Odours In The Living Room

Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION

Situation Analysis

Everyone has encountered the problems of their rooms having an unpleasant smell. Bad smelling rooms is a problem not to be ignored. It displeases the people who spend time in that room, especially the guests and the visitors. It is a very big problem for buildings that require people to stay inside for a long period of time like hotels, schools, houses, restaurants, and much more. In houses, there are many rooms that can possibly have an unpleasant odour, the bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, and the living room. Basically, any room inside the house can end up being smelly. One of the most observed quality in any house or facility is the smell, it can serve as a person’s first impression of the place he is in

These odours can be a bother for some people and cause different symptoms like a headache, nausea, cough, and more. Other environmental odours can be toxic and harmful for the health of people. Everyone is born different from each other, and that is not just physical features and how they think. It includes their sensitivity to environmental odours, so some people have more chances of getting symptoms than other people. It is not the smell that harms you, according to Luis Villazon, “Smells in themselves do not cause harm. A smell is a neural response to airborne molecules binding to receptors in the mucous membranes of your nose. You can’t be harmed by a smell any more than you can by a colour. But the chemical that causes the smell can harm you. In general, we have evolved so that harmful substances smell bad, to warn us.” Bad smell can also harm us but it is not specifically because of the smell, but the chemical causing the smell. Bad smell has different negative effects to its