Tag: psychology of interiors
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The Psychology of Interiors – Chapter 3: Natural Materials, Biophillia, and the Calm Interior
Chapter 2 showed that meaningful objects become emotional anchors. The next layer of psychological impact is the substrate itself – the timber underfoot, the linen that filters light, the clay that muffles sound. Decades of environmental-psychology and building-science research converge on one finding: natural materials stabilise physiology and evaluate mood more reliably than synthetic look-alike.…
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The Psychology of Interiors – Chapter 2: Nostalgia, Rarity & The Story-Telling Home
Last week we saw how clear sight-lines and uncluttered layouts calm the nervous system. Yet even the most elegantly zoned plan can still feel hollow if the things inside it ring false. Objects are emotional amplifiers: they cue memory, signal identity, and – even before we notice – tilt our physiology. Vintage hunting is therefore…
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