The cold and dark winter months send people scurrying indoors. It doesn’t have to be a depressing or sad atmosphere if you lean into the snugness of winter!
Here are a few tips you can use to make your home cozier this winter.
1. Clean and Pest-Free
Nothing can undo the sense of basic cleanliness faster or more wholly than finding a pest inside the home. A stately mansion with a pest infestation is gross, something a clean and pest-free modest home is infinitely preferable to.
Hiring experts like GreenLeaf Pest Control in Toronto not only eliminates an existing pest infestation; they also prevent one from occurring with their Home Protection Plan. Industry leaders use their own custom chemical solutions that aren’t available in stores, so their sprays will uproot a pest infestation at the source. The ingredients from these sprays should all be approved by Health Canada, so you know they’re safe for the environment and pets.
Hire them to do a preventative treatment and inspect the premises to ensure there are currently no pests on your property and never will be. For total peace of mind to know your home is clean and critter-free and will stay that way in the future, hire a leading pest control expert.
2. Snug Blankets
Filling your home with cozy blankets will make your home literally and figuratively warmer. The very sight of them conveys a sense of warmth that tells your senses to relax. Of course, they will also keep the chill away.
Early in the classic US novel Moby Dick, our narrator Ahab reflects that, sometimes, real warmth requires the threat of cold kept at bay: “For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blankets between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air. Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal.”
Just so! Blankets being the key to real snugness amid cold was as true in 1851, when the novel was first published, as it is today.
3. Candles
Lighting can make a cold place feel warmer. There’s something about seeing the fire that makes us feel warmer, and it’s not just the flame’s modest heat.
Cold, clinical, white lights don’t convey the same sense of the warmth of a flame’s orange glow. There’s a reason that restaurants or businesses that value atmosphere don’t use the same lighting scheme as, say, a hospital. Candles can also smell wonderful and seasonal.
The way a candle flickers in the dark is poetic to behold. You won’t light a candle and flood your home in daylight, which allows everyone to see everything perfectly. However, the light you cast sends a romantic charm wherever it reaches.
Practically speaking, if one candle doesn’t create enough light, you can always use more.
In winter, it’s important to keep the spirits high and the cold at bay. When your home is clean and hygienic and filled with things that make you feel warm, you’ll enjoy the coziness of the season instead of a chill in your bones.
