How to Survive in Hot Apartment or Home, Staging Tips for Summer Heat

Staging your interiors for summer helps you stay cool and comfortable during the heat. Living in a hot apartment or a home without an attic can feel like melting ice cream when the sun comes through your windows and heats the roof. However, there are clever ways to beat the heat before turning on the air conditioning. Home staging tips can help you survive and enjoy the hot summer days, while dressing light and drinking water is the best advice.

Opening the windows at night and strategically placing a fan near a window helps to cool down a room. Fans can pull in cooler evening air and push out hot air during the day. Positioning fans across from each other helps circulate air more effectively, creating a comfortable atmosphere. Frozen water bottles, a bowl with ice cubes, placed in front of a fan, work like an air conditioner without consuming a lot of energy.

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Staging interiors for hot days

Blinds and curtains

Closing blinds and curtains during peak sunlight hours prevents rooms from overheating. Reflective window film significantly reduces solar gain.

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Showers

Create a comfortable shower area that allows you to take a shower quickly and often when needed, while keeping the bathroom dry and organized. Get everything ready for soaking your feet in cold water and have a few towels or bed sheets, dry and wet, ready for quick relief.

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Less cooking and ironing

Heat-free meal preparation and avoiding ironing are other ways to reduce heat. Get your kitchen set up for simplified food preparation, and clean your fridge to create plenty of space for cooling drinks, fruits, and snacks. When cooking, use exhaust fans to remove hot air.

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Sealing gaps around windows and doors helps keep hot air out when using air conditioning. Additionally, you can close off unused living spaces to prevent cool air from circulating throughout your home.

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Staging interiors for sleep

Simplify room decorating to make it easy to clean. If you live in a house, it’s a good idea to organize a summer sleeping area downstairs. Basements and ground floors are the coolest spaces, as the air downstairs is naturally cooler. Use breezy bedding sets in light colors that naturally feel cooler. Decorating your living spaces with houseplants helps, too. Green decor is eco-friendly, cleans and moisturizes the air, creates appealing, tropical paradise-like rooms, and lifts your spirit.