The Self Care Life with Sara Miller

5 Ideas to Make Your Home Cozy

October 18, 2020 Sara Miller
The Self Care Life with Sara Miller
5 Ideas to Make Your Home Cozy
Show Notes Transcript

Use these 5 ideas to make your home cozier, and a more relaxing place to me. Your home matters to your mental health.

Here's where you can find me:

Blog - https://sarastrives.com/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sarastrives/

Intro and Outro Music:

Summer Vibes by Simon More https://soundcloud.com/user-73416670

Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0

Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/_summer-vibes

Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/FTUkaPnYdLU

0
00:00:09.200 --> 00:00:11.100
Welcome to the Me, Myself, and You podcast.

1
00:00:11.100 --> 00:00:15.600
My name is Sara and I'm your host and I'm really glad to have you here today again.

2
00:00:16.200 --> 00:00:22.000
So today I want to talk about five ways to basically make your home really cozy.

3
00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:30.226
I know in the fall and winter I definitely like to really just like cozy things up and it's definitely like my favorite time of

4
00:00:30.226 --> 00:00:39.111
year for home decor and all the things and generally I like my home to feel very cozy because Is I think your home and your the

5
00:00:39.111 --> 00:00:46.680
space you're in all the time really really matter to your mental health if you're surrounded by clutter and stress and just not

6
00:00:46.680 --> 00:00:50.300
somewhere you love to be you're not going to feel good.

7
00:00:50.500 --> 00:00:54.800
So these are my I guess five tips or ideas or whatever.

8
00:00:54.800 --> 00:01:03.192
You want to call them to make your home feel more cozy and just more mentally like restful just more restful and cozy and good

9
00:01:03.192 --> 00:01:04.200
all those things.

10
00:01:05.300 --> 00:01:15.400
So first decluttering I am an avid declutter and it's definitely something I have to work at an eye.

11
00:01:15.500 --> 00:01:25.037
You know, I'm nowhere near is decluttered as I want to be but I think that decluttering has a really really big impact on your

12
00:01:25.037 --> 00:01:25.800
stress levels.

13
00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:34.650
I think a lot of it is that it just really reduces the amount of things that you're seeing and it's less stimulation to your

14
00:01:34.650 --> 00:01:39.600
brain if that Sense, but with decluttering, I know that can definitely be really overwhelming.

15
00:01:39.600 --> 00:01:45.200
I'm personally working through the your uncluttered home course by Ali kasasa.

16
00:01:46.600 --> 00:01:54.394
I actually bought it last year and started on it but never quite finished and I'm really really trying to pick it back up again

17
00:01:54.394 --> 00:01:57.200
and hopefully finish by the end of the year.

18
00:01:57.300 --> 00:02:04.600
We'll see what I can do, but I think it's really important to start small but with the biggest impacts.

19
00:02:04.800 --> 00:02:05.300
Stuff.

20
00:02:05.800 --> 00:02:15.044
So a lot of times I think that looks like picking an area that you spend the most time in or maybe it's just clearing surfaces

21
00:02:15.044 --> 00:02:18.600
something really simple that's going to have a massive impact.

22
00:02:18.900 --> 00:02:25.948
It's like how when you're starting starting to clean your room you start with making your bed because that has the biggest

23
00:02:25.948 --> 00:02:32.677
impact with making your room feel more put together next hang your curtains having curtains up versus just vertical blinds or

24
00:02:32.677 --> 00:02:34.600
regular blinds or whatever you have.

25
00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:37.900
You're at definitely make it super cozy.

26
00:02:38.500 --> 00:02:46.446
It just adds an element of Holiness and feeling less like a rental and less like a college dorm, you know, personally, I'm super

27
00:02:46.446 --> 00:02:53.400
frustrated because I have one window in my happens if it's like impossible to get curtains to hang in this wall.

28
00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:59.100
They the wall is just crap the broad won't stay no matter what I do generally speaking.

29
00:02:59.100 --> 00:03:01.600
I like to have curtains on all of my windows.

30
00:03:01.600 --> 00:03:04.300
I think it really just makes it a lot Cozier and nicer.

31
00:03:05.300 --> 00:03:09.700
Next add cozy lighting like lamps and string lights.

32
00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:17.708
This is something I've struggled with a little bit more because lamps are a little pricey at least the ones I usually like but I

33
00:03:17.708 --> 00:03:24.667
do really think that adding them is really nice and adds a cozy element because you're not having just the overhead really

34
00:03:24.667 --> 00:03:25.300
bright lights.

35
00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:32.665
We finally got a lamp for a bedroom that I'm in love with and it seriously makes me want to spend so much more time in our

36
00:03:32.665 --> 00:03:38.585
bedroom just because it's actually a nice Lighting in It's especially nice because for whatever reason the light in there is no

37
00:03:38.585 --> 00:03:40.200
overhead light is not very bright.

38
00:03:41.100 --> 00:03:47.700
So having whole campus kind of a necessity and really just brightens things up, but also has a really cozy Vibe as well.

39
00:03:48.200 --> 00:03:51.500
Next burn a delicious smelling candle.

40
00:03:51.500 --> 00:03:56.900
I don't know about you but having things smell really good in my home make me really happy.

41
00:03:56.900 --> 00:04:01.700
I'm a big fan of the fall and winter candles with Bath and Body Works.

42
00:04:01.700 --> 00:04:10.830
I don't feel like I ever find a summer scent that I really Of but I also usually only shop for the candles on candle day or

43
00:04:10.830 --> 00:04:18.609
whatever and then like the Christmas sales when we like go get gifts for people and of course ended up getting candles for

44
00:04:18.609 --> 00:04:20.300
ourselves to guilty as charged.

45
00:04:20.300 --> 00:04:30.160
But yeah, add some delicious smelling candles and lastly add some blankets and pillows in, you know, strategic places the couch

46
00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:31.100
or chair.

47
00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:37.200
I'm I've got a lot of throw pillows I have probably More than any one person needs.

48
00:04:37.200 --> 00:04:45.783
But yeah, I throw pillows one thing I will say is make sure you really love them because I definitely am in a spot where I have

49
00:04:45.783 --> 00:04:54.049
a lot that I'm not super crazy about because I haven't spent the money to get ones that I truly love but I'm really trying to

50
00:04:54.049 --> 00:04:58.500
curate things more in my home and spend money on making my space something.

51
00:04:58.500 --> 00:05:04.644
I'm really happy with especially as we're spending more and more time at home with quarantine and I it looks like I might be

52
00:05:04.644 --> 00:05:04.900
continued.

53
00:05:05.200 --> 00:05:07.300
Work from home long term which will be cool.

54
00:05:07.300 --> 00:05:09.000
We'll see how that plays out.

55
00:05:09.300 --> 00:05:13.200
But with that being the case, I definitely want my home to be somewhere.

56
00:05:13.200 --> 00:05:13.900
I really love.

57
00:05:13.900 --> 00:05:17.700
So anyways, those are my five ideas.

58
00:05:17.700 --> 00:05:19.900
I hope you enjoyed this episode.

59
00:05:19.900 --> 00:05:27.694
I hope making some of these changes helps your home feel a little more homey, and maybe helps you feel a little better a little

60
00:05:27.694 --> 00:05:30.500
brighter a little less anxious all that good stuff.

61
00:05:30.500 --> 00:05:36.800
Definitely follow subscribe all those things and I will I'll talk to you again soon.