Biophilic design is all about connecting our homes with nature, through natural light, materials, colors patterns, textures, sounds and plants. Welcoming nature into our homes can have a positive effect on our wellbeing, health and productivity. To help you create a home that feels as good as it looks, from pillows, tabletops to dining tables, dining chairs and area rugs, we curated 12 biophilic -design- inspired pieces that are on sale for 4th of July 2022.
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Today (& every day) is Earth Day. Living well and healthy is one of our goals in the year of 2022 and many years to come. If you would love to source your home goods in a more sustainable way, here are our 3 tips to live responsibly with high style.
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We will continue our summer retreat at home theme today. You can click here to see how we created a dining summer retreat at home, and click here to see how we created a summer backyard oasis. In today’s theme, we focus on creating a a casual yet elegant bedroom with a king-size dark cane bed , plush trimmed pillows and shams, a pink velvet loveseat and the blush toile wallpaper. The two open wicker nightstands make the space more open and breathable while two of the table lamps add the character to this space. A sand-colored area rug anchors the whole room. Majorities of the pieces are now in Summer Tent Sale and the stock goes really fast. So act fast to grab them if you fall in love with any of them.
Continue readingAn Environment International study found that some older couches may be emitting a potentially carcinogenic dust.
For homeowners who also happen to be pet lovers, few things are more frustrating than the constant war between a sofa’s well-kept appearance and the furry friends who shed on it. But as it turns out, we may have more to fear from what our couches themselves are emitting—especially for fans of ’70s vintage design.
That revelation comes courtesy of newly published research in Environment International, which analyzed in-home dust samples to determine that sofas made between 1975 and at least 2013 have a tendency to disperse what can amount to carcinogenic dust. The culprit? Flame retardant (or “F.R.”) chemicals, which the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences says may cause cancer in addition to posing other adverse health effects. In a handful of the dust samples collected across more than 20 households available for all four measurement periods of the study, multiple flame retardants were found in concentrations greater than 1,000 parts per million.
If you are just like us and are desperate for some inspiration . We got something for you– a house decor beginning with a live wall.
Plants—and plenty of them—are an essential component of this house design. The fruits, fresh flowers and plants make this adorable breakfast nook a get-away heaven at home.
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With beginning of the post-covid life, businesses start to re-open. However, we all feel it may take a while to go back the Normal. So how our home makes us feel play such an important role for our daily life both physically and mentally. Today we are going to talk about 7 ways to create a serene home.
1. De-clutter and Organize.
It is truly no fun when you have accumulated a lot of things over years without scheduling time to clean them up. The number 1 thing for a healthy home is about the free flow of the energy. A cluttered home often has a sagging energy.
After the clutter has been cleaned out, it’s time to organize. When everything has a place, we have fewer things to worry about.
We are all pleased to see a clouds of super relaxed and comfy cotton bedding in a dreamy bedroom. Bedding often serves as the statement piece around which an entire bedroom is designed. But there’s a lot more to consider about bedding than just its thread count thanks to people’s more awareness of their own wellness nowadays. We have started to see organic bedding has been increasing in popularity over the past decade.
We talked about how color, light, plants, air quality, noise reduction..etc affect our well being at home in our recent blog series of 7 Ways to Design Wellness at Home. You can click here for part I , click here for part II , and click here for part III. The more time we spend at home, the more important we feel home is to us. Today, we are going to talk about one more important factor that will affect how we feel at home—the scent. We often say Stop to Smell Roses. The sweet and fresh scent of those fresh roses often relaxes us and puts a big smile on our face in a second—that is the magical power of the natural fragrance. Throughout history, fragrance has been used as a way to delight the senses. Some of the first known uses of fragrances date back to the times of the ancient Egyptians. The Egyptians began incorporating fragrances and natural plants into ointments and other medical aids. The use of these fragrances and oils for medicinal purposes was the beginning of aromatherapy. We now use scented candles, herbs, plants and flowers and diffuser to make our home smell great, not just for reducing nasty smells, helping clean the air of unwanted smells, but for improving our well being as aromatherapy.
Today, we continue our 7 Ways to Design Wellness at Home–part III. You can click here for part I and click here for part II. The environment we are in directly affects how we think and feel. A beautiful home can always enhance our moods and make us happier. Apart from that, a healthy and inviting home can also help us handle stress and fatigue more effectively. Today, these insights take on new meaning with new smart technologies that make home even more comfortable to live in since these smart home technologies make tedious, everyday tasks simpler, and at the same time boost our health and wellness. An effective smart home solutions take into consideration of our everyday emotional needs, desires, and routines.
With our staying at home for such a long period, we realize how important home to us, particularly how our home make us feel. Wellness has gained its wave in residential design industry and we talked about 4 ways of 7 ways to design a healthy human-centric home last week. You can click here to read this first part. Today we are going to talk about the second part of this topic —-color.