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Healthy Home Design episodes
- 030 // Part 4: Creating a Sustainable, Healthy Outdoor Environment at a Home Designed For Wellness
This week wraps up the Components of a Wellness House series, and we're going outdoors.
A wellness house merges the indoor and outdoor environments, so it's important to consider all the outdoor spaces early in the design process.
What You'll Discover:
- Best materials for your driveway, walkways and patios
- Important things to know about choosing concrete
- How to keep critters out of your house naturally
- What xeriscaping is and why it's important
- Ideas for outdoor play area surfaces
Helpful Links:
Belgard Permeable Pavers
Vertical Veggie Garden - Garden Tower Project
26 min - 029 // Part 3: What are the mechanical, lighting and water systems of a Wellness House?In part 3 of the Components of a Wellness House series, we're digging into systems: mechanical, lighting and water. In this episode you'll discover:
- Most efficient heating and cooling systems
- Water heating systems
- Mechanical ventilation strategies
- Net zero design
- Lighting for circadian rhythms
- Water efficiency techniques
22 min - 028 // Part 2: What Does It Feel Like To Live In A Wellness House?
In Part 2 of the Components of a Wellness House series, we're digging into what it feels like to live in a wellness home. We'll explore daylighting, ventilation, and how the essential spaces of a home designed for sustainability, health and well-being should feel and function. We'll look into wellness kitchen design, entryways, spa like bathrooms, fitness spaces and more.
26 min - 027 // Components of a Wellness House Part 1: Site, Orientation, Construction Type
What goes into make a home that's healthy for you and healthy for the planet? Find out the components of a wellness house in this 4 part podcast series.
This week, we're starting at the beginning, and talking about site selection, building orientation, construction types, and healthy and sustainable material choices.
Image of North and South facing bedrooms
31 min - 026 // Let's Make A Better PodcastSurvey Link I began this podcast to help families create healthier environments for their families, for others, and for the planet. And I want to make sure I'm delivering on that. As a health-conscious environmentalist myself that has experienced the power of a healthy home, the hope for future episodes is to have more balance between healthy home design and sustainable home design education. Another hope for future episodes is to have the education be geared more towards major renovation / addition and new build projects. As an architect, this is where my passion and expertise lies. It's what I love to talk about and what I love helping families create. But I know how important it is to make steps towards creating a healthy and sustainable home even if you aren't planning a renovation or new build, so I plan to continue sharing tips for healthy home upgrades to you current home in at least 1 episode a month. But before I make any changes to this podcast, I want to hear from you. Click here to access the super quick survey so you can let me know what you want from this podcast and what I can do to make it better. Thank you so much for your help and your support of this podcast! The Healthy Home Design Podcast Survey2 min
- 025 // What's holding you back from creating a healthy home?
Do you have hesitations about building or renovating a health and wellness focused home? If so, you're not alone! The most common hesitations I hear involve affordability, stress and overwhelm, and feeling a bit hopeless about the endeavor. In this episode, we'll tackle each of these hesitations and show you how you can create a home that supports you family's health and well-being without breaking the bank or sending your stress levels soaring.
Helpful Links:
The Healthy Home Planning Workshop
10 free ways to improve your indoor air quality blog post
Sixclasses.org
22 min - 025 // What's holding you back from creating a healthy home?
Do you have hesitations about building or renovating a health and wellness focused home? If so, you're not alone! The most common hesitations I hear involve affordability, stress and overwhelm, and feeling a bit hopeless about the endeavor. In this episode, we'll tackle each of these hesitations and show you how you can create a home that supports you family's health and well-being without breaking the bank or sending your stress levels soaring.
Helpful Links:
The Healthy Home Planning Workshop
10 free ways to improve your indoor air quality blog post
Sixclasses.org
22 min - 024 // Sustainable Design vs Wellness Design - Is There A Difference?
On this week's Healthy Home Design podcast episode, I'm diving into what makes a sustainable home and how it relates to a home designed for health and wellness.
Are sustainable homes the same thing as wellness homes?
The answer is: Not necessarily.
Listen to the episode to learn:
- What it means to design and build a sustainable home
- What the differences are between a wellness home and a sustainable home
- What you can do to make sure your home is healthy for you and the planet
Links:
The Healthy Home Planning Workshop: This is a live, online workshop hosted by Kate Hamblet (licensed architect) designed to prepare you for the journey of creating your health and wellness focused home.
22 min - 023 // What Are The Steps to Designing and Building / Renovating a Healthy Home?
What you'll learn:
- What are the major milestones of the design process of a healthy home
- What should happen when
- Who needs to be involved in the design process
- What costs are involved in the process
Healthy Home Planning Workshop: https://www.balancedhomebalancedlife.com/workshop/
24 min - 022 // How To Create Your Bedroom Sanctuary
Everyone needs a little escape sometimes, especially these days! No place in your house to call your own? Learn how to transform your bedroom into a healthy retreat, a place you'll be able to escape to and focus on self-care.
You will learn:
- Why a healthy bedroom is so important
- How to create a calm bedroom
- How to improve bedroom air quality
- How to improve bedroom light quality
- Ways to protect against EMFs
Pure Living Space Discount Link (This is an affiliate link): https://purelivingspace.com/discount/Balanced
Building Biology EMF guide: https://buildingbiologyinstitute.org/free-fact-sheets/healthy-sleeping-sanctuary/
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About Healthy Home Design
From the publisher's feed
Healthy home design is where your healthy lifestyle and your love for protecting the planet meet. This podcast will help prepare you for your upcoming home renovation / addition or your new home build. It'll help guide you through the process of creating a home that'll enhance the health and happiness of your family, of all people on this earth, and of the earth itself.
Join licensed architect, Kate Hamblet as she dives into healthy home design topics such as sustainable design, reducing household toxins, creating a natural home, how to tackle the home planning process, and designing a functional and comfortable home.
When you live in a home designed for health and wellness, you're living in a home that allows you to easily prioritize self-care, that creates a better sleep environment, that boosts your immune system, that energizes you, that helps create more quality time with your family, that promotes happiness, and that protects the planet and all people on it.
A healthy home nourishes your body, your mind and the earth.