If you’re a homeschooling parent, a stay at home mom, or if you work from home in order to spend more time with your young kids, it’s essential that you take the right kinds of steps to make your home an uplifting place for your family to spend time in.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t take much for what could otherwise be a cozy, uplifting, and joyous home to degenerate into a cluttered, confused, and negative environment. Just a short period of time spent ignoring essential domestic chores, as well as a distracted and haphazard approach to home decoration, can do it.
If, on the other hand, you do stay on top of things and keep your home organized and presented the way you would like — you can expect everyone in the family to have a much better experience of day to day life.
Here are some tips for making your home an uplifting place for your family to spend time.
Manage temperature control properly
There are not many things in life which are quite as frustrating as a home that’s always the wrong temperature. Too hot when you want it to be cool, to chilly when you want it to be warm.
No matter how appealing your home looks, if it’s incapable of providing the basic level of shelter from the elements that you need and desire, it’s simply going to be an uncomfortable space to spend any length of time. Especially for young children.
Managing the temperature in your home comes down to a few different factors. One is proper insulation, which can also include things like installing vinyl windows which create an effective seal against the elements.
Other factors include the presence of heating or air-conditioning units, the kind of tiles on the roof, and so on.
Optimize lighting as much as possible
It’s truly amazing what a difference lighting can make to a home. The same house can look and feel fundamentally different based on how bright it is.
As a general rule of thumb, when your home is well-illuminated, both with natural and artificial light, it will feel alive, vibrant, and upbeat.
On the other hand, when your home is poorly illuminated, it will feel dark, stifling, and oppressive.
If the lighting in your home isn’t ideal, investigate installing larger windows, and having features like skylights built in. Also look into full-spectrum light bulbs, and extra lamps and light fixtures.
Reduce clutter and emphasize orderliness
A cluttered home is inevitably a chaotic and uncomfortable home — a place where things will naturally seem out of control and somewhat hopeless and even threatening.
As humans, we naturally desire a certain degree of order and harmony in our environments. When things are chaotic, we associate them with unpredictability and threat, on a deep psychological level.
In addition to things seeming threatening the more chaotic they are, they will also seem to be beyond our control. “Everything’s such a mess, how could I ever clean this up?”
Although a bit of a messy home environment might not immediately seem like an absolute crisis, it can significantly diminish your enjoyment of your home, both for yourself and your family.
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