How to create a feeling of comfort in your home
Follow 3 easy steps to get you started.
Your home should always be the ultimate comfort zone. A place that helps you feel revitalised and relaxed, because a welcoming home can do wonders for your wellbeing. Whilst ‘comfort’ is by no means a new ‘trend’, over recent years it has become a more holistic and multifaceted experience. Dulux colour featured: Tuakau
A sense of comfort can be beautifully captured by the right blend of colours, styling, balance and design. From incorporating soft or spirited tones to adopting textural and natural interior elements, it can all play a big part in curating a calm and comfy haven.
Here are three ways to create a refreshing sense of comfort at home.
1. Choose the right wall colour
The colour of your walls will set the mood of your home. A rich tone like Motueka or soft lilac such as Tuakau can add luminous, fresh and light qualities that create a pop of energy and optimism.
Warm whites and neutrals like Kauri Cliffs and Kūaotunu can add a tangible sense of warmth, giving shared spaces a welcoming feel. Similarly a soft yellow tan such as Pataua Beach can create a beautiful and comforting space.
Natural hues like the refined warm grey Stony River Half bring the enrichment of the outside in. The leafy, warm green of Queenstown Hill adds an earthy backdrop to the décor helping to ground you.
2. Introduce soft furnishings and styling elements
Combine gentle, earthy neutrals such as Dulux Tapawera and warm whites like Cardrona to create a cosy, cocooning feel. Warm tones derived from nature feel calm and comforting, the perfect backdrop to soft and rounded furniture pieces and accessories.
Finally layer natural materials and tonal, textural fabrics such as rich weaves and bouclé’s to create a nurturing softness throughout the décor.
3. Create considered nooks and spaces
By cleverly making use of small spaces in your home to fashion cosy reading nooks and restful zones, you can create a sensation of cocooning comfort.
Envelop your nook in a calming tone like Dulux Trentham paired with the warming red-pink of Kelburn, for a cosy backdrop to plush furnishings that invite restful moments of pause and contemplation.
In essence, colour is the key to creating comfort in your home. When you paint the perfect backdrop, considered styling can help you curate a space that can inspire, revive and relax and when you paint your walls with Dulux Wash&Wear®, you can rest easy in the knowledge that your high-quality finish will look freshly painted for years to come.
Want to make sure you get a genuine, 100%, long-lasting Dulux colour match? We recommend mixing your chosen Dulux colour into one of our paint products such as Wash&Wear® interior paint.
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