NEW BUILDS + REMODELING WITH WELLNESS IN MIND
Building a new home or remodeling can be overwhelming, it doesn't have to be when you work with DesignWell! Our goal is to listen to what you want your new home to be and make it healthy and supportive.
We help you navigate choice making on sourcing building materials, finishes and fixtures, remediation, air and water quality solutions, healthy furnishings, safe EMF planning, lighting and more!
We go over your project in details so we can best understand what you need help with. This is an initial meeting to gather information about your project.
A project proposal will be emailed to you after with an outline of items in priority, organized for all to be on the same page with the goal of creating a healthy, safe and beautiful place for you.
BIOPHILIC INTERIOR DESIGN
DesignWell Studios helps you curate your interior space mindfully with healthy, non toxic, sustainable elements. We also incorporate biophilic design principles that connect you to nature evoking a healthy dose of well being and extreme satisfaction. We specialize in sourcing materials that healthy, non toxic and sustainable such as finishings, furnishings, textiles, flooring, carpets, wall coverings, window coverings, mattresses, bedding and more.
We utilize elements of nature in each design project (Biophilic Design) and we use only non-toxic, healthy products and materials creating an aesthetically beautiful, functional and healthy home, office or commercial space.
DesignWell studios helps you curate your interior space mindfully with healthy, non toxic, sustainable elements. We also incorporate biophilic design principles that connect you to nature evoking a healthy dose of well being and extreme satisfaction.
45 min consultation to go over your project. Meeting notes will be emailed to you along with a proposal.
CURATED BUILDING MATERIALS
Choosing the right building materials like flooring, paint, insulation, lighting and even adhesives can make all the difference in your health. DesignWell can help you source healthy building materials for your next build or remodel project.
HEALTHY PAINTS, STAINS, SEALANTS
The best company for healthy paints, adhesives, caulking, sealants, stains, carpet treatments! If you have recently remodeled or are in the planning stages, AFM Safecoat products are the best for stopping off gassing of harmful chemicals and offering a safer environment and indoor air quality!
See our custom color line Michelle designed for AFM Safecoat
HEALTHY FLOORING
Flooring is one of the biggest VOC offenders. We have seen it affect people from all ages, including babies when exposed could lead to chronic asthma. If you have new flooring or cabinets, you should know if they contain harmful chemicals that are in the air you breathe. Read more about this on our blog
Give us a call at 503.386.2003 or email us info@designwellstudios.com
to place your custom order.
BIOPHLIC DESIGN ART + PHOTOGRAPHY
When we have the opportunity to be closer to nature, it benefits our bodies, minds and spirit tremendously. Sometimes you can’t go for a hike in the forest or walk along the shore at the beach but you can bring it into your daily life and reap the same benefits. We can show you how to implement indirect biophilic design with art and photography. It’s all about connection and placement and it’s incredibly subtle yet amazinly effective.
We have a series of indirect biophilic art and photography pieces of our collection we’d love to share with you.
Click here to see our portfolio
HISTORY BIOPHILIC DESIGN
The term biophilia, derived from the Greek terminologies of ‘philia’ as love and ‘bio’ as nature, refers to “the love of nature or life.” It focuses on human’s innate attraction to nature and natural processes. It suggests that we all have a genetic connection to the natural world built up through hundreds of thousands of years of living in agrarian settings. Biophilic design can be traced all the way back to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon; the ancient world built by King Nebuchadnezzar II for his wife Queen Amytis. The Queen missed the green valleys and hills of her Median homeland, so the King built a towering series of tiered gardens with a wide variety of flowers, shrubs, vines and trees for her.
Erich Fromm in 1973 wrote a book called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness. He talked about passionate love of live and all that is alive. That paved the way for Edward O Wilson, American biologist who coined the term Biophilia in the 1980’s when he observed how people were being disconnected with the natural world. With high rates of migration to urban settings in the developed world and soaring rates in developing countries – Biophilia is of ever increasing importance to our health and well-being in the built environment.
Biophilic Design uses these ideas as principles to create a human centered approach that when applied improves many of the spaces that we live and work in today, with numerous benefits to our health and well-being. It is extremely beneficial for interior designers to design and stage homes as prospective buyers sense an immediate welcoming effect, a sense of calm and a true connection to the home when elements of biophilic design is incorporated.