How to Make a Home a Space that Enhances Your Wellbeing

It can be a huge deal to turn your house into a home. You want it to reflect who you are as a person! When we look to decorate and update our homes, do we do so with our happiness in mind? Is it more about aesthetics and less about comfort? Happiness can mean different things to different people, and feeling at home can be subject to both our conscious and subconscious minds. We spend a lot of our time and home, and it can have a profound impact on our mental health. But that means we all have the power to update our homes to enhance our sense of wellbeing, both in the conscious and subconscious realms. Let’s have a look at a few ways:

Create Balance

If you work from home, you need to find a balance between your working life and home life. If having a home office is not possible, use effects such as large plants, furniture like an open bookcase, or a sofa to break areas up. This will give you a clear distinction between the relaxing zone and the work zone. You could also use some special lighting effects, such as ambient or accent lighting. The idea is that when you stop working, you switch off. Being constantly reminded of work can lead to more work stress. 

Create Calm

Being overworked and constantly stimulated can negatively affect our wellbeing. We can use our homes to reduce stimulation. To do this, add calming effects, perhaps digital-free minimalist zones, and embrace plants. Think calming colors, too, and perhaps paint a wall with one of those colors. 

Enhance Natural Light

If you want something simple to boost your mood, you can’t go wrong with enhancing natural light. It increases serotonin in the brain, a happy chemical, and helps regulate your sleep-wake cycle, which is very important to your health and happiness. To make the most of the light you have, ensure your windows are free from obstructions, including dark and overpowering curtains. You can add mirrors to reflect light. You can even paint walls a light color which helps maximize the light. Both these methods make the home appear larger too.  

Embrace Minimalism

Minimalism is a great way to combat many forms of negative wellbeing, such as stress and anxiety. If your home is cluttered, this can cause you a lot of stress. It constantly hits the psyche with a lot of stimuli and doesn’t allow the mind to relax. Certain pieces of clutter can have the effect of transporting you back to a point in the past, which doesn’t allow you to move on so easily. It can make it difficult to find things, and it can also mean your house becomes full of mold. Often after a sincere attempt to declutter, people need Mold Damage Restoration Services to fix walls and flooring that has been neglected. Mold in itself can cause negative health effects, so decluttering is not only good for your mental health but it is good for your physical health too, especially respiratory issues. If decluttering is a difficult process for you, start small, with the obvious rubbish, then work up to the larger items.