How to Create Smooth Feng Shui in Your Vela on Camelback Apartment For the New Year

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Located in the heart of Uptown and one of Phoenix’s trendiest neighborhoods, Vela on Camelback Apartments appeals to anyone seeking a sophisticated, upscale home. With Camelback Mountains nearby as well as biking and hiking trails to explore, your home is your oasis after an adventure-filled day. Give your apartment new energy for the new year with a smooth feng shui makeover.

Decorations That Transition out of 2021 and Into 2022

January 2022 decor trends include using natural materials like wood and textiles to bring the outdoors inside. Want to give your apartment a feng shui refresh without buying new apartment furniture? Look for ways to introduce color and make your old furniture pop. Del Sol Furniture is a great place to look for something unique and fun to add to your home.

Accent rugs, throw blankets, and pillows are easy ways to mark the transition from last year to this year. These easy accessories also won’t break the bank or your budget! Baskets made of natural fibers are a great way to add style and function to a room.

Brighten up Your Apartment for the New Year

Let the vibrant Phoenix light brighten your apartment and welcome new energy. Use colorful, removable wallpaper to add color and texture to your walls without leaving permanent marks; adding live plants and fresh flowers can also make a big difference.

Ride into Those New Year’s Resolutions at Vela On Camelback

Uptown is a vibrant Phoenix community built around the love of nature and the great outdoors, and your apartment at Vela on Camelback is at the center of it all. Whatever your New Year’s resolution is, remember that your home is a reflection of you. Give your apartment a smooth feng shui makeover that will inspire positive energy all year long.

Decorate Your Vela on Camelback Apartment for a Festive Holiday Season

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With winter officially beginning on the 21st of December, it’s time to get your Vela on Camelback apartment ready for the festive season! Apartments like these deserve to look beautiful from Christmas well into the new year, so why not add some holiday decorations to your luxury home? There’s no better feeling than coming home to a decorated apartment.

Decorations That Transition From Christmas and Into the New Year

There’s nothing worse than getting your decorations out of storage and hanging them up only to take them back down a couple of weeks later. Why can’t festive decorations last for months instead? Well, they can! Just get creative.

Many holiday decorations last from Christmas to the new year. A fun and inexpensive idea is to use leftover wrapping paper as a table runner. You can personalize your space and decorate at the same time. Lay your wrapping paper along the length of your table in the middle. Matte looks beautiful, but any paper will do. Next, secure both ends with removable tape underneath the table. That’s it!

A Checklist for Creating a Winter Wonderland in Your Apartment

Once your table is squared away, decorating the rest of your apartment is simple. The wood-style plank flooring throughout your pad looks excellent, with beautiful green garlands complimenting it. You can also add indoor lights along your chic countertops to bring them to life. These subtle decorations can turn an apartment into a holiday oasis in no time.

Keeping Your Festive Decoration Through the New Year

Keep your apartment beautiful for months with decorations that last from Christmas well into the new year. Why not spend an afternoon getting your apartment Christmas ready? You can follow it up with a fun Sun’s game at the Footprint Center, which is only minutes away! Then come home to an apartment filled with decorations that will last for months on end.

How To Prepare Your Apartment For Guests During Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving is a beautiful holiday where you get to host your family and friends for a holiday. There will be many things to prepare before your guests arrive. Read on to find out how to prepare your apartment for guests during Thanksgiving at Vela on Camelback.

Prepare A Guest List

Preparing a guest list will help you have an idea of how many people will be coming. There is a lot to be done to prepare your apartment for Thanksgiving. Structuring apartment kitchens will help you have more space to prepare the food for your guests. Be sure to know your guest’s preferences to prepare the apartment to allow everyone to be comfortable when they come to the party.

Menu Plan and Organization

Cooking in an apartment kitchen will be excellent as these apartments have beautiful ovens where you can make your turkey. In this regard, you have to be sure to know what your guests like to accommodate your family and friends. Begin your planning with starters and appetizers. Include in your plans a complete meal with sides, as well as a yummy dessert. Thus enjoy the journey and explore your creative side in the kitchen.

Thanksgiving Fun With Holiday Games

Holiday game ideas you could try to include charades or monopoly. If you do not enjoy traditional games, it will be fun to get creative and come up with your games. If not, there are numerous places to visit nearby for fresh air outdoors.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving this holiday by making sure you prepare the apartment thoroughly. Your guests will have a wonderful time at Vela on Camelback. Be sure to use all the tips provided in the article to ensure that you have a wonderful Thanksgiving that your guests will enjoy.

Keeping Cool in Your Phoenix Apartment

The summer is heating up, but that doesn’t mean inside your apartment has to be hot too!  Air conditioning may seem like the easiest way for keeping cool in your Phoenix apartment, but there are other more eco-friendly ways to keep cool this summer.

These eco-friendly tips to cool your apartment in Phoenix will help you beat the heat this summer.

  • Keep the shades and blinds closed during the heat of the day! You may be tempted to let the sunshine in, but opening shades and blinds can increase the temperature in your apartment, keeping them closed during the hottest times of day and opening them in the morning and evening hours when it cools down.
  • Cool down the kitchen. Turn the dishwasher on later in the evening or early morning and prepare no-cook and crockpot meals on hot days or order takeout.
  • Let the Air In! Opening the windows and patio doors in your apartment during the cooler times of the day and turning on ceiling and room fans to get the air circulating in your apartment making your apartment feel cooler.
  • Diffuse Cold Water. If your apartment is humid, try adding cold water and a few drops of essential oil in an aromatherapy diffuser. This will cool down your apartment and purify the air.
  • Go For a Swim. Take a dip in the Ultra-Luxe pool and Spa with towel service on a hot afternoon.
  • Keep Fido Cool. A clean dog is a cool dog. Take advantage of dog wash in the community Pet Utopia.
  • Still feeling hot? Head up to the sky deck overlooking Piestewa Peak and Camelback Mountain once the sun goes down.

These eco-friendly tips to cool your luxury Vela on Camelback apartment in Phoenix are just one way to go green and be comfortable this summer.

Create a Harmonious Space with Feng Shui

apartment in phoenixYou have likely heard that the principles of Feng Shui can help create balance and harmony to your Phoenix apartment. But what actually is Feng Shui and how can you apply these principles to your own home?

Feng Shui is an ancient system of beliefs about the arrangement of rooms, furniture and other objects for the purpose of bringing about good fortune and good health through harmony and balance.

The words Feng Shui mean “wind” and “water”, a metaphor for that nature has over our lives. Harnessing this power is the purpose of Feng Shui.

Another word often used when talking about the principles of Feng Shui is Chi, it refers to positive energy.

When applying the principles of Feng Shui in your Phoenix apartment you want to consider that some pieces of furniture, like beds and desks, should be in the command position. This is the spot that is furthest from the door but not in the direct line of it. Placement is often located diagonally from the door and facing the door.

Colors, materials, and shapes play an important part of Feng Shui. 

Here are some colors and their meaning in applying Feng Shui to your apartment in Phoenix:

  • Red: Luck and Wealth 
  • Orange: Happiness and Fun 
  • Yellow: Mental Stimulation, and Power 
  • Green: Peace, Balance, and Healing 
  • Blue: Calmness, Communication, and Spirituality
  • Purple: Wealth 
  • White: Cleansing and Purity 
  • Black: Power.
  • Brown: Nurturing 

Shapes

Square, rectangular, wavy shapes and natural organic shapes such as pebble shapes are good. Avoid a strong presence of round or triangular shapes.

Materials

Wood furniture, mirrored surfaces, tile, and natural fiber rugs create good Feng Shui.

Understanding the principles of Fen Shui and some of the terms used can help you add balance and harmony to your uptown Phoenix apartment at Vela on Camelback. 

Spring Cleaning at Vela On Camelback Apartments!

Spring is just around the corner! Now’s the time to say goodbye to snow and hello to the Desert Botanical Garden. Prepare for the upcoming lovely, sunny days by spring cleaning your Vela On Camelback Apartment.

The Mental Health Benefits of a Clean Home

Clean home, clean mind. It’s that simple and it directly affects your mental health in several ways. It can alleviate stress, increase productivity, calm anxiety, build social confidence, prevent domestic arguments and keep you physically active, which may boost your mood.

Since the environment is important too, there are some changes you can make to minimize or eliminate the use of harsh, toxic products.

Ways To Go Green With Your Cleaning Process

A positive outcome that you can expect from going green is it gives you the option of making your own natural cleaners out of things you may already have at home. If you would like to put together a cleaning kit, these items should cover the basics:

  • Baking soda for scrubbing
  • Borax for disinfecting and deodorizing
  • White vinegar as a surface disinfectant and fabric softener
  • Lemon juice for disinfecting and grease
  • Olive oil for lifting dirt and polishing wood
  • Castile soap as an all-purpose cleaner

A little trick to enhance the longevity of your sponges and reduce waste is to wet your sponge and put it in the microwave for one minute every few days. It will kill all of the harmful bacteria on the sponge and stop it from getting smelly.

Cleaning Services for Hire

If you don’t love to clean and hiring a cleaning service is more your style, the highest-rated, eco-friendly companies in your area are Momentum Carpet Care, Maid Easy, Going Greenhouse, Queen of Maids and Tidy Casa.

Spring cleaning (or green cleaning) can be eco-friendly and improve mental health, so it’s a good idea to maintain a clean and tidy space.

Tips and Tricks to Stay Warm and Cozy in Your Vela on Camelback Apartment

While Phoenix winters never have the epic blizzards and Nor’easters like they have in other parts of the country, they do get cooler. That can mean comfortable apartment living feels cold and damp. To address that, here are tips and tricks to stay warm and cozy in your Vela on Camelback Apartment.

Phoenix Winter

The average winter temperature in Phoenix in winter ranges from 50 to 60 degrees F. It is more rainy than usual and cloudy days (at least partially) are common. Those realities mean the public parks in Phoenix are usually packed during good days.

How to Get and Stay Warm

One of the best cold weather tips is to go through the process of winterizing your apartment. In addition, there are several practical ways you can stay warm in your apartment.

Cook Your Dinner: Your oven and stove put off a tremendous amount of heat. Just by cooking a meal, you can increase the ambient temperature of your apartment. Remember that you should not try and heat your home by leaving your oven or stove on.

Sweaters, Fleeces and Hoodies: Just about everyone knows about dressing in layers outside, but it can be done inside as well. An ensemble of a short sleeve t-shirt, long sleeve shirt and fleece can ensure you stay warm but can get cooler quick by shedding a layer or two.

Open Door Showers: Humid air makes the ambient temperature feel warmer. Plus, hot water will raise temperatures around your bathroom. You will be surprised how much one hot shower can help your apartment feel warmer.

Apartment Features

In addition to these tips, you have the standard amenities that come with your apartment. Those include centralized heating, draft-proof windows and doors.

It will be a rare occasion that your apartment gets chilled because of the season. If that happens, these tips on how to stay warm can ensure you are thoroughly prepared.

Vela On Camelback Holiday Guide

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Holiday Celebrations for Phoenix Residents

Happy Holidays from Vela on Camelback! With the end of 2020 fast approaching, it’s time to get into the festive spirit and enjoy the holidays.

How to Decorate Your Apartment for the Holidays

Decorating your home doesn’t need to be hard. Simple little additions can liven up your home and put you in a festive mood. Placing live greenery like small pine branches, will fill your home with a fresh scent and facilitate a calming atmosphere. Adding pops of red and green (or your chosen colors) around the apartment adds festivity while also being easy.

How to Get Into the Holiday Spirit

The holidays are fast approaching, so it’s time to get into the holiday spirit. It’s quite easy to do by listening to holiday music while decorating your apartment or baking up a storm. Before you start baking cookies and other yummy goods, take 5 minutes to create a playlist on Spotify, Apple Music, or a similar app that you can listen to and sing along with as you cook or decorate.

Holiday Events Near Your Apartment (can include New Years Events

If you want to get outside into the world, while also remaining safe, the Phoenix Zoo is hosting a drive-thru holiday lights experience, Cruise Zoolights. The event runs until January 28th.

Another drive-thru event for the holidays is the World of Illumination. It is an animated light show that features interactive displays that provide an animated musical extravaganza using your favorite music.

For those that are artistically minded or want to see the Sistine Chapel up close. Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition is a perfect event to attend. The exhibit consists of 34 replica panels of frescos painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The event is open from November 20th to February 2021.

No matter what event you attend, or how you decorate your home, enjoy the holiday break.