Life can be a stressful thing, and particularly at the moment with so much uncertainty in the world. You need at least one safe space in your life, a space that you can go to when you need to relax and unwind, and where you can just be yourself, away from the things that are worrying you, at least temporarily.

The best place for this safe space to be is your home. You will be in it a lot more than you may have been in the past due to new ways of working, and if your home is a stressful place to be, you’ll never fully be able to relax and enjoy your life to the fullest. Here are some great ways to really make your home a lot more relaxing so you love being there, especially when you have to be.

3 Ways to Make Your Home More Relaxing

Make it yours

Assuming you own your home and don’t rent it, you can make as many changes as you want to in order to make it yours. Even if you do rent, you can still do plenty to make your home your own, and if your landlord is amenable, this could include redecorating to your own taste. It will all depend, and you must ask permission first.

No matter what your living arrangement is, if you can possibly do what you need to do to make your home feel like yours, you should. You may not even need to redecorate; simply adding furniture that you like or putting art up on the walls or including your personal effects that might have been hidden away in the past could be enough to make this important space much more relaxing.

If you’re not sure what to include or you want to change things around but you don’t have a lot of space, you can put some of your items into storage. Search out the right solution with Storage Area and you can pick what you want to have in your home and change it for something else whenever you want. Again, this feeling of freedom is exciting and it will make your home much better.

Remove the clocks

Clocks can look great as part of your décor, but are they really needed in terms of your life and making it more relaxing? We all have the ability to tell the time from our phones or computers, or even our microwave ovens, so having clocks on the wall in a big, prominent position isn’t necessary.

Not only is it not necessary, it’s not good for you either. Studies have shown that people who have lots of clocks in their homes (or even just one clock that they can’t miss) are more stressed than those who don’t. If you want a relaxing place to live, remove the clocks first.

Declutter

Over time, we all collect bits and pieces, often without even realizing what we’re doing. The problem is, this can lead to our homes becoming full of useless items and even rubbish. This clutter is stressful, and removing it will make your home relaxing. Start by working on each room individually and completing that room before moving onto the next. This way it won’t feel so overwhelming. Make three piles of items; those you want to keep, those to go into the trash, and those to give away or sell. Your home will immediately be more relaxing when you think without these possessions in this way.

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