How To Beat The Post-Travel Blues Through Re-Designing Your Home
It’s a wonderful feeling to get out there into the world, to explore places you’ve never seen before, and to feel impressed by the wonder of everything around us. Travel never gets old, because this world is big and complex enough for an entire lifetime to not be enough to see it all. Even if you do, places change, meaning many areas of the world are eternally fresh and new.
It’s when we get home that things can feel rather flat and dull, even if they aren’t. If you’re a traveler at heart, staying too long in one place can feel a little pressing, though we all have to do this sooner or later, if only to earn money to fund our next experience.
Luckily, there are some ways to beat this outcome by redesigning your home to beat such post-travel blues. Let’s discuss that below:
Souvenirs & Decorations
The little treasures you picked up during your travels can be a nice reminder of your true love and passion, so making decorative spaces for your collection of memories can be a great idea. To use some hypotheticals, a wooden mask from Bali looks better on the wall than stuffed in a cupboard, and stones you picked up from various beaches can sit nicely on windowsills or bookshelves. Photos are obvious, but they work, especially if you print them out rather than just keeping them on your phone, where nobody ever sees them. Even ticket stubs and maps can look quite good if you frame them or stick them up somewhere, like on a corkboard. The secret is not going overboard and turning your place into a tourist shop, just dotting things around where they feel natural, and trying to keep the theme of each room together well.
Design Inspirations
Each place you visit likely leaves you with some kind of aesthetic impression, so why not borrow elements that spoke to you? For example, you may have fallen in love with the minimalist approach you saw in Scandinavian homes, or perhaps the layered interiors of South American houses caught your attention. Often, Japanese-inspired spaces might lead you toward cleaner lines and natural materials, should you prefer minimalism, or Mediterranean influences could mean introducing more plants, natural light, and seating around tile. It’s your choice, but if you want to be reminded of your best trips, renewed interiors like this aren’t a bad idea at all.
Colors & Materials
The colors that surrounded you during your favorite trips can work magic in your own space, such as a deep blue you remember from Greek island shutters, terracotta shades of Tuscan buildings, or the certain greens of tropical forests can all work well with paint choices or soft furnishings. Perhaps you’ll appreciate how window coverings for privacy were used in your private renting lodging abroad, and you want to implement that, too. It’s nice to feel inspired by your options.
With this advice, we hope you can more easily beat the post-travel blues by fully redesigning your home.
