NUEN for Healthy Homes
Discover how your home shapes your health - and what you can do about it
We spend 80 to 90% of our lives indoors. Yet most of us have never been taught how profoundly our homes influence our sleep, energy, mood, recovery, productivity and long-term health.
NUEN - Nourishing Environments - exists to change that.
Created by award-winning architects and healthy buildings specialists, NUEN brings together architecture, environmental health science and digital innovation to help you understand your home in a completely new way.
Whether you want a quick health check, a deep assessment or personalised guidance, you can begin today.
"The person who manages your building has a bigger impact on your health than your doctor."
- Dr. Joseph G. Allen & John D. Macomber, Harvard University
Three Ways to Start
1. Five-Minute Healthy Home Quiz
A fast, eye-opening snapshot of how your home supports your wellbeing.
Instant results
Personalised home health score
Visual “Home Health Wheel”
Practical improvement tips
No email required
Perfect if you want clarity and inspiration in just a few minutes.
2. 20-Minute Healthy Home Assessment
A deeper, more comprehensive evaluation.
Approximately 150 carefully designed questions
Covers 16+ health and design categories
Generates a detailed profile of your home’s strengths and weaknesses
Includes a free preview of our book Thermal Health at Home
This assessment is ideal if you are renovating, self-building, supporting family health needs or simply want a thorough understanding of your living environment.
3. Talk to NUEN AI
Your Healthy Buildings Intelligence Tool.
NUEN AI is a specialist architectural advisor trained in healthy buildings. Unlike generic AI tools, it focuses specifically on how environments impact human health.
You can ask:
How healthy is my home?
Could certain symptoms be linked to my indoor environment?
What should I prioritise in a renovation?
How do I improve sleep through lighting and thermal design?
What materials should I avoid?
How can I design a healthier new home on a modest budget?
NUEN AI helps you translate complex building science into clear, actionable steps.
What Does a Healthy Home Really Mean?
When we think about health, we often focus on food, fitness and mindset.
But your home influences you constantly and often invisibly.
Temperature affects hormones and sleep cycles.
Lighting regulates circadian rhythms.
Air quality influences cognition and immunity.
Noise shapes stress levels.
Layout affects movement, relationships and creativity.
Even subtle factors - clutter, materials, access to nature, acoustics - shape your nervous system every day.
A healthy home is not about luxury. It is about alignment between the environment (indoor or outdoor) and human biology.
Your Home Health Categories
After completing the quiz or assessment, you will receive scores across key areas:
Air: Indoor air quality, ventilation, pollutants, mould risk, combustion safety.
Thermal Health: Temperature stability, humidity levels, overheating risk and their impact on sleep and energy.
Daylight and Lighting: Natural light access, artificial lighting quality, circadian rhythm support.
Sleep and Recovery: Bedroom design, screen habits, EMF considerations, sensory calm.
Water: Water quality awareness, hydration support, contamination risks.
Nutrition: Does your kitchen layout and storage make healthy eating easy?
Exercise and Movement: Does your home encourage movement - or prolonged sitting?
Mental Health: Psychological safety, emotional regulation, sense of control and identity.
Nature: Views, plants, gardens, biodiversity, biophilic design.
Sounds and Senses: Acoustic comfort and multi-sensory experience.
Hygiene and Organisation: Ease of cleaning, clutter levels, toxin exposure from cleaning products.
Digital Health and Electricity: Electrical safety, device habits, awareness of environmental stressors.
Safety and Accessibility: Fire safety, fall prevention, resilience, inclusive design.
Pests and Invasive Plants: Building envelope integrity and ecological balance.
Art, Culture and Identity: Creative expression, belonging and cultural resonance.
General: The overall feeling of your home - does it uplift you?
Discover where your home is currently supporting your wellbeing and where you could make some improvements.
No matter how content and happy you are in your home, there are always areas that could use some improvement. Think about the air quality, sounds, daylight, your sleep environment.... What aspects of your home have you ignored in order to focus your attention elsewhere?
We are the products of our environments and thoroughly moulded by them. Being in an uplifting, inspiring and energising space every day can have a profound impact on you.
Our mission is to help you feel empowered to transform your living environment into a health-promoting and uplifting one.
Along with an overall score for your home, you'll receive a score based on 16 key areas shown below. While the quiz and the assessment work on 16 categories, NUEN AI has been trained on 25 healthy building categories, and sub-categories.
Air
Every breath you take can either energise you or harm your health.
Nutrition
Is your home making it easy for you to meet your healthy eating goals?
Sleep, Recovery
Good home design can greatly improve your recovery and sleep.
Daylight, Lighting
Daylight impacts our energy levels, moods and hormones. Electric lights create atmospheres.
Water
Are there dangers lurking in your water or does it nourish and refresh you?
Mental Health
Your home affects your sub-conscious mind, social life, and ability to bounce back from stress.
Exercise and Movement
Keep your blood oxygenated and organs nourished by regular movement.
Pests, Invasive Plants
Let's think about your home's vulnerability to pests and overgrowing plants.
Do you have symptoms of electrical sensitivity (ES), are your electrical installations safe and how good is your digital health?
Digital Health, Electricity
Is your home keeping you safe from harm? Is it resilient in the face of natural disasters? Does is cater for any special needs?
Safety, Accessibility
Your personality, ability to express yourself and feel at home, is linked with creative endeavours and cultural preferences.
Art, Culture
Sounds, Senses
Sounds can control your moods and the most enjoyable environments are multi-sensory.
Is your home easy to keep clean and un-cluttered? Is it organised the way that allows you to enjoy it everyday?
Hygiene, Organisation
The impact of nature on your health and mental health is profound. Views of nature have even been shown to act as a painkiller.
Nature
The temperature and humidity levels in your home can have a profound impact on the quality of your sleep and energy levels.
Thermal Health
General
The big picture of your home, how would you assess the overall feeling of it?
Begin Today
Transform your home into a truly nourishing environment.