With summer quickly approaching, now is the time to consider updating elements of your home office space to prepare for the new season. In this guide, we’ll offer some ways you can enhance the décor in your home office to embody the delightful feeling of summer, as well as tips for how to prepare your workspace for the summer season.
Colours that are airy, light, natural, vibrant, or bright are often associated with summertime. Exchanging gloomy, dark coloured items and décor for ones that brighten and lift the room will revive your work environment and promotes happiness and productivity.
Here are five easy ways you can incorporate summer colours into your home office space.
Plants provide many benefits to an indoor space, such as improving air quality and reducing noise, but plants can also act as a natural décor element to introduce a visually attractive, summer aesthetic.
Introduce indoor plants such as palms, succulents, or ferns to naturally lighten up your office for summer. Flowers are another option for introducing colour and will make a perfect summer décor addition to your space. Flowers in season for summer include hydrangeas, dahlias, and sunflowers.
If you’re someone who finds it difficult to keep up with the maintenance of indoor plants, opt for artificial plants and flowers. This allows you to integrate a variety of colours, styles, vases and pots to create a blissful workspace.
For more information on incorporating greenery to your home office this summer, visit our ‘How to Decorate an Office with Plants’ guide here.
Make use of the summer sunshine by replacing window coverings with light, flowy curtains to brighten up your space, such as linen curtains or non-blackout curtains.
You can still bring summer to your workspace even if you don’t have a window in your home office. Consider exchanging your office’s lightbulbs with ones that produce a natural white colour to give the room artificial summer sunlight. Lightbulbs with a natural white correlated colour temperature (CCT) are around 4000K-5000K (Kelvin) in temperature and are often used in a variety of workplace settings. This natural lightening helps you stay focused, and the blue tones help stimulate the mind.
Adding colour and natural elements to your workspace, such as greenery and sunlight, helps lift your home office’s energy and brings the outside environment to your inside space.
For many people, entering a new season signifies big change. To help revive your home office space from the cold and dark seasons of the past, transform the room by doing some rearranging. In addition, rearranging your home office set-up has many benefits—it can help spark creativity and reduce anxiety. If you decide to rearrange your home office for the new season, don’t forget to consider any potential glare from sunnier days ahead.
Updating your office space for the next season doesn’t always have to mean a complete redesign and redecorate. By making subtle changes, you can improve the décor and ambiance to refresh your home this summer. For more tips on how to update your office on a budget, visit our ‘6 Ways to Update Your Office Space on a Budget’ guide here.