Conscious Nursery and Kids’ Room Design

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Home & Garden

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Fairy lights for our little girl? A dinosaur theme for our baby boy? When designing our children's nurseries and, later, their big kid rooms, it's natural for parents to get caught up in the aesthetics. After all, designing is fun; researching ethical and eco-friendly products is decidedly not. But sustainable interior design is more accessible today than it has ever been before and with a bit of forethought it's entirely possible to curate beautiful spaces for our children that use lower impact materials. This week's guest is author Rachel Fowler. Rachel combines her knowledge as both a nurse and sustainable interior designer to give us her best ideas for creating nurseries and kids rooms that are safe, minimalist, eco-friendly, and fun. Here's a preview: [6:00] Ten items that should never be in your child's room for health and safety [9:30] What to consider before painting a room's walls and ceiling, with a nod toward wallpaper [16:00] The problems with carpet and vinyl floors [20:00] How to make informed furniture decisions [24:00] What to use instead instead of blackout blinds Resources mentioned: My Happy Place: Healthy, Sustainable And Humane Interior Design For Life And Work Auro paint Episode #190: Curating A Healthy House * Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Pinterest. Our Sponsors:* Thank you to LifeStraw! https://lifestraw.com/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/sustainable-minimalists/exclusive-content

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0:00.0	Well, hello there and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you are listening to episode
0:06.3	221. Oh my goodness, 221 that's crazy.
0:09.8	221 of the Sustainable Minimalist Podcast, a twice weekly show about intentional and eco-minimalist living.
0:18.0	On today's show, we are discussing how on earth we can create those safe and sustainable and of course minimalist
0:27.4	nurseries and kids rooms. To help me do this I am speaking with Rachel Fowler. Rachel is a nurse and she is an interior designer.
0:37.0	What a unique combination of professions. Rachel is also the author of a new book which is out right now it is called My Happy Place
0:45.1	Healthy Sustainable and Humane Interior Design for Life and Work and so Rachel's taking
0:50.5	her unique professional endeavors and combining them today so that we can talk about
0:56.2	eco-friendliness, safety, and all things as they relate to our kids spaces.
1:01.8	I should say too that we're talking about sustainable,
1:06.0	eco-friendly safe home design.
1:08.6	And today we're really focusing on the kids rooms.
1:11.3	However, a lot of Rachel's tips that she offers us are applicable
1:16.2	to every single room in our homes. Rachel, I'm so thrilled to talk to you today.
1:22.1	How are you doing? I'm good thrilled to talk to you today. How are you doing?
1:23.0	I'm good, thank you. Thank you for having me on your show today. It's much appreciated.
1:28.0	Well I'm happy to have you. Why don't we start by you telling us who you are, what you do, and how you found yourself writing a book?
1:37.0	Well, I'm an interior designer or an interior architect if you were in Germany which I'm currently based.
1:44.0	I previously before doing interior design I used to work as a children's intensive care nurse for 15 years
1:50.2	and then I wanted to follow my ambition for art and design, so I went and did to university and trained.
1:56.0	And then we relocated to Germany and I worked for a design house briefly.
2:00.0	And I thought, or to actually design sustainably and fulfil my life and ambition for work and design. I start my own company up which was at the beginning of the pandemic last year in 2020.
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