How To Brighten Up Your Home This Winter
With winter approaching fast and bringing with it gloomier days and darker, longer nights it’s hard to keep your home feely warm and inviting over the winter months. There are lots of ways to brighten up your home and retain that cosy feeling giving you and your home a little lift in the process.
Add some mirrors around your home
Strategically placed oak framed mirrors around the home can help to spread natural light and warmer artificial light around the home during the day and into the night. Mirrors reflect light onto every surrounding surface and so can be a brilliant way to easily brighten up a room in your home this winter. Our oak framed mirrors are an excellent addition to your winter home as they have a neutral colour scheme and provide that cosy homely feel to a room without looking too clinical or harsh. Not only are mirrors useful for making a room look and feel bigger but also brighter which is exactly what you need throughout the winter period.
Put some extra light into your rooms
The fastest and easiest way to brighten a room within your home is to literally inject more light into the room itself by adding additional sources of light. However, don’t just rely on the overhead lighting to do the trick, even with a change to a warmer lightbulb. You will need additional light sources at every level and for each task-based scenario. For example, when it comes to kitchens or bathrooms you may want to use task-based lighting such as LED strips underneath your upper kitchen cabinets or around your bathroom mirrors. For living rooms, you will want a more homely feel and so cosy lighting elements such as wall lighting, table and floor lamps or candles will do just the trick in welcoming light into the room.
Adopt a neutral colour palette throughout your home
Use neutral tones such as white, cream, beige, brown and light greys around your home and within your furniture pieces. These colours are the best at reflecting the most sunlight so using them around the home will help to instantly lift and brighten your living space. Don’t be deterred by an ‘all white’ look dulling your home as it will help to provide you with a blank canvas on which to add a pop of colour elsewhere.
Get rid of clutter and organise your space
Although having displays of trinkets on show gives your home the ‘lived-in’ look and feel to it having lots of cluttered spaces around a room can block the passage of light throughout the home which can leave it feeling duller. Reducing the amount of clutter around your house and on display shelves will give the area a much more refreshed and brighter feel to it. Take a look at some of the excellent storage features hidden within our range of practical coffee table styles.
Light-coloured high-gloss furniture can be helpful in letting in light
If you’re thinking of investing in some new furniture pieces this winter season you may want to re-think your choices as putting light-coloured, high-gloss pieces in a room will help to reflect light around the room from natural light sources or from a well-placed table lamp within the room. Our Symphony White or Symphony Grey furniture ranges are the perfect high-gloss furniture additions to your bedroom, living room or kitchen.
Create a small reading nook
There’s nothing cosier than sitting down in a warm room with a good book and a hot drink. It’s really easy to create a reading nook in your home by placing seating arrangements around shelving units. Our Bourdeaux Oak Small Bookcase would look lovely paired with a gorgeous armchair or the Balmoral Standard Oak TV unit would make for a brilliant smaller bookcase when strategically placed next to a comfy sofa.