Comfort Decorating

Everyone wants to be comfortable in their own homes. Your home is a safe haven from the world. Living in a comfortable home makes home life a little more pleasant. Learn how to "decorate" for comfort.

Before you begin your decorating process, ponder the following questions:

What are the 5 most comfortable things in your home?

What is comfort to you? How would you apply that to your own home?

Function and comfort run hand in hand. What makes you comfortable? Do big, plush down sofas make you comfortable and cozy? Is it your warm, soft bed?"

To some people comfort includes:

*a comfortable place to sit

*a comfortable place to sleep

*a comfortable place to relax

*a room that is most comfortable

*the people in their lives or security

How can you apply these five favorite things into decorating?

Color on the walls helps you achieve a warm, cozy first impression. According to Joe Ruggiero, "It's also important to have some sort of small table you can put keys and fresh flowers on, and a mirror on the wall is nice, too. Scented candles or potpourri by the entrance give the house a nice, welcoming scent."

What Colors Are Good For comfort Decorating?

Deep jewel tones create a luxurious, dramatic intimacy. The yellows, peaches and terra cotta create warmth--they're welcoming, embracing, romantic and somewhat edible.

Reds are welcoming and formal. Greens are clubby and masculine. Pastels are airy. Blues are fresh, clean, wholesome and cool.

Carpet Adds Comfort

Carpet can change the whole atmosphere of the room. It brings warmth, texture and color to the room, and it's wonderful acoustically. Carpet encompasses the whole room with a feeling of coziness. It instantly transforms a really cold-looking room into a cozy haven. It also cuts down on "noise".

Decorating

Decorating with personal objects--whether it's an collection--is the surest way to personalize a room. Decorate with collections of old family photographs. Frame them and add them to bookshelves, tables, dressers, etc.

Use things that are an important expression of who you are. It's nice feeling to have something from your childhood--or from your mother or father's childhood--around you. Family pieces and pictures are important things to have out on display where you can see them, and where your children can see them.

Most importantly, having spiritual pictures are very comforting and inviting. It also helps to remind us where our focus should be and it tells others where our focus is.

Shiloah Baker is a mother of seven children and homemaker who resides in North Carolina. She is the owner of Homemaking Cottage & Co., a website which offers homemaking related articles, books, eBooks, ideas, other homemaking related materials, and a subscription service. For more information go to: http://www.homemakingcottage.com

or her blog at http://homemakingcottageblog.blogspot.com to learn how she raises seven children and runs a business at home.