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3 Hardy Plants for Home Decor and Mental Health

3 Hardy Plants for Home Decor and Mental Health

We review 3 of our favourite hard-to-kill plants, that will help you add life to your home.

Why Can’t I Keep My House Plants Alive?

We explore why your plants might be failing or how you might be failing your plants, the 3 main requirements for plant success and how a smart gard...

The Importance of Humidity in the Home

Dry air is a major contributor to poor indoor air quality. As humans, we are made up of almost entirely water, and dry air can have a significant i...

Quiet is Healthy

We explore one simple way to increase the health of your home, reducing noise.

Watch Your Tone: How Colour Enhances Emotions at Home

We explore how colour tones in your home can affect your mood, health and overall at home experience.

Biophilia and Benefits of Biophilic Design

Humans all have an innate desire to connect with nature. Designers have picked up on this and have begun a design trend called biophilic design. We...

The Importance and Benefits of Natural Light

Natural light is one of the easiest and most affordable ways of improving your health and the health of your home. We discuss the different methods...

Incorporating Biophilia into the Home

We explore ways of easily incorporating nature into your environment so that you can enjoy the benefits of the natural world.

How to Reduce Indoor VOCs in Your Home

Indoor air quality is overlooked and yet we spend 90% of our time indoors. The air inside is often 5x worse than the air outside. In this article, ...

Why Windows are the Best Way to Ventilate Your Home

Bring fresh air inside with the easiest and most cost-effective way of ventilating your home.

What Does a Healthy Bedroom Look Like?

The bedroom is a sanctuary and in this article we talk about the importance of producing a healthy bedroom along with methods of doing so.

The Benefits of Natural Building Materials in the Home

Part of having a healthy home is what goes into building it. In this article, we breakdown some of the materials we recommend using when constructi...

How Indoor Air Pollution Threatens Healthy Homes

Many of the products in our home are off gassing chemicals without us even realizing. We wrote this article to bring awareness to these off gassing...