These Are A Few Ideas To Mull Over As You Plan Your Yuma Retirement Living Arrangements

Category: Finance, Real Estate.

Your golden years are here and you ve decided to buy a home in Yuma, one of the most beautiful parts of the country, especially for retirees.

Many people are concerned about moving from their larger, family home to the smaller retirement property. Chances are you are ready to make the move to your ideal house for your retirment, but you just need to settle a few details. You ve spent your life in larger homes and aren t sure how to adjust to downsizing. What you need to do is learn how to make the most efficient use of the space you have. You don t want to hassle with upkeep, but you don t want to give up all your favorite things. If you haven t found your perfect home in Yuma for your retirement, this is the perfect time to start looking. Then look at your list with new eyes.

You can begin by taking an inventory of all of your furnishings, books, tools, clothing. in short, everything you own. Forget your former years of raising children, entertaining business associates, working and friends. From now on you will be living smaller. Now think about your new life, free from all of those duties. Since you re in Yuma, where the weather is lovely all year around, you ll probably spend a lot of time on the golf course, sipping lemonade on, by the pool the patio, or just relaxing in an air- conditioned room. Of course since you re living in paradise, you ll most likely have visits from out- of- town family and friends, so you ll need extra space when you need it. The last thing you ll want is to be cleaning a large house and taking care of a yard.

One thing you ll definitely want is as many built- ins as possible. Bay windows will create little nooks where you can place a table and chairs for eating, and relaxing with, enjoying coffee a book. Floor to ceiling shelves, cabinets, drawers, and even a pull- down bed for guests will keep clutter neat, and out of, tidy sight and free up floor space at the same time. Your tall bookshelves can hold books and display your favorite decorative pieces as well. Your rooms can be separate, but making the doorways wide will make them blend into one another in a way that tricks the eye into seeing a larger space. To create the feeling of more space, look for a house with a somewhat open floor plan.

Using lighter colors on walls and floors also gives the allusion of wide open spaces. Another way to trick the eye is to place mirrors in strategic places to reflect windows and bright areas. Use similar tones so that they blend subtlety one into another. Touches such as crown molding, and various textures, striped wallpaper on walls, give the allusion of height by" telling" us to look up. For example you might use a large unit with shelves between kitchen and the dining area. Consider furniture that can act as both room divider and storage.

It will serve as a place for dishes, serving pieces, silver, with drawers below for table linens. Once again Yuma offers climate advantage because you can extend your indoor living space into the outdoors. It will give the impression of two separate rooms, while allowing people in both areas to mingle and mix, thanks to the clever furnishing. Since you don t want much yard space, extend your house out by enclosing your porch or part of the patio with screens, or shutters, sliding windows. These are a few ideas to mull over as you plan your Yuma retirement living arrangements. When visitors come for a week- end or a month, these spaces will really come in handy.