Tips To Improve Indoor Air Quality In Your Home Office

Poor air quality in your home can have a huge impact on your health, mood, and even your productivity. For work-from-home moms, since you are spending so much time at home, it’s important to do what you can to improve indoor air quality. Fortunately, there are many simple solutions that you can implement that will help air quality.

Below is a list of suggestions of do-it-yourself ways to improve the quality of the air in your office as soon as possible.

 

Tips To Improve Air Quality Indoors

1. Ventilate Your Home Office

Probably the easiest and fastest solution to your air quality issue is to increase the airflow in and around your home. This can be achieved by opening doors and windows to allow fresh air to move and replace stagnant air.

A fan can also help to push fresh air into space, such as your home office, causing an exchange of poor-quality air with clean, fresh air.

 

2. Clean Your Air Conditioner

An air conditioner can be a very helpful way to improve your indoor air quality. The way they work is easy: an air conditioner dries indoor air and refreshes it by pulling fresh air from outdoors.

These appliances have filters built-in that will trap pollens, remove impurities, and cleans the air that it is pulls it into your home. However, the filters require regular cleaning to be effective.

 

3. Add Some Home Office Plants

Several house plants are effective at removing toxins from the air as well as providing more oxygen. But not just any plant will do. Here is a list of the most beneficial home office plants that you should add to your workspace:

• Bamboo Palm
• English Ivy
• Gerbera Daisy
• Warneckii Dracaena
• Janet Craig Dracaena
• Red Edged Dracaena
• Mass Cane/Corn Plant

 

4. Choose Home Office Furniture Carefully

There are several types of office furniture that contain glues that release toxins into the atmosphere for years after they have been purchased and put into use. The slow release of these harmful chemicals will degrade the air quality inside your home and home office.

Avoid furniture made with particle board whenever possible.

 

5. Use Activated Charcoal

Activated charcoal is considered a safe way to purify interior air. You will find it mostly in HEPA filters on appliances such as vacuum cleaners, air conditioners, and other ventilation equipment. You can also add an air filter to your home office for the same effect.

It is a quick, easy, and effective way to reduce the volume of contaminants in the air.

 

6. Keep Clothes/Fabrics Clean

Dust mites often live in the fabrics you have in your home and home office. This means that they can be in your clothing, bedding, cushions, and furniture as well as curtains and any other fabric.

By cleaning these items frequently with a low allergenic washing soap, you can reduce their numbers. Dust mites are a leading cause of poor air quality.

 

7. Make Your Own Essential Oils

Another effective way to improve indoor air quality is to reduce the bad odors that can be associated with poor air quality. You can do this with the right essential oils. A recipe that can help follows:

• ½ cup strong rosemary infusion
• ½ cup witch hazel
• 20 drops of pine essential oil
• 20 drops of lemon essential oil

Mix all the ingredients in a spray bottle, shake well, and spray where needed.

 

8. Use Beeswax Candles

As beeswax candles burn, they release negative ions which help to purify the air. They work simply as follows… As pollen, dust, dirt, and any other air pollutant is positively charged, the negative ions released by the beeswax candle causes the positively charged items to either get pulled into the candle or fall from being suspended in the air.

These candles are also 100% natural.

 

9. Use A Salt Lamp

If candles are not your thing, you can place a Himalayan salt lamp in your home office. It works exactly as beeswax candles in that the salt lamp will emit negative ions which will interact with the positively charged pollutants floating around in the air.

A bonus here is that if you suffer from asthma, the salt lamp will help to relieve those symptoms.

 

Small changes to quickly improve the air quality in your home office

As you can see, it is not difficult to improve indoor air quality. By making a few small changes in and around your home and home office, work-from-home moms can benefit greatly from better air quality. This can help you to become more efficient on the job, keep you in good health, and make your office a more enjoyable place to work.