Moving into a new home can feel strange. After all, it’s never been lived in — it just doesn’t quite feel like you belong there.
If you want to put your personal stamp on a new home, you need to find ways to add your personality to the space. Here are four great ways you can add a bit of personalization to your new home.
1. Choose Your Furniture Wisely
One of the best ways to add a touch of your personality to a new home is with furniture.
While you can’t do much about the layout of a new home, choosing furniture that matches your style — as opposed to merely picking what’s on sale — can lend each room a specific type of personality.
Whether you prefer modern or classic, comfortable or chic, the furniture you choose will make an indelible mark on the character of your home.
And don’t just think of indoor furniture; your patio or back porch could use some sprucing up, too!
Want to really personalize your furniture? Read: How to Make Homemade Chalky Paint to Use for Antiquing Furniture
2. Switch Up the Floors
Changing the flooring can also be a great way to show your personal style.
One of the best places to do this is in the bathroom — not only is it a space you’ll use quite often, but it’s small enough that you can make a major change quickly.
Consider each flooring option for your bathroom.
Take some time to check out bathroom tile showrooms to determine which patterns fit your personal tastes. If your budget requires a DIY approach, go ahead and tile that bathroom yourself! It’s easy.
3. Add Some Art
Whether you’re hanging original masterpieces, prints that you found at the dollar store or even pictures that your kids drew, artwork immediately draws the eye and sets apart your home from all others.
Take some time to figure out the works that mean the most to you — whether they’re paintings, sketches, family photos and shadowboxes — so that you can add mixed media to your decor.
Parents: Check out some inexpensive ways to hang kids’ art projects!
4. Accessorize!
Finally, add a few little touches here and there.
A hand-built end table in one room or a tapestry purchased overseas in another can add a lot to your home’s personality.
What’s important about these additions isn’t that they make a statement, but rather that they’re uniquely part of your life, and tell your life story.
Whether they’re hand-made throw pillows you purchased in Panama or a series of souvenir glasses from Sicily, the little touches can make all the difference.
Whether you choose to make big statements or small, everything you do in your new home will make it feel like more of your own.
Take a bit of time to make sure that your home sends the statement that you want it to send, and then make sure you allow yourself to get comfortable.
You’ll be amazed by how quickly your new house will begin to feel like your home!
How do you make your house a home? Let us know in the comments!
Emma Sturgis is a freelance writer.
