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Wellness For Your Home

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You’ve heard the term wellness – but do you really know the impact your home has on your wellbeing?

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What is wellness?

It’s the active process of making daily healthy lifestyle choices – which lead to long-term healthy habits – to create a physically, mentally, and socially healthy and fulfilling life. It’s about more than just being illness-free:it’s about thriving, not surviving.

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Why is your home connected to wellness?

The environment around you, particularly your home, deeply impacts your mental and emotional wellbeing. We all need to actively create spaces that stimulate, soothe or energise our senses in our desired way. Depending on which area of your home, the desired outcome changes – it could be productivity, relaxation or connection.

By creating spaces that inspire healthy habits and promote wellbeing, you’ll have a home that’s built on the value of wellness.

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How do you give your home a wellness makeover?

It’s easier than you think! We’ve found three key wellness areas that simple changes can have a big impact on when it comes to peace of mind, mood and stress.

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Smart home
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Family in kitchen

Create Peace of Mind

Automate Everyday Tasks

We make hundreds of choices every day, and with each decision we drain our energy and brain power. In fact, many successful people deliberately reduce their daily choices – Steve Jobs wore the same thing every day; while former US President Barack Obama only wore grey or black suits – so they don’t waste their energy.

One of the easiest and most efficient ways to reduce unnecessary choices is to automate your home so that your technology gets tasks done for you.

Create Peace of Mind

Automate Everyday Tasks

Our Wiser Iconic Connected light switches and sockets paired with our Wiser Room app can:

  • Schedule lights to be come on when you come home
  • Schedule all your lights and sockets to turn off at the end of the day
  • Make sure your pets aren’t left in the dark when you’re not home
  • Turn your Christmas lights on and off each holiday season
  • Turn your appliances off – such as your washing machine, dryer and TV 

 

Create Peace of Mind

Automate Everyday Tasks

By clearing your mind of little tasks and things to remember, you’ll be able to concentrate on what matters most – family, friends, free time, what’s for dinner. Plus you’ll save money and energy resources, further giving yourself peace of mind.

View our Wiser Iconic Connected light switches and sockets

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Safety Lit

Invest in Good Lighting

Light affects our health significantly. As living beings, we need a healthy amount of exposure to light, while ensuring we don’t overexpose ourselves – that’s why blue light is important.

Blue light is present in a number of light sources, like sunlight, light emitting from electronic devices and artificial light. An appropriate amount of blue light is needed for good health – it boosts alertness, helps memory and cognitive function, as well as elevating mood.

By making smart light choices in your home, you can have a direct impact on your wellbeing.

View our blue lights

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Grey bedroom
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Lounge room dark lighting

Boost Your Mood

Colour yourself happy

Colour always influences your mood as it activates the senses. Ensure you’re using the right colours in the right spaces to create the desired feeling.

Light colours make rooms feel larger and brighter, while darker colours give spaces intimate feelings which are good for ambience and connectedness. 

To inspire feelings of:

  • Relaxation and calming anxiety – use blues, greens, off-white and cool greys
  • Happiness and positive feelings – use yellows, oranges and pinks
  • Creativity and passion – use purple hues, like violet 
  • Alertness and strength – use red

When picking your wall colours, make sure you factor in your switch and powerpoint skins so they aren’t jarring and align with the mood of the room.

View our switch and powerpoint skins

Boost Your Mood

Opt for textures

Along with colour, texture also activates your senses. It’s an easy one to play with as it’s often through your furnishings – cushions, blankets, sheets, towels, throws – which you can change based on the weather, season and mood you’re hoping to achieve.

Create comfort and warmness in winter with cashmere, chunky kits, soft and cozy blankets. While in summer, create a cooling sensation with silk, cotton and linen.

Boost Your Mood

Mood Lighting 

It’s got this name for a reason – light directly impacts our temperament. Spaces should always be designed around natural light where possible, using blue light (mentioned above) and also smart lighting systems that match our natural daily rhythm.

That’s why our LED lights come in three colour temperatures:

  • Cool white: task lighting for productive areas such as the kitchen, laundry, study and home office
  • Warm white and daylight: ideal for living areas, bedrooms and spaces where you relax

Make sure you’re inspiring your desired mood through your lighting choice.

View our LED lights 

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Bathroom Sink
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Outdoor dining
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Family on bed

Reduce Stress Levels

Plant it

Noticed how plants (and plant mums!) are taking over the internet? The positive impact plants can have on your stress and anxiety levels will amaze you!

By decorating and adding plants to your home, you’ll:

  • Improve the air quality and regulate humidity
  • Reduce stress levels
  • Increase memory retention and concentration
  • Look chic and stylish 

Pick plants that suit your lifestyle – there’s a lot of low maintenance plants (like rubber plants) that will stay beautiful with minimal effort on your part.

Reduce Stress Levels

Declutter

If your grandmother ever said “a tidy space equals a tidy mind” – she was 100% right. When our surroundings are cluttered, full, messy and disorganised, it subconsciously makes our mind feel so too.  

You know that feeling when the kitchen is completely clear and free, and you feel like you can just be? That’s the feeling you want to inspire as much as possible.

Pro Decluttering Tips:

  • Make sure everything has place – if it doesn’t, it’ll end up on the bench, floating, cluttering or it can get lost.
  • Create an ‘undecided’ box – if you’re struggling to let go of items. Store it away and if you don’t look for anything for 3 months, donate, recycle or gift the contents accordingly. 
  • Do one room or section at a time – decluttering can be overwhelming. Start with one room or section per week and you’ll have a sense of achievement as you work your way through your home.

Reduce Stress Levels

Space to connect

When you’re in an environment where you feel like you have to be ‘on’,  paying attention or concentrating, you’re never really resting. Create a space in your home – it can just be a corner – that is simply for sitting and not doing anything.

Don’t face the furniture towards the TV or any item where tasks are completed (facing a window is ideal) and use it as a space where you can connect and chat with the family or sit by yourself. The goal is to rest and restore your mind – a key element of wellness.

 

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