Ready to revitalize your space? Whether you love redecoration or your house hasn’t changed in decades, upgrading your house doesn’t have to be complicated. Let’s help your house feel more like a home with these easy home upgrade suggestions.
Small Personalized Touches that Make All the Difference
With home upgrades, we tend to think big, but you don’t have to do a large-scale renovation to make a significant positive impact on how your space feels. Small personalized touches can make all the difference, and it’ll be easier than you think if you can just find what will make your space exemplify your personality. Sometimes, this is as simple as marking the territory directly with the name. For example, the nursery pictured above would be pleasant but basic without the personalized neon sign that instantly elevates the space from generic to one-of-a-kind.
We recommend that rather than trying to follow trends or match your upgrade to an influencer’s home you love, you focus your upgrades on your own interests, or the combined considerations of all the personalities living in your home. If you’re a sophisticated drinker, you’ll love having upscale barware, but if you usually just pop back a beer when you’re watching the game, you might prefer some homage to your favorite team on or near the TV stand. If your spouse loves baking with your kids, that might be something to factor into your kitchen, from upgrading your pantry area to hold more baking ingredients to buying a bigger cookie jar or cupcake holder. Your house will feel like a home when it feels like you.
Cultivated Decor that You Adore
Especially if you’ve been in a house for a while, it can be easy for stuff to accumulate, especially decorations. But when it comes to decor, it’s much better to have a cultivated selection of choices you adore rather than an overwhelming mess with options you don’t even remember buying. And that holds even with sentimental items: you’ll get more enjoyment out of your space and your decor when you only have one of grandma’s quilt art pieces displayed rather than one for each of her grandchildren.
This means that you might have to really go through your decorations and consider what you really love and what you really could get by without. And it can really be as easy as recognizing that you don’t have a specific attachment to the landscape painting on your mantelpiece but you’ve always really wanted a historic map of your hometown. “It’s been there for ten years” isn’t a good reason to keep something on the wall unless you want it there. Your wall space is prime real estate. Even moving a picture to the opposite wall can change the feel of a room, so don’t feel like you necessarily need to rush out and buy all new art to upgrade your home.
Sleek Appliances for a Styled Look
A lot of us logically drag our feet about replacing appliances unless absolutely necessary, which makes financial sense. But when you’re looking for easy home upgrades, nothing revitalizes spaces faster than new appliances. It goes without saying that upgraded appliances will be an upgrade, but not just in giving you a double oven that finally heats up on the top and the bottom at the same rate or a washing machine that beeps like it’s supposed to again. Upgraded appliances also affect the space around them. We don’t tend to think of our fridges and TVs as design statement pieces, yet our appliances, for size and importance, do tend to define the room that they’re in.
That means that with sleek new appliances, you can easily add a styled look to your home without changing anything else. New, matching kitchen appliances that are all white or all silver, for example, could instantly elevate the tone of your space. And don’t be afraid to experiment with less traditional looks for your appliances to find what really suits your style. Maybe you love the vintage mint green toaster or you’re ready for a chic countertop dishwasher, like the one pictured above. Find the style of upgraded appliance that gives your space the feel you want.
Don’t Be Afraid to Experiment
Finally, take heart. Most of our ideas for easy upgrades to revitalize your space rely on you knowing what you like, which can feel daunting at times. The good news is that there are no hard rules or hard timelines, so you can feel free to experiment with how you want to upgrade your home. And even if you live alone, you don’t have to work on the transition from house to home alone.
At House to Home Organizing, we can help you get organized and centered on your goals for the space so you’re ready to make those easy upgrades that can make all the difference. Reach out so we can get started today.
