The Healing Home: Creating the Perfect Place to Live with Color, Aroma, Light and Other Natural Elements [Hardcover]

Suzy Chiazzari (Author), Susy Chiazzari (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1998

A new, holistic approach to natural designing and decorating for a home that is healthy for the mind, body, and spirit. Beautifully illustrated with color photos. When we walk into a room for the first time, we often have an immediate reaction to its atmosphere. The natural energies created by our environment highly influence the way we feel. By enhancing positive elements, such as light, color, and scent, we can create a harmonious sanctuary that engenders health and well-being and nurtures all that is best in the human spirit. Environmental designer Suzy Chiazzri draws from a variety of cultures and philosophies to reveal the many ways in which we can improve the vital energy in our home. By using natural materials, full-spectrum lighting, energy-balancing sounds, as well as the healing properties of water, plants, sunlight, scent, color, and placement or feng shui, we can charge our home with ``an energy that connects us to the earth, the air, and each other to sustain us in perfect health.'' Suzy Chiazzari is a designer of healing environments as well as a color therapist. 128 pp 8 1/2 x 10 70 color photos

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Chiazzari, who runs the Holistic Design Institute in England, takes a holistic approach to interior design by showing how the use of aromatherapy, Feng Shui, color, light, and natural materials can create a restful, energizing, and healthful environment. Similar to Robin Lennon's Home Design from the Inside Out (LJ 9/15/97), this beautifully illustrated book will be an excellent addition where there is an interest.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 120 pages
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing (February 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570761043
• ISBN-13: 978-1570761041
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 9.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,967,623 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Create a Tranquil Home, April 8, 2000

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Cindy B. - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Healing Home: Creating the Perfect Place to Live with Color, Aroma, Light and Other Natural Resources (Paperback)

This book is inspiring. The pictures are beautiful and serve as a motivation to create a haven of healing and peace within the home.

Suzi Chiazzari writes in a clear, personal style and lends credibility to how the home can influence our physical, mental and emotional well-being. The suggestions presented are practical and make sense without confusing "new age" rhetoric.

Topics presented in THE HEALING HOME include the use of color and texture, aroma, the importance of light, how decor can de-stress one's life, and bringing nature into the home.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars down to earth book, August 5, 2001

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merrymousies (Waterford, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Healing Home: Creating the Perfect Place to Live with Color, Aroma, Light and Other Natural Resources (Paperback)

I first found this book at the library and just had to buy it. I was learning about feng shui and some of the books just took the concepts way too far. This one is both philosopohical and realistic and it has great tips that help you id some nice decorating approaches. I'm so glad I bought it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars From Natural Nancy, May 1, 2007

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Max "Max" (Mississippi) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Healing Home: Creating the Perfect Place to Live with Color, Aroma, Light and Other Natural Elements (Hardcover)

This is a wonderful book as mentioned in the other reviews. Except, I felt they could have written more in depth rather than touching on the surface in many areas. Also I was hoping they would work more with color therapy and have more photo examples. The cover is misleading in that they never show it again or comment on it, also focusing on warm and bright colors almost exclusively, rather than the cooler tones on the cover.