MonikaGriffith

MonikaGriffith Rethinking Your Home Beyond Design
Author of Is Your Home Still Your Castle? Each informs the other. Design gains depth through lived experience.

Creator of the Home Assessment Method
30 years of interior design experience taught me that the person must come before the design-Malaga, Spain & Global Online Consultations I work with homes the way others work with strategy: by observing first, then acting with intention. With 30 years of international experience in interior design, home staging, and property presentation, my work focuses on creating spaces that are not only visually coherent, but emotionally and strategically aligned with the people who live in them — or the market they are meant to speak to. That's why I developed

'The Home Assessment Method' based on my book 'Is your home still your castle?'

Under Monika Griffith Rooms, I bring together two pillars of my work:
Intentional Interiors & authorship. Writing distills both into clear, practical insight.

Environmental Psychology: The Relationship Between You and Your Home We often talk about our homes in terms of design: h...
09/23/2026

Environmental Psychology: The Relationship Between You and Your Home

We often talk about our homes in terms of design: how they look, how they function and whether the spaces work for us.

But there is another question I find far more interesting:

How does your home make you feel?

Environmental psychology explores the relationship between people and the physical environments they inhabit. Research has examined how aspects of our surroundings, including space, privacy, light, noise and environmental conditions, relate to how we experience the places in which we live.

For me, this connects with something I have observed throughout my years working with homes.

A room can look perfectly considered and still not feel right for the person living in it.
Equally, a space that was never consciously designed as a place to relax can become the place where someone naturally settles at the end of the day.

That relationship between person and place is what interests me.

It is also at the heart of my book, Is Your Home Still Your Castle?, where I invite the reader to look beyond design and start with the person living inside the home.

Because perhaps the most important thing to ask of a home is not “Does it look right?” but “Does it feel right for me?”

I just published an article about Enironmental Psychology, you can read it here if interested: https://www.monikagriffith.com/post/environmental-psychology-the-relationship-between-you-and-your-home

Have you ever noticed that there is one place in your home where you naturally feel more at ease?Maybe it is the light. ...
09/17/2026

Have you ever noticed that there is one place in your home where you naturally feel more at ease?
Maybe it is the light. The quiet. The view. The feeling of space around you.
You may never have consciously chosen it for those reasons. You simply feel better there.

This is one of the things I find so fascinating about our relationship with home.
We don't experience our surroundings only by looking at them. We experience them through our everyday lives, often without stopping to ask why a particular space feels good, or why another never quite allows us to settle.

Environmental psychology gives us a fascinating lens through which to explore that relationship.
And it brings me back to a question I have been asking for years:

How does your home make you feel?

Not how does it look.
Not whether it is beautifully designed.
But how does it feel to live there?

This question is at the heart of my book, Is Your Home Still Your Castle?

If you have ever wondered whether your home is truly supporting the person you are today, the book is the way in.

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It was such a pleasure to share my presentation with the Costa Women community.And a special thank goes to Costa Women f...
09/12/2026

It was such a pleasure to share my presentation with the Costa Women community.
And a special thank goes to Costa Women for the invitation and to the women who felt inspired by the conversation to take it a step further and buy my book, Is Your Home Still Your Castle? It means a great deal to know that the ideas we explored together have sparked enough curiosity to continue the conversation beyond the talk.
What I loved most was the response afterwards. The comments, questions and personal reflections showed me once again that our homes affect us in far more ways than we often realise.
Thank you to everyone who joined me, listened, questioned, shared and contributed. This is exactly why I believe there is so much more to a home than how it looks.

Our homes have a relationship with us. Sometimes, we simply need to pause long enough to notice it.

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The Science Behind Is Your Home Still Your Castle?A Closer Look at Circadian Rhythm:In this series, I take a closer look...
08/30/2026

The Science Behind Is Your Home Still Your Castle?
A Closer Look at Circadian Rhythm:
In this series, I take a closer look at some of the scientific connections behind the ideas explored in my book, Is Your Home Still Your Castle?
Our bodies carry an internal rhythm, yet modern life gives us countless ways to override the natural signals of daylight and darkness. A closer look at what circadian rhythm means for the way we live at home. Questions? Connect with me!rooms
Explore this and other articles on my website: https://www.monikagriffith.com/post/a-closer-look-at-circadian-rhythm

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Biophilic Design Isn't Just A Look.You may have come across the term Biophilic Design.You have seen beautiful interiors ...
08/15/2026

Biophilic Design Isn't Just A Look.
You may have come across the term Biophilic Design.
You have seen beautiful interiors filled with plants, natural materials, earthy colours and organic shapes and wondered if this is what Biophilic Design means.
These things can certainly be part of it.
But Biophilic Design isn't just a look.
It's about our relationship with nature.
That might sound like a big idea when we are simply thinking about our homes. But think about how much of nature is part of your everyday surroundings. The light changing through the day. A view of trees or sky. The feel of wood beneath your hand. The sound of rain. The presence of plants. Colours and forms that remind us of the natural world.
We don't necessarily notice when these things are missing. Our homes can work perfectly well without them. We simply get used to what is there.
And this is where Biophilic Design becomes interesting. It gives us another way of looking at the spaces we already live in. Not by asking, how can I make my home look more natural?
But by noticing where we could have a little more contact with nature in our everyday lives. Sometimes that might be as simple as bringing a plant into a room. Or choosing a natural material because of how it feels, making more of the daylight that is already there, allowing a view of the outside to become part of the room.
These choices may change the appearance of a space.
But more importantly, they can change our experience of living in it.
I see it as an opportunity to bring nature back into the relationship we have with our homes.
Because when nature becomes part of the design, it becomes part of the way we live.
Take a moment to look around your home. What connects you with nature — and what could? Read my article about Biophilic Design in my Blog Library.
https://www.monikagriffith.com/post/a-closer-look-at-biophilic-design
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