Guest Blogger: How to Warm up Your Home with Winter Remodeling Ideas

Guest Blog #237, Entry #737, November 2, 2011

Much like fashion, styles in home design change with the seasons; and remodeling your living room and bedrooms for this chilly time of year can prove to be practical as well as stylish. There are a variety of winter colors and accessories that can help to complement our remodeled rooms after and large-scale work is complete. So with colder days quickly approaching, let’s take a look at some of the options available to us that will benefit our homes in both style and practicality.

Warm up your winter home with a renovation

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Before getting too bogged down with shopping for paints and color coordinated extras for your home, put some thought into the practical side of your DIY mission. As winter approaches you gas and electric bills are inevitably going to rise; the house will need heating more often and electrical lighting will be used earlier in the day as nights approach more quickly.

Conserving Energy

Look at some of the options available to you when looking to keep the heat in, after a few years the savings you make on bills will more than justify paying for these services. Having your loft or attic insulated is a great way of maintaining a warm house, stopping too much heat escaping through the roof will ensure you’re losing significantly less warmth. Consider adding carpet to rooms that you feel need a warming touch; double this up with a draft excluder under the door and you can sleep sound in your cozy new bedroom, knowing that you’ll wake up in the same conditions.

In the main areas of your house, it’s practical to keep rooms segregated. Having too many open archways and large rooms openly connected to one another will spread the heat around the house and take much longer to warm an area. Consider replacing open walkthroughs with doors to stop a draft distributing heat throughout your house, and confine heat to individual rooms.

Warm your interiors with seasonal colors

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Seasonal Colors

A great way to give your house a warm feel is to redecorate with nice, coordinated winter and autumn colors. Adding browns and creams together is sure to give you home a cozier, comfortable feel in the winter season. Add a few warming accessories such as large fragranced candles, throws over sofas and chairs and a new rug to match your chosen color scheme. Be sure not to add too many vibrant colors when trying to redesign a room for winter.

Written by Daniel Travis – Brown on behalf of Branded Bathrooms. Follow him on twitter @DanTravisBrown

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