Feel Good Home: 25 ways to make the most of your staycation - Take time off to stay home is a wonderful way to save money while getting the R & R for a holiday. At least he may be ... as long as you agree to have fun and do not just spend the time to catch up on household chores. To make the most of your free time, it is important to do what you can close the outside world and get rid of your usual routines. Choose one or more of these ideas to help you get the most out of your staycation.
1 Enjoy the outside
Part of what is so nice to be outdoor holidays be, so get out. We can not have a water view, but we can bring our coffee outside in the morning, take a glass of wine on the terrace at night or just sit with a book in the shade and feel the breeze . To improve the mood, put some candles and vases of flowers on your table. If you want to go further, hanging outdoor curtains - nothing outside space feel special
2 host a movie night on the lawn
Hang a white sheet. , Rent or buy a single projector that connects to your laptop or smartphone, and invite some friends. Bring some chairs or spread blankets on the grass, and distribute delicious snacks. The beauty of being at home is that you can use what you want, be it the classic popcorn and candy or adult beverages and cocktail snacks.
Part of what is so nice to be outdoor holidays be, so get out. We can not have a water view, but we can bring our coffee outside in the morning, take a glass of wine on the terrace at night or just sit with a book in the shade and feel the breeze . To improve the mood, put some candles and vases of flowers on your table. If you want to go further, hanging outdoor curtains - nothing outside space feel special
2 host a movie night on the lawn
Hang a white sheet. , Rent or buy a single projector that connects to your laptop or smartphone, and invite some friends. Bring some chairs or spread blankets on the grass, and distribute delicious snacks. The beauty of being at home is that you can use what you want, be it the classic popcorn and candy or adult beverages and cocktail snacks.
Kate Jackson Design
3 Splurge on a new plush dress
And wear it every morning! Let your new report, frothy dress the start of your holiday.
4 Listening to beach music
CUE some of your favorite summer tunes and make a few playlists to get into the holiday spirit. If you wanted to get some new albums, your staycation is a great excuse to splurge. Music can really boost your mood, so listen more often than usual.
And wear it every morning! Let your new report, frothy dress the start of your holiday.
4 Listening to beach music
CUE some of your favorite summer tunes and make a few playlists to get into the holiday spirit. If you wanted to get some new albums, your staycation is a great excuse to splurge. Music can really boost your mood, so listen more often than usual.
Fifthroom.com
5 Hire a massage therapist to come to you
you do not need to go to a fancy spa to relax - having the spa come to you instead. Find a local massage therapist who does home visits and prepare to relax.
6 Sign up for a one-day class
If you like trying new things on vacation, n 't feel you have to miss because you are House. Discover the adult education department at your university or center of the local community, or search listings in the paper without to locate upcoming workshops that his attractive. Try a cooking class, a painting workshop or pottery, or conference.
7 Take a ride tour, nature walk or boat
Have a nice outdoor space or historic landmark in your area? Be a tourist for a day and sign up for a tour or hire a kind of guide to lead you on a hike. Live by water? Hop on a fishing boat, or take a dinner cruise.
you do not need to go to a fancy spa to relax - having the spa come to you instead. Find a local massage therapist who does home visits and prepare to relax.
6 Sign up for a one-day class
If you like trying new things on vacation, n 't feel you have to miss because you are House. Discover the adult education department at your university or center of the local community, or search listings in the paper without to locate upcoming workshops that his attractive. Try a cooking class, a painting workshop or pottery, or conference.
7 Take a ride tour, nature walk or boat
Have a nice outdoor space or historic landmark in your area? Be a tourist for a day and sign up for a tour or hire a kind of guide to lead you on a hike. Live by water? Hop on a fishing boat, or take a dinner cruise.
HABITAT Landscape Architecture
8 Take your practice of yoga outdoors
Change your routine by deploying your carpet in the sun. Boasting fresh air and a light breeze is a wonderful way to start the day.
9 Hire a yoga instructor or personal trainer to come home
Splurge to have a personal coach or yoga instructor come to your home and you (or you and a small group of friends) give a customized workout.
Change your routine by deploying your carpet in the sun. Boasting fresh air and a light breeze is a wonderful way to start the day.
9 Hire a yoga instructor or personal trainer to come home
Splurge to have a personal coach or yoga instructor come to your home and you (or you and a small group of friends) give a customized workout.
Beckwith Interiors
10 Go to a big fancy water lot
cucumber slices, lemon or lime and fresh mint sprigs look beautiful in a glass container and make it more attractive drinking water. Start each day of your staycation with a new fancy water lot.
cucumber slices, lemon or lime and fresh mint sprigs look beautiful in a glass container and make it more attractive drinking water. Start each day of your staycation with a new fancy water lot.
Margot Hartford Photography
Treat the family 11 new sunglasses
the largest and most glamorous, the better.
12 Rent a cool car
Would you like a change of pace? Leave the car boring suburb in the garage and rent a sports car (or even a Vespa) for the week.
the largest and most glamorous, the better.
12 Rent a cool car
Would you like a change of pace? Leave the car boring suburb in the garage and rent a sports car (or even a Vespa) for the week.
Tracey Rapisardi Design
13 Sweep away all the junk days
Who wants to watch a lot of bills and work things on vacation? Not you! Stack everything in a box and hide until your staycation is over.
14 Do not read your message
Take your message in a box for the week without looking. If you really been out of the city, the world's renewable keep if you check your mail for a week.
Who wants to watch a lot of bills and work things on vacation? Not you! Stack everything in a box and hide until your staycation is over.
14 Do not read your message
Take your message in a box for the week without looking. If you really been out of the city, the world's renewable keep if you check your mail for a week.
Matthew Bolt Graphic Design
15 Hire a cleaning service
Give yourself the gift to go home for a fresh and clean home without lifting a finger. Consider having a cleaner come early in your staycation (so you can enjoy the week in a clean house) and end (to avoid having to face the cleaning before returning to work).
Give yourself the gift to go home for a fresh and clean home without lifting a finger. Consider having a cleaner come early in your staycation (so you can enjoy the week in a clean house) and end (to avoid having to face the cleaning before returning to work).
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16 Set the table with sea is
some new cute candles or a striped runner, with lots of pretty shells and rocks collected on the beach are all what you need to make your dining room table to look like summer.
some new cute candles or a striped runner, with lots of pretty shells and rocks collected on the beach are all what you need to make your dining room table to look like summer.
Scott Sanders LLC
17 Set a summer bar
Set some of your favorite beverages (alcoholic and non) on a beautiful plateau, with an ice bucket, glasses and a bowl of lemons or limes.
Set some of your favorite beverages (alcoholic and non) on a beautiful plateau, with an ice bucket, glasses and a bowl of lemons or limes.
Waterscapes
18 cook and eat outside
it is more fun, and it may require less cleaning. Win-win!
19 Try cooking without recipes summer
Think shrimp cocktail, ceviche, gazpacho and salads ..
it is more fun, and it may require less cleaning. Win-win!
19 Try cooking without recipes summer
Think shrimp cocktail, ceviche, gazpacho and salads ..
Daniella Villamil Interiors
20 Bring home fresh flowers
Pick up a armful of the most succulent flowers you can find in the market the farmer and pop in a vase. Repeat as often as you like.
Read how to display flowers like a pro
Pick up a armful of the most succulent flowers you can find in the market the farmer and pop in a vase. Repeat as often as you like.
Read how to display flowers like a pro
Scott Sanders LLC
21 Give your living room a summer makeover
Drape a beach blanket or a summer jet on the couch, or change your cushion covers. Tape postcards or pictures summer wall with colored tape kraft paper. Remove carpets and heavy curtains, and establishing flowers and shells.
More ideas for beautifying your home
Drape a beach blanket or a summer jet on the couch, or change your cushion covers. Tape postcards or pictures summer wall with colored tape kraft paper. Remove carpets and heavy curtains, and establishing flowers and shells.
More ideas for beautifying your home
Matthew Bolt Graphic design
22 squeeze fresh juices and make a homemade breakfast each morning
The breakfast is easier to take dinner together, and it can be fun if you rarely have time to sit, let alone make a full breakfast during the week.
23 Or go out for breakfast every morning
Skip the kitchen and the dishes and just the right head on the door first thing in the morning instead. Go somewhere you have not tried before to spice things up.
The breakfast is easier to take dinner together, and it can be fun if you rarely have time to sit, let alone make a full breakfast during the week.
23 Or go out for breakfast every morning
Skip the kitchen and the dishes and just the right head on the door first thing in the morning instead. Go somewhere you have not tried before to spice things up.
Katherine Nidermaier Designs
24 Make a DIY your favorite beach resort
Bring bamboo poles (garden center) and white sheets and build your own shelter tropical beach. Bring a small shovel to dig holes for poles, a bucket to add moist sand, and great clips of assorted hold it all together.
25 Take pictures
Cameras go everywhere with you on vacation. Just because you're at home, do not let that stop you. Take photos every day - the taking of photos helps us slow down and see things that we would normally miss
Do you have a staycation this summer.? Tell us what you plan to do in the comments below.
Bring bamboo poles (garden center) and white sheets and build your own shelter tropical beach. Bring a small shovel to dig holes for poles, a bucket to add moist sand, and great clips of assorted hold it all together.
25 Take pictures
Cameras go everywhere with you on vacation. Just because you're at home, do not let that stop you. Take photos every day - the taking of photos helps us slow down and see things that we would normally miss
Do you have a staycation this summer.? Tell us what you plan to do in the comments below.