Summary

The article "10 Best Ways to Make Your Home Life Happier" offers advice on transforming one's living space to promote a more joyful and fulfilling home environment through organization, personalization, and routine.

Abstract

The author of the article emphasizes the importance of a harmonious home life and suggests ten creative and practical ways to enhance one's living space for greater happiness. These methods range from assigning specific purposes to each room and reducing clutter, to adding life with pets, filling the home with sound, and setting up the space for socializing. The article encourages readers to establish routines, engage in creative endeavors, bring nature indoors, and even hide money around the house for a fun surprise. It also advises on adjusting lighting to suit different moods and activities. The overarching message is that by putting effort into making your home a reflection of your personality and a place of comfort and joy, you can combat stagnation and melancholy, ensuring your home remains a sanctuary.

Opinions

The author believes in the power of compartmentalizing rooms to create a sense of order and purpose in the home.
They advocate for a balance between decluttering and maintaining a comfortably furnished home, suggesting that a completely minimalist approach is not necessary.
Hiding money around the home is presented as a delightful way to surprise oneself and add a bit of excitement to everyday life.
The article posits that pets can significantly increase happiness within the home by providing companionship and adding liveliness to the environment.
Establishing a daily routine is seen as beneficial for mental programming and preparing oneself for the various parts of the day.
The author suggests that filling the home with sound, such as podcasts or music, can compensate for a lack of social interaction and enrich the home atmosphere.
Encouraging creativity by designating a wall for collaborative art is recommended as a way to foster a sense of community and joy in the home.
Introducing plants to the home is not only manageable but also improves air quality and aesthetics, reflecting the author's belief in the importance of bringing nature indoors.
The author emphasizes the importance of preparing the home for socializing, suggesting that a

10 Best Ways to Make Your Home Life Happier

Home is where the heart is, so put your heart into it.

If you’re like me, the safest place in life is your home. It’s where you start the day and where it ends at night. In a hectic and chaotic world filled with anxieties and sharks, it’s a place where you can always return to for a breath of fresh YOU. Adding some personality will only heighten your enjoyment of your home. However, comfort can breed stagnation, and this can apply to your home life as well. Change can be scary, but it can also bring new life to something familiar.

If you’re too focused on your daily life, or too busy, then your place of comfort can eventually lose its charm. If the home is where your heart is, it is just as susceptible to melancholy as we are. Here are a few suggestions to change your home in subtle ways to make it more interesting and charming.

1. Name each room, then stick to them

Each room should be designated a different part of your day. The kitchen is for cooking. The kitchen table is for eating. The living room is for living: reading, gaming, watching movies, and other living parts of your life. If you start brushing your teeth in front of the computer, eating at the kitchen counter, or watching movies in bed late into the night, you will confuse your mind. You’ll notice a change in your brain when you compartmentalize your living space.

2. Reduce the clutter, but don’t be a minimalist

A messy home can be very overwhelming. Arriving home to clothes on the ground, an unmade bed, and things that have a “place” not being in that place, can throw off your entire day. Spend a weekend reducing all the mess, and spend an hour every weekend continuing this tradition. If something doesn’t have a place, make one for it, then keep it there. You don’t need to be a spartan minimalist. There’s nothing wrong with a full room, just make it less chaotic.

3. Hide money everywhere

This is an old trick my grandma taught me, but maybe it will work for you. When you have some extra income, take out some 20 dollar bills. Hide them yourself or have someone else hide them around your home. In books, in clothing, in funny places. I once found a $20 bill that an old friend had hid for me in the lint trap of my dryer. Was it a fire hazard? My heart didn’t think so, and it added a little enjoyment to my hard day.

4. Add some life, get a pet

If you’re in a committed relationship with your home and will be spending a lot of time there, get a pet. When you feel like you’re ready, it might be time to fill your home with more life. Not all of us are ready for marriage and kids, yet, adding an animal to your life is a great first step. Nothing will make you happier at home than having a tiny adorable creature jump for you when you arrive home from work. Or be even more excited to be your isolation buddy.

5. Stick to a routine

Everyone has their own little way of doing things. Before work, I iron my clothes, wash my breakfast dishes, brush my teeth a second time, and listen to a podcast before I head out. Programing your brain is easy to do when you set a routine. You can put yourself into the right mindset for each part of your day. When you return home, follow your nightly routine, it will get your wakeful mind ready to sleep easier.

6. Fill it with sound

The outdoors is filled with noise, birds, wind, and people, so why isn’t your home? If you can’t have people over often (especially now), fill your home with some voices. Throw on a podcast that offers some research-based information to help you stay informed. Share some laughs with a stand-up comedian during dinner. Better yet, make a playlist of awesome songs to get you through the day.

7. Create a wall of creativity

If you’re the creative type or have creative friends, designate a wall for randoms inspired art. I pinned up a large canvas in my last home because we weren’t allowed to paint the walls. When people come over, have them add to it with whatever they want: Jokes, writing, quotes, abstract drawings, or cartoons. When you feel inspired, add to it. There will always be something on your wall that will bring a smile to your face when you walk passed it.

8. Let nature in

Get a plant. Plants are straightforward to take care of once you get into a routine with them. Larger plants oxygenate the room. Smaller ones add an adorableness to your days. My fern Claudio McAwesome has been living with me for over eight years. It even lives with me in Korea now. If you can take care of a plant, you can take care of yourself.

9. Set it up for socializing

If your couch is connected to your bed so you can slither off of it into the sitting position, you have a problem. That problem is that your home is not friendly to outsiders. To invite friends into our hearts, we should prepare to invite them into our homes as well. Set up your couches and chairs to face each other, make your bathroom clean for others with guest towels you will never use. Make your home friendlier, and you may find yourself seeking friends to fill it more often. You know you’ve made it in life when your couches no longer touch the walls.

10. Get rid of the bad mood

The mood of your home can influence your feelings towards it. If it’s filled with bright fluorescent lights that make it resemble a prison cafeteria, the first step is to unscrew those bulbs. Calming yellow lights combined with dimming switches can change your whole world. Each event in your home will now have a mood. Watch movies on low light. Read on medium light. Activities on high light. Yellow lighting for evenings. Bright fluorescent central light for work time. Darkness for vampires like me who enjoy doing everything in the dark, even showering!

These may not all apply to you, but I hope they will inspire you to think outside the box to make your home life happier!

Stay healthy in this strange and scary time!

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