone: limestone, dolomite, sandstone, shale. All these materials will be accumulators of water vapor, absorbing their excess and releasing it when there is a lack of moisture in the air. If the house is very damp, then complex and expensive technical measures may be required: site drainage, warm basement, supply and exhaust ventilation.
Note: There are an order of magnitude fewer problems with air humidity in houses with stove heating and fireplaces. Keep this in mind, especially since the fireplace itself is powerful tool creating comfort.
The basis of interior decor, the very core on which it rests home comfort- room decoration style. Most interior styles can be animated without problems, but there are also difficult ones: if the designer or you yourself missed the mark initially, it will not be easy to breathe soul into them with material additives.
The first of these are the styles of shabby chic, Provence, haberdashery and Russian bourgeois. They express the owners’ commitment to simple, ordinary life without any heavenly soarings. Everyday routine is boring and it is impossible to cope with boredom with feigned gaiety or a far-fetched hobby. However, creating a feeling of comfort in the interior of a “down-to-earth” style is actually simple: an open bookcase or shelving unit, several works of object art, meaningful photographs or paintings - and that’s it, there is a coziness, a pose. 1 in Fig. Yes, I (we, mine, mine) like it that way, but we are not such ordinary people.
Just don’t overdo it, either quantitatively or qualitatively, especially with books: with “petty” styles it’s easy to get caught up in flickering, and their monumentality spoils them. For example, an encyclopedia and “World History” in dark calico bindings should be kept in a library or a locked cabinet. “Library of World Literature” in light dust jackets, but 190 volumes in this case is too much. “The Life of Animals” and “The Life of Plants” in light, bright dust jackets, there are not many volumes here and there, but these are special monographs. But 5 volumes of Vasari’s Lives in solid, light covers with patterns will only add respect to the owners: anyone can read them, plus interesting illustrations.
It is more difficult to create coziness in an Art Deco interior: this style is designed to emphasize the ambitions of the owners. You can establish your reputation without being snobbish and puffed up like a boyar with objects that create comfort and cause admiration in themselves: an expensive fireplace (item 2), a round sculpture, antiques. It’s easier if Art Deco is a “closed” variety: they say, this is my cave, but otherwise I’m a normal guy. In such an interior, comfort is created quite simply in the usual ways(see below): contrasting spots (colored panel and light sofa in position 3), elements of controlled disorder (zebra rug in the same place).
The high-tech style is also difficult to animate: it expresses the desire for a Spartan lifestyle and disdain for all sorts of frills. An ordinary, “normal” high-tech tree will revive one fairly tall, but slender, not spreading or dense indoor tree (pos. 4). In a “good”, monochromatic, light-colored high-tech, the main plant can be thicker and more magnificent, and in addition there are 1-2 more; The element of chaos below is not forbidden, for example. an irregularly shaped rug contrasting with the overall tone (item 5). But one, and only one, animating plant in “evil” high-tech, with glossy sparkling planes and colored lighting (pos. 6) should be selected experienced designer at the interior design stage. However, those who can afford high-tech technology have no problems paying a high-end designer.
Note: For more information on using plants to create coziness, see below.
A good way to achieve comfort simply and inexpensively is to completely abandon the design style as such, but organize the interior according to the rules of general color. There are many different ones; It will be easier for an amateur to start with the seasons. For example, in the middle zone and to the south the autumn interior will be pleasant, on the left in Fig. Autumn time is the charm of the eyes, a time of abundance and preparation for winter holidays. The highlight here is not only in the overall color scheme, but also in the pillows (see also below): on the sofa they imitate dense leaf fall, and those in the chairs imitate small fallen leaves on the ground. An original contrast arises.
Interiors "Seasons"
The spring interior (in the center) will please the eye and provide peace in places to the north. Green curtains, if for some reason they turn out to be out of place, can be pulled apart. But the “summer” interior (on the right) will create comfort in housing in the Arctic Circle: in it, with 24-hour artificial lighting Artificial trees also look appropriate. Construction principle: everything in moderately bright warm colors, on which the green crowns of trees stand out.
Methods of material embodiment of ideas for creating comfort include not only things as such, but also other material manifestations of nature and spirituality:
At pos. 1 pic. Almost all of the indicated means are presented below, except for the stove or fireplace; you can see how they animate a very strict and laconic interior. Heating devices with a live flame or a fairly skillful imitation of it - exclusively effective remedy liven up the room; the first, with a natural flame from burning fuel, also stabilize the microclimate of the house within optimal limits. But enough has been written about stoves, fireplaces and fireplace stoves in other sources, so this vast, fascinating topic, unfortunately, will have to be ignored here.
Note: Pay attention to the clock too. Little is written about their role in animating an interior, but watches are also a very effective and versatile means of creating coziness. In addition, it is incomparably cheaper and portable.
At pos. 1, the role of pillows as mobile carriers of color spots is also clearly visible, and a spot is at the same time color, contrast, and an element of chaos, without which a living soul is difficult to see, see below. Pillows are easy and/or inexpensive to sew; they can be rearranged as desired or replaced with new ones. An embroidered pillow can have a picture, i.e. become an intellectual expression of the soul, poses. 2. In addition, a pillow can be a carrier of colored spots: in the form of seats and backs of wicker furniture, such a solution is enough to make a large empty room cozy, pos. 3. The pillow also copes well with the role of an element of disorder (see below), so it is not without reason that it is considered the most affordable means of adding coziness and comfort to any interior.
In petty (in a good sense, i.e. detailed) interiors of soft light colors, the role of a stain from a pillow passes to a bouquet of flowers (possibly good artificial ones) and wall panels, pos. 4. But in interiors of coldish and darkish tones, the role of the main organizer of comfort shifts from color spots to light. The easiest way to do this is to arrange directional local lighting, however, if it is possible to use natural lighting, you can achieve results that are astonishing in their depth of positive impact.
Take a look at pos. 5. A 10-minute contemplation at sunset, after the day’s hassle and bustle, of a light spot slowly crawling across the sofa is equivalent in terms of the mental cleansing effect of a 2-hour meditation according to the yoga system or 40-minute relaxation using auto-training methods. The secret here is in the interaction of colors with light: the walls are monochromatic, cold in tone. The sofa is lighter, warmer in tone, motley. The pillows on it are even lighter and warmer, again monochromatic. This is the so-called. rule of contrast flow. It operates at full strength when illuminated by a slowly moving source.
The light spot can also be treacherous. You see that in pos. 6? The blinding glare of polarized light literally kills comfort. All that was needed was to install a matte laminate or cover the flooring with matte varnish. And it would be more comfortable to walk, not so slippery. True, cleaning is more difficult.
Functional, i.e. necessary regardless of comfort, interior items are most often used to create color contrast as such. Contrast is both a blur and an element of chaos. Floor and Wall lights In addition, they also provide light spots. True, motionless.
Furniture animates a room with its shape, color and texture. The latter, in turn, is determined by upholstery textiles. The role of fabrics in creating coziness is well known, and we will linger a little on wooden furniture frames.
Wicker furniture is the center of ordered chaos and... accordingly, it breathes the soul into the room with a powerful stream. Depending on the type of weaving, wicker furniture fits into any interior, see picture, but it is expensive. Viennese furniture made of bent wood is more affordable, but it does not fit everywhere and “breathes the soul” less well.
IN Lately Furniture made from layers of bent rods has appeared on sale (bottom right in the figure). It is just as soulful and fits in everywhere as wicker. On sale, such furniture is not cheaper than wicker, but home craftsmen should keep in mind: furniture made from sheet-bent rods turns out beautiful and strong, being made not only from expensive walnut or rattan, but also from calibrated willow or alder rods.
One fairly well-known interior designer, having drunk himself among his friends, put it this way: “Comfort is a piece of landfill in the barracks.” The fact is that absolute order is tantamount to complete chaos. Both have nowhere to develop further, and the lack of the possibility of movement is death, soullessness. Therefore, the element of organized disorder is universal remedy creating comfort in any interior.
Note: organized disorder means deliberately arranged, clean and easily removable.
The simplest ways to bring a piece of chaos into the interior are shown in pos. Fig. 1-3: scattered pillows, a colorful blanket in warm colors on a blue armchair, a black skin rug and an umbrella on the door handle in white rooms. Often the element of chaos is highlighted not only by form, but also by color: the color spot, contrast and form as a piece of chaos complement each other and are in harmony with each other.
A type of controlled chaos is separating dissonance. In this way, you can even turn a corner in a rented apartment into a cozy one. The dissonant surface should then be larger (for example, a screen) and, very preferably, artistically designed, i.e. semantic, informative. The separating dissonance requires a spot of light (position 5): remember Hemingway’s story “A Bright Cozy Place”?
All interior design can be built on apparently chaotic dissonances. This is the so-called. boho style; some consider it not a style, but a method. The essence of boho is in dissonant couples, neutralizing their negativity so that comfort remains, just as toxic chlorine and sodium provide beneficial table salt. At pos. 6 we can distinguish at least 7 such pairs both in color and shape. Let's give you a hint: leopard print upholstery on the chair and pillow against the gray-bluish walls. A colorful carpet against a lesbian pink sofa. The chair is either Empire or Baroque - against the classic shelving unit. A soft sofa with rounded corners is against a hard glass table. For the rest, practice it yourself if you want.
Reason is a clearly formed movement of the soul. Works of art and literature are the fruit of the joint work of intellect and spirit, therefore they are capable and should create comfort. Those who claim that books are worthless dust collectors are simply subjects with a pathologically destructively deformed psyche. Personal library of 3-5 thousand volumes in a properly organized bookcase or on a rack requires care no more than 2-3 times a year. But in this chapter we will deal only with images and books as sources of comfort: the animating effect of round sculpture, stucco molding and artistic plasticity is the same as that of trinkets, see below.
Classic and generally not strict interiors can be animated without anything, either with easel painting or photographs, but not with printed reproductions of paintings on paper, this is already bad taste. The location is arbitrary. Grouping either by subject or simply by size (item 1 in the figure), it doesn’t matter.
In futuristic-technologically laconic interiors, abstract painting or photography are most often used to create comfort in intelligent ways. In general, there are no problems with abstraction, hang it as you like. Abstract painting is meaningful and expressive no less than realistic painting, but it is easier for mediocrities to imitate abstraction in the eyes of amateurs.
With photographs, as well as engravings, etchings, watercolors, gouache, collections of butterflies, beetles, sea shells, etc. in a clear modern interior it is more difficult. Photos will make the room more comfortable if you hang them in the form of rectangular panels with a symmetrical overall composition, pos. 2 and 3. Pictures must be in the same frames.
Note: try to find it on pos. 2nd element of chaos. Look on the left by the window.
It is better to place heterogeneous images in heterogeneous frames and scatter them quasi-chaotically interspersed with functional things, poses. 4. The heterogeneity of the framing should be clearly visible and contrasting (we’ll organize a piece of chaos at once), otherwise it will just turn out to be an uncomfortable mess, as in pos. 5.
Books can animate and make any interior cozy, even without stains, contrasts and pieces of chaos. To do this, they need interaction with the furniture, and the designer needs to adapt the bindings: solid volumes in dark calico - into a monumental interior with solid cabinets; into the lungs modern interiors– shelves with books with light or colored covers, see fig.
Small items for purely decorative purposes are specifically designed to create coziness; they can breathe soul into any room, see fig., even a removable corner or a student dorm. The film “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” shows how women decorated the barracks with random trinkets. Homemade trinkets are the most powerful - they contain a piece of your soul. Therefore, it is impossible to overdo it with homemade trinkets to the point of flickering, as with store-bought ones.
Note: According to the method of production and the nature of creating coziness, appliqués on the walls also belong to trinkets, on the right in Fig. But from the point of view of comfort, wall painting is already painting.
Many plants will animate any classic and traditional interior(rustic, country, colonial), pos. 1 and 2 in Fig. Also, a large number of plants are appropriate in “naked” styles, such as constructivist minimalism, poses. 3. In modern, laconic interiors, the rule generally applies: the darker the overall color scheme, the fewer, but larger, plants are needed. 4 and 5. If the visible basis of comfort is achieved by spots, contrast and small chaos (zebra pillows and a discordantly shaped chair in position 6), then for complete mental comfort one thing is enough large plant. In an interior with little contrast, it is better to place a plant with bluish (pos. 7) or striped leaves; it will become a piece of chaos.
The bad thing about plants as sources of comfort is that they tie their owners to the house. If the interior is colorful and playful, then 1-2 small, unpretentious perennials can complete the creation of coziness in it, at the top left in Fig. During your departure, you can entrust them to your friends.
Bonsai have a powerful animating effect in any interior, especially since some of the plants from which they are formed bloom profusely and beautifully. Bonsais require daily care, but there are specialized companies that provide such services to absent owners; Bonsais can be given to them during the holidays. It is not cheap, but bonsai are generally a pleasure for the wealthy or very patient: growing from seed and forming a bonsai takes many years and decades.
Succulents (succulent, in Russian) include cacti, aloe, crassula, stone plants (aizoonaceae), haworthia, echeveria, etc. In living rooms, especially with children and pets, you should not have euphorbias (succulent euphorbias), they filled with caustic poisonous juice. At the end of the first film, “The Gods Must Be Crazy,” there is an episode where a dangerous armed terrorist was neutralized with drops of euphorbia juice.
Succulents can go without any care or watering for months and are good as sources of comfort: a small collection of them on a bare windowsill is already pretty, see fig. But these are not all their advantages. Succulents come from hot, dry places. It is impossible to live a full life there during the day, the sun will burn you, so their photosynthesis is not quite the same as that of other plants: succulents release oxygen at night. Just when there is not enough of it in the air of the apartment. It is this, and not the mythical absorption of radiation, that explains the beneficial effect of succulents on the home atmosphere in the literal and figurative sense. For information on growing succulents at home, see the video:
The best home atmosphere freshener is agave, aloe vera, which has long taken root in rooms, in the center in Fig. The record holder for medicinal qualities of aloe vera is inferior to it in this regard. Aloe arborescens grows into a large, lush bush and fits into almost any interior. In an extremely laconic room it can be replaced by the “pike tail”, sansevieria, on the right in Fig.
Note: Sometimes they try to make the air in the room cozy with the help of interior perfumes or scented candles. In the first case, you don’t need to be like the French courtiers of Madame Pompadour’s time, who doused themselves in cologne to fight off the smell of unclean linen: the key to a cozy atmosphere in an apartment is its cleanliness.. And in the second, you need to remember that the main thing for fresh air is oxygen. Candles consume it, and the aromas do not last in a ventilated room.
An unsurpassed means of creating comfort in any environment is an aquarium with live plants and fish. The aquarium can turn into cozy corner bare wall, see fig. A bitter drunkard freezes in front of a well-established aquarium, having wandered in to visit in the hope of getting drunk on freebies, having forgotten that his “pipes are on fire.”
Unfortunately, an aquarium ties you to your home more tightly than an apartment greenhouse: it requires regular, diligent care. Many pet store workers earn extra money by looking after the aquariums of their owners when they are away; There are also companies specializing in this. However, such services are not much cheaper than temporary maintenance of bonsai, and outsiders will have to be given access to the house: a live aquarium does not move from its place.
Antiques and vintage (simply old things) convey the spirit of the time, particles of the soul of the masters to housing, and thereby create comfort. The Russian samovar is undeservedly half-forgotten in this regard, but it will perfectly animate almost any interior, see fig. Perhaps, anyone at all: there are samovars on sale that are compatible in design with evil high-tech.
It is not necessary to take a flammable wood-burning samovar; an electric one will do. Tea from a samovar is especially tasty because the teapot is smoothly and evenly heated from all sides to the optimal temperature for brewing by the hot steam flowing around it. And spiritual tea drinking is already comfort.
You can live in an apartment indefinitely and not notice the obvious - the place where you spend a significant part of your life cannot boast of home comfort, so the room is often used for spending the night, and the rest of the time it is only oppressive.
Everyone wants the atmosphere in their apartment to be cozyYou don’t want to return to a house that is devoid of comfort; it is not filled with the energy of the owner and household members; it may seem empty, although the renovation seems to be quite good. Indeed, expensive wall decoration, luxurious interior contents and newfangled appliances are not a guarantee of comfort in the apartment.
In order to correct the situation on your own, you need to arm yourself necessary set knowledge of how to create comfort in your home. You need to understand that the work ahead is painstaking, because every detail in the room affects general perception premises and in combination with other elements creates the desired atmosphere of warmth, kindness and comfort.
It's not enough to know design techniques, have developed imagination, artistic taste and money to implement creative ideas, all this is enough to get by just to start another renovation in the apartment. Your task is to bring part of your heart into the room, and then the apartment will shine with long-awaited comfort.
Once you have rethought the concept of home, you can move on to transforming it. You should start with general cleaning. First of all, inspect your closets and bedside tables, sort out all unnecessary things, clothes that you haven’t worn for a long time and are unlikely to wear again, collect them in bags and bags and get ready to take all this trash to the trash container in the near future. If the clothes look decent, you can try to take them to a second-hand store and get extra money for your diligence. Oddly enough, in order to make your apartment cozy, you first need to get rid of something.
Comfort in the home is impossible without regular cleaning It is also necessary to get rid of energy waste - broken plates, cups with broken handles - they pull us into the quagmire of the past, which we cherish as the apple of our eye, in fear of living in the present and looking openly to the future.
Now is the time to do some deep cleaning of the room. Pay special attention to cleaning switches, upholstery and curtains. Now you will have to monitor the cleanliness of textiles in the house, otherwise it will be difficult to achieve comfort in the apartment.
You've probably noticed that many apartments have their own smell, unlike any other. We hope that you have not encountered a smell that caused unpleasant sensations. But unfortunately, no one is immune from this. Experienced housewives know that a far from ideal aroma can emanate from almost all items in the house if they are not properly cared for. The reason may be damp cloth in the bathroom, which does not dry for a long time, a worn-out towel for drying dishes after washing, dusty curtains and even books that are rarely wiped.
What smell is welcome in the apartment? Almost all people positively perceive viscous bergamot, delicate vanilla, soothing mint and lemon with grapefruit. The aromas of cinnamon, verbena, fresh wood and freshly brewed coffee contribute to the homely, cozy atmosphere in the apartment. The smell of alluring baked goods has a beneficial effect on a person’s consciousness, because this aroma is familiar with its comfort from distant childhood.
How to make an apartment cozy with the help of smell? In the store, pay attention to air fresheners, scented candles, essential oils and finally, bags of spices and herbs. Before you buy a source of a pleasant aroma for your home, consult with your household members; perhaps some smell is not suitable for a member of your family or causes allergic reactions.
To make your kitchen cozy and quickly remove the obsessive smell of grease, install a hood in your apartment.
Coziness involves decorating the room with lighting that is comfortable for the eyes and a color palette that is correctly matched to the style of the apartment.
Lighting plays an important role in creating a cozy atmosphere Dimmed lighting will turn the apartment into a gloomy cave, while too bright lighting will not be conducive to calm and relaxation. When decorating walls and furniture at home, it is advisable to stick to warm color palette, in case, it is important to correctly combine different colors.
Despite the fact that modern technologies are moving forward, some, rather out of habit, continue to carry out manipulations in the house that deprive the apartment of the slightest comfort and, on the contrary, emphasize its wretchedness. We will talk about repairs using the “homemade” principle. More often do-it-yourself repair lasts indefinitely and over time turns into “piecemeal” - when the plumbing is changed in sections, if it is necessary to update the outdated finish, a piece of wallpaper is placed in an empty space, different from the previously pasted ones.
Therefore, in order to make the house cozy, it is advisable to gather your thoughts, save money and turn to specialists who will carry out the repairs professionally. The exception to the rule is craftsmen who enjoy doing construction work, but here it is important to achieve comfort by following generally accepted process technology, which will guarantee high-quality repairs in the apartment.
If you have the financial opportunity, decorate a cozy interior that combines wooden motifs. It is known that wood indoors has a good effect on the psyche. Some designers use a cunning technique - to create coziness in the apartment, they choose materials that are high-quality imitation wood. Let the decoration contain elements of wooden patterns; the beams placed on the ceiling of the house will look homely and at the same time stylish.
Lean on classic design arrangement of living space. Arrange furniture in the room and hang decorations of various textures and textures with different types surfaces. Wickerwork will add a special zest and coziness to the rooms, if, of course, they fit into the designated interior. There is a place for - be sure to take advantage of the opportunity to create a personal, cozy “home.” The imitation fireplace is no less attractive and contributes to a homely, warm atmosphere.
Do not strive to achieve ideal forms, allow some chaos in the design square meters. But don’t overdo it - complete chaos will cause completely opposite sensations, not like comfortable ones. Why doesn't ideal order bring inner satisfaction? It's simple - a person begins to experience a constant feeling of anxiety, worrying that his careless actions may disrupt the created “idyll”.
For comfort, it is recommended to place a table in the center of the kitchen, which by its appearance alone should lure guests and invite them to a meal. It’s wonderful if there is a tablecloth and a bowl of fruit on top. Chairs should also be comfortable - dress them in soft textile cases and place small cushions. A table located indoors near the wall is decorated by hanging “delicious” paintings on the wall, which also add coziness to the apartment.
When showing your creativity in the kitchen, give preference to tea and coffee coziness. A teapot with a snooty spout, a retro-style coffee grinder, and a tea jar decorated with lace and aged labels on top will add an unusual piquancy to the room. Your task is to achieve warm environment, which will appeal to everyone.
Young families will probably have a question: can there be cozy apartments made in high-tech or modern style? Designers claim that they can, although this requires a lot of effort.
Textile household items will help you escape the coldness of an office space and create coziness in your apartment. These include curtains, pillows, tablecloths, napkins, wall panels. Don’t be afraid to place ottomans and banquettes in the hallway, because often in the hallway there just isn’t enough something to sit on for comfort. In the living room, an ottoman can be used as a cozy footrest.
By the way, with the help of curtains the area of the room is successfully expanded and window hole. Designers advise hanging curtains in such a way that they cover not only the window, but also the walls of the room on both sides. When purchasing curtains, take into account the width of 1.5 times the window structure. This technique will allow you to decorate the curtains with beautiful airy folds, especially if they are made of organza. It is advisable to decorate the curtains in the open position with cozy, decorative clips and elements (bows and butterflies).
Fabrics for placing on windows can have a pattern, regardless of whether it is on the walls or not. Try to combine a large pattern on the curtains with a large image on the wallpaper, and the coziness of the apartment will be ensured.
As for carpets and runners, they can cover the entire floor or be located in one area. Last option more suitable for cozy placement near a table, armchair or sofa. For the entire floor, choose a carpet darker than the walls; a multi-colored one is appropriate for a monochromatic finish.
It is unlikely that you will be able to make your home cozy without taking into account “green” design and its basic rules. Even in office premises, green spaces can bring a special cozy atmosphere. This does not mean that pots with indoor flowers need to be placed everywhere, thereby turning the apartment into a kind of botanical garden.
Limit yourself to a few pots and arrange them, focusing on necessary conditions contents of each flower. It is customary to place outdoor flowers in the living room, for example, ficus and palm trees. In the bedroom, it is useful to have plants on the windowsill that produce oxygen - aloe and kalanchoe.
Another important nuance - a pot suspended from the ceiling with stems and buds hanging down will reduce the height of the ceiling of the room, and a floor planting, on the contrary, will elevate it and.
It is preferable to decorate the empty walls of the room with personal photographs; they will add individuality to the apartment. Elegant vases, figurines, candlesticks with candles placed on bedside tables and coffee tables. If you need to hang several bright decorations or certificates on the walls, which is also welcome, it is better to choose a place for this in soft, neutral colors.
To create coziness in the apartment, one of the cabinets with a mirrored panorama can be allocated for souvenirs brought from travels and trips abroad, gifts received from loved ones on memorable dates. At least once a month, wipe sea shells, plates and ceramics from dust, otherwise the display case will turn into an untidy place, far from cozy.
Craftswomen will certainly like the idea of creating a personal, cozy space in the apartment for their creations. Play with shapes and colors decorative pillows, framed with original pillowcases. When creating coziness in your apartment, adhere to the rules of having enough decorations and things in the room, and not having too much of them.
Now you know how to create comfort in your home with your own hands. Try to consult with your household and learn to determine the boundary between beauty and comfort, sharp contrasts and the tranquility of a comfortable, warm atmosphere. Avoid the proximity of small bright elements that do not match each other in style; be careful with mirrors, which, if placed incorrectly in the room, contribute to the accumulation of negative energy in the apartment.
Your home is not a warehouse or a lost and found office, so it’s time to finally clear out the closets and throw away all the accumulated trash in the name of comfort.
Sort out your clothes: hopelessly damaged and downright old items belong in the trash bin, and those that look decent, but just don’t like, you can try to sell on online flea markets. Organize your cosmetics drawers and household chemicals. Everything is ruined, it’s not worth using.
Same story with household appliances. A constantly overheating mixer, an iron with a frayed cord wrapped with electrical tape - these seem like small things, but with frequent use, even small flaws begin to irritate.
At this stage, your goal is to get rid of everything that bothers you or gets on your nerves. Home is a place where we relax from worries and worries, so at least let nothing infuriate us here.
A sterilely clean apartment, where everything is literally on a ruler, is not a place to live. Small details will help you get rid of the feeling that you are in a hotel room.
Photos, paintings, an unusual tapestry or a napkin knitted by your own hands - such little things add individuality. Your home is a reflection of your interests and tastes, so don't be shy in expressing yourself.
The only thing to remember is functionality first. For example, a long-pile rug may look nice next to the sofa, but you will regret the purchase a thousand times over when you clean it. The same story with the abundance of figurines on the shelves - first you need to remove them, then wipe off the dust, then put everything in its place... Try to find a reasonable compromise in the choice between beauty and convenience.
In order not to spend the entire weekend cleaning, break it down into stages - it’s easier than trying to cope with what has accumulated over the week in a day.
Here rough plan daily affairs. You can add other tasks and change the order in which they are completed. The point is that keeping clean is an ongoing process, not a once-in-a-week feat.
That's it, by the end of the week your house is clean. All that remains is the little things like changing the bed linen and washing the clothes you plan to wear next week. It is better to wash clothes on Saturday, so that on Sunday you can iron them and hang them in the closet. Change your bed linen on Sunday and start the wash on Monday.
How less effort required in order to restore order, the better. Stock up on the right equipment: even with it spring-cleaning it won't be a burden.
Wiping off dust with microfiber cloths is much faster and more effective than using old T-shirts or a piece of used duvet cover. If you wash the floor with water containing special means, wipe off the dirt without special effort it will work the first time.
Hate sweeping floors? Buy a good vacuum cleaner and be done with it.
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The main task when improving a home is to create a comfortable atmosphere that corresponds to the specifics of life of its inhabitants. A person chooses the style of interior design based on his aesthetic preferences and practical desires. The feeling of comfort in the house is intuitive and almost weightless. It is determined at the level of feelings. There is no specific algorithm that allows you to catch this thread, but there are techniques that will allow everyone to create a cozy interior within the framework of modern life without additional costs.
Bright room design
Cozy kitchen
Cozy room interior
To change the interior in better side, no need to buy new furniture and radically change the decor in the apartment. First of all, it is worth noting the strengths in the design of each room. Then you need to find those aspects that irritate you. For example, people who prefer minimalism cannot comfortably exist in a room overcrowded with objects that do not carry a semantic load.
Design of a room with a fireplace
Beautiful living room with fireplace
Creating comfort with your own hands is quite simple. Having noted your priorities, you need to decorate the house in accordance with the standards of your comfort. Peep original ideas You can use the example of modern designers’ developments. When rearranging, you should pay special attention to the design of each room. Since coziness can be concentrated by accessories and various little things, it is quite possible to make many decorative elements yourself.
Take advantage of ready-made solutions. Update your interior by upholstering the old one upholstered furniture and restoring familiar things that seem like relics. Add new decorative elements to your rooms and they will look completely different. You can organize such a transformation on your own.
Bright living room design
Cozy bedroom in light colors
Bright living room design
There are a number of universal recipes to make your home more comfortable. Follow these rules to transform your living environment.
Beautiful living room design
Cozy kitchen design
Following fashion trends, many decorate the interior with cool shades: blue, blue, white, powder, etc. A cozy interior is not compatible with the rigor and laconicism of office design. A competent combination of basic and warm shades. For example, if you are a supporter of modernity, then find a balance between rational black and yellow. Then the house will be filled with warmth and become more inviting.
Warmth can be achieved through soft colors of furniture and accessories. Don't use harsh colors. Make neat transitions between different shades. Individual parts should not merge into one color scheme. Leave room for bright accents that attract attention. Then the house will not seem boring.
Large living room design
Large cozy living room
Interior of a cozy living room with fireplace
The priority area of any room is occupied by furniture. Choosing new items becomes difficult for people who are not familiar with the intricacies of interior design. By changing your environment, you can:
In order to save money, it is quite possible to create masterpieces from a warehouse of unnecessary things. There are special masters involved in the renaissance of objects from the past. So, old sofa takes on classic shapes, cabinets are made from suitcases, and home lamps are made from old street lamps. Look at familiar things from a different perspective, and you will find a use for them.
When choosing ready-made furniture, it is important to start from the color scheme. Creates more comfort natural materials. Therefore, when choosing your next set, pay attention to the shades natural wood. They will harmoniously combine with any wall and floor covering.
Bedroom interior
Cozy living room with fireplace
Textiles and fabric bring the most comfort to an apartment’s furnishings. This material is embodied in curtains, upholstery of sofas, armchairs, floor coverings, pillows, tablecloths, etc. The right combination will make the room comfortable and unique. Periodic replacement of textiles radically transforms the house. Due to this, vibrant colors and a new original combination appear.
Soft textiles are cozy in themselves. More lint on the carpet in the sitting area can become a real magnet. Textiles that are not factory-made, but ordered from a craftsman or brought from a trip, will become an original highlight of the design. Choose the current texture of the fabric so that it does not conflict with other interior details.
Cozy living room in red tones
Living room with fireplace
Cozy design with fireplace
How to create comfort in your home: more light and oxygen
When improving your home, you need to pay attention Special attention lighting. In addition to general light, install local sources and use them to immerse yourself in a romantic environment. The placement of the light allows you to change the proportions. The more light sources, the more spacious the room seems.
The best solution is to have enough daylight due to panoramic windows. Local light is most often used in the evening to create a comfortable environment and relieve visual stress. Due to fewer things and the availability of free space, there will be more air. This important element, promoting physical and mental comfort.
Light corridor design
Interior of a cozy living room
Living room interior
Cozy bedroom
Bright living room design
An eco-style house will always look advantageous. The abundance of natural wood, suede, and natural fabric will help to embody this theme. You can create an atmosphere of naturalness and closeness to nature using raw decorative elements, paintings, panels and partitions. Such elements well dilute the ultra-modern interior.
An additional hint of the proximity of nature is the presence indoor plants. It is most important to install flowerpots in the living room and kitchen. Their presence indicates a caring and healthy environment in the home. A beautiful flower pot serves as a universal decorative element, combining practicality and irreplaceable beauty.
Cosy dark design rooms
Cozy room design
The interior of each house is the embodiment of the expectations of all its inhabitants. Entering the home, the guest understands what interests and hobbies everyone who lives in this area has. A cozy interior can be conservative and modern. The most important thing is that it contains things that are beloved and dear to the heart. They can not only create comfort, but also cure the blues.
A home should be comfortable for both relaxation and work. As many of us spend more and more time at home, everything should be done to make it more comfortable.
