Wellness by Design: A Room-by-Room Guide to Optimizing Your Home for Health, Fitness, and Happiness

Description

Design your home to optimize your healthy lifestyle with this room-by-room guide from certified kitchen designer and wellness design consultant Jamie Gold. Residential designer Jamie Gold has spent years exploring how simple changes to things like lighting, fixtures, storage, and outdoor space can impact our health and wellness. In Wellness by Design, Gold offers a room-by-room guide to refreshing your space so that it supports your wellness journey. Good news, it doesn't require a yoga room and can be done in small apartments as well as large houses. This book explains how simple changes can make a huge difference in how you feel every day. You'll learn: - How to maximize accessibility and organization in your kitchen for faster, healthier, and more delicious meals. - How to make easy fixes to your ventilation system to help ease symptoms of asthma and allergies - How to optimize your home office to eliminate back, neck, and foot pain. - How to enhance your bathroom tub and shower spaces to support fitness goals and simplify family life. - And much more! It's time for your home to work as hard as you do to support your health. With the right organization and interior design, your home can help you maintain and improve your health in a variety of ways, from improving health and preventing disease to encouraging clean eating, sustainable living, safety, fitness, serenity, and joy. Whether you're building your dream home or decorating your new rental, this book will help you keep your fitness goals and stay on track for a long and healthy life.

Jamie Gold, CKD, CAPS, MCCWC is the author of New Kitchen Ideas That Work and The New Bathroom Idea Book, both from Taunton Press. She has worked as a professional kitchen and bath designer for sixteen years and is a Mayo Clinic certified wellness coach, consulting on wellness design for homeowners and the building industry. She was named a Top 50 Innovator by leading trade magazine Kitchen & Bath Design News in its inaugural list, and has written for New Home Source, Forbes, and Houzz.

"Not only is this book helpful, but it is a fresh take on one of my favorite types of books-home decorating and design....The concept is exceedingly timely." -Judy Christie, Shreveport Times