Create A Healthy Living Indoors With No Direct Sunlight

A lot of us have been spending time indoors since the pandemic started. This in return has reduced our travel time and increased our sleeping and eating cycles.

No long walk with colleagues post-lunch, no fresh air (or polluted) intake, no dressing up and showing up at the office on time, and more. Our current scenario has become more like, getting exposed to screen lights, answering phone calls, hitting mute buttons, shifting from study table to couch to bed after every meal, grabbing on munchies, trying and learning new recipes, and more.

Most of our time is spent indoors, and we now know which window gives us a fresh breeze and sunlight. However, if we don’t get enough air ventilation staying indoors, would be harmful to our mental and physical health. 

Since our basic connectivity has moved totally towards electronic devices like spend most of our time with mobile phones, laptops, and televisions which in turn is causing stress and mental instability. So, here we have come up with a few ideas that can help you to create a house for healthy living.

Say Hello To Indoor Plants

Not getting in contact with the air outside doesn’t keep you any safer from the air quality on staying indoors. So, we have listed down a few low-light plants which you can invest in to get the freshness of nature and improved air quality.

List of Indoor Plants

Few indoor plants which are pocket-friendly and needless sunlight,

1. Rubber Plants

Low maintenance plants.
Their leaves grow large and have a glossy feel.
They grow taller as compared to other indoor plants.
They can survive in low light conditions.

2. Spider Plants

Super easy to maintain.
Can survive for weeks without any water/sunlight.
Rainwater can help it to grow well.

3. Pothos (Devils ivy) Plants

These plants need indirect/low light.
Too much direct sunlight can ruin their leaves color.
These are some of the toxic plants which should be taken care of if you have pets.
Helps increase humidity and replaces carbon dioxide with oxygen.

4. Snake Plants

They can survive in low light conditions but more exposure to sunlight will help them grow.
They help clear the air around you.
They can go without water and sunlight for two weeks.

5. Calathea Peacock Plants

Grows well in medium to low light.
Excess sunlight can make the leaves go pale.
Requires moisture for it to maintain its colorful leaves.
Spreads beauty in any room with its patterned leaves.

6. Lucky Bamboo

Known for good luck and fortune.
Can survive in low-light areas however, more light will make this plant grow larger.
Water this plant with filtered water to keep the roots healthy.
The best option for office desk space.

7. Cast Iron Plants

Low-light plants can grow in any corner of the house.
Excess direct sunlight and overwatering can kill this plant.
Spreads an accent to give you a natural touch and feel.
One of the easiest plants to grow indoors.

8. Dragon Tree

One of the top air filters to keep you out of toxicity.
Pets need to be kept away from this plant.
Survives in medium to low light conditions.
Too much direct sunlight can ruin its leaves.

Benefits of Indoor Plants

Following are the benefits which indoor plants can help you with,

1. They act as an air filter that can allow you to have a smooth breath.
2. Their smell can give you aromatherapy and help you with mental well-being.
3. Their natural feel and presence can help you be more productive.
4. Their natural green color will help you regulate mood swings.

Use Light Interior Colors

Even though you have a lot of bright lights installed at your place, the house would still seem darker if you paint those walls dark and have dark color curtains, sheets, and sofas.

If you plan on getting light color interiors and painting your walls lighter then,

• Your house would look brighter
• You get a fresher feel with light colors
• Your house will be cooler

Why not go with dark interiors?

Even though you get a cozier and modern feel with the dark color interiors, however, when you stay in a dark color painted house in the low light condition you would often have complaints like,

• Space feels smaller.
• Dust particles will not be easy to identify.
• Since the dark colors absorb heat, you would feel hotter in such spaces.

Include Artificial Lights

Natural lights are always a winner when compared to artificial ones. However, not everyone is lucky enough to get them inside their house. You can plan on brightening up your space by using brighter LED lights and pairing them up with mirrors.

To make your bright lighted space more interesting you can plan to have,

• Light color glossy and reflective tiles.
  
• Lighter and glossier paints
  
• Include more mirrors for the reflection of lights
  
• Replace the solid doors with the widow doors

Use Less Furniture

We prefer our interiors to go with our living space and activities e.g. dining table is a must for the dining area, a sofa, and tv unit for the living room, and beds for the bedroom. These preferences have been eating our spaces which in return gives an unhealthy feel to the house.  

Few Drawbacks of Having More Furniture,

• Busy spaces give an unhealthy feel to the house
• An increase in dust particles will make you feel annoyed
• Furniture absorbs heat which tends to raise the heat in the surrounding.

Benefits of Less Furniture 

• Increases your productivity by giving you a fresher and lighter feel
• Cut down on your inactive mode
• Increase in creative and stress-free living
• Fewer heat absorbents, giving you cooler rooms

Ideas to choose Furniture types

• Prefer small-scale types of furniture  
• Avoid adding bulky furniture to your space
• Multifunctional furniture types are a way to go
• Invest in brighter and lighter furniture

Contact us if you are going out of ideas 

We at Human Iris tend to bring people closer to their passion and win over any circumstances they come across in reaching their goals. No better way than modifying the place where we stay 24/7.

Conclusion

Sunlight plays a very important role in our daily lives. We cannot feel it but with time, we can notice the impact it has on us. So, it is very important to look after the spaces we choose to live in.  "Environment shapes our mind and body, we must be watchful of the things required to create a healthy living space."