Today Najma continues her conversation with interior designer, Anna Wcislo, who outlines a number of practical steps we can take when choosing furniture and accessories, in order to improve our health and wellbeing. She discusses the importance of identifying your needs and requirements when laying out your home and gives ideas of how to create multi-functional spaces. Now we are spending more of our time indoors, she explains how to organise a home office ergonomically; the importance of air quality and humidity for our physical health and how to improve the condition of the air in our homes and evaluates the effectiveness of plants. She also provides a fascinating insight into research which has linked the use of artworks to mental and physical healing.
In today’s episode, Anna Wisco continues to discuss the link between our home and well-being.
Content
- How to break up different areas of a multi-functional space
- The theory of prospect and refuge
- How to organise a home office area according to ergonomic principals
- The importance of air quality, and how to improve the condition of the air in your home
- The way in which texture affects our sense of temperature
- Shapes and colours
- She also discusses research which has linked the use of art to mental and physical restoration
