The summer is here, making it a prime time to change up your interior décor, spend a day painting, and then enjoying a well-earned drink in the sun afterwards. This summer, comfort and cooling are what’s trending.
After all, going outside and into the garden to enjoy the sun is great, but when you want to cool down, relax away from the sun’s rays, and even just unwind with a screen, you’ll want your indoor spaces to be as cool as possible. Naturally, buying a fan or air conditioning unit is one way to go, but so is considering your orientation and décor.
Will Your House Always be Hot in the Summer?
The orientation of your home and where your main living spaces are will impact just how hot you’ll be feeling throughout the day. A lot of people go out to work during the day, coming back in the afternoon to relax. If the room you want to be in during the evening is exposed to the west side, it’ll be getting as hot as it can in the summer afternoons.
On the flip side, taking a rule of thumb from homes in warmer climates in the Northern Hemisphere, a north-facing front of house is the best orientation to minimise heat absorption and direct sunlight exposure when the day is at its warmest. Of course, if you own a home right now, with the summer very much upon us, you can’t just pick up the house and turn it to a cooler orientation.
Now, it’s not uncommon for someone to even want to sell to enable more comfortable afternoons when the sun’s blazing outside, whilst others may actually want to sell in order to get a garden that’s sunny all day long. However, the summer is one of the more competitive times of the year for the housing market, meaning that viewers get more choice and can sometimes drive prices down as a result.
Still, if you are commited to selling in the summer, there is a way to get the funds to hit the property market swiftly and on your own time. Now, non-traditional online selling methods mean you can sell your house for cash and even have money in seven days. The process works by inputting your details, getting a free cash offer with the guarantee of a sale on any property, and then completing the deal at a time that suits you – such as when you’ve got a new place.
Decorating with an Eye for Cooling Down
However, if selling is too far, design features can certainly create that cool feel. One particularly cooling choice for your upcoming décor efforts is actually seen as one of the top interior design trends of the year. Velvets – but more specifically, linens – have come in to meet the demand of having soft-to-touch linens and offer the added benefit of being breezy, effortlessly elegant, and breathable. As for colour, pale neutral, off-white, and white are the natural choices for the cooling effect – which are standard in new builds.
For a bit more colour added to the equation, the botanical aesthetic and getting real plants in is a strong move. For a private sanctuary-style of bedroom, picking botanical wallpaper can evoke calm if paired with something like a cane bed. From there, you could look at dotting some plants, monsteras, and ferns around the house not only for the look, but also because plants are natural coolants, so they help in two ways.
If you’re looking to set up a cooling space to get away from the levels of heat expected this summer from time to time, consider picking a north-facing room and making it nice and natural in colour and decoration.
