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Getting Outside While Staying In

January 25, 2017

Do the cold winter months make you want to stay indoors? If so, the irony is that often staying indoors for long, makes you want to get outside.

Here are some ways to feel like you are getting outside while staying in the comfort of indoors this winter.

Add more light with individual lamps, uplights, and unusual ways to light a space.

Disclaimer: We’re not sponsoring products but giving examples below. CB2 modern lighting, for example, has some surprisingly modern and moderately priced lamps.

CB2 Trio Floor Lamp_casartblog

Although this next example from the Contemporist uses hardwired, recessed lights for a dramatic wall effect, you could get a similar effect with a tray filled with rocks and battery-operated, closet lights inserted.

Contemporist interior lighting on casartblog
via Contemporist: 7 Interiors That Use Dramatic Uplighting To Brighten A Space

You an also add individual wall-mounted and canister floor uplighters.

Wall uplighter_casartblog
Wall uplighter via B & Q
Modern canister uplights_casartblog
Modern canister floor uplights via LightingStyles

Some unusual ways to light a space would include under cabinet lighting, a hanging light bulb chandelier or simple branches with twinkle lights entwined and displayed in a galvanized steel pail.

Under cabinet lighting_casartblog
Under cabinet lighting
Hanging lightbulb lights_casartblog
Unusual hanging light bulb chandelier
Twinkle branch lighting displayed in a pail_casartblog
Twinkle branch lighting displayed in a pail

Brighten up your space with color. There are of course so many examples we can use for this but we’ll just limit to our Chinoiserie self-adhesive wallpaper, using outdoor themed artwork with gallery wrap frames, and pillows always add quick pops of color, especially those that are slipcovers and can easily go over most any size pillows.

Casart coverings Chinoiserie Mural Panels Asia blue colorway temporary wallpaper room view
Casart Chinoiserie Mural Panels 4,3,5. White / Asia Blue colorway

 

Casart Coverings Gallery Wrap Canvas prints_casartblog
Casart Coverings Gallery Wrap Canvas prints as artwork

 

Casart Decor Decorative Pillow Slipcovers_casartblog
Casart Decor Decorative Pillow Slipcovers

Use an outdoor theme wallpaper to set the mood.

Casart coverings on George to the Rescue, seen on Slipcovers for your walls
George to the Rescue – with Bold Birds & Birch Casart / Designs & Murals

Enhance your mood with aromatherapy and candles.

Here are some essential oil examples as well as how to extract your own rosemary or create energy with DIY coffee candles.

Diffuser essential oil combinations_casartblog
Diffuser essential oil combinations from Mommy Moment

 

DIY Coffee candles_casartblog

Adding another benefit from rosemary along with other herbs, if you grow them inside during the winter, you can also use them for cooking and bring them outdoors in the spring.

Rosemary extraction casartblog
via eHow

 And this brings us to our final suggestion for getting the sensation of being outside while staying indoors, add a houseplant.

Plants add greenery, liven up any space and can even improve air quality.

Try these links to learn about 7 Houseplants that are nearly kill-proof and view ones below  that don’t require a lot of light. If you have bright light, ferns are always lovely.

zero light houseplants for bathroom_casartblog

Tree Ferns via pistils nursery_casartblog
Tree Ferns via pistils nursery

All these small little things will help to improve not only your mood but your interior décor so that even when you do get outside, coming home is more enjoyable.

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