9 Best Ways to Bring the Outdoors Indoors
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Using outdoor furniture in your apartment can be a great way to brighten up the space. Outdoor furniture is often associated with relaxation, community, and organic living. Bringing outdoor furniture or decorations into your apartment can create a unique, chill vibe in your home. There are also tons of appliances and gadgets that are made to create an outdoors feel to your indoors apartment.
Here are a few pieces of outdoor furniture/decor/utilities that work just as well indoors.
Just because it’s raining or snowing doesn’t mean you can’t have a cookout. By getting an indoor grill, you can host BBQ’s whenever you want. It’s also a great way to just cook meals for yourself in the comfort of your home.
It’s hard to cook on the grill when you live in an apartment without a backyard; an indoor grill allows you to have the same great outdoor BBQ experience, but inside! An indoor grill is also a great space-saver. Its small size makes it perfect for a college student’s apartment.
Bring the relaxation of hammocks into your apartment! Hammocks are great fun and a comfy place to read or take a snooze. Lucky for city-dwellers, there are tons of indoor hammocks that you can buy and get the same comfy experience as hammocks outdoors. They are also great if you are having people stay over and not much space. Because hammocks hang off the ground, this frees up a lot of space if you are having multiple people stay the night.
Craving the sugary campfire treat but no time or motivation to camp? Bring it into your house! Making s’mores is a fun party activity and super easy to do with an indoor s’mores maker — much easier than stoking a fire. There’s no reason why you shouldn’t be able to indulge in the classic dessert just because you don’t have an outdoor fire pit.
Speaking of fire pits, you actually CAN have one indoors! There are tons of mini “fire pits” that can offer the warmth and coziness of a real fireplace right in your apartment. If you have one of these, you wouldn’t even need an indoor s’mores maker. They provide great ambiance and good warmth to your apartment. Check with your landlord or apartment contract before getting one to make sure it’s safe to have one in your apartment.
Organic colors
Bringing organic colors into your apartment decor can create a great outdoors feel. Greens that remind us of grass and trees, blues that remind us of water and the sky, yellows and oranges that remind us of crisp fall and flowers. You can also utilize tans and beiges to bring a natural feel to your apartment.
Applying these colors to pillows, bedspreads, and wall decorations is a great way to create an outdoorsy ambiance. Bringing in wood furniture also contributes to an outdoorsy theme in your apartment.
Smell
Bring the best smells of nature into your apartment with air fresheners or candles. There are TONS of candles that smell like a fresh rainfall, cut grass, any and every type of flower, and various trees. Our sense of smell is strongly connected to our emotions and memories; by bringing in nature smells, you can create a nostalgic and inviting feeling to your apartment.
Succulents
Succulents are super trendy right now and they are a great and easy way to bring the outdoors inside! Just head down to your local flower/plant shop and get a couple cheap succulents to help liven up your apartment. They are great decoration and fun to take care of. They come in all shapes and sizes and are the perfect low-maintenance plant for college students.
Outdoor-themed Christmas lights
Christmas lights are a great indoor and outdoor decoration. They bring soft light to any environment that can make your apartment or backyard more inviting. If you’re looking to bring the outdoors inside, there are a lot of cute nature-shaped Christmas lights like the ones you can get from the link above.
Create your own mini garden indoors! You can grow herbs right inside a mason jar, and even use them once you’ve grown them! It takes up almost no space and minimal effort, and it’s a great way to save money and lower your carbon footprint. They are also super cute!
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