Short and well-designed

Winter is here, and the early darkness invites us to snuggle up in the coziest place there is – home.

But how do you make your home a precise, warm, and comforting place?

Here are four design principles that will make you feel at home, every time.

 Especially for the shortest day of the year

Our mood is often influenced by the weather, daylight, hours of darkness, and generally, by the entire environment.

We feel harmonious and attuned when the environment surrounding us provides a sense of home.

In both a physical and mental sense - winter, despite the Mediterranean climate in our region, challenges us with two months of cold, rain, and gray skies each year. While it's only two months, two months can feel like an eternity in some respects. We always want to feel at home, for our home space to contain and be precise for us every month of the year.

The principles we will outline here for creating a harmonious home space are valid for every season, but now, in honor of the shortest day of the year, with winter intensifying and its presence growing, we will emphasize home styling and making adjustments for the cold season.

 Nurturing as a Value

A person living in a well-maintained environment is, in most cases, a more relaxed, satisfied, and calm person. This is an important value in creating a supportive home environment – a clean, organized, and tidy home space, with a pleasant aroma and background music, forms a good basis, which can then be dressed with furniture items and complementary items, as a second and third layer.

Nurturing is a supportive and recharging element – when we live in a space that has received full attention, we are energized; something inside us becomes calmer and more relaxed. The nurturing of the home space is also linked to the choice of items – in this way, we only include items we choose for ourselves, quality items that will accompany us over time. This choice will then feel more right to us.

 Psychological aspects of designing a welcoming living room

A hug is an encouraging element. Research on its effects has mainly been done on infants, but even as adults, this energy has a significant impact on our mood. Winter is here for the next two months – days are short, it gets dark early, and the gloomy atmosphere with the darkness all together create a feeling of melancholy, loneliness, and a longing for a hug. The home living room, as well as the bedroom, can provide this hug. The choice of materials, colors, and textures is very important, especially when it comes to selecting furniture items and accessories. We feel enveloped and hugged when we snuggle under a pleasant and stylish wool blanket, we enjoy lounging on a sofa that is a kind of cozy nook, we love looking at a vase with a fresh bouquet of flowers. When the space we inhabit combines the precise items for us, it will serve as a comforting hug every time we visit it.

 The physical impact of material contact

The ability to dress the home and consider the different layers that make up the design creates a deepening of the material's effects. Encountering a multitude of textures affects our feelings – there's a significant difference in the sensation created by bare feet on a floor compared to the same feet touching a soft textile rug.

When it's winter outside, getting dark early and overcast, we seek feelings that generate warmth, those emanating from rugs, blankets, upholstered seating systems made of pleasant-to-touch fabrics, the use of natural wood, and more.

If the sofa is made of short-fiber textile, the rug can be furry. The coffee table placed on it will emphasize straight lines and combine wood and iron in various finishes to balance the softness of the textile.

These are just some examples. The idea is to create textural contrasts on the surface and thereby achieve a rich, warm, and homely look that is neither forced nor overwhelming, while also ensuring an encounter between you and the textures that creates a pleasant and good feeling.

 Harmony between the home spaces

Creating a color and material palette will guide you. If you don't create one for yourself, your choices might be too impulsive, leading to a look that isn't harmonious, sometimes with excessive design noise.

The color and material palette can characterize both the bedroom and the living room, with different emphasis and weights given in each space. For example, wood might be more significantly expressed in the living room compared to textiles, while in the bedroom, textiles might dominate and wood be used in more minor touches.

These connections create the precise home atmosphere; each space tells its own story and blends in perfect harmony with the rest.

 Now It’s Home expresses the moment your home becomes your most personal space.

The different spaces in a home are part of us – our soul is there, our loves, our preferences, and the specific arrangement that suits us – all these create the feeling of that moment when we feel most at home in the world.

 Come and experience the inspiration in Floralis' showrooms, get professional advice, and choose items that will bring magic home.

Now is your time to feel at home.