10 Reasons Why Your Home Is Unhealthy (Tips To Better Home Health)

That "new house smell" you love isn't freshness, it's chemistry off-gassing into your lungs. In this episode, The Architect walks through ten ordinary things sitting in most American homes right now, from wall-to-wall carpet and vinyl flooring to particleboard cabinets, flame-retardant mattresses, and attached garages, that a Japanese architect would rarely build the same way. The twist: Japan didn't avoid this by ancient wisdom alone. It suffered its own sickhouse epidemic in the 1990s, then passed a 2003 law the U.S. still has no equivalent of. Grounded in real research, not scare tactics. Which one surprised you most?