Property News · July 29, 2018

The house that healed my migraines


How creating a dark, fragrance-free home relieved a migraine sufferer’s symptomsCheck out Belinda Den Ouden’s Instagram feed and you will see that her bio reads: “I love interior design. But I have fragrance allergy and migraines. So my house has dark walls, is non-toxic, scent-free and cool.” But it hadn’t always been this way. Belinda, who is Dutch, and husband Eef and her three children, Daisy (12), Liz (10) and Mike (5), all lived in a 100-year old house in Alkmaar, a town famed for its cheese market, 40km north of Amsterdam.“It was lovely and small, dark and damp,” she says. “The street was narrow and allowed for little light to come in. I desperately longed for a white, clean, tidy home so in an attempt to make it seem big and bright, I painted everything white. We even had a white floor!” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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