About Michelle Ogundehin
Hailed by The Sunday Times as “the Interiors Guru”, Michelle Ogundehin is passionate about the power of your home. This newsletter is her exploration of how our homes shape our health, mood, behaviour, and sense of self — often in ways we barely notice.
She’s spent the past two decades working across design, media, and wellbeing, including as Editor-in-Chief of ELLE Decoration, an author, and a judge on Interior Design Masters. Over time, she says her focus has shifted away from how homes look, and towards how they work — psychologically, physiologically, and emotionally.
Here, she writes about the home as a health tool.
This means looking at the relationship between habits and habitats: how light, materials, clutter, layout, routines, and atmosphere quietly influence how we feel and function.