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Wellness by Dezign
March 2026
The Home as a Place of Rest
Designing Spaces That Let Your Mind and Body Exhale
Biophilic Design Explained
Healthier Homes & Workplaces
Spring Refresh
Ideas to Refresh Your Backyard
March invites us to think about rest in a deeper, more intentional way—how our homes can either support or hinder the restoration our minds and bodies need. The spaces we live in quietly influence our stress, focus, and emotional well-being, shaping whether we can truly unwind at the end of the day.
In this issue, we explore what it means to create homes that nurture mental health. From designing bedrooms that invite restorative sleep to arranging living spaces that calm the nervous system, these stories highlight practical ways your home can become a sanctuary.
Because when a home is designed to restore, it becomes more than a place to live—it becomes a place to recover, recharge, and feel truly at home in your own life.
Recipe of the Month
One Minute Quinoa Bowl with Chicken and Roasted Winter Vegetables
Heather Christo, Deliciously Allergen Free Recipes
Healthy, easy, and delicious, this quinoa bowl is going to keep you on track with your healthy eating plans and make it as tasty as possible to do so!
Photo Credit: Heather Christo
Heather Christo, Deliciously Allergen Free Recipes
While this is easy and fast enough for a week night, to me that it makes it all the more appealing for entertaining! You can make the sauce ahead of time, and then you just throw em on the Barbie for a few minutes and voila!
Photo Credit: Heather Christo
Recipe of the Month
Grilled Honey Lime Mango Glazed Shrimp
Heather Christo, Deliciously Allergen Free Recipes
While this is easy and fast enough for a week night, to me that it makes it all the more appealing for entertaining! You can make the sauce ahead of time, and then you just throw em on the Barbie for a few minutes and voila!
Photo Credit: Heather Christo
Recipe of the Month
Vegan Breakfast Skillet
Heather Christo, Deliciously Allergen Free Recipes
I also love that this breakfast skillet is loaded with vegetables and tons of flavor, so that it will not only keep you full and provide you with great nutrition- but it tastes good!!!
Photo Credit: Heather Christo
Organization
How to Stay Productive During Winter
By Jolene Nannette
Winter can make it harder to stay motivated. Cold weather, busy holidays, and shorter days often leave people feeling tired and unproductive. During the holidays, life can feel hectic and nonstop, but once they end, there’s usually a big drop in energy. With darker evenings, colder nights, and a long to-do list, it’s easy to want to slow down. Still, with the right habits and realistic expectations, you can stay productive while enjoying the cozy side of winter.
Organization
How to Design a Home Around the People You Love
By Jolene Nannette
Designing spaces in your home to foster a sense of connection just takes a little bit of planning and organizing. And it’s very worthwhile. Here are a few things you can do to make your home more open to encouraging close relationships with the people you care about.
Organization
How to Design a Home Around the People You Love
By Jolene Nannette
Designing spaces in your home to foster a sense of connection just takes a little bit of planning and organizing. And it’s very worthwhile. Here are a few things you can do to make your home more open to encouraging close relationships with the people you care about.
Organization
By Jolene Nannette
Life is busy, and the clutter in our homes and the chaos in our schedules significantly impact our mental well-being. By simplifying both your living environment and your daily routine, you can create a more calming atmosphere that will promote mental clarity and emotional peace. Making small changes to your home and your schedule can help bring more calm to your life.
Make Small Changes to Simplify Your Home and Schedule to Improve Your Mental Health
Feng Shui Essentials
The Quiet Power of Reset: A January Home Reset for Clarity and Calm
By Dee Oujiri
The first days of January have a hush to them. Not silence, just a quieter hum, like the world has lowered its shoulders by one visible inch. The holiday glitter settles, the calendar resets, and suddenly the air feels different. It’s softer. A little slower. A little more honest.
Feng Shui Essentials
Where Love Lives: Designing a Heart-Centered Home
By Dee Oujiri
Love is often spoken of as an emotion, but it is also an environment. It lives not only in what we feel toward others, but in the way we inhabit space, tend to it, and allow it to reflect who we are becoming. If the home is the first architecture we ever encounter, then it is also the first architecture that teaches us how to belong to ourselves, to each other, and to the quiet inner worlds we rarely name.
Feng Shui Essentials
Where Love Lives: Designing a Heart-Centered Home
By Dee Oujiri
Love is often spoken of as an emotion, but it is also an environment. It lives not only in what we feel toward others, but in the way we inhabit space, tend to it, and allow it to reflect who we are becoming. If the home is the first architecture we ever encounter, then it is also the first architecture that teaches us how to belong to ourselves, to each other, and to the quiet inner worlds we rarely name.
Feng Shui Essentials
The Home as a Place of Rest: Designing Spaces That Let Your Mind and Body Exhale
By Dee Oujiri
There is a particular kind of tired that doesn’t come from doing too much. It comes from being on for too long.
Featured Article
What is Wellness Real Estate?
The new frontier in the wellness economy
Cassy West
2026 Home Trends
2026 Color Trends: How Neutrals & Green Support At Home & Work
By Cassy West
Each January, “Color of the Year” announcements arrive like a mood board for our collective psyche. For 2026, the leading color authorities are leaning into calm: soft whites, grounded greens, and nuanced, complex neutrals. Together, they mirror what many people are craving in their homes and workplaces; spaces that feel restorative, stable, and quietly expressive.
2026 Home Trends
Designing with LOVE: Pet-Friendly Homes for Comfort and Connection
By Cassy West
February is often associated with love — romantic love, yes — but also the quieter, deeper kind of love we feel for the place we call home and for those who share it with us. Our homes are not just shelters; they are emotional ecosystems. And for many of us, that ecosystem includes pets who bring companionship, comfort, and unconditional love into our daily lives.
2026 Home Trends
Biophilic Design Explained: Healthier Homes & Workplaces
By Cassy West
Biophilic design is a wellness-centered approach to architecture and interiors that reconnects people with nature through light, air, materials, views, and natural patterns. Rooted in science, biophilic spaces are proven to reduce stress, improve focus, enhance mood, and support long-term health—at home and at work.
Healthy Home
Is Your Home Supporting Your Health—or Working Against It?
What Most Home Buyers Don’t Know (But Should)
By Lucy Chatman
You’re Not Just Buying a House—You’re Choosing the Air You Breathe When most people shop for a home, they think about location, layout, and finishes. But what if the most important factor isn’t something you can see?
Wellness Real Estate
The Smart Homeowner’s Winter-to-Spring Transition Plan: 4 High-Impact Moves to Protect Your Investment
By Sheila Alston
Your home is more than a shelter—it’s a system. And right now, that system is under pressure. Shifting from winter to spring isn’t just about packing up coats or refreshing your decor. It’s about getting strategic—handling the hidden wear-and-tear that quietly builds up each season. Whether you’re in snowy Minnesota or sunny Texas, these four early-season priorities will help you maximize comfort, reduce long-term costs, and protect your home’s market value in a competitive real estate environment.When most people shop for a home, they think about location, layout, and finishes. But what if the most important factor isn’t something you can see?
Spring Season
Spring Refresh: Ideas to Refresh Your Backyard
By Lucy Chatman
As winter fades and the days grow longer, spring gently calls us outdoors. Backyards, patios, and balconies begin to feel alive again, inviting relaxation, connection, and renewal. Even subtle changes can transform a space, making it brighter, more welcoming, and perfectly aligned with the season.
Wellness Upgrades
YOUR HOME, REIMAGINED:
7 WELLNESS UPGRADES THAT SAVE MONEY, ENERGY, AND STRESS IN 2026
By Sheila Alston
Wellness Upgrades
See the Whole Picture: A New Way to Understand How Your Home Performs
By Lucy Chatman
When you walk through a home, you notice the kitchen, the layout, maybe even the flooring. But what about the stuff you can’t see—like how well the home stays warm in winter, how healthy the air is inside, or how efficiently it uses energy? Thanks to a groundbreaking new tool featured in Green Builder Media, everyday homeowners now have access to this kind of powerful performance data—not just builders and energy pros.
Aromatherapy
Slumber’s Sanctuary:
Nurturing Mental Health Through Rest
By Debbie Pullens
In our modern, fast-paced world, sleep is often the first sacrifice we make, yet it remainsthe cornerstone of our mental well-being. Quality rest is not merely a cessation of activity; it is an active, vital process during which our brain processes emotions, consolidated memories, and repairs the physiological wear of the day.
Wellness Real Estate
5 Wellness Questions to Ask Before You Buy a Home
By Lucy Chatman
If you or someone in your household has allergies, chemical sensitivities, or chronic health conditions—or you just want to live in a home that supports your wellness—here are five questions to ask during your home search:
Healthy Home
How Hygge Principles Create a Healthier Home: Science-Backed Ways to Support Wellness
Long before I knew the word “hygge,” I was drawn to the concepts it represents. Growing up with Norwegian roots, I’d always loved the simplistic style paired with cozy, comforting elements. Clean lines. Natural materials. Spaces that felt both intentional and welcoming. In Minnesota, you can’t throw a stone without hitting a Scandinavian shop filled with wool blankets, wooden bowls, and that unmistakable aesthetic of warmth and simplicity.
Healthy Home
Affordable Organic Mattresses: How to Sleep Better Without the Toxins
Creating a healthy home isn’t only about what we breathe or touch during the day — it’s just as much about the eight hours we spend in bed every night. Your mattress is one of the most intimate environments you interact with. It’s where your body rests, your cells repair, and your nervous system resets.
Healthy Home
Healthy Laundry Room Blueprint : 5 Simple Swaps for a Healthier Home
By Amanda Klecker
Healthy Home
Love Where You Live (Again): 5 Intelligent Ways to Reconnect With Your Home in 2026
By, Lucy Chatman
After a long winter indoors, it’s easy to start seeing flaws instead of charm in your home. But before you start browsing Zillow out of restlessness, consider this: falling back in love with your space might be more about shifting your environment than your address.
Architecture
How Home Design Affects Your Nervous System (And What to Do About It)
By Kate Hamblet
Home design doesn’t just shape how a space looks, it shapes how your body responds to it. The way your home handles light, space, sound, air, and materials can either keep your body in a low-grade state of stress or help it settle into calm, focus, and restoration. The good news? You can design your home to calm your body rather than heighten stress, and these design strategies don’t require luxury finishes or extra square footage.
