Design a Healthy Home, Oliver Heath
Design a Healthy Home, Oliver Heath
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Design a Healthy Home
100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

Author: Oliver Heath

Narrator: Oliver Heath

Unabridged: 4 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: DK

Published: 08/31/2021


Synopsis

Simple, practical advice on how to design your home for health and happiness. Create a healthy, happy home with 100 design ideas to support your physical and mental wellbeing.

Using the latest evidence and research in wellbeing and Biophilic Design, learn how to transform every space in your home to create a restorative and nurturing environment. Discover the many benefits of connecting to nature, maximising natural light, improving air quality, and the right way to add colour, texture, and pattern to create spaces that improve relaxation, recuperation, social connections, and sleep.

Together with the research team at Oliver Heath Design, including sustainability expert Victoria Jackson, psychologist Eden Goode, and designer Jo Baston, Oliver has devised each solution with easy implementation in mind. Whatever your budget and whether you rent or own your property you can use these stylish fun and affordable ideas to make your home a sanctuary.

Author: Founder of Oliver Heath Design Ltd, an architectural and interior design practice focussed on delivering health and wellbeing in the built environment, Oliver Heath is a global expert in biophilic design. He has presented television shows such as BBC Changing Rooms and BBC DIY SOS, and frequently acts as a spokesperson for the UK's Department for Energy and Climate Change, the Energy Saving Trust (EST) and the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP). Oliver also writes for the Guardian, Grand Designs magazine and House Beautiful.

About The Author

Oliver Heath is the founder of Oliver Heath Design Ltd, an architectural and interior design practice focused on delivering health and wellbeing in the built environment. Since 1998 he has presented television shows such as BBC Changing Rooms and BBC DIY SOS. He frequently acts as a media spokesperson for the UK's Department for Energy and Climate Change, WRAP, and the Energy Saving Trust. Oliver also writes regularly for the Guardian, Grand Designs magazine, and House Beautiful.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lori on October 30, 2022

My library was closing in 5 minutes and I was picking up something I had on hold,so as I walked by the ' new arrivals' shelf I noticed the pretty cover and snatched it up. Well. I didn't realize that all the pictures were drawings nor that the book was set up as 100 mini one page blurbs of varying h......more

Goodreads review by Kalliste on September 13, 2022

This book definitely gave me some ideas on changes I could make around the house, but a lot of it didn't feel relevant unless I wanted to completely re-fit my house. It's also quite UK centric. There were things I had never heard of and many of them not relevant if you don't live in the UK.......more

Goodreads review by Anjana on May 21, 2022

I have been on a home improvement kick lately. Not that I am implementing everything I see immediately, but I am enjoying picking up different ideas which I may someday use in some small way or the other. This particular book was a lot more helpful than I expected. It is more along the lines of what......more

Goodreads review by Y on July 20, 2021

Quick and simple to read. Borrowed this book from the library and loved how the author illustrates each point with some pictures. It really helps a visual person like me to understand the concepts. The idea of biophillia in our home makes the case for furniture designs that mimic things we see in nat......more