Grounded Living

From the author of Home Therapy comes a beautifully photographed guide to biophilic design: decorating your space to increase your connection with nature and create a more sustainable home.
Bring the outside in with Grounded Living. A nature-centered design philosophy that's traditionally used in architecture and city planning to help improve physical and mental wellness, biophilic design can help you create spaces that foster tranquility, connection, and longevity for a home that's set up for a more sustainable future.
Therapist turned interior designer Anita Yokota takes you through the design process with chapters that introduce various elements to stimulate your senses and deepen your experience of nature while indoors. For instance, styling houseplants and earthy elements in clusters to emulate the essence of a forest creates a cozy areas that promotes better relaxation. Anita also reveals ways you can minimize your carbon footprint with ideas for insulating windows, reducing your reliance on fossil fuels, improving indoor air quality, and more.
With more than 200 full-color images of homes the feature aspirational and practical biophilic design, Grounded Living helps you set up your home to be the ultimate escape from our increasingly digital world.

Author of Home Therapy, Anita Yokota is a licensed family and marriage therapist turned interior designer who develops intentional designs that emphasize wellness from the inside out. Domino named Anita's site the Best New Design Blog and her work has been featured in MyDomaine, Apartment Therapy, Real Simple, and many others. Anita lives with her family in Southern California.