How to make your home more beautiful and why it matters?
When you think about a beautiful home, what comes to your mind?
This picture-perfect-looking home in an interior design magazine that sometimes looks like no one lives there? Or any home that feels welcomed, harmonious, balanced, and peaceful?
How would you define a beautiful home? Think about it from different perspectives: What does it look like? Smell like? Sound like? What colors are there? What about your home – is your home beautiful?
What is even a beautiful home? This question is difficult to answer, as people define beauty in many ways. We all know that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So what you just pictured as a beautiful home might not always be that beautiful for someone else.
In a home setting, people mix up beauty and aesthetics.
Aesthetics is a core design principle that defines pleasurable and enjoyable qualities. It studies the criteria of what is beautiful. It is created using the following design factors: shape, visual weight, pattern, scale, color, movement, and balance. Aesthetics do not answer the question if your home is beautiful.
But you can answer that. I truly hope that you would say that yes, my home is beautiful.
Why?
Because your home – and that you think and feel that it is beautiful – affects your wellbeing.
Dr. Esther Sternberg – a pioneer in Healing Home research – talks about a theory of beautiful places:
Iin our brain, we have a spot for beautiful places, and when we look at a beautiful place, we get a rush of endorphins.”
Endorphins can be released in many ways during enjoyable activities. These endorphins are feel-good hormones that, e.g., help relieve pain, boost your positive mindset, reduce anxiety, and make you feel better.
When you spend about 50-60% of your time at home – and if you are in a beautiful space – that you enjoy, it releases these feel-good hormones and boosts your wellbeing.
A beautiful home also raises your energy vibration because these places make you feel harmonious, at peace, and joyful – and all of these lovely emotions vibrate on a higher frequency.
How to create a more beautiful home?
1. As always, it starts with you because your home is your mirror.
Bring beauty within you by meditating on it: Take a moment to define what a beautiful person is like. Remember to describe both the inner and outer qualities. Do you feel beautiful?
Listen and accept whatever comes up. If you do not feel beautiful, do some self-healing: question your core beliefs and start transforming them into loving words.
2. Look around your home. How do you see your home – is it beautiful?
What aspect of it would you like to make even more beautiful?
How does your home reflect your beauty or the fact that you do not feel beautiful?
3. Look at the space through the design core principles (that define the enjoyable and pleasurable qualities): shape, visual weight, pattern, scale, color, movement, balance, e.g.:
– How could you add more beautiful shapes to the space?
– Could you bring there more beauty with a different type of pattern?
– Is the scale of the furniture correct?
– Do you like the color of that space?
4. Think about your dream home – that space that is so stunning – what small things could you bring from that dream home into your real home right now?
Heal with me for a sec.
Your home matters. Even a tiny change in your home will change energies in your life – and within you. It does matter that it is beautiful for you. As I always say, it is all related.
Resources:
- Endorphins: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/23040-endorphins
- Interview with Doctor Esther Sternberg: https://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/how-does-your-personal-environment-impact-your-wellbeing
Essi Koski-Lammi
Essi Koski-Lammi is a business mentor, intuitive healer and conscious interior designer who works at the intersection of identity, business and space. She supports women founders and entrepreneurs in stepping into the next level of who they are becoming and creating businesses and environments that truly reflect them. With an MSc in Business, a background in global branding and marketing, a diploma in interior design, and over 20 years of experience in meditation and energy healing, Essi brings together strategic clarity and deep inner work. Through her work, women gain the courage to lead their businesses more visibly, make aligned decisions and shape businesses, homes and workspaces that support their growth and wellbeing.
