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The benefits of a healthy home

August 11, 2017 1 Comment

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Living a fast paced, hectic lifestyle can often leave us overstimulated and underwhelmed, with constant digital connection creating the need for mindfulness in our everyday life.

Making a few simple changes to your home environment can uplift your mood and re-energise your life.
Justine Wilson, Director and Principal Stylist at Vault Interiors, says, โ€œMindful living spaces are designed with the purpose of reducing depression and anxiety, and supporting an overall sense of wellbeing by offering a relaxing respite from our daily lives. Take some time to redecorate using plenty of natural light and sustainable materials to get back to nature and give back to the earth.โ€

The benefits of a healthy homeImage source: Interior Design Files

Justine shares her top mindful living tips to help transform your home:

1. Declutter and De-stress
Nothing clears the mental confusion quite like decluttering your home! Clear out the living areas by donating and recycling any disused or unloved items. Pack and store seasonal items to create more space and help lighten the load of mental and emotional clutter.

2. Let there be light

Natural light does wonders for uplifting your mood and recharging your energy, especially when you have spent your day planted in front of a screen or under fluorescent light. Consider changing window treatments, repainting walls a lighter colour and adding reflective surfaces to create the illusion of more light. Adding skylights can also give light to dark hallways and staircases, allowing light to flood the living spaces.

The benefits of a healthy homeImage source: My Decorative

3. Interior finishes

When selecting finishes for your home, invest in items both meaningful and environmentally conscious. This will create a space that enhances your mood and reduces your carbon footprint. Using natural raw wood, seagrass, hemp and organic cotton, linen or wool can create a beautiful and harmonious natural space to unwind, recharge and connect in. Earthy textures inside will also reconnect you to the natural environment outside.

4. Get closer to nature

Nature has a huge impact on our overall wellbeing and incorporating it into our interior helps us de-stress and create a natural space. Consider a terrarium, a green wall or an internal courtyard garden will breathe life into otherwise static internal spaces. Tending to these living installations can be relaxing and therapeutic, by bringing a little bit of the outdoors into the home.

The benefits of a healthy homeImage source: The Urban List

5. Indulge in colour therapy

In a psychological sense blues, greens and muted tones that mimic nature can create a calm and serene space. When crisp white and neutral tones are used they help to open up the space and create a peaceful setting. By selecting light tones rather than dark, your mood will be uplifted and it will reflect back the natural light, giving the impression of a larger lighter space.

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  1. AvatarClaire says

    September 5, 2017 at 6:56 am

    I have been wanting to try and make the space that I am creating in my home stylish, functional and relaxing. A hard balance sometimes but your post has really made me think about it more clearly. I love the simple touch of using earthy textures to create a sense of calm and be at one with nature, I will definitely be saving this post for future reference!

    Thanks for sharing! ๐Ÿ™‚

    Claire xx

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