Set aside a space in your garden to be calm and peaceful, then use this as your area to reconnect with nature and to spend time outdoors. To make it an even nicer environment, surround yourself with natural plant life and flora, decorate with discreet fairy lighting and solar lights to create a warming atmosphere, and find a comfortable place just a few steps from your back door.
Bring the outdoors in If your working life doesn’ t allow you much of an opportunity to spend time in the great outdoors, or your home doesn’ t have any outside space to enjoy, that doesn’ t mean you can’ t still embrace the concept of friluftsliv. Instead, bring the outside to you wherever you are.
In the home, seek out bright, open, airy spaces that allow a lot of light, with views of nature or just the great outdoors, if possible, and use
this space regularly. Find greenery – whether real or artificial – and fill the space with it; draping over furniture, hanging in baskets, or simply dotted on surfaces.
Use natural wood in your indoor spaces to bring friluftsliv to fruition. Twig lighting is ideal to appeal to the trend, particularly if your inside space is usually stark and white. Log slices as coasters or decoration are perfect, bringing in a new contrast in texture and colours. In terms of hues, keep colour schemes very natural, incorporating green, brown, beige, rust and greys.
For office workers, light spaces can be difficult to find, especially if your desk isn’ t situated near a window. All you need to build a space that brings you the joy of nature is small plants that can easily be kept alive in an otherwise stuffy environment, clever
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