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Forget Separate Hideaway Caves: Arrange Your Home’s Interior to Celebrate Human Connectivity
Your health, well-being, and relationships will improve if you do
According to the UK’s National Health Service and many well-being and longevity studies, human connection is an important factor that influences health and happiness. One way you can increase your own connectivity, and that of your family is to design your home’s interior with communal spaces in mind.
A recent home improvement show depicted a family who shared a house with small rooms jam-packed with household items.
Bags of clothes, gadgets and other paraphernalia filled every surface and left only a small walkway through each room.
The family, as you can imagine, rarely spent time together. They couldn’t because there wasn’t enough space in rooms to accommodate them all simultaneously.
As a result, they ate, studied, cooked, and rested in separate rooms. Experts reinvented the house, knocking down walls and altering areas to increase space and make it possible for the family to eat…
