Wellness

By: Alison Rice Builders should highlight these four features to engage with home buyers who care about health and wellness, according to new research from the New Home Trends Institute. If you’re marketing your healthy homes based primarily on your usage of no- or low-VOC paints, you might want to rethink your approach. While such…

By: Doug O’Neill | June 26, 2018 “I know very few vision scientists who know – or care – about lighting,” said Dr. Frances Wilkinson at the recent Integrative Lighting Conference hosted by the Smart Sustainable Lighting Network at the University of Toronto Impact Centre. “And that needs to change if we’re going to enable…

By: Jamie Gold | Jan 26,2021 Wellness design was a strong and growing trend before Covid-19 reached our shores early last year, but it has exploded in popularity as the virus increased awareness of the links between home and health. It’s likely that the trend will long outlive the pandemic. That’s partly because so many…

By: Mikki Brammer A year or so ago, the word wellness hit differently than it does today. With health and wellbeing top of mind for the world, wellness-oriented spaces in both commercial and residential settings are prioritizing much more than just relaxation and pampering. “The pandemic has crystallized the need we all have for mental…

By: Jamie Gold | May 1, 2020 From combi-steam ovens and human-centric lighting to voice-activated faucets, the growing interest in wellness presents an abundance of opportunities for savvy kitchen and bath designers.  It’s mid-March at press time, and an interesting time to be writing about wellness. Salone del Mobile, the global design expo that takes…

By: Kimberley Wray | March 23, 2020 Finding harmony in healthy design. Few in the home furnishings field would dispute that good design simply makes us feel better. Now there’s a term for it — Design Harmony — and all indications are that it represents a healthy opportunity for interior designers and others in the…