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Conscious Home Design
This could be the best home of your life.
Conscious Home Design helps people building a new home design it around the life they want to live inside it, beautifully, in any style, anywhere.
Here's what that looks like.
#1 bestselling author in 8 countries50+ radio, TV, and podcast interviewsReaders across 6 continents
Conscious Home Design is held in more than a dozen university and college libraries.The Promise
A home can do more than shelter you. It can give something extra.
Mornings that run easy. Light that arrives where you actually live. Coffee in the sun. The door open to the garden. The table full, and room for one more. A place for the thing you love, ready when you are. Room to gather, room to retreat, room to become whoever you're becoming next.
This is what a home is capable of when it's designed around the life you want to create, not a style, not a square footage, but the days themselves.
We know how to build that. It's a beautiful process, and it works in any architecture, anywhere.
Any Style. Any Size. Anywhere.
Beautiful is the starting line.
Modern or traditional. Coastal or alpine. Field or forest. Cottage, castle, and everything in between, Conscious Home Design plays well with them all.
Whatever look you love, that's what we design. Beautiful is the starting line here, not the reward. What we add is the thinking that comes before style, so the home you fall in love with on paper is also the one that fits your days, your habits, and the years to come.
It's a smart financial move, too. Premium attention, delivered at a moderate price point, a small share of what a home costs, shaping the value of everything else in it.
How a Home Gets Made
Every home moves through four stages.
- 01
Predesign
Exploration, feasibility, and programming. Understanding the life the home is for.
- 02
Design
The look and the layout, built on everything discovered in predesign.
- 03
Construction Documents
Turning beautiful designs into technical, permit-ready, price-ready drawings.
- 04
Construction
Finding the right builder and making sure the design and the budget both arrive intact.
Most of the excitement naturally rushes toward stage two. That's understandable, designs are the fun part. But stage one is where the real leverage lives. It's the map you set before a cross-country drive: a small amount of thoughtful work up front that determines how good every mile after it feels.
Conscious Home Design gives that stage the attention it deserves, and then keeps the right people in the room at the right time all the way through.
What Changes, and When
Every home project involves three people.
Each contributes 100% of their effort. When they contribute it changes everything.
StageTypical delivery
Owner / Architect / BuilderConscious Home Design
Owner / Architect / Builder
Owner / Architect / BuilderConscious Home Design
Owner / Architect / Builder
1. Predesign10% / 10% / not involved20% / 20% / not involved
2. Design80% / 30% / not involved60% / 30% / 5%
3. Construction Documents0% / 40% / not involved10% / 30% / 5%
4. Construction10% / 20% / 100%10% / 20% / 90%
Your builder arrives earlier, so buildability shapes the design from the very first sketch.
Your involvement spreads more evenly, so every decision arrives with room to think it through.
What Each Stage Feels Like
Clarity carries through the whole process.
Predesign
We go well past how many bedrooms, baths, cars, what style, and how many square feet. We get curious about your life. How does a Tuesday morning differ from a Saturday? Beyond sleeping, eating, and bathing, what do you actually want to do here? When everyone's together, how do you like to be together? When someone needs solitude, where do they find it, and when?
These questions, asked thoughtfully and listened to carefully, become a floor plan that pays dividends for decades. It's subtle but powerful. A photograph might not show you why a room works the way it does, but you feel it every day.
Design
Now, when it's time to explore layouts, elevations, and materials, we're not guessing. We have a clear framework of what this home needs to achieve and how it can feel to walk through. As the design develops, we may bring a builder in early for feedback on materials and methods, so the design moves toward something that can be built beautifully, in less time.
Construction Documents
When the design becomes detailed drawings, materials, connections, structural specifications, everything a permit and an accurate price require, the builder already knows the project. Their input streamlines the work while protecting design and quality.
Construction
Your builder hits the ground running. The details were settled months ago, so the work moves. The design you fell in love with is the home you move into.
The Result
A home you're proud to open the door to.
Beautiful when the guests arrive, and just as good on a Tuesday morning with no one there but you.
Built faster, at better value, with a process that stays calm and clear the whole way through.
That's the whole point, a home that fits you completely, and looks like it always belonged there.
Start Here
Let's talk about the life you want to design.
Start with a consultation. We'll talk through your property, your timeline, and what you're hoping this home will make possible. You'll leave with a clear sense of what's ahead and whether we're the right fit.
Discuss Your Project Talor Stewart, Licensed Architect, author of the #1 bestselling Conscious Home Design, and creator of the Conscious Home Design Method™. Working with homeowners nationwide and select places internationally.Start here
Choose the next step that fits your project.
Begin with the book, work through the Workbook, explore architecture services, or book time with Talor.
The Book
Read the method and start seeing your home with a clearer lens.
Explore the BookThe Workbook
Turn your values, routines, and priorities into a useful project starting point.
Explore the WorkbookArchitecture Services
Get support for a custom home, renovation, addition, permitting, or construction decisions.
Explore ServicesA Consultation
Talk with Talor about the project, question, or decision in front of you.
Book a ConsultationThe Next Evolution
From shelter to a home that helps you flourish.
In the beginning, architecture was simple shelter. Protection from the elements of nature.
Over time, material use and methods evolved, and architecture became functional shelter - more durable and versatile, supporting more activities of life.
With these basics established the evolution continued, incorporating decoration and ornamentation, while the very shape and proportions of a structure itself were refined. Thus, architecture became beautiful shelter.
These are the essentials that every homeowner wants. Durable protection? Obviously. Functional, useful, and adaptable? Of course. Beautiful? Definitely.
All these features in a home help us live better.
Today, the evolution continues. Conscious Home Design is leading the way. You can benefit from it - you’re the who of the matter. Here is why, what, and how:
Why
Happily ever after.
Happiness is the ultimate goal of life. It’s what everyone wants, in their heart of hearts. The founding fathers proclaimed it in 1776: Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness. It’s essential to human flourishing.
Happiness is personal. Your home should answer to yours.
While we all want to be happy, we differ in what that means and looks like. It’s an individual choice. In many ways, happiness comes from getting our needs met - both our common, universal needs, and our unique individual needs.
- a place to rest, bathe, prepare food, exercise and relax.
- space to connect with others, to give and receive love.
- to develop ourselves, pursue our genius, our unique interests and gifts, and expand our knowledge and potential.
- to know that we matter. To feel that we are connected to life, part of the rhythm and flow. That we are not alone.
What
Good shelter is not where the evolution ends.
Now we see that simple, functional, and beautiful shelter is not where the evolution ends - because while good, they don’t meet our full range of needs. There is still more we can do to more deeply satisfy and encourage human happiness and fulfillment through the design of our homes and architecture.
Conscious Home Design is the natural evolution of home design, based on the science of human happiness. Because what the Arts and Sciences of the Humanities have learned and discovered in the past 100 years about health, happiness, life expectancy, relationships, and personal growth has been a quantum leap forward; meanwhile average home design hasn’t kept pace. This is where Conscious Home Design leads the way. See the research behind it
How
Better questions become better design.
How does Conscious Home Design do this? By asking better questions, we get better answers. And those answers become the design.
- 1.
We start with the life, not the floor plan.
Before anything is drawn, we look at the life you want to be living - your mornings, your work, your rest, the people you gather and the way you each recharge.
- 2.
We design for all four needs, not just one.
Body, heart, mind, and spirit. Every household weights them differently. Yours becomes the design guide.
- 3.
We find the spaces your life actually asks for.
Not the standard room list. The place for the work you love. The room that earns its keep every week. The corner where the morning light finds you.
- 4.
We put them in relationship.
Who's near whom, and when. Where togetherness happens and where each person goes to be alone. The magic lives between the rooms as much as in them.
Your HomePrint™
That becomes your HomePrint™ - like a fingerprint, no two are alike. Not drawings; the document every drawing answers to, and the one thing you take with you into every conversation that follows.
Then, and only then, we draw.
Where Do You Fit?
Choose the path that matches the work in front of you.
For Homeowners
You want a home that fits the life you are growing into and building. Start with a conversation about the future you want to create.
Start with a consultationFor Builders
You build the homes people live their lives in. Commission a plan designed around your buyers, then build it as many times as you need.
See Commissioned PlansFor Realtors
Help a buyer see what a house could become, while they are still standing in it.
For RealtorsFor Sponsors
Reach people at the moment they are imagining a better version of home.
For SponsorsFor Designers
Bring the Conscious Home Design Method™ into your own practice.
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Start with the life you want to create.
Bring your vision, your questions, and the future you are building toward.
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