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WLLW's Guide to Mineral Paints
WLLW explores the category of mineral paints, and tests four that meet our requirements for creating healthy and sustainable interior spaces.
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Schotten & Hansen: Wood Flooring For Healthier, More Sustainable Homes
Schotten & Hansen combine traditional craftsmanship with modern technology and their own blend of natural finishes to bring warmth and character to interiors.
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Healthy Materials Series: Wool
WLLW explores wool’s rich history, natural health benefits and its enduring role as a sustainable, versatile material in interior design and everyday living.
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Invisible Series: What's Really in Your Home
Peel back the layers of your home's interior, from the paint on the walls to the upholstery on your sofa, discovering the hidden chemical world in everyday items and learning how to foster a healthier living environment.
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Designer's Guide to Green Certifications
A Primer for Healthy Homes and Interiors. Who is gatekeeping wellness and sustainable design? WLLW looks at green certifications in brief.
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Biophilic Living with Interior Architect Anna Tiula
WLLW speaks with Helsinki-based Anna Tiula, delving into the heart of Nordic biophilic design, its intrinsic connection to local nature and its significant influence on wellbeing.
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Clayworks: Using Natural Clay Plasters for Calm and Low-Impact Interiors
Clayworks is embracing natural materials and traditional techniques, to add depth, tonal interest and warmth to healthy homes.
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What is Wellness Design?
How to apply the principles of Wellness Design to the Healthy Home.
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The Impact of Natural Light on Your Living Space
Natural light is more important to your health than you think. Here’s what to do if your home doesn’t get enough.
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Peeling Back the Truth On What’s In Conventional Paint
Many paints can be hazardous both to human health and the environment. Here’s how to find a safe alternative.
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Embrace Tradition: The Health and Sustainability Benefits of Vintage Furniture
WLLW explores the advantages of opting for vintage furniture and finding pieces that both enhance our wellbeing and tell a story.
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Yarn Collective's Shift to Responsible Textiles
From vibrant spice-inspired hues to ethical sourcing, discover how Yarn Collective is crafting an environmentally conscious future in textiles.
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New Homes: How Toxic Are Some Modern Construction Materials?
WLLW investigates the health risks associated with building materials and how to develop a healthier new build.
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Well Home In…Højby, Denmark
In the latest in this series which shines a light on healthy and low-impact homes, we visit Maria Høgh Heilmann’s cabin, the perfect family retreat.
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How to…Design a Bedroom for Optimal Health and Sleep
Discover WLLW's strategies to design a bedroom that supports restorative sleep and overall physical and mental wellbeing.
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The Big Picture: A Conversation with Material Cultures
Founding director Paloma Gormley sits down with WLLW to discuss the potential of bio-based materials, and how we can make meaningful progress towards a post-carbon built environment.
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Wood Shingles: a Cut Above
Inexpensive, sustainable, versatile and efficient: why the humble wood shingle is enjoying a revival in the building industry.
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Color Theory in Practice
In this introductory guide, WLLW explores the influence of colors within the home and how they can transform your living space.
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Breathe Easy in Your Home All Year Round
Drawing on Harvard professor and healthy buildings expert Joseph G. Allen's research, it's crucial to understand how environmental pollution impacts the air quality inside our homes, emphasizing the need to reassess and improve the air we breathe indoors.
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Global Vernacular Design: Cooling Homes with Lessons from the Past
WLLW explores how age-old architectural techniques from the world’s warmest areas can help us create sustainable homes that are comfortable even in extreme heat.
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WLLW's Gift Guide 2023
Our editors' roundup of the best healthy and sustainable home products to gift in 2023.
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Designing for Net-Zero: A Conversation with Architect Ben Ridley
WLLW spoke with London-based architect Ben Ridley about how the Passivhaus design approach and low-energy innovations are shaping the next generation of healthy, sustainable homes.
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How to...Design a Home Office That Supports Your Wellbeing
WLLW explores how to craft a home office that elevates both your work and wellbeing through intentional design choices.
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Nature's Palette: Crafting Sustainable Luxury with de Le Cuona's Textiles
WLLW explores de Le Cuona's healthy and sustainable textiles with palettes and textures that evoke the natural world.
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How to...Design a Kitchen That Supports Your Wellbeing, Part 2
WLLW continues our kitchen series by focusing on functional design that can positively impact our overall health.
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Room Refresh: Simple Changes for a Healthier Home - The Kitchen Edition
Transform your space with environmentally-friendly updates that promote wellness and sustainability, one easy swap at a time.
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2024 Design Predictions for a Healthy and Sustainable Home
WLLW looks at the design concepts expected to shape our living spaces in the year ahead.
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Green Certifications: Declare Label and the Red List
WLLW delves into Declare label and the Red List as the demand for sustainable and healthy products intensifies, alongside the mounting pressure for transparent information for specifiers and consumers.
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Home: Beyond Shelter, Our Foundation for Mental Wellbeing
WLLW delves into the ways our homes influence and actively bolster our mental health and overall wellbeing.
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Designing an Energy-Efficient and Comfortable Home, Part 2
In the continuation of this series, we delve deeper into energy-saving measures for enhancing sustainable and healthy homes.
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Well Home In…Round Top, Texas
For the latest in this series, which highlights healthy and sustainable homes from around the world, we look at a wellness-focused property by Lake Flato Architects, designed for a senior couple to age gracefully in place.
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Inclusive by Design: Creating Healthy and Sustainable Homes for All
In this series of articles WLLW will explore how inclusive design principles can enrich the lives of those with different individual needs and lead to healthier, happier homes.
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Inside the Workshop: Sawyer Made
WLLW speaks with Vermont's Sawyer Made on blending traditional woodworking with craftsmanship in Windsor chairmaking.
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Illuminating Health: The Impact of Light in Our Homes
WLLW explores the transformative power of home lighting on mood, sleep and overall wellness.
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Why WLLW Now?
It is my mission to connect our readers with a global network of experts, designers and makers.
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Healthy Materials Series: Cork
In the first of our new series, WLLW takes a comprehensive look at the health and environmental impacts of cork.
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The Warmth of Wellbeing: Improving Thermal Comfort at Home
Discover the impact of optimizing your home's temperature, humidity and airflow on your overall health.
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Material Health: Design Frontiers
The book ‘Material Health: Design Frontiers’ from Parsons Healthy Materials Lab explores the critical topics of material health in the era of climate crisis.
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Green Certifications: The Living Product Challenge
We take a look at the Living Product Challenge, a green framework and certification program that elevates product sustainability standards.
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Let Nature In: The Power and Purpose of Biophilic Design
Bringing nature into homes through biophilic design improves wellbeing and connects us to the natural world.
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Rooted in Tradition: Crafting Heirloom Pieces with Munder-Skiles
WLLW highlights the story of Munder-Skiles, a manufacturer of outdoor furniture whose pieces are designed and built to last for generations.
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What is 1% for the Planet?
WLLW reaffirms its commitment to healthy home design and a sustainable future by joining 1% for the Planet.