What does interior design have to do with your wellbeing?
Interiors and wellbeing - the human touch for your home. So you are all set with your eco interior with
sustainable materials
,
salvaged flooring,
reclaimed furniture, eco friendly paint and recycled furnishings. What else do you need to consider? Think how productive you are in this room? Are you relaxed and content? Do you suffer with stress or feel uneasy in your home office or bedroom? Which room do you spend little time in? Your wellbeing is part of the holistic interior design approach.
Your wellbeing
Interior design is a sensory trade, pleasing the eye, touch, smell and ear. Each of your senses responds to the surrounding environment whether the experience is pleasurable or not. Your mood, health and wellbeing can be affected by the rooms you live and work in. Interiors can be designed to stimulate, calm, relax and enhance your senses and psychological reactions.
Definition of wellbeing in your interior:
- Simple & functional designs
- Safe & secure
- Pleasing the senses (touch, smell, sight, space)
- Wellness (tiredness, productivity, mood)
- Personal comfort (sound, light, humidity, temperature, fresh air)
- User friendly & user control
- Accessibility
If you are content with where you live or work, then you are on the way to leading continually happy and productive lifestyles.
High levels of indoor air pollution may lead to you feeling lethargic and unmotivated. Just the same as an interior that doesn’t suit your personality aesthetically can have a negative effect on you. We are all different so that means creating an interior which is balanced and harmonious with your lifestyle, more importantly an interior which is fine tuned to your individual wellbeing.
Your Home & Wellbeing Articles
The following group of articles look at your wellbeing within the spaces you occupy.
Design for comfort
On a personal level, how everything around you can affect your mood, productivity and overall wellbeing.
User friendly & user control
If you can control your surrounding evnironment, you can control your comfort levels - temperature, light, noise, view etc. If your surrounding environment is user friendly, this reduces stress levels. This article looks aspects of psychology and your surrounding environment.
Wellbeing Resources
www.oscailt.com
The wish at Oscailt (which means opening), is to create a space that helps people open up to their innate capacity to enhance, maintain and restore their health and well-being. Offering an integrated approach to well-being, through paths such as Mindfulness Meditation, Yoga, Psychotherapy, Massage and a variety of complementary therapies. Integrative Health Centre 8 Pembroke Road, Dublin 4
www.tadasana.ie
Tadasana (Formerly Gaia Massage) is a new Massage and Yoga practice to Dublin, established by Maree McNicol. The aim of Tadasana is to create a relaxing and energising Massage and Yoga experience where clients are offered excellent, affordable Massage and Yoga, encouraging everyone to take time out of their hectic schedules to prioritise their own well being.