Bring More Wellness Into Your Home
At DesignWell Studios, we combine thoughtful design with wellness expertise to create spaces that are not only beautiful but truly support your health and well-being. Grounded in environmental science and biophilic design, our work enhances air quality, minimizes harmful materials, and connects you with nature to promote comfort, balance, and vitality.
We collaborate with clients seeking healthier homes and workspaces—including those navigating mold or chemical exposures—to uncover root causes and guide the next steps to heal both home and health. Through education and consulting, we help you identify red flags during home buying and design environments that actively support recovery, comfort, and vitality.
Each space we design is a seamless blend of design, science, and wellness, where air, materials, and form work together to nurture the body, mood, and mind. The result is a restorative environment that fosters clarity, calm, and lasting well-being—where wellness and design coexist effortlessly.
This is DesignWell Studios—creating homes that help you thrive.
Take our 5-Minute Wellness Home Quiz!
This five-minute self-assessment uncovers how your home environment may be influencing your health, energy, and overall well-being. It highlights potential stressors such as air quality, materials, light, and layout-revealing where your space may be working against you.
After completing the assessment, you’ll receive an email with personalized insights and light recommendations to help you begin restoring balance in your space, along with an invitation to schedule a deeper consultation for tailored guidance and next steps.
Our Offerings
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DIAGNOSE
Scans, Audits + Consulting
We identify the hidden risks in your current or future home that can quietly impact your health and comfort. Using environmental science and wellness-focused assessment tools, we evaluate a range of factors, including toxic finishes and building materials, as well as exposures such as mold, VOCs, EMFs, and contaminants from nearby industries or past fires. Our diagnostic process provides a clear picture of how your environment may be influencing your wellbeing-and gives you actionable strategies to mitigate risks and begin restoring balance to your space. -
DESIGN
Renovation + New Construction
Create restorative spaces with healthy building materials, supportive lighting, water and air quality, and calming aesthetics-whether you’re remodeling or starting from scratch. Our design process combines wellness principles with biophilic design to enhance how your environment looks, feels, and performs. We guide you in choosing non-toxic finishes, planning for natural light and ventilation, and integrating systems that improve comfort and wellbeing. Each project balances form and function to create spaces that are as healing as they are beautiful. -
LEARN
Books and Guides by Michelle
Welcome to my curated library of downloadable guides, created to support wellness in built environments—whether you’re a homeowner, renter, real estate buyer, or a professional shaping spaces for others (design, hospitality, workplace, or education). These resources help you clarify priorities, reduce common environmental stressors, and know what to look for in homes, rentals, and properties. For deeper support, select guides include step-by-step protocols, checklists, and product sourcing to help you take confident action—whether you’re improving an existing space or planning a new one.
Meet Michelle,
Wellness Design Strategist.
For over 15 years, Michelle Bexelius has guided people in understanding how the built environment shapes health-transforming homes from hidden sources of stress into spaces that support healing, regulation, and vitality. Through biophilic design, the careful selection of healthy materials, environmental testing, and science-based strategies, she helps create interiors that do more than just look beautiful. Her mission is to craft spaces that feel as good as they look-environments that truly nurture wellbeing, foster comfort, and enhance daily life for everyone who inhabits them.
“I highly recommend DesignWell Studios if you are facing an environmental issues that you think could be contributing to any health symptoms. And the bonus of getting such a sweet, kind, fun, smart, funny, and aesthetically talented Designer as well, is just the icing on the cake! THANK YOU so very much Michelle and DesignWell Studios. You have restored my faith in humanity and given me some hope back, for a brighter & healthier life.”
- Kristina, Portland, OR
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