10 Designer Tips for Creating Mindfulness in Your Home

Spending more time at home has inspired many to rethink their living spaces. For example, instead of merely considering aesthetics, it's now become imperative to consider wellness issues in your home too. Doing so doesn't have to be expensive or time-consuming, but it does require being mindful of what kind of environment you'd like to create. To that end, we asked interior design experts who recently spoke on wellness-in-design at the Atlanta Decorative Arts Center (ADAC) for their best tips on creating a wellness-oriented home.

Jessica Davis, owner and creative director of Nest Studio and Atelier Davis, stresses the importance of making room for creative outlets, especially during a period when everyone is spending more time at home. In Jessica's case, that means indulging her painting hobby in a way that fits in with her space. One of her solutions involved buying a beautiful easel that she can leave out for convenience that also works well with her decor.

Make your children's creativity into a design feature. Jessica encouraged her children's creativity by allowing them to draw on a canvas with oil pastels (the painting is seen in the previous slide). "It’s like a living, breathing piece of artwork that inspires us to be creative," Jessica says. Jessica also added unicorn wallpaper in her daughter's room that allows her daughter to fill in the color. Not only do these avenues provide creative outlets, but they also eliminate unwanted clutter.

"Now that everyone’s working from home, it’s important to have a desk or workspace that’s facing a window to get natural light," Jessica recommends. It's even better if the window provides a changing view of the world, but anything is preferable to facing a wall.