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The kinds of changes that you make to where you live that specifically focus on rounding out the edges aren’t often the most naturally exciting. You want to think about how you can make your home a more interesting place visually, or perhaps changes to your living room or entertainment set-ups that can make it more distinctly relaxing.
However, while you might not always find it easiest to get excited about improvements to the safety of your home, you might find that they are the type of changes that make subtle yet substantial changes to how comfortable you and your guests feel when spending time there.
Access to the Loft
If you have a loft in your home, the act of storing and retrieving items from the space might not be something that you always feel comfortable with. Some people are better with ladders than others, but knowing that you always need to have someone present to hold the ladder can make the whole process feel somewhat risky. While how comfortable you feel around ladders might not be something that’s easy to change, you could consider a wooden loft ladder that’s attached to the door, meaning that some of the sense of danger and unease is removed. This can help to make the loft simply feel like a more accessible part of your home, one where you don’t need to feel such a sense of hesitation around when needing to get something from there.
A Place for Guests to Sleep
This might not be an element of your home that you have much control over. If you have a one bedroom flat, for example, you’re still going to want to have guests over every now and again. However, getting something like a bedroll or a proper airbed for when they do stay can ensure that they’re comfortable while you’re hosting them, and might actually encourage them to get more excited about the prospect. This might not feel overtly necessary to you if you have a sofa or something similar in place, but that option might not be the best for their physical health, and having something else on-hand simply means that you can have more guests should the need ever arise.
Working Smoke Alarms
Smoke alarms can feel like such a given within any type of home that it might not even feel like something that you yourself have to worry about. If you’re renting, surely this is a job for the letting agent or the landlord? Well, that could be so, but this won’t always be the case, and you might want to ensure that you’re doing everything that you can to regularly test that your smoke alarm is working as it should be. This can be done by testing it every now and again, but if it isn’t doing what it should be, then it’s important you get it fixed as soon as possible. It might not be a safety function you’ve relied on before, but you don’t want it to fail when you need it.
