No matter how long you have been living in your home, there is always space for improvement. Improving the layout of your home and setting up your home so it flows and functions better will help you focus on achieving (and living) that better lifestyle.
Making Rooms Fit for Purpose
All rooms and spaces must be fit for purpose. If they are not fit for purpose, they will not work well. This can cause you additional stress (even though you may not see it at first). For example, if you have children that are sharing a bedroom, is their room fit for purpose? Arguments and unnecessary stress between siblings can upset the whole dynamic and atmosphere in the home. This can then have a negative impact on your lifestyle. So, do they have bunk beds with mattress within their room, or are they using side-by-side beds that are taking up more space? Do they have their own areas of their bedroom, or is everything shared?
Understanding How You Use Your Home
How are you currently using your home? Are there certain rooms or spaces that you are using more frequently than others? How are you using your home at the weekend and on the weekday – is there any variation? To live a better lifestyle, you may want to understand how and why you are using your home the way you are. You can better utilize spaces when you feel more connected and in tune with them.
Moving Furniture Around
You may already have enough furniture, or you may have all of the furniture you want to have. If so, it is time to focus your efforts on rearranging what you have. When you rearrange existing furniture, you get the opportunity to breathe life into spaces. Sometimes you can often find when you rearrange furniture, it transforms how a room or space feels. It can even help you use a piece of furniture a little bit more. When you are moving furniture around, try and create a floorplan first. You do not want to be doing too much manual lifting, so draw out where the furniture will be placed before you commit to moving it.
Top Tip: Make sure you utilize the natural light within your home. To live a better lifestyle, you have to take advantage of the light that pours into your home. The natural light will change how a room looks and feels, and it will change your mood too.
Seeing How Your Home Flows
Your home will flow in a certain way, and it is important to get the most out of all spaces. If your home is not flowing the way you want it too you can find the spaces and rooms are very difficult to live in. See how your home flows by looking at how you currently use the room. See how you utilize all the spaces? Are you making full use of space? You may find that you have default rooms that are not functioning as they should. Or you may find that you have spaces that have just become dumping grounds for all of your family’s stuff. Monitoring how you and your family use your home, and seeing what rooms function fully is key to achieving that better lifestyle.
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