What does Biophilic Design have to do with Wellness?
These days, we humans are increasingly spending up to 90% of our lives indoors. Today’s urban landscape and our growing dependency on technology are increasingly disconnecting us from the nature that used to be part of our everyday lives. Stress, anxiety and depression are very real, modern day afflictions.
How to use Colour to Set the Mood in your Home – Part 2
A couple of days ago the doorbell rang. It was a delivery driver asking if I’d accept delivery of a parcel on behalf of my neighbour. Before she left, she turned to me and said “Your house has such a happy feeling to it”. What colour, or combination of colours, we chose to use in […]
Sustainability and Well-being
Sustainability is another hot topic these days, and I think it’s probably fair to say that we are all choosing to be more sustainable in our day-to-day lives. However, how do we extend that sustainable mind-set to an interior design project, where quite often we just want to get rid of the old, and bring […]
Does Your Home Bring You Joy?
When you think about your home, does it make you smile? Does your home inspire you; fill you with energy and creativity? And how can tangible things create an intangible feeling of joy anyway? Research has shown that there are certain properties that define the way an object looks and feels that give rise to […]
How Do Our Homes Affect Our Mental Health?
Yesterday was World Mental Health Day, so I thought I would spend some time on today’s blog post looking at the affect that our homes can have on our mental health. With humans increasingly spending up to 90% of their lives indoors, there is a growing body of scientific evidence showing that how we design […]