A Beautiful Home Supports A Happy Life

People like to say “home is where the heart is,” and for most of us, it’s true. Regardless of where you live, home is the place where you feel joyful and at peace. If living in your house doesn’t bring you joy, it’s time for a change.

Instead of moving, why not redesign or remodel the home you live in and aim to create a sense of joy right there? The best way to create a joyful environment in your home is to surround yourself with beauty.

Creating a beautiful home environment will give you a reason to feel happy when you get up in the morning. When you have a beautiful home, you’ll be more likely to invite your friends over for dinner or a movie instead of making excuses for being busy.

Here’s why a beautiful home supports a happy life:

1. Beauty and happiness are connected

Research studies have found that happiness is more easily attained by simply living in an aesthetically pleasing city. Whatever surrounds a person has the greatest effect on his or her happiness — more than wealth, power, or status.

For example, being surrounded by beautiful architecture, green spaces, and cobblestone streets will typically have the strong and cumulative effect of joy. Beauty is the reason Michelangelo was asked to paint the ceiling and front wall of the Sistine Chapel.

Beauty conjures feelings of happiness, calmness, and hope. Whatever surrounds you in your home will have a direct impact on your mood over time, for better or worse. Why not spruce up your residential interior to make it more beautiful, according to your standards?

2. Curb appeal will make you smile

Curb appeal isn’t just a plot to impress real estate investors. You must drive up to your home every day, and what you see there has the power to influence your moods.

You might have the most beautiful hand-carved furniture in the world, but if the facade of your home is deteriorating, you’ll feel a little disheartened when you pull into the driveway. Nobody wants to see peeling paint, waist-high weeds, and oil stains in the driveway, so why should you?

If your home’s exterior needs a little love, use this checklist to improve as much as you can. You should feel a sense of peace and relief when you pull into your driveway, not dread.

3. Your home becomes part of your identity

For many people, their home becomes part of their identity. The exterior of their home serves as a public mask that presents to the world the image the inhabitants wish to display.

Perhaps that image includes a freshly cut lawn, perfect flowers, and professional landscaping. Beauty and self-esteem are often reflected in the backyard as well, with flower gardens or vegetable gardens, and neatly trimmed grass.

Once you start projecting a fetching and confident image to the world via your home, it becomes easier to embody that image inside. Who wouldn’t feel happier coming home to a beautiful flower garden, neatly trimmed hedges, and rose bushes?

4. Other people will hold you in high regard

Although it’s not always necessary to bother about what others think, people will respond better to you when you take pride in maintaining your home. Making your domicile beautiful will give you a well-earned sense of purpose and pride.

If you fill your interior with décor and furniture that make you smile, that is always worth the investment. You’ll be living in your home for many years, so why not make it comfortable and aesthetically pleasing?

Your guests will notice the time and care you’ve put into creating a beautiful home, and they’ll regard you as someone who cares about his or her surroundings. It might even make people see you as a more trustworthy person.

Research shows individuals tend to draw a strong connection between cleanliness and morality, even though it’s unconscious and fairly irrational.

5. Your friends will notice you’ve become happier

Nobody likes to be around someone who stays in a perpetual bad mood, but it’s admittedly hard to avoid complaining when your house needs obvious work. If you’ve been grumbling to your friends about your home, they’ll be thrilled if you finally fix up space the way you want it.

When you replace broken appliances, repaint the walls, and upgrade your office furniture, your friends and neighbors will sense the difference in your moods. You may get invited out more often.

Invest in your happiness

Treat the prospect of beautifying your home as an investment in your future happiness. Like any investment, it will cost money, but creating a beautiful environment in your home will be worth every penny.

This article does not necessarily reflect the opinions of the editors or management of EconoTimes.