Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

Some houses are furnished expensively, more
to gratify pride and to receive visitors than for the
comfort, convenience, and health of the family.
The best rooms are kept dark. The light and air are
shut out lest the light of heaven should injure the
rich furniture, fade the carpets, or tarnish the
picture frames. When visitors are seated in these
rooms they are in danger of taking cold because of
the cellarlike atmosphere pervading them. Parlor
chambers and bedrooms are kept closed in the
same manner and for the same reasons. And
whoever occupies these beds which have not been
freely exposed to light and air does so at the
expense of health, and often of life itself.
Rooms that are not exposed to light and air
become damp. Beds and bedding gather dampness,
and the atmosphere in these rooms is poisonous,
because it has not been purified by light and air....
Sleeping rooms especially should be well
ventilated, and the atmosphere made healthy by
light and air. Blinds should be left open several
hours each day, and the curtains put aside, and the
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