Whether a modest apartment in the city center or a sprawling manor in the countryside, your home is your private sanctuary, a place to relax and rejuvenate.

You have come to the right place if you search for ways and means of increasing how warm and cosy your home’s ambience and atmosphere feels to both yourself and your friends and family.

Here is everything you need to do to make your home more comfortable.

Update the Core Colour Scheme

A cost-effective and utterly transformative method of making any room within your home feel substantially cozier is to update the core color scheme you have previously chosen.

The key here is to ensure that the color and tones you pick work throughout the year and do not make your home appear dark and dreary in the summer, due to an abundance of darker shades.

Using neutral colors on the walls and ceiling, such as light greys, beige, sand, stone, and creams, will ensure the volume of natural light is maximized, and then injecting splashes of deep purples, rich reds, autumnal oranges, and bronze accents will provide that extra level of warmth.

Regular Central Heating Maintenance

In the summer months, you likely pay little to no attention to the boiler and radiators and often prop the windows open to encourage airflow throughout the day.

When winter arrives, however, many people make the mistake of assuming their boiler and central heating system will still operate at maximum efficiency despite being left unchecked.

This is why regular boiler maintenance is an absolute must, not only to ensure your home is warm and comfortable when the weather outside is bitter and cold, but also that you are not spending more money than you need to on your monthly energy bills.

Additionally, it would also be useful to familiarise yourself with the more common boiler pressure issues, to ensure your central heating system is operating at optimum efficiency.

A Portable Fireplace

Both your bedroom and the living room are the two areas of the home that are designed to be relaxing oases of calm. As such, not only should you be concentrating on layering different textures and patterns of throws and blankets in both rooms, but you could also consider another investment.

These days, a huge array of affordable and aesthetically attractive portable electric fireplaces appear to be burning coal to produce the flames, when they are actually performing as a basic electric heater.

Lighting

Last but certainly not least, both the style of a lightbulb and the lighting fixtures themselves can make a huge difference to the overall ambiance of a room.

The simplest way to do this is to move away from automatically switching on the main ceiling light when you enter a room and instead to position a small variety of beautifully styled and ornate table and floor lamps around the room instead.

This way, you will create focus areas and allow deep white light to envelop your senses, making you feel calmer, more relaxed, and warmer.