Redesigning your home could make you happier and healthier.

I know it seems a bit far-fetched. Shouldn't we be taking antibiotics, medicine, and vitamins for better health? However, more and more research is leaning toward the healing effects of a functional home - where you are surrounded by the things you love which are highlighted in a beautiful way. A warm, comfortable home, where we feel at ease, reduces stress. This, in turn, helps our natural immune system fight disease.

Let's look at some of the things that cause us stress in our home:

• A home that doesn't work functionally. We don't have a spot to do our crafts; we constantly have to move everything from one room to another to find a place to do something; there isn't a place to comfortably fold the laundry; we don't have enough storage space.
• A home that's not balanced or doesn't flow. We just don't feel good in rooms where the visual weight of things isn't balanced, or where we are blocked by furniture.
• A home where we constantly look at things we dislike. For example, gifts and inherited possessions that we keep and display because they're expensive, but they don't bring us any joy.
• A home that's filled with clutter. Think of the stress when you can't find what you want at a moment's notice? Or when you constantly have to sort through a pile of clutter to find something, then finally go out and buy a new one because you can't find the old one?
• A home where there's work to be done. Every time you look around, you see that window that has to be replaced, the door falling off the hinges, the wall that has to be repainted.

By contrast imagine coming home and getting a little lift when you go through the door. Imagine just looking around your rooms and loving your home. Imagine feeling relaxed and comfortable in your home. Imagine the joy of finding whatever you want at a moment's notice and being able to do the tasks you need to do in your home with ease.

You can find an Interior ReDesigner at casaGURU to help you get your health back within a home you love. All of them are licensed, insured and homeowner rated. You deserve it.

Interior ReDesigners help you create that home you love using your existing furnishings. It's not decorating. It's creating a home that is functional, warm and inviting and fills your heart with love.

Emer Schlosser
		About the author:
		Always a fan of words in various glorious forms – novels, dialogue, lyrics, etc – Emer translated her passion into a writing career in 2005. She has since supplied gossip on celebrities to Canadian Press, interviewed individuals from the arts for Inside Entertainment, expressed her fondness for food for Cheese Boutique’s blog, & co-founded, edited and contributed to iheartthemusic.com. At the moment she’s taking the mystery out of Green Living and providing some great tips on Home Renovation, Decorating & Design and Curb Appeal to the members of casaGURU.com. casaGURU, “the homeowner’s home online”, is a free web community that connects homeowners and local house experts.
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