5 Ways to Liven and Brighten Up Your Home

Your home is a reflection of your personality and lifestyle, which is why we put so much effort into decorating it exactly the way we like. If you’ve been looking to spruce up your home decor or you’re starting fresh in a new home, we have some tips on how to create the ambiance you’re looking for.

Small touches of your personality with unique items like zodiac candles or indoor plants can help make the room more lively, so you enjoy spending time in your home and inviting friends and family over to enjoy it too!

Here are some tips on livening up your home decor:

Add Plants into the Mix

Indoor plants are one of the best ways to lighten up a home. Research shows that having living plants in the home can boost people’s moods and creativity. It gives your house a little extra color and life while also cleaning toxins from the air. Having plants in your home helps because plants remove carbon dioxide from the air and give off oxygen, improving the overall quality of the air in your home.

There are so many ways you can incorporate plants into your rooms — hanging plants, putting plants on a decorative ladder, adding a large potted plant to your living room, having a window box of small plants and herbs in your kitchen. The options are endless.

If you’re the type of person who doesn’t have a green thumb or you travel a lot, you can skip the care aspect needed for live plants and opt for fake ones. Although fake plants won’t give you the same air quality benefit, they still brighten up a room and add a beautiful touch to your home.

Use Light-Colored Furniture and Decor

Many people don’t realize just how much the color of their furniture impacts the darkness of their home. Ideally, a white couch is the best way to make a room look bright and lively, but many people understandably worry about pets, dirt, and spill stains with white couches. Try to find a lighter-colored couch like a light blue or gray to create the environment you’re looking for.

For a big home improvement project, you can install light-wood-colored hardwood floors. An easier solution is to invest in light-colored area rugs. You can also implement small decor items like light-colored lamps and bookshelves to create a similar effect.

Place Decorative Items with a Purpose

When it comes to adding the smaller, more decorative items to your home, it’s important to have a plan. Trying to arrange your favorite figurines, books or other displayed items on the same shelf with no purpose will cause the room to look cluttered — and will be much more tedious to clean and dust.

Instead, try to curate a theme with items like tarot card candles placed on a side table with a unique crystal. Perhaps a photography coffee table book and a few hand-selected Polaroids of you and friends or family can sit on your mantel. Curate the theme that you’re going for, and then pick a couple of items that you really love and try to pair them with similar items. Don’t go overboard to avoid clutter.

Let Your Personality Shine Through

You can add lighter floors and white or light-colored furniture to a room all you want, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to look like your home. Focusing too much on just adding light colors can result in a boring, personality-less room, which is why it’s important to add elements of yourself and your life to your decor.

You can do this with items like framed photos of you and your loved ones or artwork that speaks directly to your style. If you’re a book lover, bring your favorite books out into the common areas like the living room or dining room and make them a part of the decor. For those with a mystical side, items like a custom astrology birth chart are perfect conversation starters and set your home apart from anyone else’s.

Add Accents to the Room

If you’re the kind of person who prefers a decor on the darker side, there are some ways to brighten up the room while sticking to the color palette you prefer. If you have darker floors, curtains or wall colors in your home, find ways to contrast that darkness with a few light accents. You can consider an accent wall. This is a style in which one wall is painted a different color from the rest. It gives the room an interesting pop and can balance out dark grays and blues.

If you want to brighten up the room without having to break out the paint brush and make a run to the paint section of the hardware store, look for smaller accent items like white lamp shades or light-color knickknacks to decorate the room. You can also contrast dark wall colors with light-colored artwork.

Give Your Home a Quick Makeover

Brightening up your home can be as simple as adding a couple of light, fun items. Light-colored curtains, furniture and artwork are quick, easy solutions to lightening up a room. You can also add fun touches of your personality with unique items like your book collection or a personalized astrology birth chart for your coffee table.

Indoor plants are another great option. But, if you don’t want to commit to caring for them, fake plants can give a similar aesthetic. Spend some time looking at the types of decor you like in others’ homes and bring some of that inspiration to your own home decorating.

Please see the infographic below for ways you can incorporate nature into your home design and the benefits that will follow.

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