Six posts from the archive to help you get a head start on refreshing your home for the new season. Starting with the bedroom. Plus free bedroom detox download within it!
Bedroom keeping you awake?
Concluding the bedroom focus, as fully explored this month over in the Happy Insiders Club, I’ve gathered together the last few details to know, from my recommended best earplugs to the best mattress brand. Plus all my previous posts on sleep-related issues. Let’s go…
Clear the clutter. Calm your body. Sleep deeper — starting tonight. Because your bedroom isn’t just where you sleep, it’s where your nervous system resets, your hormones recalibrate, and your energy is restored. But too often, this vital space quietly works against us. Plus post includes a free checklist to help you gently detox your bedroom. No overwhelm. No pressure. Just simple, soothing steps to create a calmer, more restorative space, starting with one small shift today.
Bathrooms: Back to You
This month inside the Happy Insiders Club, we’re stepping into the bathroom: the smallest room in most homes, but the one most closely tied to our sense of renewal.
The bathroom is where you start your day, and also where you strip it away — body, mind, and spirit — and meet yourself in the mirror, becoming voluntarily vulnerable. However too often, it’s clinical, cluttered, or neglected, just porcelain and plumbing, rather than a soothing more emotive space for pausing, let alone resetting.
Cinderella rooms
Libraries, larders and linen closets: there is something deeply romantic and comforting about these rooms. Seeing a cupboard full of fresh food, a pile of clean towels or rows of books waiting to be read, holds so much promise. You can even buy wallpaper that replicates the look of a library wall. Better, though, if yo…
Libraries, larders and linen closets: there is something deeply romantic and comforting about these rooms. Seeing a cupboard full of fresh food, a pile of clean towels or rows of books waiting to be read, holds so much promise. So how to have them even when you don’t believe you have enough room.
How to do your hallway
According to Pinterest, while we love our back gardens (if we’re lucky enough to have one), in 2023 all eyes will be on the front-of-house. “Rising searches suggest that Boomers to Gen X will be pampering their porches and dolling up their doorways” reveals the site.
Even as house prices continue to rise, people will look to add value to their homes in personal and budget-friendly ways. Hallway and porch makeovers may sound small, but they can pack a big punch for people who want welcoming exteriors to match their individualistic interiors.
Six sexy home updates
I think the measure of ‘home’ lies in the little details that max the comfort factor, delight the eye (in a soothing way), and create the ease with which your home enables you to relax. These things are not about statement ‘pieces’ or the latest wallpapers. They are seldom very expensive. But they
How to pretty and personalise your home with things that you will take with you when you move. Things that become your signature. The instant things you do, or unpack, that make a space your own.
And finally… because it’s Spring (still, just about!)…
How to deep clean any room
Better Home: Better Health with Michelle Ogundehin, helping you harness the power of home for health, healing and happiness.