My Hygge Home: How to Make Home Your Happy Place

by Meik Wiking

Overview

An inspiring book from Meik Wiking, the New York Times bestselling author of The Little Book of Hygge, about how to use space, light, and Danish design to transform your home to fit your needs.

Now more than ever before, our homes need to be a place of comfort, a place to feel safe when we shut the door. Our homes are where we can truly be ourselves, unwind, and create special memories with our family and friends. Inspired by Danish design and traditions, Meik Wiking’s beautiful book My Hygge Home shows us how to turn our home into a cozy sanctuary and live a bit like the happiest people in the world—the Danes.

Hygge (pronounced hoo-ga) is the art of surrounding yourself in comfort and is at the core of Danish culture in creating a happy space. With simple tips based on new research from the Happiness Institute in Copenhagen, this book reveals what makes a happy home: including the difference between space and size, the importance of lighting, and how to foster better connections with our loved ones. No matter how much space you have or what your budget is, Meik explains how you can use color, light, and space to create your happy place and celebrate coziness the Danish way.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781419766374
Publisher:	Abrams Image
Publication date:	11/15/2022
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	81,000
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 7.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Meik Wiking is a happiness researcher and founded the world’s first Happiness Research Institute in 2013, in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author whose three globally bestselling books have sold over two million copies worldwide: The Little Book of Hygge, The Little Book of Lykke, and The Art of Making Memories. He has been called the Indiana Jones of Smiles and probably the World’s Happiest Man by the Times.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Danish Design And Hygge Headquarters 7

Chapter 2 Hygge, A Perfect Night In 35

Chapter 3 Shining a Light on Happiness 77

Chapter 4 Space for Hygge 111

Chapter 5 How to Design for Connection 145

Chapter 6 Work HYgge, Play Hygge 185

Chapter 7 The Cézanne Effect 211

Chapter 8 Hygge is Homemade 241

Conclusion A Healing Place for the Soul 262

Photography Credits 270

Acknowledgments 271

Editorial Reviews

★ 10/01/2022

Everything readers want to know about hygge and happiness is between the covers of this book. Wiking (The Art of Making Memories) is the CEO of the Happiness Research Institute, which has a mission to scientifically study human happiness, specifically examining the relationship between one's environment and their emotions. Hygge is a Danish design philosophy in which the goal is to create people-centric spaces. The book brings together hygge and happy. It covers the why and the how in thorough detail, and it is brimful of practical and specific design ideas, tips, advice, summaries, and checklists. Additional pluses include a global perspective and COVID studies and information. It goes beyond home design to embrace lifestyles with recommendations, such as cooking a slow dish or growing one's own food to slow down and center oneself. VERDICT This book is engaging, informative, timely, and inspirational, all in one. Highly recommended for all types of libraries.—Marjorie Mann

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