A place to rest, bathe, prepare food, exercise, and relax.
The Conscious Home Design View
The evolution of home design
Homes have learned to protect, function, and look beautiful. The next step is designing them around the people and lives inside them.
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The 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, materials and methods evolved, and architecture became functional shelter, more durable and versatile, supporting more activities of life.
With the basics established, the evolution continued through decoration, ornamentation, and proportion. Architecture became beautiful shelter.
Durable protection, useful space, and beauty matter. They help us live better. But a home can do more.
Why
Happiness is personal. Your home can answer to yours.
We all want to be happy, but that looks different from one household to the next. The homes that serve us best make room for both universal needs and the distinctly personal life each person wants to live.
Space to connect with others, to give and receive love.
Room to develop ourselves, pursue our gifts, and expand our knowledge and potential.
To know that we matter and feel connected to life, its rhythm, and one another.
What
Good shelter is the foundation for what comes next.
Simple, functional, and beautiful shelter is valuable. A home can also be shaped around the full range of needs that support health, happiness, relationships, and personal growth.
Conscious Home Design brings what we know about human flourishing into the home. See the research behind it
How
Better questions become better design.
By asking better questions, we get better answers. Those answers become the design.
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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.
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We design for all four needs, not just one.
Body, heart, mind, and spirit. Every household weights them differently. Yours becomes the design guide.
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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.
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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™
Not drawings. Your HomePrint™ is the program behind the drawings, the full picture of the life the home is for, your wishlist, and your priorities in order. It is the document every design decision answers to, and it is yours to keep, whoever ends up designing your home.
From there, the drawings can respond to a clear picture of the life ahead.
Choose your next step
Find the support that fits where you are.
The Book
DIY. Read the ideas behind the method and start seeing your home with a clearer lens.
Explore the BookThe Workbook
DIY. Turn your values, routines, and priorities into a useful project starting point.
Explore the WorkbookLifestyle Design Brief™
DFY. Work directly with Talor in the collaborative process that produces your HomePrint™.
Explore the BriefA Consultation
Talk with Talor about the project, question, or decision in front of you.
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