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4 priceless benefits of a mountain souvenir in your city apartment

Written by Thomas Crauwels
Mountain souvenir for his apartment in town

You live in the city, but you like the calm of the mountains?

Why not combine the two by displaying a mountain souvenir in your city apartment?

Exit the pictures of buildings and other architectural wonders, the mountain will bring you its benefits to the heart of the city.

What benefits are we talking about? This is what we will see together.

1. Extend the experience

You went on vacation in the mountains and you enjoyed the air so much that you want to remember it for a long time.

This is quite normal and is a reflex of most people who go on vacation .

Bringing back a souvenir from your vacation is a common practice that allows you to prolong the experience and regularly recall the pleasure you felt.

Vacations are meant to recharge our batteries, and every time we go back to our memories, we recharge a little too.

Whether it's a decorative object, a mug or a t-shirt bought in a specialized store or on a market, your mountain souvenir is no exception.

Each time you see it or use it, you will go back in time to relive those pleasant moments. 

2. Personalize your interior

Our memories make us up. What we have experienced marks us.

Exposing our memories is a way to open up to others, to invite sharing.

Displaying a souvenir of a trip to the mountains allows us to show, to invite conversation. It is in the sharing and exchange that we relive our memories and reveal our personality.

Bringing back a souvenir of the mountain, a photo of a climbed summit for example, is also personalizing your interior with your own story.

When a guest asks "Have you been there?", it will always be nice to be able to share, talk about your own experience, tell anecdotes.

frame of the Matterhorn in an apartment
There's nothing like a beautiful picture of the Matterhorn in your city apartment to get away from it all!

3. Escape

Bringing home a little piece of the mountain is also an opportunity to get away regularly. 

Sometimes being in the middle of a city can be difficult and you want to get away, to get some fresh air. This is the feeling of escape that your mountain souvenir can give you.

Thinking about the wide open spaces, the snowy summits and the majestic nature that surrounds us and getting away for a few moments does us a world of good. 

Imagine, several weeks after the vacations, the work and the daily life to manage become a little heavy...

A vacation souvenir in the mountains will allow you to take a break, to breathe for a few moments during a brief trip down memory lane, in a frame opposite to the one that surrounds you daily.

4. Bringing calm into your home

The mountain is the anti-stress place par excellence.

The fresh air and the calm that reigns there invite you to let go and relax.

When you went to the mountains, you must have felt that feeling of disconnection and relaxation that you so appreciate.

Goodbye stress, well-being is the winner!

Bringing a mountain souvenir into your city apartment will bring calm into your home and allow you to hold on to it in times of stress.

A mountain landscape, for example, has this calming virtue, which you will have difficulty finding in other memories.

Remembering the greatness of nature often invites us to clear our minds and refocus on what is essential.

For us, as well as for the people who come to us, this serenity and quietude evoked by the mountains are beneficial. These memories invite you to relax, for a comfortable break at any time.

Testimony of one of my clients

A client who lives in the heart of Geneva, but has a chalet in the mountains, decided to buy a picture of the Swiss Alps.

She installed it in her living room to enjoy it all year long.

" I like to lose myself in this landscape, it reminds me of the good times spent in my cottage during my vacations

Every time I look at it, I relive moments with my family or friends.

From snowy Christmas to sledding with the kids, this sublime panorama brings back many memories of the mountains. In my fast-paced daily life, it allows me to hang up with moments of peace and joy and to look forward to my next vacation.

More often than not, it's after I've spent a few minutes looking at that photo that I start calling friends or family to arrange the next stay. "

Anne B.

The mountain in the city is a concept that may seem quite surprising to some.

And yet, displaying a mountain souvenir in your city apartment is full of benefits for you, as well as for those around you.

Don't hesitate to get started, it's never too late!

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