25.07.2018

How to Keep a Room Cool in Hot Weather

After a couple of cool summers, hot summer weather is definitely welcome. Between lounging on the beach and licking ice cream, we inevitably have to do indoor chores or get some restorative sleep, and a hot room is not the best place for that.

But we know some tips for keeping your room cool and your head clear during hot weather.

Cook outside

If at all possible, don't turn on your oven and stove, but grill outside or eat something you don't have to cook or bake. The stove and oven are the most authentic heating devices and heating the room is the last thing you should be doing right now.

Keep the curtains closed

Yes, we know that we write about how there's never too much sunlight in the room in every post. But when your eyes start to shimmer, you've had too much sun and the room is too hot. That's why we recommend keeping the curtains closed in hot weather. If you have blackout blinds in your bedroom, don't pull them up during the day either.

Make your own air conditioner

It sounds like quite a challenge, but actually you just need a regular fan, a couple of plastic bottles, and ice. Cut the bottom off the bottles and make holes in the sides of the bottle. Turn the bottles upside down so that the sealed cap stays at the bottom, and fill them with ice. Make another hole in the side of the bottle so you can attach them to the fan with wire.

Turn on the fan and your room will be filled with cool air!

Watch this video to see exactly how it works.

If you don't feel like messing around with bottles, you can get a slightly less effective air conditioner by placing a pan full of ice in front of the fan.

Unplug electrical appliances

Most household appliances that are plugged in emit heat. Unplug them. Wait, leave the refrigerator and fan plugged in.

Use cotton sheets and a cotton mattress pad

Save the satin and silk for cooler times, use cotton sheets now. They breathe and cool down faster than any other material. A particularly clever trick is to put the sheets in the refrigerator for a while before going to bed. It's another question how long they stay cool, but they provide a bit of relief in any case.

And if you haven't believed in the mattress pad until now, try it now. The mattress pad doesn't get hot and you'll sleep peacefully until morning.

Sleep on the floor

If things get really desperate, sleep on the floor where the air is slightly cooler. In a sauna too, the bench is a piece of ground higher than the floor, and for the same reason you should move from your bedroom bed to the floor on really hot nights.

The same applies to a multi-story house – if your bedroom is on the second floor, move to the lower floor on hot nights. Every little trick helps on a hot night when you have to go to work in the morning and sit in a meeting with a fresh face.

And yes – right now you have to sleep in separate beds with your loved one, because together your body temperature rises and under the covers it's even hotter with two of you than it would be alone. You also have more space in bed alone, so you can spread out your sticky limbs nicely.