Why would you want your family to have to live together and bond in a home that is totally artificial and uninspiring? Embracing natural decor in your family home can not only make it more beautiful, it can transform your home into a healthier space that you all love spending more time in, whether that’s alone or together.
Here are a few pieces of useful info you can use for embracing a more natural decor in your family home. Enjoy!
Don’t Hold Back When It Comes To Plants and Flowers
Plants and flowers are a must for a healthy, natural decor for your family to enjoy. Include flowers in the kitchen, lounge, and even the bedrooms. Have plants everywhere you can fit them – seriously! Not only do they purify the air and make us happier when we look at them (according to science), they add natural color to a home, as well as leafy texture. You can include multiple plants in one room and it can look fantastic. Just make sure these plants are easy to maintain!
If you’d rather not have to think about watering plants, you can buy convincing looking fake plants. Just bear in mind that you don’t get as many benefits with fake plants.
Use Natural, Earthy Tones
Using natural, earthy tones in your home decor can help to ground your home, make it feel more relaxing, and allow you to use furniture, artwork, and other design elements without clashing. However, this doesn’t mean you have to stick to colors like boring brown and beige. Look into different shades of blue and green, and don’t forget to include a pop of bright color here and there, like yellow.
Use Botanical Fabrics
Take a look at botanical fabrics and figure out how you can include this in your home decor. A textile that features something like birds, branches, or flowers can be a great addition to make for spring. You could create your own upholstered chair with it if you know how to sew, but if you don’t, you could try creating a seat cushion instead – a great project for beginners. Failing that, don’t be afraid to make a table cloth, where you won’t need to sew anything at all.
Make Your Own Pretty Flower Portraits
Pressed flowers look beautiful, and they are really easy to do on your own. Whether you’re going for a morning walk or simply looking in your own garden, you could find some great flowers to make unique artwork. First you’ll need to press them using a flower press or a stack of heavy books, and then leave them until they have fully dried out.
When the flowers are ready, you can use a fabric like linen to back the flowers and fit it into a frame. Spray adhesive is a good option to stick your flowers to the linen, but sometimes the glass is enough to hold them in place alone.
Use Sea Glass To Create A Beautiful Feature
Sea glass, or beach glass, is absolutely beautiful. If you like collecting it, or you’d like a reason to start collecting it, you can create a great feature with it in your home. You could simply fill a nice vase with it, but how about using it to cover a window in your home? This would look absolutely amazing in a bathroom, whether themed around the beach or not! You can use a clear setting resin to fill in the gaps between pieces, and this window will still let in light, it’ll just block views. Make sure you’re not blocking out a fantastic view – this is why the bathroom makes the window an asset.
Let In More Light
Natural light makes us happier and more productive, yet so many homes are filled with artificial light. Make sure you aim to let in more natural light to your family home. Your family will feel more productive, less stressed, and happier. Plus, your home will look larger and just a whole lot better. Get bigger windows if you have that kind of budget. If not, simply keep them clean and choose the right window dressings so that you can let as much natural light in as you like.
Find A Way To Use Beautiful Materials
There are so many beautiful materials you can use in your natural home decor, from wooden floors to marble countertops from a place like World Stone. Make sure these materials are totally natural – you might need to take your time with this, as they can be more expensive than man made materials.
Connect The Inside Of Your Home With Your Garden
Connecting the inside of your home with your garden can create a better living space. You can do this in an open plan living room by designing it so that it’s adjacent to your outdoor space. By making sure your internal colors and outdoor decking match, you can create a seamless transition. Positioning all of your furniture to take in the beautiful views is a good idea too, and you’ll easily be able to supervise children as they play outside.
Collect Feathers in a Cup
You don’t have to spend a lot of time or money to make your family home more natural and beautiful. The simple things can sometimes make all the difference! How about collecting feathers you find on walks and putting them in an earthy looking mug on a shelf to incorporate things from the wild?
Fill Up Bottles And Jars
As well as feathers, you can fill bottles and jars with your finds for a little affordable DIY. You could fill a glass jar with sea glass, as mentioned before – with or without water looks great. You could also place some smooth pebbles and stones in a glass jar, and then place a tea light on top for an affordable candle holder with natural appeal.
Start embracing a more natural home decor in your family home today – you’ll love the difference it makes!