But I love looking out my doors and windows to the countryside around my home. So there’s a good reason for opening your windows if ever I saw one!Įnjoy your view. A 2005 study of 10-year-old school children showed that increasing ventilation rates could improve the children’s performance in tasks representing eight different aspects of schoolwork, from reading to mathematics. Natural ventilation helps children study. It gives you a sense of well-being and an opportunity to feel connected to your surroundings. It clears out the stuffiness in your home and the dry, air conditioned air. I mentioned it before, but fresh air makes you feel better. And silence, as we’ve so often been told, is golden!įeel better. If you’ve got a nice breeze flowing through your home, you don’t need the fans. They just annoy me with their constant white noise. I don’t mean Justin-Bieber-worshipping-teenage-girls kind of noisy fans! This is just a pet peeve of mine. So it may be a bit obvious but opening your home to the outside can clear out the nasties.įewer noisy fans. And other delightful things like dust mites can cause asthma. Some paints contain VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) which can be harmful to health. What I’m thinking of is if, for example, you’ve just painted a room. Although if you’re suffering from those two things then opening the windows and doors is, without a doubt, a grand idea. When we talk pollutants I’m not talking about gas fumes or carbon monoxide. All of which makes for a more sustainable way of living. And if you’re using less energy then you’re going to be producing fewer harmful emissions and reducing the amount of fossil fuel being used. If you’ve turned your a/c off – then you’re using less energy. You may well need your air conditioning system running at the height of summer, but for the shoulder seasons of Spring and Autumn why not turn it off, open your doors and windows (with screens, of course) and save on electric bills? And that links neatly to idea number five.Ĭreate fewer harmful emissions. Open the windows and get the air flowing through your home to stop the damp.Ĭut down on your a/c bills. Without adequate ventilation your home becomes a steamy box of germs. Damp window frames, condensation on your windows and worst of all: black mold. And we all know sunshine has great health benefits like increasing Vitamin D production and reducing the symptoms of depression. ![]() I know in sunnier places it can often get incredibly hot, but here in British Columbia when the sun shines I want to welcome it into my home. You can’t enjoy the sunshine if your doors are closed. ![]() So fling open your doors and let the fresh air in. Apparently children today spend seven hours more on academics (or Facebook!) and two hours less on sports and outdoor activities per week than they did 20 years ago. But opening your windows and doors brings in the fresh air! We spend so long in our houses and cars and workplaces, we forget the joy of fresh air. Right then, buckle up for the ride: here’s your top 10.įresh air. So I tried to write ten reasons to open your windows and I could only get to seven. I was relaying all of this to one of the guys in marketing while getting my morning coffee and he said: “Hey, that would make a great blog post! Combine it with your love of lists and you could write: 10 reasons to open your windows!” “What I really love is being able to open my windows to the world – that’s when it truly feels like summer.” And then a random thought popped into my head. Like outdoor living and barbecuing, swimming pools and sunshine, entertaining friends and outdoor kitchens. So anyway, I was working in my garden the other day and I got to thinking about the best things about the warmer months of spring and summer. ![]() But really it’s just a fancy way of saying: “doors and windows.” ![]() You know, like the words “flabbergasted” or “poodle”.Īnd I also like it because it’s a technical term we use in our industry a lot. Not just because it means “the design and position of windows and other exterior openings of a building.” But because it sounds cool.
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