How To Make Your Home FEEL Like A Destination

Here are six tips to make your home feel more like a vacation destination.  

1.  Clear the clutter.  The main part of your home should be clutter free.  Nothing on the kitchen and dining tables.  Kitchen counter may have up to 5 items on the counter.  Use baskets for clearing clutter and storing items in on the kitchen counter. Everything else goes in the cabinets.  Bedroom free of clutter.  Bathroom should have baskets for items stored in the cabinets.  Candles and flowers on the counter.  Toothbrushes on the counter are gross. 

2. Add cozy nooks throughout.  Little tables and baskets for blankets, candles, lamps and small photos.  Small chairs in corners.   Pillows with an accent color.

3. Add a hanging hammock outside.  Nothing says R- and - R like a backyard hammock.  Other ideas for outdoors are firepit, outdoor cooking station and upgrade your patio furniture if needed. 

4. Upgrade your bedroom with light colors.   Add lighting to the ceiling as well as fans.  Add small lamps and battery-operated candles.  White bed covers add to the lightness as well.

5. Add a fountain inside or outside.  The sound is inviting, relaxing and offers a nice white noise.  

6. Give your home some color with flowers.  They can be real and faux.  Purples, orange, yellows and red give any room some defining color.