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Home Decor and its Contribution to a Healthy Environment

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Your home decor should contribute to a healthy environment in which you feel comfortable and achieve the concept of harmony. For this reason, it's worth carefully considering your decor and how you apply it.
Home Decor and its Contribution to a Healthy Environment
Last update: 03 January, 2022

A feeling of well-being is the main objective of our homes. We want all our rooms to be well ordered, with their corresponding resources perfectly organized. Therefore, our home decor must offer a healthy environment.

Harmony is a concept that we should all be more aware of. What we all want to achieve is a degree of balance and comfort within a well-conditioned environment that’s pleasant and interesting.

In this way, a single basic principle and feeling are transmitted: one of comfort. To achieve the indisputable emotional health we need, we must have a home that encourages and promotes a healthy environment.

Choosing the right decorative resources for a healthy environment

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Before furnishing our homes, we must be clear about the measures that we’re going to adopt and what we need to adequately decorate our spaces. Undoubtedly, our personality must be reflected in a specific way.

If we follow a decorative style, then it’s necessary to attend to a series of designs and formats that conform to it. In the same way, if we intend to create a certain environment, colors play a very important role. You have to choose comforting colors that provide a certain warmth.

Of course, it’s evident that we’re always going to resort to the resources that we like the most and that everything that is to our liking and interests. Ultimately, the idea is that the home becomes a personal refuge where we can reside, enjoy and rest.

A healthy home environment

For our home decor to be healthy, a number of requirements must be met. Obviously, the approach we take is governed by well-defined personalized principles, but there are also certain formulas that must be present:

  1. Firstly, we have order. If a home is in good condition, with all the rooms organized and the furniture well distributed, we’ll feel the calmness and tranquility of knowing that everything will always be in its place.
  2. Cleanliness is a must. This leaves no room for doubt since a sanitized home is synonymous with health. As a result, we forget about dirt. However, this process requires regular care and therefore continued effort.
  3. Our children must learn to keep their rooms in good repair. They themselves have to be responsible. If at some point we detect certain neglect, it may be due to a lack of motivation and other personal aspects that will likely have a solution.
  4. Comfortable seating promotes well-being. A soft and spacious sofa, good quality chairs, and armchairs to create a personalized space. The most important thing is that there’s comfort in all the resources we use for rest.
  5. Beneath our feet, we can establish soft and pleasant support by means of thick rugs. Those with a long pile are a good bet, but we mustn’t forget the different varieties that’ll have a place in any home.

The home that we all want

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We’ve all thought on more than one occasion about the type of home we’d like to live in. It must be borne in mind that dreams can be achieved as long as we put our minds to them.

To be proud of our homes, we must decorate them in the best possible way. Investment aside, we must also value the idea of choosing what we really need to decorate in a sustainable way.

If we achieve harmony in our homes, we’ll feel much more comfortable and have a heightened sense of well-being. A basic principle is forming a set among every room in which all must be related to each and show the personality of the occupants.

The happiness of a healthy home environment

There’s nothing worse than feeling awkward or uncomfortable every time we walk through the door. If we really feel like this, decor could be the reason why. When everything around us feels unpleasant, it can make us sad.

To achieve your degree of happiness you have to unite three fundamental concepts: functionality, comfort, and aesthetics. If they’re related to each other, we can create a happy home.

In conclusion, it’s in our hands to intervene in the emotional health of our whole family, we just have to make sure that our home decor makes us feel at ease.

 


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  • Emma, Callery: Enciclopedia práctica de la decoración, Everest, 2001.