Hotels are designed to help you relax. Here are design tricks to bring the look and feel home
ShareSave for laterPlease log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free AccountEver notice how your shoulders seem to drop the moment you walk into a great hotel room? From lighting to scent to layout, hotels are carefully designed to help you relax. “There is little doubt that the environments we spend time in can influence our thoughts, feelings and behaviour,” says Dr.
- ▪ShareSave for laterPlease log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free AccountEver notice how your shoulders seem to drop the moment you walk into a great hotel room?
- ▪From lighting to scent to layout, hotels are carefully designed to help you relax.
- ▪“There is little doubt that the environments we spend time in can influence our thoughts, feelings and behaviour,” says Dr.
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ShareSave for laterPlease log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free AccountEver notice how your shoulders seem to drop the moment you walk into a great hotel room? That’s no accident. From lighting to scent to layout, hotels are carefully designed to help you relax. The research backs this up. “There is little doubt that the environments we spend time in can influence our thoughts, feelings and behaviour,” says Dr. Lindsay J. McCunn, a professor of psychology at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, B.C.
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