We always make New Year’s Resolutions for ourselves, but have you ever thought about setting some New Year’s Resolutions for your home?
These can be home improvement projects that you will get done in the New Year, home-life goals, or simple ways to improve the home environment in general.
Here are a few ideas of resolutions for your home that you can make to make 2022 a great year!
4 New Year’s Resolutions For Your Home
Minimize Your Home’s Energy Use
Cutting down on energy use is a great New Year’s goal for your home, your wallet, and the planet, and it’s also easily achievable.
If you are looking for something big in this area, you could install solar panels on your home to help cut down your energy use and energy bill.
And if you are looking for some smaller ways to cut down your energy use, you could replace your incandescent light bulbs with LEDs, properly recycle, turn off lights when you aren’t in the room, and turn off the water when you are brushing your teeth.
You could also trim your energy usage by sealing and insulating your ductwork. This will increase the efficiency of your HVAC system and extend its life.
Make the Kitchen a Healthy and Family-Friendly Hub
The kitchen is the heart of the home, and a great hub for the family to come together after a long day of school and work. It’s also the place in your home that nourishes your family and their health.
So make it your goal this year to make your kitchen as healthy and family-centric as possible!
Clean and organize things in your kitchen. Keep it stocked full of healthy and nutritious ingredients. Keep an eye out for healthy recipes that you and your family can try.
And you can transform your kitchen to not only be a cooking space, but a connection space as well. Make it a space where the family can gather together and catch up or cook a delicious meal together!
This year your kitchen can become more than just a kitchen–it can be the place in your home where the family’s bodies, souls, and relationships are nourished.
Purify Your Home’s Air
One of the most important indicators of the quality of your home’s environment is the indoor air quality. Polluted air in a home could lead to complications like chronic respiratory disease, heart disease, and lung cancer.
Dust, pollen, and mold spores can contaminate the air in the home all year long, but these conditions could be even more severe in the winter as we seal ourselves up in our homes.
These harmful irritants in your home can be eliminated in a number of easy ways: maintaining your HVAC system; changing furnace filters regularly; using low-VOC paints during remodels; utilizing vents in bathrooms and kitchens to get rid of smoke, cooking fumes, and excess humidity; and setting up air purifiers throughout your home to cleanse the air throughout the house.
Use Low-Maintenance, Durable Materials in Your Future Home Projects
Shifting your focus to using materials that are low-maintenance and durable in all of your future projects will benefit you by saving you time and money in the future.
Low-maintenance, durable materials will save you time because you won’t need to maintain them as often or worry about their upkeep constantly.
Options like fiber-cement siding, LED bulbs, ceramic tiles in the home on walls and floors, and artificial flowers on the porch are all great options when it comes to using low-maintenance, durable alternatives that will save you time and money in the long run.
If you are looking for ways to stay on top of your home’s maintenance in the coming year, stay tuned in to our blog to see our monthly Home Maintenance Checklists! You can also check out the checklist for December here and get a jump on the New Year!