How Your Home Space Affects Your Mental Wellbeing

October 31, 2023 09:24 AM Editor Isaias J |

When it comes to health and wellbeing, one of the first mistakes you can make is to assume you can control 100% of this at all times. After all, sleeping well, getting good exercise, and eating correctly is going to be a very helpful approach to take, and will absolutely help you enjoy a healthier, more comforted life. Yet the truth is that your environment also impacts your wellbeing on top of that.

This can be found in many areas of life - for example, a toxic circle of friends that only seek to stifle you is going to be a negative influence no matter how much you meditate or how many pilates you do, and so it’s good to ask real questions about some of the people you welcome into your circle.

Another focus is that of your home space. Our homes and their condition both have an impact on our general levels of comfort on a day-to-day basis and understanding that can be the difference between waking up fresh-faced or feeling tired and uncomfortable whenever we’re trying to unwind.

Let’s consider, then, how to curate a healthy home space for our needs:

Spatial Layout & Flow

It’s important to consider the spatial layout of your home and how it helps you feel refreshed and focused. A busy, cluttered, and disorganized space can lead to a sense of disunity and comfort, and it really can affect our concentration and comfort when trying to relax, read or engage in hobbies. Here you might consider the use of roll off rentals to declutter your home or make actionable storage part of your design plan, especially with vertical shelving and storage baskets.

Personalization & Sentimental Objects

A home is your home, which means that you get to implement decorations you most want to see, be that framed photographs of your family, comforts you enjoy like those pertaining to eastern mysticism, or comforts that help you feel more relaxed like incense, candle holders or even gothic decorations that help the space look like a moody period space. Whatever your ideal, having those sentimental factors around can help you feel truly at home - don’t think you need to curate a space to look like an IKEA catalog showroom to be happy, sometimes, you can be non-cluttered but also never make use of minimalism.

Balancing Technology and Unplugging

In the modern day, many of our living spaces have been curated around technology - especially large screens, computer monitors, game consoles, and other conveniences. There’s nothing necessarily wrong with this of course, but it can also be nice to have an “offline” space, where we can relax and know that the pings of our phone notifications or the constant drone from the television isn’t there to disturb us. This might involve planning a clean and comfortable reading corner, or perhaps ensuring our space is free from a television no matter how often we want to watch horror movies in bed. This way, you can disconnect and only focus on your or your partner with clarity.

With this advice, you’re sure to see how your home space affects your mental wellbeing and take steps to prevent it from bothering you.