Try These Indoor Home Improvement Projects For Winter
It’s common for people to suffer from depression and boredom during the winter months. The days are shorter, it’s too cold for outdoor activities, and people often get sick.
This doesn’t mean that all efforts to improve your home need to come to a halt during the winter. Completing these three indoor home improvement projects for winter will help with your cabin fever and give your home a fresh look.
1. Redesign Your Bathroom
You spend time in your bathroom every day, so renovating your bathroom will have a big impact. The scope of your bathroom project depends on how much time and money you have to spend towards this home improvement project.
You can start small by purchasing new bathroom decor to give your bathroom a uniform and complementary look. Bath towels, floor mats, shower curtains, hooks, and towel bars can all be updated. For a more involved bathroom renovation, install new cabinets, add a backsplash to the bathroom sink, and re-tile the shower. To save water, consider switching out faucets and showerheads for low-flow models.
2. Give Your Walls A Splash Of Color
Spend some of your time painting your walls while you’re stuck indoors. Adding bright, cheerful colors to the interior of your home will get you in the mindset for the warmer weather to come. Set aside one day every weekend to paint one room in your home. This will give you something to look forward to during the week. It will also keep you productive on weekends when can’t leave the house during inclement weather.
Yellow, light blue, light green, and orange are all great colors for making your home feel brighter. Repainting the interior walls of your home is one of many easy and inexpensive indoor home improvement projects for winter.
3. Organize Closets
Closets are a space to store clothes, coats, shoes, seasonal gear, and other items that you need out of the way. After months of tossing things into your household closets, they likely need a cleaning and organizing spree.
This is one of those indoor home improvement projects for winter that you can do while staying warm. You might even find warm clothes that you can donate to a local homeless shelter or charity to help people in need. Getting rid of things you don’t wear will free up valuable space in your closets.
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