As we welcome a New Year at the stroke of midnight on December 31st, many of us see the calendar starting again as a chance to instill our own new beginnings. An annual time to reassess and realign our goals, it’s also a chance to recharge, reset, and reflect on our habits, mindsets, and lifestyle. At the heart of most resolutions lists is a hope to find an overall healthier and happier lifestyle. Often this can be achieved by incorporating and practicing wellness in our daily lives. Hygge (pronounced hue-gah), a Danish inspired design trend, aims to do just that. This 18th century concept focuses on enjoying life’s simplest pleasures through contentment, warmth, and togetherness.

If you are looking to bring elements of nature into your home, then you may be interested to learn more about biophilic design. Biophilic design aims to increase human connectivity to nature and in interior design, it simply means bringing the outside in by using elements of nature such as wood, plants, water features, colors found in nature such as blues and greens and more.