Designing Your Home For The Senses

Another strategy is to focus on a human-centric design approach by choosing materials or components that may be interacted with and can contribute to the household’s physical and emotional experience as a whole. While selecting décor or furniture, it’s necessary to consider how the item will work with other chosen items, if it’s capable of enriching the intent of the space and how it will interact with the space’s natural elements, such as air, sound, light and temperature.

For additional design tips on engaging each of the five senses, please see the accompanying resource.

Graphic created by Nicole Franco.