“Michelle at DesignWell Studios is truly an angel. She came to our rescue when our family had just closed on a house and found out the indoor air quality was toxic. I have asthma and a 3 month old baby I did not want to expose to toxins. It was coming from the walls. We later learned why it was legitimately toxic, but that is an even longer story. We just knew it was toxic and opening the windows was not fixing the problem. I had researched AFM Safecoat paint and came across her website and reached out to her. She had to deal with our doubts and not wanting to spend the money in the middle of a move, and I had no idea what color to paint the house and no time to decide. This was basically an emergency to us because we were living in a motel room. My husband couldn’t believe we couldn’t just sleep in the home. Michelle was patient with me, but encouraged me to listen to my gut that was telling me it was not safe. She wrote up a quote the same day and suggested puffy clouds in eggshell. I desperately agreed. My husband reluctantly said yes - anything if it means we can get into the house. She ordered the transitional primer and paint for us, an air purifier, and air monitor. No time to custom paint different colors, we started painting the bedrooms ourselves when it arrived and hired someone to paint everything else the same color: ceilings, trim, doors, walls.
For being all white, we are surprisingly quite pleased with it. It is a pretty and warm white like she assured me and I can always add more color later. It was the right thing to do to get it primed and painted as quickly as possible. Even my husband who was very reluctant at first is now so glad we did. The house smells SO MUCH BETTER. It is high quality paint and did the job of stopping the off-gassing. I had second guessed the process multiple times and she was patient with us and had to reassure me a lot. It was a major stressful 2,500 mile move. None of that matters now that we are safely in our home.

I am also SO HAPPY with the air purifier she recommended. I had done hours of confusing internet research and ordered one, but hers was leaps and bounds better for slightly cheaper. We primed and painted the bedrooms first so we could at least sleep in the house. After a day of curing, there was barely any paint smell, and none of the nasty toxic smell. However, it was so hot we had to run the HVAC and it was recirculating toxic air from the rest of the house into the bedroom. That would have been disastrous and we would have had to move out again if not for the air purifier. It easily kept up and we could finally slept peacefully.

Now that the whole house is finished, we usually run it on low maintenance when the windows are shut. Overall, the air quality is impressive still two months later. When we cannot open the windows the quality goes down sometimes, but the air purifier fixes it throughout our home within 30 minutes of turning it on. It helps to know the reason for the change in quality, such as CO2 levels or particles, likely from wildfire smoke. Chemical VOCs is rarely the problem since we painted with truly non-toxic paint. I am now grateful to have the air monitor, which I would have never bought on my own. You really do have control over your own home when you are armed with this knowledge.

After this whole experience, I can confidently say Michelle genuinely cares for the client and has their best interest in mind. When she says she wants to see you happy and healthy she means it. She helped us out of the goodness of her heart, not for any gain at all. We live over 100 miles away and I never met her in person and she still offered her time to help us because she knew our health would be compromised and had empathy for our situation. I am forever grateful! I will no longer doubt her advice now after such a great experience. She probably saved our marriage and certainly my health and the health of our precious baby. Needless to say, I highly recommend her services!””

“Michelle helped us tremendously throughout the entire process of transforming our home into a healthy home. From the initial assessment, through all the testing and interpreting the results, to a specific action plan and continued assistance throughout the execution of that plan, she has been an extremely valuable resource. We highly recommend here.”

“Michelle helped me and my wife tremendously. My wife suffered greatly from bad air quality in the house for many years but we didn’t know why. She did bunch of allergy tests but they all came back negative.

After going through many environmental tests (Mold, Mycotoxin, Radon, Formadehyde, Volatile Organic Compounds), Michelle suggested replacing our old 50 year tile roof, getting rid of loose fiberglass insulation in the attic and dirty insulation in the crawlspace, plus using mini splits instead of old ducting system to prevent dirty air from crawlspace coming to the house. It’s not a cheap project but we did it, and the result is AMAZING. Not to mention additional house improving advise such as more skylights / sun tunnels, high quality air purifiers and HRV / ERV system to improve air flow in the house.

After moving back to the house for 2 months, my wife’s health is significantly better. No more breathing problems, severe headaches and skin infections. I highly recommend Michelle for anyone who deals with complex health issues due to bad air quality. You don’t know what is the real problem until you met the real expert.”

“Michelle helped us check for EMF and RF at our warehouse building. We have several cell towers and commercial buildings nearby, and wanted to make sure we were bot being exposed to dangerous levels of EMF. She was very helpful and knowledgeable throughout the process, would highly recommend!”

“My husband and I worked with Michelle from while looking for a home to purchase. We were interested in environmental testing and to find a property that was safe for our family. Michelle was very easy to work with and extremely responsive - she was able to come look at a property the next day and turned around a report later in the afternoon that described the environmental safety of the area. She was extremely knowledgeable as well and provided important education to us in how to maintain a healthy home environment for ourselves and our young children, I highly recommend DesignWell Studio’s services.”

“Michelle is very knowledgeable about creating healthy and productive home and workspaces.”

“Our Daughter became ill from Leukemia and we knew we needed to make sure her recovery was going to be clean and safe for her. Michelle came in and tested the air in her bedroom for toxins. Sure enough, her room had high levels of chemical pollutants. She also found that our girl’s metal bed was over active wires were from our basement. DesignWELL studios retested the air and it is clean from chemicals now and our daughter is recovering nicely after a bone marrow transplant. I urge you to consult with Michelle. Thank you DesignWELL studios for helping us create a health and safe room for our children. Highly recommended!”

“Michelle is one of the most passionate women I have met on the subject of human health and the built environment. She is devoted to helping people make their homes and working spaces free of harmful toxins, but also more energy efficient. Michelle keeps up-to-date on the latest products and innovations for sustainable living”.”

“Michelle, owner of Design Well Studios, was a delight to work with. I live in Northern Idaho and needed help with several Safecoat products. She went above and beyond to answer all my questions and did all she could to make sure we got our time sensitive order as quickly as possible. She also helped me with other green building issues I was concerned about. She knows her stuff! I am so glad to have her as a resource for future projects. She can cover all the bases when trying to create a non toxic home. I would highly recommend Design Well Studios! Thanks again Michelle! :)”

“I contacted DesignWell Studios, when feeling completely hopeless- faced with overwhelming environmental toxic air concerns & debilitating health issues. I had reached out to many other similar companies prior. Michelle Iverson, the owner of DesignWell, blew me away with her kindness, knowledge, and willingness to drop everything to help me.
I truly can’t say enough nice things about her and her amazing company. She has gone SO far above and beyond to help me several times now, when in a serious pickle, and had nowhere else to turn for help.
I have literally called her my Angel more times then I can remember. I have never met a human and a company, that has cared for their clients and put as much into their cause as this company has. She gave me confidence, faith, and knowledge, in choosing my next new healthy home- giving me hope, of finally being in a healthier space, to focus on my healing, well-being, and future.
I cannot thank her and her team enough.

I HIGHLY recommend this company if you are also facing 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.”

“Michelle is a very driven and creative person who brings her passion to everything she does. Michelle has a very strong eye for design and is extremely detail oriented – she is able to hold you accountable and make you feel good about it at the same time. Michelle also has the unique ability to blend her marketing concepts and campaigns with the drivers of the business. The bottom line is that Michelle’s energy and presence makes every team she works with better and stronger. ”

“Michelle Ifversen/DesignWell did a very good job identifying the source of our air quality problem and advising us of practical steps to solve the problem. Friendly, highly professional, experienced and fair prices.”

“Very highly recommend them. I needed help detecting cigarette smoke in my unit and ordered the test from Design Well Studios. I screwed up the order and called Michelle for help. She offered to look into my order and call me back. Talk about customer service. Not only did she call me back to let me know when the order would ship, but then followed-up subsequently to ensure the test was received. The test report was provided in a timely manner and Michelle followed-up with a call to recommend mitigation steps. Couldn’t be happier with their service and detailed test report. Kudos to Michelle for all her help. Thank you!”

“Michelle did a thorough examination of many issues at my home (regarding air quality, mold, and electric wiring funkiness), and went the extra mile diagnosing the problems and laying out clear steps to make things better. It’s abundantly clear that she cares about her work and I very much believe in what she does!”

“Michelle helped me, and she was amazing! She was very knowledgable, took time to understand my concerns about my home air quality, and recommended some great solutions. She was available to support me once I received my products too. Thank you Michelle!”

“This spring, as everything started to get weird, my wife and I decided to start thinking about doing something with our small, boring backyard. We’d already put in some beds to grow vegetables (can’t be too careful), but figured that it wouldn’t hurt to at least get some preliminary design ideas for what we’d like to do in the fall so that we’d have something to look forward to over the summer.

Enter Michelle at DesignWell Studios. From the very first moment that we met, we were hooked. My wife started describing a little of what she wanted, and immediately Michelle picked up on the idea and started making it even better. By the end of our initial visit, we had a clear vision and were certain that Michelle was someone who could help us make it a reality.

Within a couple of days, we had a blueprint of our new backyard and were so in love with it, and so excited to start working with Michelle that we decided to scrap the backyard “just in case” garden and get moving on our backyard redesign.

This was our first time actually working with a designer/project manager and I can hands down say that it was more than worth it! Past projects have been nothing but stress: finding the right people to do the work needed, figuring out the best materials and where to find those materials, feeling uncertain about the actual plan and whether or not we were accurately conveying our vision to the people we’d hired, etc. etc. Seriously, just thinking about it brings back all the stress.

There was none of that stress with Michelle at the helm. As great as she was at helping us to get our vision down on paper, she was even more invaluable as a project manager. All that stress I’d mentioned before: gone. Michelle was there to order all the necessary supplies, find the professionals to do the work, and smooth out any hiccups along the way. A quick email or text would clear up any questions we had, allowing us to sit back and imagine the backyard we’d been dreaming of.

One of the struggles my wife and I have had with people doing work for us in the past is actually advocating for ourselves. I trust in the experts to know what they’re doing and do their best work. Unfortunately, sometimes, things just don’t look right. In the past, when that’s happened (terrible experience getting a fence built), we would timidly question the professional about our concerns and they’d always come back with the assurance that everything was being done properly. We’ve learned that properly is sometimes synonymous with quickly and easily which, from the homeowner’s perspective does not end up delivering the desired results. Having Michelle as a project manager put things being done the way they were meant to be done at the forefront of our project. She stopped by multiple times during the redesign and had no problem putting her foot down and making sure that we were getting what we paid for and would be happy with the end results.

And now that the job is done, we couldn’t be happier. Our backyard is more beautiful than we could have imagined. Even though we won’t be going on any vacations this summer, just sitting out in our backyard morning, noon and night feels like a vacation. It has literally become an other room of our home. When we share pictures with family and friends, the first comment is always about how professional it looks, “Like something out of a magazine.” The reason it looks that way is that DesignWell Studios does professional work. Best money every spent! Zero regrets. I couldn’t recommend them more.”

“Michelle’s positive energy and new design ideas are truly inspiring. Her remedy approach to design is at the forefront of green design and pushes the envelope for thinking about new ways to improve health through the design of spaces we occupy daily. I was lucky enough to work with Michelle on several green building projects and highly recommend working with her. ”

““I met Michelle and knew instantly that I wanted to work with her. She exudes genuine, positive energy. I came to her thinking I was going to journey down one path building a certain creative business, and after the first meeting she saw more value and potential in my than I did in myself in an area where I already had experience, expertise and passion. Off we went in a completely different direction building a business idea I wasn’t considering at the time. Her business process developing brands with clients is organized, streamlined and unique. She is a talented, active listener and after a few sessions we had a brand and business outline developed. I understood along the way exactly what my next steps were in building success, and the best part was how much support Michelle provided through the entire process. You’ll be hooked after your initial conversation… she’s magical.””

“After remodeling my a room in my home I suddenly became ill. I felt dizzy, started coughing and wasn’t able to work. I called Michelle to test my air for I feared the contractors contaminated my air vents, and sure enough they did. Michelle came in and tested my air which was very polluted. She suggested putting an HRV system and get an air filter. She tested again after a month and my air was healthy and I was on the mend. Thank you Michelle. ”

“I am a new mom with a busy schedule. I read a lot and try to eat as healthy as I can but get overwhelmed with all that life throws at me. My child has severe allergies and we do all we can with food but wanted to make sure his environment is healthy and safe. Michelle came over and eased my mind and created a fun, easy to follow system that made sense. We have gotten rid of his old mattress apparently with chemicals on in and traded it in for a new, non toxic one to start. She went through everything, his toys, clothes, diapers and even the rugs on the floor. Her suggestions were easy to follow as she made the priorities stand out. Now he has a beautiful room that is safe and healthy! I recommend spending the day with Michelle. You will feel empowered and enlightened.”