De-cluttering your home and making it a haven

Does Colour Affects Your Baby’s Behaviour

When decorating a room, we base our colour choices on our preferences and, while that’s ok most of the time, colour selection is not exactly a simple process. Each colour has different effects on the human body and mind and it’s important to take these into consideration, especially when decorating the nursery room. After all, you want what’s best for your baby. Learn how colour influences the development and behaviour of your child and find the best colour for his or her room.

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Introduce good air quality to your home

Here are some areas for consideration when creating a safe environment:

Location

When designing your baby’s nursery or bedroom, keep in mind where it is located in your home.  Ideally creating an environment in a quieter part of the house and not facing the street would help with noise and unnatural street lights.

Ventilation

Your children’s bedrooms should be designed to eliminate airborne contaminants and prevent excessive moisture in the air. Contaminants and moisture can encourage the growth of allergenic mould. It is reco...

​It goes without saying that all parents want to give their children the best possible start in life and, for many this begins even well before conception.  This article focuses on the “Nursery” as many find that during the “Nursery Project” there are so many products out there, each claiming to have your baby’s health and well being in mind and it can be hard to choose what you need and what you need to avoid.

Your newborn will be spending a lot of time in the nursery and as you know they are particularly sensitive to envi...

Sustainable homes are homes that are environmentally friendly and self-sustaining. The demand of such homes is becoming more and more due to the public awareness of their existence and of their benefits. A lot more contractors are coming up with building sustainable homes while more and more people are devising better ways of making the houses more sustainable. Sustainable houses rely on the utilization of naturally provided resources to run their systems, that is, water and electricity as well as other systems such as coo...

Today, sustainable living is a hot topic. Many people may have heard about sustainable living and are not sure exactly what it means. At its most basic, sustainable living means living a lifestyle that uses as few resources as possible and causes the least amount of environmental damage for future generations to deal with. There are many different forms of sustainable living, since the concept can apply to almost every part of daily life.

In terms of housing, sustainable homes are built in such a way that they use few nonre...

Organic living can be defined as a lifestyle that adopts an 'organic' way of life. The term ‘organic’ is used to mean as close to natural as possible. It is a lifestyle that therefore advocates for various healthy decisions that affect a person's food, products used and other areas of life. Organic living is becoming more and more popular and is being advocated for by more environmental conservationists.

The choice to live an organic life does not only have positive benefits to you as an individual, but also to the environm...

After the birth of her child, Jessica Alba was inspired to create a company that centred on the production of safe products for babies that did not have any contaminants or pollutants. She was also motivated by her childhood which was coupled with illnesses along the way. Her drive was increased when her mother recommended a baby product that gave her child welts.

She started the company in 2011 with co-founders Brian Lee, Maria Ivette, Sean Kane and Christopher Gavigan. The company initially sold its items online via a mo...

Children who sleep in bedrooms containing fumes from water-based paints and solvents are two to four times more likely to suffer allergies or asthma, according to a new scientific study

Children who sleep in bedrooms containing fumes from water-based paints and solvents are two to four times more likely to suffer allergies or asthma, according to a new scientific study.
 
Scientists measured the compounds – propylene glycol and glycol ethers, known as PGEs – in the bedroom air of 400 toddlers and preschoolers, and discove...