Day: January 27, 2014

It’s easy to recognize a warm and cozy home.  Is that feeling of familiarity and honesty that invites you to stay longer, put up your feet while asking for more hot coco and praying you don’t have to leave ever again.  That’s the feeling we all want in our homes notably because our homes are the best reflections of our real selves.  Hence it would be practically impossible to have a  warm heart and not have a warm home or vice-versa as it’s equally impossible to create fake characters of our home.  The great news is that the process to make a house feel cozy and inviting may be even easier to tackle than we all think.  Here are five elements to make a cozy home and to create the most inviting of spaces.

five elements to make a cozy home via belle vivir

ADD COLORS

While all-white interiors can be very relaxing, color makes homes cozy.  By colorful interiors I mean spaces with either warm tones or full colorful ones.  Colors have a special magic to bring out the soul in the room and it’s also the easiest way to change things around.  Usually warm and dark colors provide a better result at accomplishing coziness.  Painting a wall, upholstering a sofa or adding a colorful rug are only a few of the ways to bring color inside a home.

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