Whole-Home Wellness — What It Actually Means
Wellness in the home has become a real conversation — and it's finally getting more interesting than home gyms and cold plunges.
Julie Palm at Design News Now reached out while working on a piece about where whole-home wellness design is heading, and what it looks like when you move beyond the dedicated "wellness room" concept entirely. My honest take: the most powerful thing a designer can do isn't add a sauna. It's treat every room as an opportunity to support the people living in it — their nervous systems, their sleep, their ability to actually decompress at the end of a day.
The piece also features the work coming out of Science in Design, the certification program through which I've been doing some of my deepest thinking on neuroaesthetics and biophilic design. Mike Peterson and that community are doing important work in giving our industry the language and the science to back up what many of us have known intuitively for years.
Real luxury isn't loud. It's quiet, grounded, and deeply felt.
