The new year is almost upon us, so what better time is there to begin preparing your home for a brand new year? De-cluttering and creating a positive space will ensure that you have the best start to the new year possible. Here are some tips and ideas that will help you to prepare your home:
Get Rid Of Everything You Don’t Use/Want
Go through each room in your home and gather everything up that you don’t use or want. Try not to be hoarder. Many people keep things that they haven’t used for years under the impression they will come in handy ‘one day’. However, one day rarely comes. These things you don’t use will likely just sit there gathering dust until they’re no good to anybody anymore. You may need to be tough on yourself, but clearing space in your home life this is a great thing to do for the new year. You can also do a good deed by taking these things to a charity shop. You’ll likely feel so much better with these things gone. Like a weight lifted off your shoulders. If you feel you’re not strong enough to do this yourself, consider calling in somebody you trust to offer a new perspective and encourage you to let go of things. This can be a really difficult thing to do, but once you realize that nothing bad will happen when you get rid of the things that no longer serve you, you’ll feel so much better.
Have A Deep Clean
Now, it’s time to have a deep clean. This means really focusing on even the small areas of your home, such as the tops of doors. You can even scrub the ceilings! Do the things that you rarely ever do, so you go into the new year with a completely clean and tidy home. Not only is having a tidy home important for health reasons, it’s crucial to keep pests at bay too. If you know you have some kind of infestation, get in touch with an exterminator ASAP. You can get one 24 hours a day when you use a link like http://www.pest.24hourly.com/. When you have this sorted, you can focus on cleaning everything else. This might take more than one day to do. You might need to set hours aside, and make a good playlist to keep you going for as long as you need to. You’ll be so glad you did it when your house feels shiny and new again!
Make Repairs
Do you have any repairs to make that you’ve been putting off? Big or small, try to get everything done before the new year. This might mean filling in gaps and holes, insulating your home, changing locks – anything you know you need to do but you haven’t got around to. This will give you the best start to the new year. You could hire somebody to do this for you if you haven’t got the time, but you can save money if you take care of the minor repairs yourself. You can find so many tutorials and videos online, that doing these things yourself shouldn’t be a problem.
Make It A More Positive Space
Work on making your home a more positive space. What colors make you feel good? What images? Can you add fruit, plants, and flowers? All of these things are good for your home and will make you feel good while you’re in it. You can introduce more light into your home by adding mirrors. This will make your home appear more spacious. Plans can purify the air and make us feel more positive. If you use colors like blue and green, you’ll likely feel more calm and relaxed in your home too. Introduce things that make you feel good and you’ll make a great start to the new year.
Try Feng Shui
Feng shui is something you can look into if you want to make having a positive space even more meaningful. This technique has been used for years to make the home flow better and introduce more positive energy. In this practice, you make sure you’re placing furniture and other items in the correct place, to allow positive energy to flow freely. For instance, you’ll have your bed in the ‘commanding position’. You’ll also do things like keep the bathroom door closed. It’s a very interesting practice that could potentially help you to make positive changes in your life for the coming year.
Get Organized
Now is a wonderful time to get organized. Go through your junk draw and organize it. Organize and sort letters and other pieces of paperwork. Better yet, scan them into your computer and go completely paperless before recycling them! Organize your wardrobe, your shoes – just about anything that can be organized. Make a point of ensuring everything is as organized as it possibly can be before going into the new year. If you do this properly, you can probably afford to only do this once a year.
Add Something New
Why not add an element of something new to your home? This could be a feature wall, a new pattern, piece of art – anything that excites you. If you have the time and resources, you could even go for a completely new color scheme or theme. Redecorating can give your home a whole new lease of life and make you feel happier. You can use a color wheel if you want some ideas on colors to use, and there are so many feature wall tutorials out there. You can make your home look beautiful with minimal effort these days!
Hopefully, this guide has inspired you to prepare your home for the new year in the most productive ways possible. December can be a busy month with all of the holidays, parties, and different things ahead. However, making time for doing at least some of these things will make the biggest difference to your home and life. Do you have any tips and ideas you’d like to add? Leave your thoughts below. Thanks for reading!
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