Decorate your Home to be a Destressing Sanctuary

Ambreen Sajjad
Betterism
Published in
3 min readMar 14, 2019
Photo by Hannah Busing on Unsplash

Stress does not only affect working adults, and parents but it also disturbs children of all ages. Besides their social anxieties and worries related to school and college, the stress of being affected by different complicated scenarios also distract them badly. And I guess, the last thing you would want to worry about at the end of your stressed day is, coming home to an already disturbed environment where everything is unorganized, and households are not handled properly.

However, to tackle that situation, you can discover some great powers in interior designing. By considering just a few simple steps, it’s possible to turn your home into the stress-free sanctuary to enjoy a great relaxing day.

Get started with the right foundation:

Before even picking your house which you want to turn into your home, it’s important to get intentional about the selection and then make sure it won’t become a great cause for your increased stress and tension. If you like a quiet, and rural lifestyle, then living in some big city or a busy street might be a great challenge for you. The loud traffic noise and bright lights at night might keep you up and you feel difficult to fall asleep. In turn, it would increase your stress level because of getting improper sleep and continuous disturbance.

Clear out the clutter and make the areas more organized:

According to scientific reports, highly messy spaces create more stress and anxiety and distract people from their busy routine. The presence of excess stimuli in our brain field is too much to handle, so it’s hard to deal with the unorganized space. Seeing clutter everywhere around your house can subconsciously create more stress and anxiety when we feel that we have an increased length of to-do lists. Clutter also make you feel guilty and for being unproductive, it also makes you feel frustrative when you experience trouble locating your important things and find road-blocked while trying to activate your creativity.

Avoid hectic home styles and patterns:

When you combine some noisy patterns, it won’t mesh well in your home. So, if you want to keep the cortisol level low, then it’s important to keep the decoration simple and decent. So, if you are planning to use some funky wallpaper, then it’s better to pick just one wall and make it an accent wall rather than completely overwhelming your home. When you choose some polka dots or the stripes in the decoration, then you can easily keep it simple in the accent pieces rather than using them for some bigger or bolder theme. When you use multiple patterns and start mixing up, you will experience more troubles and anxiety issues.

Optimize the bedroom:

We love to spend some relaxing moments in our bedrooms, away from the daily hustle bustle. So, this place should be comfortable enough to provide calm and smoothness to our nerves. Take a tour of your bedroom and then re-evaluate the space where you could possibly bring some improvement. So, let’s take a start with the sleeping structure. Does your bed make you feel like you are sleeping on the cloud or is that a nightmare for you? If so, it’s better to get it replaced with the one that simply suits your sleeping style and offers more peaceful and long sleeping hours.

Revamping your home all the way to the top is a quite daunting process which might create troubles for you. That’s the reason, home renovation should always be handled by the professionals as they are already qualified enough to manage the things efficiently.

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Ambreen Sajjad
Betterism

I am a professional content writer and contributor of numerous publications. I love to read, and create different newsworthy blogs and opinions.