Making News

(Mar. 12, 2008)

Rejuvenate Your Life with a Holistic Home

By Martha Orellana

VP Sales and Marketing, Mr.Steam

 

With managing the chaos of everyday life, it is vital to create and sustain a home environment that will help nourish your busy mind, body and soul. Adopting a holistic lifestyle aims to foster a cooperative relationship with the world, which will help to achieve balance and improved well-being. Emerging trends in home design continue to embrace this new invigorating lifestyle while creating a healthier house that eliminates environmental toxins through innovative design, color and lighting techniques.

Create a Restful Home

Our emotional happiness is in many ways influenced by our physical well-being.  Therefore, it is essential to implement several simple and practical changes that can be incorporated into everyday life that will to help promote a happier and healthier home life.

Design Principles

In order to cope with a hectic lifestyle, clean lines and a simple design scheme can be very calming. Designers highly recommend that homeowners limit the amount of contrasts within a room by choosing plain finishes and keeping the room uncluttered. Moreover, increase comfort with unfussy yet warm textures such as wood, cork, bamboo, marmoleum or wool, offset by the richness of velvet, chenille and deep pile rugs.

The Power of Color

As you re-design and incorporate a holistic point of view it is key to remain color-conscious. In terms of interior design, it is the biggest, single design statement that you can make.

As you can imagine, the family room tends to be the most communal room and colors should be warm and inviting to keep the focus on the family.  Fresh green is a great color for kitchens, as it tends to enhance the connection with nature creating an air of lightness that has a positive effect on cooking and eating habits. Infuse the dining room with energy by utilizing golds, reds and oranges to stimulate conversation. Add warmth to a bathroom with a soft color-scheme using warmer colors associated with the sea – the richness of coral or the subtle opalescence of shell.

A Healthy Home

The goal of a holistic home is to actively encourage a harmonious, relaxing environment free of toxins. It is now possible to improve your health with a few luxurious additions to your home.

Begin to enhance and support a healthy lifestyle with the addition of a steambath or sauna to your bathroom or exercise room. Steam therapies are well-known for their mental, physical and emotional health benefits including reducing stress, detoxifying the body, and improving circulation.  To further enhance the bathing experience try adding aromatic oils, colored mood lighting and music to your steam shower with the Mr.Steam Spa Package.

Warmth is often created through lighting.  A holistic home should take advantage of natural daylight whenever possible. Making good use of mirrors also creates more light and a sense of larger space. Be sure to use appropriate levels of artificial lighting to prevent eyestrain but, beyond that, less is most definitely more. Incorporating radiant floor heating is also a great way to add warmth to kitchens, bathrooms, and living rooms. 

 

Make a Conscious Effort

You may want to try incorporating some of these design principles, one at a time, starting with the ones that seem easiest to you. Remember it is a process so do not get overwhelmed or try to adopt too much too fast. If you keep at it, soon it will become second nature, and you will start to spot ways of your own to detoxify your life.

For more trend reports and other home news check out www.kleberandassociates.com. 

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