Residential

Homes are where we recharge, cultivate relationships, raise children, and establish roots—places that meet physical, social, and emotional intimate needs. We create living spaces that reflect who people are and support a healthy way of living.

Private homes

Every home we design is unique. We attend to both functional needs and aesthetic vision. We explore needs beyond the basics, and uncover what beauty means to each person—not trends, not conventions, but the authentic sense of beauty that's been there all along. We co-create designs that belong only to this home, these people, this life. From initial concept through construction, we guide the process, collaborate with the full team, answer questions, solve problems, and ensure the design comes to life as envisioned.

When architects are involved, we collaborate from project start to finish, aligning space planning, finishes, and function and aesthetics with structural design, ensuring early input on layouts, fixtures, cabinetry, and all that affects structure to ensure complete fulfillment of the client’s vision and design intent to reduce costly revisions and regrettable compromises.

We bring the wellbeing design lens to a home that fully serves its inhabitants on every level. Visit the Approach page to learn more about our design considerations and guidelines.

Cohousing & Intentional Communities

Cohousing & intentional communities address isolation, lack of support, economic pressure, and environmental impact by combining private homes with shared spaces. These intentional neighbourhoods create communities where people build meaningful relationships, support one another across generations, share resources, reduce living costs, and live sustainably.

The Design Challenge

Creating cohousing spaces requires understanding the delicate balance between togetherness and privacy, common purpose and individual expression. Successful communities foster harmony and connection across generations — from quiet conversation to shared meals, from children's play to meaningful exchange between adults, from collaborative work to celebration. The spaces must support this full range of life.

The Interior Designer's Role

While architects shape the building's structure and define how spaces flow, interior designers work within that framework and the community's vision to refine spatial planning, develop colour schemes that serve different moods and functions, select finishes and materials that communicate warmth, comfort, efficiency and reflect design values, create lighting plans that serve multiple functions and age needs, and harmoniously blend individual expression with collective identity. This work transforms architectural space into a lived, intimate experience.

The Wellbeing Lens

Wellbeing design considers how spaces shape people’s experience, moods and lifestyle. Drawing on environmental psychology and biophilic design, we design for sight lines that create organic connection, thresholds that support privacy gradients, sensory experiences that engage all the senses, spaces that invite intimate or casual connection, belonging that addresses cultural and age diversity, ergonomics and accessibility for all bodies, and the integration of natural elements that elevate wellness and reconnect us with nature while indoors. This is the work of wellbeing interior design within the architectural shell.

Working Collaboratively

We work in partnership with community members, architects, consultants, project managers, and builders. Guided by the community's vision and the architectural framework, we translate intentions into detailed interior environments where every design decision serves both individual wellbeing and collective life.

The Value of Early Involvement

When interior design is engaged from the planning stage, the interior experience aligns with wellbeing principles from the beginning and works harmoniously with the architecture. This is when decisions are made that shape how spaces will be lived in for decades to come. Early involvement creates alignment between interior details and architecture, functionality and aesthetics, supporting the private and the collective life the community is building together.

Contact us for the Wellbeing Design for Community-Led Housing presentation and uncover potent design elements, values, and processes.