Is Your Home Ready for Spring 2022?

Some Tips to get started with your Spring Home Renewal

• DECLUTTER
  Before you start to clear Winter clutter from entryways to the garage, step back and prepare yourself for this process: Use your favorite meditation and mind clearing techniques to decide how you want your space to empower you in this new season. Remove emotional blocks and say goodbye to negative thought patterns that accumulate in the cold dark months…Make an affirmative action plan and proceed at your own pace.
  Now you will be ready to clear, clean and refresh your spaces from wardrobe to basement. Each space has its own needs. Shift energies by simple rearrangement of furniture pieces, for example, to be closer to natural daylight and the outdoors. Repurpose old items and welcome new pieces to bring new vitality to your interiors.

• SEASONAL COLOR
  As the season changes in northern climates to experience longer days and greater access to natural daylight it’s good to sustain this new mood with a refreshing color scheme. From creating lively tablescapes and adding colorful glass and tableware to choosing accent pillows with bold cheerful patterns, small steps can be taken to breathe new life into your interiors. Did you know essential oils can diffuse unique color signatures? Appropriate to Sping are romantic florals such as jasmine and rose. A welcoming geranium plant at your home’s entrance offers a refreshing scent. The green element is present in a variety of air freshening houseplants.

• STYLE
  It’s your choice, an opportunity for creative self-expression. Do you favor maximal or minimal, calm or uplifting? In multipurpose rooms shared by others, it is good to get their input for your design scheme. Many references abound on the internet on sites such as Pinterest. What appears to be trending now and is in keeping with Spring & Summer seasons is Cottage Core. This is a movement that favors greater connection with nature and embraces sustainability. It calls for a simpler lifestyle found in rural settings with an aesthetic that embraces arts and crafts and home made goods. It also calls for reducing hyper consumption and minimizes the role of tech in your interiors.

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This is your Year 2022!

To enable your Creative Spirit...at home

During Covid. which has resulted in the trend for working at home, much discussion has been around designing home offices and personal gyms. Yet living well by design should also extend to making some space for creative pursuits. Whether you are an artist/artisan, writer, composer, musician etc you need a dedicated space. In expressing your creativity which draws upon your imagination it is important to the whole home design scheme to minimize consumptive habits enabled by technology.

Considerations for your plan…

-          Define your creator identity. If you don’t have one this is the time to look inwards and think about what brings joy

-          Make a list of tools and resources needed in your designated space whether it be a corner near a window for natural light or an outdoor garden shed, there are a variety of possibilities

-          Recognizing this is not a sanctuary for relaxation it is a workspace! As such, colours that enliven us from the warm colour family of red, orange and yellow in a realistic quantity can be part of the palette.

-          From deep rich tones to natural textures, you can create a welcoming and energizing space

-          From availability of natural light from a window to full spectrum task lighting, your space must include supportive lighting

-          Much is spoken of the need to improve IAQ (indoor air quality) for our health and the installation of air freshening plants such as Boston Fern,  Snake Plant, Golden Pothos and many more will help

-          Note  these same houseplants will also help to combat electronic pollution from all the electronic gadgets which emit harmful EMFs (electro magnetic frequencies) My suggestion is to have very little of these items in your creative space

-          Start with a Vision board of what your goals are for each project. You can dedicate a wall with references to inspirations and update it as you go along

 Wishing you all good health and may this be a year of renewal.
Bette

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