Product wellness

Over time, we are all spending less time in nature and more time indoors, either at work or at home. There is a direct correlation with this trend and health impacts. Your home environment should be as natural and healthy as possible, and bricks are a great start to improve home wellness.

Bricks are a healthy, natural building material that improve indoor air quality. Poor indoor air quality, caused by a range of products in our homes, is a large contributor to negative health effects, such as headaches, tiredness or lethargy, asthma and allergic responses. As bricks are manufactured from naturally occurring materials, they don’t emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs) as many lightweight products do. The use of the natural features of brick can eliminate the need for paints, which emit VOCs. Bricks are naturally mould resistant; the mildly porous surface of bricks and lack of organic matter does not support conditions for mould to grow.

Bricks have a high thermal mass, meaning they regulate internal temperature fluctuations in a way most materials don’t, helping to keep an even temperature in winter and summer. This means there is less reliance on artificial forms of heating and cooling, and costly energy bills are reduced. Bricks also act as a sound barrier, reducing noise impacts between rooms or from outside. Not only are bricks better for your health, they are also better for our planet. Bricks are taken from the ground and can be returned to the ground without causing landfill or pollution. They can be reused, keeping their original properties and features intact, or even recycled.

Home wellness isn’t just about the physical impacts of materials in your home, it is also about mental wellness. Brickworks has explored the impact of colours and textures on mental wellbeing, creating a series of Mood Boards in collaboration with some of Australia’s top style gurus, including Wendy Moore, Home Beautiful’s Editor-in-Chief and Kim Chadwick, Trend Forecast Director.

These Mood Boards help customers style their homes to reflect current trends, and choose surface textures, colour palettes and material choices that evoke emotions. By using these Mood Boards to drive mental and physical health and wellbeing, we aim to create a closer connection with nature for our customers.

Simonds Homes

HOME WELLNESS

Brickworks is serious about how our products can improve wellness in the home. Our Austral Bricks business is proudly supporting Simonds Homes in a growing ‘home wellness’ movement. Our bricks are used by Simonds Homes and recognised as a wellness product, contributing strongly to the ambition of home wellness through stylish finishes and the thermal benefits of bricks.