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Slow life: Make the most out of your sustainable home

Do you know the benefits of slow life and how it combines with the spaces of a sustainable home? Get the perfect mix to restore health to your body and mind. The rule is simple: ecological, simple, effective. In this article, we will explain how to make the most of your sustainable architecture home with this "new" way of life.

When we decide that our lifestyle will be healthier, more relaxed, and sustainable, we can refer to many things. We can also refer to the slow lifestyle, which has been expanding for decades, also in Spain. And if you are also thinking of acquiring or building an eco-sustainable home, the benefit can be 100%...


Slow Life: The Sustainability of Slow Cities

A lifestyle that is applied even at the level of a city or town, developing global environmental policies and sustainable mobility. Because the slow life, although it starts with the world of food, has one of its maxims in sustainability: living healthy and eco-friendly would be its expression.

Taking life more calmly, as before, is what we should try to do. And before there were not the current levels of stress, nor did people carry around tons of products, and even going to buy a coat was not a difficult task due to the existence of a thousand different stores... Just mentioning it already stresses us out: today we are going shopping... Ugh, the other one says... And the vortex of the city itself makes your spinning top rhythm and movement never stop.

Actually, when we talk about improving our lifestyle and making it healthier, what we want is to return to our roots. We want to feel better, healthier, less contaminated. Start seeing things for how simple they are. And always looking for the energies of the world around us, whether they are good or bad.


Slow Life at Home: The Well-being of Living

But what about the house? We spend half of our time (on average) at home, and much of this time is spent resting, sleeping, or doing household chores. Among the economic and ecological benefits of building a new eco-sustainable home, we find its ultimate goal of well-being.

Well-being that, if you are lucky enough to work from home, you should also accompany with a work hygiene in an appropriate environment. That is: direct natural lighting, ergonomic and healthy furniture, relaxation spaces, and controlled electromagnetic fields.

Because well-being is achieved in many ways but all of them make us feel good. And feeling good in an eco-sustainable home is easy because you do not pollute, do not spend as much at the end of the month, do not have dampness or drafts, do not waste energy, and do not run out of hot water. It seems obvious, but as usual, if we are not aware of what provides us well-being, we will never find the solution to our concerns.


Slow Life and Sustainability: Slow Homes

We can start with feng shui and stop there, or we can apply the best sustainable architecture techniques to create a slow home. For this, the slow life provides a global and transversal response to these modern evils, and helps us to become aware of everything we can change before anything else. And it is not just about moods, it also affects mobility. And the best part is that we can do it from a completely sustainable approach.

Does the car generate stress for you? Is it really that? Don't you feel stressed about the idea of not depending so much on your vehicle? Sometimes the simple act of stopping to think and find solutions is a real headache. A totally natural response in stressed people: procrastinating our brain is freed, at least temporarily, from what hurts it so much, but the stress goes away when you take your bike and start pedaling.


The power of the sun and sustainability

In a sustainable house, you can find sunlight every day of the year and a place to sunbathe at any time of the day. And thanks to its design, there are spaces dedicated solely to making your life easier. It's not just about sustainability through solar panels or electric vehicle charging, or even just air quality. It's a combination that acts organically to significantly improve your quality of life. If you add to that the fact that with self-promotion of sustainable housing, you can naturally achieve all these benefits in your architectural project, the risk of not feeling happy in your home decreases, almost disappearing. And with it, the fears of acquiring a house that still needs to be built.

And it's not just about fabrics, but also about lighting, as sunflowers know very well. If anyone knows about the sun, it's sunflowers: always seeking the best locations and orientations to take advantage of all their benefits in terms of vitamins and also serotonin, which as you may know, is the hormone of happiness.


Sustainability in interiors: the perfect well-being bonus

Slow life appears as one of the many responses that the Western world is trying to find to the pandemics of the 21st century. They tell you to take things more slowly... Hence the resounding success of therapies and new lifestyles that range from yoga to healthy eating and that have been changing the world for years. Or at least changing and improving our conception of the world.

If you also complete it with the appropriate decoration, distribution, and fabrics, the success will be total. Because everything adds up, from bedding, where, as you know, you spend more than a third of your life (it used to be half of your life, just to show you how things have changed XD), based on natural fabrics such as linen or cotton that will improve your sleep, allergies, and sensitivity to seasonal changes. On the other hand, materials and fabrics used in more humid areas of the house (including pool towels or those that you generally leave outside) should have a superior hydrophobic composition.


One step further: decorating the settings of a sustainable house

The same thing happens when we talk about decoration. We comment that feng shui has some help there. Its westernization (it is an ancient life philosophy from Asian countries) has turned it into a perfect ally for people who are lucky enough to sensitize their body to factors such as light, air, or even more delicate sensations, such as comfort, photosensitivity, sleep quality... The reason is obvious: those who follow its rules end up feeling that what was out of place in their room, living room, kitchen, or in their sleep, digestion, or even their child's allergy, improves.

Extrapolating the slow concept at the municipality level, the concept of a slow city appears: environmental policies and sustainable growth where urban growth and mobility are approached sustainably and efficiently, tourism is managed in a way that does not affect the city's daily life and routine, or where local commerce is prioritized, generating that rich and warm neighborhood fabric that we like to find when we go shopping.

If you want to start trying out what it's like to live in a slow town, we recommend that you visit one of the 100 municipalities in Europe that have already joined the slow movement. Let's go!