Sarah Martin | Beautiful Chaos

Whether you’re still working from a home office, meal-prepping in your kitchen on weekends, or spending most of your leisure time looking at other homes for sale on your favorite real estate app, you may feel your home is not the calming space you’d hope it to be. From adding cozy blankets and scented candles to dedicating a space to practice meditation, creating a relaxing house is just a couple of design steps away. Either way, having a great blanket is one of the easiest relaxing home decor ideas to bring into your space to help you shut off for the evening. ) Take inspiration from nature for relaxing home decor If getting out into nature makes you feel more relaxed, look to nature for inspiration when designing your house to be more relaxing.

While staying healthy has been on the forefront of most everyone’s mind, it is actually the correlation between your mind + tummy that provide you a strong immune system. Furthermore, stress, fear and anxiety attribute to 90% of illness and disease—as these emotions release cortisol—which destroys healthy gut biome With 10 years of working to overcome multiple autoimmune disorders (in both myself and some of our kiddos), I have learned a lot about what it truly means to care for the immune system and live healthily. In our kitchen, we cook up organic, white quinoa for those filling comfort food recipes that usually call for grains.

Most bath & body products contain harmful ingredients that you really don’t want soaking into your skin and absorbed by your body—causing your detox pathways to work extra hard—clean beauty gets results you really want from the inside out (healthy & beautiful). I love beautiful scents and these natural bath bombs/salts are divine and healthy/beautiful. It detoxifies and tightens your skin, refines your wrinkles and makes your face feel oh so soft! everything is talc-free, paraben-free, and bismuth oxychloride-free.

In order to create a balanced, natural feel, it’s important to start with a base of neutral furnishings with warm finishes. The antique brass in this floor lamp and the rattan materials in these living and dining room chairs add touches of warmth to the space. Add knitted pillows to spaces that need a touch of softness, and opt for a woven cream rug in larger spaces like your living room or dining room. You can do this with painted black trim or black windows, mixed-metal pieces (such as a chandelier or side table), and earthy touches like an artificial olive tree.