Your home should be a place that makes you feel happy and healthy. Sometimes, however, it can feel a bit old and stale. But making the right updates to your home can improve your health in more ways than one.
There are a number of small improvements and updates that you can make to your home to not only make it look and feel better, but to improve the flow of your life on a day to day basis. Check out some of the tips from Hippo below.
Organization is Key
The phrase “a clean home is a happy home” is not far off the mark. One of the main ways that you can update your home and improve your life and health is by taking the time to organize the different spaces in your home.
If you’ve been holding onto those housewarming gifts or different holiday knick knacks, now might be the time to go through them and see if any of them can help you get organized.
Storage bins, closet organizers, shelving and furniture pieces with extra space are great for decluttering your home. It only takes a little bit of time and elbow grease to get your home nice and organized. Once it’s done, you’ll find that it’s much easier to keep clean and it will even help you save time during your daily activities or chores.
Create a Space That’s Just for You
One way to update your home is to create a small nook that’s just for you and the things that relax you. It doesn’t have to be an entire room. Take a corner in the bedroom and transform it into a mini sanctuary.
Placing books, candles, blankets, or anything else that relaxes and calms you can give you that little “mini getaway” that you need to recharge and get back to the daily struggles of life.
Add Greenery to Improve Your Mood
Even if gardening isn’t an option for you, adding a few plants to your home has been known to benefit your health and make your mood brighter. Plants also give off extra oxygen which is also a nice health benefit.
Updating your home doesn’t have to be a big remodel. Making small changes like adding potted plants, shrubs, and other greenery can do wonders for your overall happiness and well being.
Make an Exercise Space to Improve Health
Exercise is a great way to improve health, it releases endorphins and improves your self image. Many times we have a bit of workout gear that’s been gathering dust. If you have the room to make a space dedicated to exercise, you can improve your physical and mental health while also making use of all that old equipment that’s just been sitting in the corner for a long time.
Even if you don’t own a lot of exercise gear, creating a space that’s open and doing a little yoga can be a major health booster and can start your day off on the right foot.
Final Thoughts
There are a lot more ways to update your home that will improve your health and your life. Hopefully some of these tips have given you just the inspiration you need to make some changes to your home that promote health and happiness, but for more ideas check out the infographic below.
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This is very inspiring post, your tips to improve old home for healthy life style is very impressive.
‘ Change your home, change your brain’ is nice slogan. Thanks for this post.
If you’ve been holding onto those housewarming gifts or different holiday knick-knacks, now might be the time to go through them and see if any of them can help you get organized. Very Good Article thanks sir Ji I wish u
Home renovation and improvements can really make a relaxing activity if you handle and plan it properly.
Many who follow an ongoing exercise program in the morning. Doing your workout in the morning can help energize your body and set a positive mood throughout the day. Some people find it beneficial to unwind from their work and move in the afternoon if they feel tired.
It was interesting to learn that plants can make the mood brighter. Another thing that can improve your mood is natural light. Try to let as much sun into your house as possible. Open the curtains. If you are at the stage of building your house, consider installing large panoramic windows and doors.
Sunlight can also be an additional source of heat, which will allow you to skimp on heating 🙂
Yes, plants can drastically improve indoor air quality. Plants reduce the carbon dioxide in the air and remove toxins.