The summer holidays are a great time to take a break from school and work to go away, relax, immerse yourself in a hobby or passion, and catch up with friends and family on your luxurious deck with Allen Roth flooring.
However, if you’re a homeowner, it may also be the only time you get to put some solid time into finishing DIY projects around the house. This, however, doesn’t have to be seen as a laborious way to spend your summer break.
Taking care of your property and making sure it looks and feels the way you like is a form of self-care, and the summer break allows you the time and space to create the home and life you desire.
Read on for four DIY projects you may want to consider undertaking during your next summer holidays.
Indoor plants
Have you seen some of the fantastic indoor plant setups getting around on social media platforms like Instagram and Pinterest? This is a trend worth adopting, and there are some excellent reasons why.
Adding and propagating some indoor greenery has been linked to a range of physical and mental health benefits, including:
- Improved mood and mental health
- Improved indoor humidity
- Cleaner air
- Stress relief
- Better sleep and more
Adding edible indoor greenery to your kitchen, like herbs and spices, can help you get those essential macronutrients into your diet.
However, your region and local climate and how much time you have to care for indoor plants can affect plant choices. A quick chat with a horticulturist at your local nursery may be the best idea; however, check your social media; there will likely be a discussion group for green thumbs in your local area.
House painting
There is a lot of debate about when the best time to paint your house is; however, it is unanimous that the dead of winter and the rainier months is a bad idea. Although summer in the tropics is generally a wet season, the summer months are the best time for the rest of us to paint in temperate regions.
If you live in a multi-storey house with fall dangers or painting the outside of your property just isn’t for you, the summer holidays could still be the best time to hire a professional house painter.
Summer isn’t just the best time for outdoor painting; this could also be the right opportunity to paint inside your house.
In the summer, the humidity is low, and you have the best weather to open up and air out of your house, helping the paint dry more efficiently and allowing you to air out the fresh paint smell without freezing.
Garden tidy
Vitamin D deficiency is a problem worldwide, and one of the main reasons for this is we don’t get outdoors as much as we used to, as we spend more time than ever at school desks, workstations, on computers and watching our favourite shows on the couch.
The summer break is a great time to get outside, get your hands in the soil and give your garden the big clean-up that is often put off till it gets out of hand.
This may seem like another labour intensive way to spend part of your summer holidays. However, getting into the garden has been linked to many positive attributes for the mind and body, including:
- Exercise
- Fresh air
- Improved mobility
- Muscular strength
- Promotion of endorphins and serotonin
- Improved vitamin D absorption from the sun
- Reduced stress and much more
This could even be a great time to clear some dead foliage and install a food farm, providing you and your family with fresh fruit and vegetables grown in your very own yard; delicious and satisfying.
Fix up the indoor fireplace
A fireplace is a beautiful thing to have in your home, providing natural, affordable heat, a soothing crackle, and mesmerizing dancing flames, perfect for helping you relax before bed on a cold winter night.
A fireplace, however, is often under-maintained, and it is easy to put off cleaning your chimney or flue until it blocks up. Unfortunately, buildup in your flue is not only frustrating; the old soot and carbon can also present a significant fire hazard.
As usual, though, summer comes along, and the fireplace becomes but a memory till the following season, when it is just as easy to ignore your dirty chimney and light the fire again, making it unlikely to get cleaned for another season.
The summer holidays are the best time to get dirty and service your fireplace, and you will feel all the better for it when it’s time to spark the first winter fire after your big summer cleanout.
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