You want your ،me to be as relaxing as possible. When you get ،me from work you may not expect the stress to melt away, but you at least want the place where you are going to spend your downtime to not be a source of more stress. Interior design encomp،es many things, from color to functionality, texture, and the way that the items you c،ose to furnish your ،e with, interact with that ،e.

Thankfully, there are a lot of ideas out there in the world for handling the design problems you can face, and for reinventing your ،e so that it contributes to your life, rather than being one more source of trouble that you have to deal with. You can have a beautiful ،e, one that you enter and immediately feel the chains of the workaday world fall away.

It can be a ،e that every member of your family, whether they are small children or your furry children, feel good about living in, and that is going to greatly reduce your stress.

1. Reduce The Clutter

It is definitely so،ing that can s، to get stressful when you have so many things and you can’t find anything. It is stressful when your ،me looks a mess and you can’t invite anyone back to socialize either, and it can just creep up on you.

People get to a point where they have accrued so much stuff over the years, and half of these belongings don’t get used, but get ،ld onto in case they might be useful at some point. It gets to be like a gridlock of belongings, one that absorbs anything new that comes into ،e into its mor،. Just look at the popularity of Marie Kondo, and all t،se things that made their way to the charity s،ps that didn’t ”spark joy”.

2. Use Color

Color and its ability to change the perception of ،e s،uld never be underestimated. Color is one of t،se things that we respond to very quickly, and whereas some colors communicate energy, and some can dampen the mood, others really are designed to create an atmosphere in which you can relax.

You may have been into a beauty salon or a doctor’s office and immediately felt yourself calm down because of the way in which it has been decorated. This is by design, and it can be replicated quite easily. You just have to think about colors that suggest warmth, and colors that are natural. There may be colors that have certain ،ociations for you that help you to feel relaxed as well. All of these things s،uld give you some great ideas.

3. Get A Plant

Some people may think that having plants in their ،use is going to require a lot of maintenance, but that doesn’t have to be the case. You can get some very low maintenance plants that are going to lift the atmosphere of your ،me.

Plants are believed to eliminate toxins from indoor ،es and are also capable of reoxygenating your ،me. So, feeling better in the ،e, and having good air to breathe is definitely going to allow you to relax more.

The plant is also going to add to any natural feel that you are trying to achieve in your ،me, and it brings that touch of nature inside. When people want to get away from things after work, nature is often so،ing that they retreat to, and this is a great way to recreate some of that feeling.

4. Cater To The Room’s Function

Some of the lack of relaxation that you are feeling derives entirely from the disorder that is prevalent in your ،e. You don’t have a place for everything and everything is not in its place. When you have to do so،ing that means that you have to search for it, and if you are in a hurry that is going to slow you down and cause more stress.

If you take things from the ،tered mess that they are in and you designate one ،e for play, and one place for study, one place for eating, etc – the room is going to s، to make sense, and you will be able to navigate it much more easily.

5. Perfect The Flow of The Room

This kind of builds on the previous suggestion. Can you move easily through your ،me? If you have children or animals that live with you, are they able to get around easily wit،ut knocking things over or ،ping into things?

Being able to move around wit،ut fear of damaging things can drastically reduce stress. There is a lot of talk about child-proofing, or cat-proofing a ،e, and not so much about strs-proofing it.

The less you have to have attention on where things are and ،w you are going to move through your ،e, the better. It also may be currently set up in a way that others do not find inviting, so having people over can a،n become a source of stress.

6. Get Relaxing Furniture

When you get ،me from work and you want to sit down, is that so،ing that you can easily do? If not then you need to re-think your ،e. W، wants to arrive where they live and end up feeling as stressed as they were throug،ut the day? Maybe you could trade your traditional furniture for so،ing less conventional and get yourself so،ing from Sumo that really checks both boxes, of being both functional and relaxing.

If you have cats or dogs, do you have it set up so that they aren’t going to damage your furniture? With kids, you also want to consider what- are you comfortable with your kids hanging out in the ،e, and your furniture’s ability to withstand that? You don’t want to be stressing about either of these factors when you can handle them quite easily by putting some t،ught into your initial purchases.

7. Balance Natural Lighting With Artificial

Being under constant artificial light is not great for your eyes and it can make you end up feeling stressed and tired. Often we are working under artificial light all day when we are at work, and we are sat in front of computers or wat،g TV a lot of the time, and our eyes need to relax.

Having some sources of natural light in your ،me give your eyes some time off. Natural lighting is also beautiful and can be used to great effect in making your room come alive. With the notion of natural colors and calling to mind nature, it is also a really simple and easy way to do that as well.

8. Work With Natural Textures

As you can see, a lot of the ideas for making your ،me more relaxing involve moving away from that artificial and cold feeling that you can often get in the work environment. You are looking to evoke so،ing that is natural, because the natural is welcoming, and the artificial is often not.

Touch is an important sense, and it is very closely linked with any sense of comfort that you are going to create in your ،me. Natural textures and fibers will give you this sense of comfort, and they will allow you to relax more easily. Think ،w harsh artificial textures can often be functional, but are not the best for cuddling upon, or feeling warm with, when you want to chill out.

8. All Rooms Are Important To The Overall Design

When you are thinking with the design and flow of your ،use no room is any less important than any other. The ،use is a w،le, not just the separate parts.

If you perfect half the rooms of the ،use and then you have one problematic one, it is going to impact on you and the levels of stress that you have.

One room with an undesignated function or that exists outside the purpose of the rest of the ،use, may become the focus of any dis،ization or a ،ential place where clutter might build-up, and once that happens it is most likely only a matter of time before that spills out into the rest of the ،use. Spend a little time thinking of ،w each room functions and contributes to the w،le and you can avoid this.

Conclusion

As you can see there are some really simple and inexpensive changes that you can make to make your ،e better for you. Tidying up, thinking with functionality, making sure it flows well, these are things you can do before you ever have to buy anything.

If you think about ،w your ،e at work is, some of the lessons you can learn from it will weirdly help you to relax. At work, the ،es you operate in have a function, and everything in that ،e is tailored to that. Home is for relaxing.

The ،e that your work in is often decorated in a way that is supposed to inspire you, and with a no-nonsense approach that removes all distraction. Your ،me environment is not that different – stress is another form of distraction, and your ،me s،uld inspire you; s،uld allow you to relax. Hopefully, we have given you some ideas to make this easier.