When designing your home, let emotion lead the way instead of technology.
More and more people give priority to the emotional impact in their home design rather than technological features. This is in keeping with a growing need to have a home that is a safe space where people can create meaningful connections and feel comfortable and peaceful.
When you make your home, give a lot of thought and consideration into elements like light, color, and cultural aesthetics, as well as objects that carry treasured memories like heirlooms. Technology is important because it addresses convenience, but it cannot provide for the psychological and emotional needs of the residents.
This post has clear tips on how you can foster emotional wellness at home. This is also an easy read so you can start creating a home that considers the emotional health of everyone under its roof.
Light and Color
Proper lighting, especially natural light, can improve health, boosts mood, and increases productivity. Having natural light spilling into the home may not be such a challenge in a tropical country like ours. But there are some spaces, like a basement or a room with a very small window (or no window at all) that may benefit from tips on how to improve the situation.
The first tip is to choose paint colors that would benefit such dark spaces. Go for light neutrals like white, beige, cream. If you want color, choose one that has a low color intensity, also known as muted colors, like pale yellow, soft blue, or sage.
Choose a hue that would go well with the artificial light in the room because light temperature affects paint color. In the video, Bea shows you the effect of light temperature on a particular color.
She further recommends that you sample the color and get the 200mL pots. These are available in the online shop.
Touch and Other Senses
Texture in building materials, furniture, and home accessories is critical to making a home feel comfortable, cozy, and warm. An emotional home is one that embraces and nurtures, and makes us want to return to it again and again.
Touch is crucial to how we experience our world, and how we connect with the people around us. So, a home that prizes tactility helps improve our well-being.
It’s not only the sense of touch that should be satisfied. A home should be a rich sensory experience. Why do you think scents are so big nowadays? Or color, light, sounds? Even the smell of cooking adds to the fulfilling interaction with a space.
Personalization
A home that truly reflects a person’s life story and personal history is one that has more emotional value. Gen Z prefers to have homes that celebrate their creativity and self-expression. It goes beyond just having those home accessories and furniture that are popular and cool. Whether they have those things or not is not the goal. The goal is to curate and design their homes that reflect their authenticity and personal taste.
Because of social media, we are all influenced by what we see…and we see a lot. I think the best way to design our home is not to slavishly copy someone else’s style but to really dig deep and find our own voice when designing something as important as our home.
Read “The Messy Girl Aesthetic” because it has some tips on how to go about personalizing your home.
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