- a place to rest, bathe, prepare food, exercise and relax.
Conscious Home Design
As life evolves, so should your home.
A true home is more than shelter. It supports the life you are growing into, and shapes the future you want to create.
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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, 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.
- 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.
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.
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