Very often we have a dominant sense which really impacts on how we create our home. For many people this is their visual sense and so how their home looks becomes their main concern.
In letting our preferred sense dominate we can often miss out on the pleasures of a multi-sensory home.
It’s important to think of visitors and other family members who may be impacted much more by fragrance or touch than perhaps you are.
Creating a multi-sensory home will help you feel more in touch with your home even if you weren’t previously aware that your other senses needed satisfying. Pleasing all five of your senses really will create a home that delights (all of) you.
Here are some ideas to show to create your multi-sensory home:
Sound
I love to walk into a quiet home that feels still and serene. I think it is so important to have periods of time when you are home alone so you can experience this.
Equally I like to hear my daughter strumming her guitar. Having real live music in the home is just lovely. It’s well worth encouraging this amongst your family and perhaps picking up an instrument yourself. Playing music can be so stimulating and soothing. It’s a wonderfully mindful way to relax and create.
I enjoy hearing the birds in the garden too and I think this is a wonderful thing to encourage. Food and water left out for them will draw them near so leave your windows open in the mornings and turn off other sounds. Birdsong is the best.
Creating a playlist of songs to relax too, songs to energise you and songs to make you dance in the kitchen is a great idea as the right song can change the mood in a home instantly.
Taste
I am not suggesting you make lickable walls or put jars of strawberry bon bons by the front door. However taste is one of our senses and it is one that brings deep satisfaction. It is well chronicled that the smell of freshly brewed coffee and bread warming in the oven can help sell a home. It can also help the home feel lived in and loved and make our taste buds tingle. If you aren’t much of a cook then you can tantalise taste buds through other ways perhaps a vanilla scented candles or a cinnamon based pot pourri.
Smell
I love to enter a home that smells fresh clean and airy and my favourite home scent is probably clean linen. That’s smell of air dried clothes is the one that just makes me happy. It makes me a feel a home is both clean and cared for and it brings the outside in. Having a home that has an over powering fragrance can feel offensive and cloying but a light fresh fragrance will really work to create a happy home. Well worth experimenting to see what suits you best and even changing with the seasons. I used pine air fresheners in winter and berries in autumn for example. There are so many options for creating lovely fragrances in the home form red diffuses pot pourri, candles and sprays. Natural flowers with beautiful fragrances such as roses, lilies and especially freesia are such a delight particularly first thing in the morning when they have scented a room overnight. Divine.
Touch
Touch is such an important sense and in contemporary homes with sleek lines and lack of carpets it can be one that is easily forgotten. So so easy to put right though. You can increase the sensory touch elements in your home with faux fur rugs, cosy chenille throws, satin bedspreads, knitted cushions, earthenware jugs and enamel mugs. Just by being aware of the tactile experience of your home you will create it.
Sight
How our homes look and how we like them to look is a visual as we are. But there are somethings visually that really do please most people and our eyes appreciate:
Lack of clutter helps a home looks spacious, clean and cared for and enables us to relax and appreciate the beauty of a home rather being distracted by mess.
We all like to see a clean home. We all like to live in one. This is so important to how hour home is viewed no matter how beautiful or expensive our furniture. cleanliness and order make such a difference.
And lastly cohesion is important. I like white and bright with splashes of colour. Others I know love a home filled with pastels, others adore geometric patterns. Whilst contrast and varieties can be exciting some cohesion of style and theme really can pull a home together. So knowing your style is a useful visual aid.
Light in a home is also really important, so think sparkly clean windows and uncluttered sills. Lots of lighting options in the home can really help create moods to suit too.
Jarred senses make us feel uncomfortable and neglected senses can make us feel things are not quite complete.
A multi-sensory home is not hard to achieve, a little adjustment and thought here or there and all your senses will be happily stimulated and your home will help you feel refreshed and energised.
I wish you happy homemaking.
Becky Goddard Hill writes the interiors blogs and Thrifty-Home
Original article and pictures take www.wayfair.co.uk site
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