The summer is upon us and it will only get hotter. These 10 easy to do tips for your interiors will not only make your house look beautiful and apt for the scorching summer, it will also help in bringing the temperature down. From the furniture and floorings, to the curtains and lighting, you can know what works during the season. So go ahead and get ready to give your home the right look and feel, suiting the season. This will not just be a fun exercise but will also make you fall in love with your home all over again. These makeover changes don’t cost much and only require a little bit of effort and creativity to give your home the comfort that sits well with the season.
1. Light Colours: The lighter the colour, the cooler the temperature. Try and pick lighter shades such as whites and creams for your curtains, upholstery and furnishings. Lighter colours act as a soothing balm during summers and work with respect to both the look, as well as the feel.
2. Softer Fabrics: Nothing works during the summer like cottons and linens. Make sure you keep that in mind while finalising your bedsheets, pillow covers and curtains.
3. Cleaner Designs: Try picking either plain or minimal design fabrics to suit the ambience in summers. Don’t go for heavy blockprints or embossing. Going with the feel of the season, remember to choose the correct design for your home furnishings. Not just the drawing room and the bedrooms, the kitchen and the bathrooms too should have appropriate linens.
4. Summer Floorings: Get rid of those heavy, dark-coloured woolen woven carpets. Opt for daries and plastic carpets during summers. They are affordable, easy to maintain and apt for the season.
5. Minimal Lighting: With the blazing sun outside, you would not want an equally blazing lighting inside your house. Keep the lighting bare minimal to stay close to nature and away from extra radiation in an already hot environment.
6. Happy Planting: Nothing beats the hot weather like cool plantation. Chuck the artificial ones and go for the real, natural home plants. Water and air them regularly and see a change in the level of both the temperature, as well as the happiness quotient.
7. Water Connect: Whether in the form of fountains or in the shape of artifacts, you would want to connect with water in some form. It will help in cooling your home and soothing your nerves.
8. Summer Candles: Get hold of some economical, simple candles especially the floating variety that can double up both as air fresheners and help create a cool feel in the house.
9. Beautiful Blinds: You can redefine chic on your walls by going for easy to maintain blinds over the hassle of having overflowing curtains. To go with the summer theme, you can choose lighter shades, especially pastels to give them a bit of edge.
10. Clearing Clutter: Remember, during summers, less is more. In an already hot environment, you will feel claustrophobic if you do not clear out the excess clutter – be it furniture or artifacts or paintings.
Now all you need to do is get cracking and give yourself the joyful experience to enjoy a sizzling summer by adding some spunk to your home. Happy makeover.
