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How to turn your home into your own wellness centre

We spend more than half our time in homes but we almost always go somewhere else for our health and wellbeing – the gym, a spa, a massage clinic. Why? Have you ever stopped to think about how your home could better support your family’s health? Here are our tips on revitalising your own space so you can revitalise yourself.

How clean is your air?

These days, the best way to improve your indoor air quality (IAQ) isn’t necessarily to open your windows, especially if you live in a built-up urban area or it’s the middle of winter. Kiwis don’t tend to see IAQ as a concern but scientific surveys have consistently found poor indoor air quality in New Zealand houses. The culprits are often damp, condensation, humidity, mould and VOCs (volatile organic compounds released from building products, furniture and flooring).
Pzazz Building can help you improve the IAQ in your home by advising on and fitting ventilation, heating, air cleaners, low VOC paints and building materials, and indoor planting and vertical gardens. 

Let the light shine in

Natural light has healthy, stimulating, mood enhancing benefits that artificial light can’t emulate. It is essential for helping the body to produce vitamin D and serotonin, the ‘happy’ hormone which combats a type of depression called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).

At a free consultation in your home , your local Pzazz Building affiliate will show you how to bring more natural light into your home with larger windows, better indoor-outdoor flow and skylights as well as adding sunrooms, conservatories and outdoor living areas.


Create your own special happy place

Toilets and bathrooms used to be the only places you could lock yourself away from the cares and tribulations of everyday life, but these days people are creating happy places such as man caves, studios, workshops, saunas and sunrooms.

The secret to creating your own happy place, we’ve found at Pzazz Building, is to identify what makes you happiest and then create a design around your needs. 

Talk to your local Pzazz Building expert about Pzazz Building's easy, stress-free renovation process .

Create your own spa

This is the NonSoloDoccia Home Corner Steam Shower Cabin from Glass 1989, an Italian company specialising in health-giving integrated bathroom solutions. The NonSoloDoccia is a shower with a difference – actually, lots of differences. As well as waterfall and hand showers, it comes with a steam generator, soft-surface shower tray and seat, aroma dispenser, controls for lighting and cromotherapy and of course Bluetooth with hidden speakers.

Share the love with your own terrarium

In ancient Rome, the Tepidarium was the warm (tepidus) bathroom of the Roman baths where the temperature was maintained at a constant radiant heat directly affecting the human body from the walls and floor. Ancient Romans would group in the Tepidarium, the hub of the baths, and then move on to the various hot baths (Caldaria) before ending the experience with a cold bath (Frigidarium).
Today, you can have your own Tepidarium and Calderia combined into one and installed into your home. With the addition of a snow cabin or ice fountain (pictured above), you can even create your own Frigidarium and start reliving the glory days of ancient Rome.

Get your own private massage parlour

Sweating it out in your own sauna or Calderia is a great way to rid your body of toxins through sweat, but for the perfect complementary treatment you need to both sooth and stimulate your body with a full massage. We recommend adding a proper massage table to your wellness environment and either encouraging your partner or family to learn the fine art of massage or hire a masseur or masseuse who does home visits.

Grow your own food and herbs

There’s nothing fresher, healthier and more satisfying than growing your own vegetables, fruit and herbs. Even if you don’t have a lot of room outside your home for a garden, there are several methods for creating indoor gardens that will not only contribute to your daily diet, but also help to purify the air in your home.  

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