Healthy home

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HEALTHY HOME
HEALTHY HOME is a complete guide to creating a living space that is
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harmonious, relaxing, ecologically sound, functional and stylish. Use it to plan every aspect of your home from lighting and colour through to individual room arrangements, furnishings, and use of environmentally friendly materials. Healthy Home provides:
¦ practical room-by-room advice on planning space, storage
iand design
¦ an understanding of the psychology of colour and how to use it to enhance well being and create mood
¦ a guide to the different forms of lighting and how they can affect health
ways of incorporating health-promoting plants, scents and sounds into the home environment
interior design expertise blended with the ancient principles of feng shui
detailed information on energy efficiency, recycling, eco-friendly products and natural materials
a comprehensive guide to removing toxic materials from the home
stunning photographs and detailed diagrams
HEALTHY HOME
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Fülszöveg

HEALTHY HOME
HEALTHY HOME is a complete guide to creating a living space that is
o
harmonious, relaxing, ecologically sound, functional and stylish. Use it to plan every aspect of your home from lighting and colour through to individual room arrangements, furnishings, and use of environmentally friendly materials. Healthy Home provides:
¦ practical room-by-room advice on planning space, storage
iand design
¦ an understanding of the psychology of colour and how to use it to enhance well being and create mood
¦ a guide to the different forms of lighting and how they can affect health
ways of incorporating health-promoting plants, scents and sounds into the home environment
interior design expertise blended with the ancient principles of feng shui
detailed information on energy efficiency, recycling, eco-friendly products and natural materials
a comprehensive guide to removing toxic materials from the home
stunning photographs and detailed diagrams
HEALTHY HOME
A practical & resourceful guide to making your own home fit for body, mind and spirit
A HEALTHY HOME should be happy f \ and harmonious, a place in which people / \ can live comfortably and at ease in their surroundings. It needs to promote physical, mental and spiritual health, but also to be functional, meeting the needs of its inhabitants, and to respect the environment Combining all these aims is not easy but Healthy Home provides clear advice on how to do so.
Part One Creating a Harmonious Home looks at different ways of making your home a more pleasant and relaxed place to live in. It includes advice on planning and designing available space, making the best possible use of lighting, how to use colour to the best effect, and how to introduce nature and harmony with the use of scents, sounds, plants and animals.This section of the book draws on both interior design and feng shui practice.
Part Two Healing Your Home, looks at some of the health or environmental problems that you might encounter in your home such as the presence of asbestos and lead, energy inefRciency, polluting agents, and toxic materials, and offers a practical guide to putting them right. It also looks at materials such as cleaning products, flooring, and paints, which can be health hazards, and recommends healthy alternatives.
The final reference section provides useful names and addresses of suppliers and others who can help you to create a healthy home.
ILL BLAKE trained at St Martin's School of An, and then with the prestigious furniture design store, Heals of London. She has worked on a number of magazines, has published 26 books on homes and design, and has run her own decoration and design consultancy for many years. Colour is one of Jill's main interests; she is currently involved with the KLC School of Design as a senior tutor lecturing on the use of colour, colour psychology and styling
Jill is deeply committed to the idea of a healthy home, and believes that all homes should be planned to create a harmonious environment while at the same time reflecting individual lifestyle and practical needs of family members.
For Jill, the kitchen is the true heart ofthe home where meals should be created for sharing with friends and family ideally making use of homegrown produce. She enjoys gardening, and believes that the garden should be a natural extension to the house, either by creating an outside space, or by echoing views, plants and colours Inside the home to create a harmonious whole.
Keenly aware of the dangers of waste and pollution, Jill uses natural materials in both house and garden. She has been recycling her own household waste for more than 25 years and enthusiastically encourages architectural salvage and the use of recycled materials Having had a son who suffered from asthma, Jill has had personal experience of the harmful effects of an unhealthy environment and has researched a suitable garden for asthmatics specifically for this book She sees Healthy Home as a way of sharing her views with a wider public, and encouraging a more sensitive but always practical approach to creating harmonious and environmentally conscious living spaces.
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