Making a home that works for you is the key to a better life. Interiors expert Rebecca West reveals how to align your heart, home and health via small changes that make a big difference.

What does it take to be happy at home? It’s not about buying or not buying a new sofa. It’s about whether your home is working for you in the best way. Your home can directly improve your wellbeing and contentment with better health, sleep and relationships, and ultimately decrease your stress levels to increase your all-round happiness. In this book, Rebecca West helps you to learn how to make your home feel brand new without actually relocating and how to redecorate so you can feel best in your space. Along with beautiful photographs, there are a variety of self-assessment activities to connect your financial, emotional and physical health to your space to ensure it nurtures your vision – and while doing so, investing your time and money more effectively too. With the valuable advice in Happy Starts at Home, you can commit to a philosophy of buying fewer things and doing more to discover what’s holding you back, in order to find joy and create a home that makes you smile. First published in 2020, this is an updated edition.

Your home should be a sanctuary that brings you joy and peace, and with Rebecca's guidance, you can make that vision a reality – Slow Home Style podcast

Rebecca West is an award-winning design psychology coach and interior designer with 15 years of experience. An incurable optimist on a mission to help as many folks as possible get happy – at home and in life – she has worked with almost 2,000 clients and mentored dozens of aspiring designers and entrepreneurs. A speaker and business coach, Rebecca serves on the board of Heritage Design School. She has been featured in magazines like Live Happy and Success Magazine, and on various TV shows and podcasts. Find her on Instagram: @happystartsathome. She lives and works in Paris.