4 Strategies to Customize and Personalize Your New St. Charles Home

One of the best things about buying a new home is being able to personalize it to suit your tastes, your family and your lifestyle.  Here’s I nice article that I’ve summarized below by Tara-Nicholle Nelson

Here are four smart strategies for customizing your new home (even if new just means new to you!):

1.  Paint inside and out.  Painting your home is one of the most cost-effective ways to personalize your new space.  Color matters – it impacts mood and happiness.

There are several ways you can use paint to personalize your property:

Exterior.  Changing the exterior paint color can make a big deal to you and your family, as well as for curb appeal.

Front door, shutters and fences.  If the exterior has recently been painted, then you can still inject your personal tocuh by painting the doors, shutters and fences.  Pick colors that make for a ploished entrance.  These are quick, low cost and powerful changes you can make to personalize your home.

Interior.  Rooms have different purposes and inhabitants, so there are a lot of possilities for personalization as well as to help suit the room.  You can be fun and playful, calming, clean, inspirational – the choice is yours!  Even just focusing on one wall of a room can make a big change as well as to same time and money.

2.  Inventory your space and your stuff before you unpack. Moving in to a new home provides the opportunity to create your space for the activities you will do in your new home.  Before you unpack, think through how you plan to use each room of the house.  You get to choose how you’ll use each room. Decide what you want to (a) do, and (b) store in each area.

3.  Build organization in.  Built-ins make a world of difference, and I’m not just talking about the ones your home’s builder installed.  It’s relatively low-cost and low-effort to build in items like:

a.    closet organizers,

b.    window seats,

c.    desktops and bookshelves,

d.    pantry-optimizing shelves, spinners and drawers, and

e.    medicine and linen cabinets.

4.  Match your furniture to your space, your activities and your stuff.  A new home gives you the opportunity to buy furniture that fits the use of the room as well as to address issues you had with things like storage or size in your last place.  Use the inventory / plan you develop before you move in to think about furniture needs to make your house yours.

What tips and tricks did you do to make your home “yours?”