Interior Decorating Information

Strip Your Rooms Let Them Breathe

Now that it is summertime, we all want to lighten up and just breathe. Now when your feeling the summer heat after being bundled up all winter, you can lighten the way you feel in your home at the same time. Now that it is summer, you want to lighten your look by removing the dark covers and leaving the wood of your tables bare. Time to take down the dark accessories and bring out the light pastels that you packed away. You will feel like you can breathe easier when you do this.

The best way to lighten the feeling in the bedroom is to take the clothes off the bed and let it get comfortable too. Remove the comforter or heavy bedspread. Put some light airy pastel soft bedding and sheets on the bed instead of the darker colors that have been there all winter. It's time for mellow yellow and peachy peach colors. You can even take off the winter white creamy colors. The summertime is for a bedroom with blinding bright white. The cool crisp feeling of white sheets against the skin in the summer is very refreshing. White goes with everything so bring it in and add your summer colors wherever you want. White looks good when skin is tan, so why not just keep cooler with white in the bedroom. Smell your way to breathing freely by bringing in fresh flowers from your garden. Let the colors pop with your white bedroom. It is a stunning look and you have the added benefit of the bursting fragrance of fresh cut flowers.

Change more than the bedding if you want to. Go all out and repaint the walls for added freshness. Put up new artwork and clean thoroughly to remove all of that winter dust that has collected from the heating system. Open the windows and let the sun shine brightly with the breeze blowing. Go through your closets and lighten everything there too. Wash all of the windows, curtains, dry clean the draperies and just remove the winter from the room. There is a reason we feel so good when rooms are clean and fresh. We always want to feel warm and cozy in the winter, but the summertime brings the need to shed your-self of anything that is confining and let it all go.