How to Design Your Life and Home Now With 5 Simple Vision Board Ideas

Home + Life  By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA If you’re wondering how to reach your goals and dreams, creating a vision board may be the first step to help you find clarity. A vision board is a visualization tool to help you manifest your goals, hopes, dreams and desires. However, there’s one catch. You need to take action. Have fun creating a vision board to help you design a healthy home and life.  Vision…

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WELLNESS: 5 REASONS WHY YOU NEED TO ADD MORE YELLOW TO YOUR HOME AND LIFE

WELLNESS: 5 REASONS WHY YOU NEED TO ADD MORE YELLOW TO YOUR HOME AND LIFE

    Simply, wellness means health and happiness. Wellness for your home is simply about designing a healthy and happy home. Your home is a place to nourish your soul. Wellness is also about harmony and balance. To achieve harmony and balance, begin with small steps. Small steps can make a huge difference. Adding color to your home is one small step. Color is a very powerful design tool and adding pops of color to…

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Intersection of Design and Health: Designers Team Up to Bring Wellness Into the Home

Barbara Ficarra, Health Designer(TM) and Christopher Burns, Interior Designer Team Up to Bring Wellness Into Homes

Two creative designers, Christopher Burns, INTERIOR DESIGNER, and Barbara Ficarra, HEALTH DESIGNER team up to bring wellness into the home. Intersection of Design and Health Barbara Ficarra, registered nurse and HEALTH DESIGNER™ has made wellness her career by designing methods for wholesome living and empowering people to design their own healthy lifestyles. Barbara has joined forces with Christopher Burns, a sought-after New York City Interior Designer to integrate design and wellness into homes. Christopher has been…

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2018 Health and Wellness: Everyday Well Design

 2018 Health and Wellness: Everyday Well Design Health and wellness is about designing everyday well 2018 Health and Wellness: Everyday Well Design | Health and Wellness isn’t solely the absence of disease, it’s about designing everyday well. It’s about living joyfully in sync with your innermost self. It’s about nourishing your mind, body and soul. It’s mental well-being, physical well-being and spiritual and social well-being. It’s about designing a life and home you love with…

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Spring Clean Your Life With 4 Simple Healthy Design Makeovers

Design Your Life and Spring Clean Your Life with 4 Simple Healthy Design Makeovers Spring is a perfect time to spruce up and clear out the clutter, not only in your home, but also in your life with simple healthy design makeovers. So design your days and step into spring with these simple healthy makeovers. Spring is a perfect time to renew, revitalize, and reboot your body. It’s a perfect time to clear out the…

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3 SUREFIRE WAYS TO DESIGN YOUR OWN HAPPINESS

Think DESIGN when you think about your own happiness and health. What steps do you want to take to design a happy and healthy life? Do you think it’s possible to design your own happiness? A happy and healthy life is about living blissfully, with passion and purpose, and it’s about designing your life. The great news is that you don’t need a complete overhaul. Take simple and small actions every day to design the life…

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HEALTHY DESIGN | WHERE DO YOU UNWIND TO REDUCE STRESS?

    Where do you go to unwind to reduce stress?  Do you take time just for you? Do you have a place in your home where you go to unwind, relax and reduce stress? A place that brings you harmony, balance and happiness? A special sweet spot in your home where you can go to #take15minutes to focus on you?  I love this Tweet from Elle Décor Magazine, “A Colorful Look At The Home…

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