Home for the Soul: Sustainable and Thoughtful Decorating and Design

Home for the Soul is a book about creating a considerate and sustainable home that sparks happiness and reflects the spirits, passions, and tastes of its inhabitants. It suggests using non-toxic, vegan paints and fabrics, and visiting soulful homes and their owners to discover how they have created interiors that are beautiful yet responsible.

Format: Hardback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 22 September 2020
Publisher: Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd

Creating a home that is both considerate and sustainable while also evoking joy and reflecting the spirits, passions, and tastes of its inhabitants is the focus of Home for the Soul. A change in awareness is leading us to be more mindful of the materials we use, the finite nature of Earth's resources, and how to minimize our impact on the planet. In Home for the Soul, Sara Bird and Dan Duchars demonstrate how to create a beautiful home that suits its inhabitants while causing minimal harm to our increasingly fragile environment. They suggest using non-toxic, vegan paints and fabrics, among other eco-friendly practices.

The first section of the book offers ideas for incorporating stylish yet sustainable elements into a home, covering areas such as lighting, linens, and furniture. In the second section, Sara and Dan visit soulful homes and their owners to explore how they have created interiors that are both beautiful and responsible.

Home for the Soul emphasizes the importance of a mindful, ethically sourced, and eco-friendly ethos in modern homemaking. It explores sustainable, renewable, and reclaimed materials, as well as the use of traditional skills and the selection of organic and hand-produced homewares. Regardless of the age or style of a building, or individual preferences, there are simple ways to infuse warmth, contentment, and soul into our homes.

By adopting these practices, we can create homes that not only nourish our physical well-being but also nurture our emotional and spiritual needs, fostering a deeper connection with ourselves, our communities, and the natural world.

Weight: 1018g
Dimension: 223 x 261 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781788792417