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February 2026
Kyla Jenson
Roses
The One Ritual Your Home Is Missing
How Hygge Principles Create a Healthier Home
Science-Backed Ways to Support Wellness
Designing with LOVE
Pet-Friendly Homes for Comfort and Connection
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Kyla Jenson
Kyla Jenson
Global Real Estate Advisor
A Healthier Home For You & Your Family
February invites us to think about love in a broader, more meaningful way—how it shows up in the spaces we live in every day. Our homes quietly shape our relationships, routines, and sense of well-being, from the people we share them with to the pets that bring comfort and connection.
Explore what it means to design and care for a home with intention. From heart-centered design and pet-friendly spaces to smarter ways to understand how your home performs, these stories focus on creating environments that truly support the life happening inside them.
Because when a home is designed with care, it becomes more than a place to live—it becomes a place to reconnect, restore, and love where you live again.
Recipe of the Month
Grilled Honey Lime Mango Glazed Shrimp
Heather Christo, Deliciously Allergen Free Recipes
While this is easy and fast enough for a week night, to me that it makes it all the more appealing for entertaining! You can make the sauce ahead of time, and then you just throw em on the Barbie for a few minutes and voila!
Photo Credit: Heather Christo
Organization
How to Design a Home Around the People You Love
By Jolene Nannette
Designing spaces in your home to foster a sense of connection just takes a little bit of planning and organizing. And it’s very worthwhile. Here are a few things you can do to make your home more open to encouraging close relationships with the people you care about.
Feng Shui Essentials
Where Love Lives: Designing a Heart-Centered Home
By Dee Oujiri
Love is often spoken of as an emotion, but it is also an environment. It lives not only in what we feel toward others, but in the way we inhabit space, tend to it, and allow it to reflect who we are becoming. If the home is the first architecture we ever encounter, then it is also the first architecture that teaches us how to belong to ourselves, to each other, and to the quiet inner worlds we rarely name.
Featured Article
Wellness-Focused Real Estate
Kyla Jenson
Hiring a wellness-focused real estate agent who is connected with healthy home experts and understands the fundamentals of creating a healthier home can provide numerous benefits for homeowners and buyers. Here are some of the benefits:
- Improved Health: A wellness-focused real estate agent can help homeowners and buyers identify homes that have features that promote good health and well-being. For example, they can suggest homes with good air quality, natural lighting, and green spaces, which are all known to have positive effects on health.
- Better Energy Efficiency: A wellness-focused real estate agent can help homeowners and buyers find homes with energy-efficient features such as proper insulation, efficient heating and cooling systems, and energy-saving appliances. These features not only promote a healthier environment but also lead to significant cost savings.
- Access to a Network of Experts: Wellness-focused real estate agents often have connections with experts in various fields related to healthy homes, such as green builders, energy auditors, and air quality specialists. This can provide homeowners and buyers with access to trusted professionals who can help them create a healthier home environment.
- Increased Property Value: Homes that are designed with health and wellness in mind often have higher property values. By working with a wellness-focused real estate agent, homeowners and buyers can invest in a property that not only provides health benefits but also offers a higher return on investment.
- Education on Healthy Homes: A wellness-focused real estate agent can provide homeowners and buyers with education and resources on how to maintain a healthy home. This can include tips on proper ventilation, cleaning, and maintenance, which can help improve the overall health of the home environment.
Overall, a wellness-focused real estate agent can provide significant benefits for homeowners and buyers who are interested in creating a healthier home environment. With their expanded network and knowledge of healthy home fundamentals, they can help clients make informed decisions that promote health, well-being, and financial value.
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2026 Home Trends
Designing with LOVE: Pet-Friendly Homes for Comfort and Connection
By Cassy West
February is often associated with love — romantic love, yes — but also the quieter, deeper kind of love we feel for the place we call home and for those who share it with us. Our homes are not just shelters; they are emotional ecosystems. And for many of us, that ecosystem includes pets who bring companionship, comfort, and unconditional love into our daily lives.
Wellness Real Estate
The Smart Homeowner’s Winter-to-Spring Transition Plan: 4 High-Impact Moves to Protect Your Investment
By Sheila Alston
Your home is more than a shelter—it’s a system. And right now, that system is under pressure. Shifting from winter to spring isn’t just about packing up coats or refreshing your decor. It’s about getting strategic—handling the hidden wear-and-tear that quietly builds up each season. Whether you’re in snowy Minnesota or sunny Texas, these four early-season priorities will help you maximize comfort, reduce long-term costs, and protect your home’s market value in a competitive real estate environment.When most people shop for a home, they think about location, layout, and finishes. But what if the most important factor isn’t something you can see?
Wellness Upgrades
See the Whole Picture: A New Way to Understand How Your Home Performs
By Lucy Chatman
When you walk through a home, you notice the kitchen, the layout, maybe even the flooring. But what about the stuff you can’t see—like how well the home stays warm in winter, how healthy the air is inside, or how efficiently it uses energy? Thanks to a groundbreaking new tool featured in Green Builder Media, everyday homeowners now have access to this kind of powerful performance data—not just builders and energy pros.
Healthy Home
How Hygge Principles Create a Healthier Home: Science-Backed Ways to Support Wellness
Long before I knew the word “hygge,” I was drawn to the concepts it represents. Growing up with Norwegian roots, I’d always loved the simplistic style paired with cozy, comforting elements. Clean lines. Natural materials. Spaces that felt both intentional and welcoming. In Minnesota, you can’t throw a stone without hitting a Scandinavian shop filled with wool blankets, wooden bowls, and that unmistakable aesthetic of warmth and simplicity.
Healthy Home
Love Where You Live (Again): 5 Intelligent Ways to Reconnect With Your Home in 2026
By, Lucy Chatman
After a long winter indoors, it’s easy to start seeing flaws instead of charm in your home. But before you start browsing Zillow out of restlessness, consider this: falling back in love with your space might be more about shifting your environment than your address.
Architecture
Why Solar Panels Won’t Fix A Poorly Designed House
By Kate Hamblet
When people picture a sustainable home, they often imagine solar panels covering the roof. Solar panels are visible, exciting, and easy to understand—so it’s no surprise they’re usually the first thing homeowners think about. But solar panels should actually be the last step! Not the first one.
