Home Design Chat with Nancy

If your Home isn't Healthy and Happy, find out why.

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Nancy’s guest this week is wellness design consultant, industry speaker and author Jamie Gold, CKD, CAPS, MCCWC. Jamie’s latest book, Wellness by Design: A Room-by-Room Guide to Optimizing Your Home for Health, Fitness and Happiness (Simon & Schuster/Tiller Press, September 2020), is the first comprehensive consumer guide to this very timely topic.

Wellness design was emerging as a trend before the pandemic.

  • Covid has just accelerated the pace.
  • With so many people spending so many more hours at home, everyone is evaluating how well their spaces are performing for them. In homes across the country

    • Wellness design defined:

    • Creating spaces that support the physical and emotional well-being of their occupants.
    • What it can do to enhance your home and life
    • For designers it gives you a framework for discussing it with your clients.
    • For consumers it gives you criteria to prioritize your investments.

      • Five Facets of Wellness Design:

      We’ll discuss what these terms mean, what products fit into them and how they can enhance people’s homes and health.

      The pandemic has made these items more urgent than ever.

      • Health & Fitness
      • Safety & Security
      • Accessibility
      • Functionality
      • Comfort & Joy

        • This podcast sponsored by Premier Lighting

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