Abstract
Many early studies on restorative environments have focused on the natural environment. However, Kaplan et al.'s Attention Restoration Theory (ART) suggests that an environment possessing certain features can be restorative even if it is not a natural environment. On the basis of ART, researchers in the field of environment studies have increasingly focused on various environments. Among them, the home is an environment in which people spend most of their time. The home plays a central role in the restorative process from stress in their daily lives. Consequently, the restorativeness of the home could have a considerable impact on people's psychological well-being. In this paper, I focused on the home as a restorative environment in everyday life, and I examine which elements are necessary for a home to function as a restorative place.
