Feels Like Home: Connecting Luxury Home Design to Wellness

Building healthy homes begins with physical and mental wellbeing. At Bspk Design, we’re creating luxury home designs that center comfort in daily life.

Where we live is a reflection of our values and the spaces we create for ourselves. In luxury home design, an integrated approach brings interiors, architecture and landscape together. These rooms feel cohesive and connected, relaxing and uplifting. At Bspk, our focus on wellness extends from the right material choices to maximizing natural daylight and active design.

We rely on our homes to be functional and comfortable. They are one of the rare places where we feel most ourselves. Connecting wellness to luxury home design, homeowners can implement a range of considerations that promote healthy and interconnected spaces to live.

Biophilia: Opening Up a Home

Wellness is about the health and well-being of people as they move inside and out. We consider this through biophilia in home design, by intentionally connecting people more closely to a home’s natural surroundings. This could be through a window, with the right materials that recall nearby landscapes, or large, sliding walls that open living spaces to a garden or deck.

Laying out the Treehouse Home, the residence frames the treetops and the Santa Monica mountains in the distance. The bowl-shaped hillside provided an opportunity to capture sweeping vistas from multiple rooms and outdoor areas, including a deck off of the kitchen. Small moments, like a daylit pocket garden next to the master bathroom, create a serene and beautiful space.

In landscape design, green spaces directly support mental health. Environments should stimulate our senses; whether it is making space for greenery indoors, or simply creating a sense of calm through an organized, well laid-out space with the right materials and lighting.

Natural Light in Luxury Home Design

When considering what a home can be, much of our work is with light. It’s how we understand and perceive what’s around us, and it’s directly tied to well-being. With a preference for natural light over artificial lighting, people enjoy windows, skylights, and expansive views.

The benefits of the right lighting extends beyond health and comfort to atmosphere and mood. We’re at our best in spaces when the right lighting matches how we feel: warm and relaxed, dim and calm, or bright and energized. Our choices can help reinforce the body’s Circadian rhythm. At Bspk, we lay out a home and orient its rooms around specific light qualities and solar exposure.

For the Barn Home, we reference the soaring estates found in California’s Wine Country. We opened the floor plan, created vaulted ceilings, and added generous floor-to-ceiling glass sliders and windows at the front and rear. Inside, it feels uplifting and inspiring thanks to abundant natural light. It’s also grounded in biophilia, where the open-plan living spaces spill onto a backyard patio with a pool.

Active Design Keeps Us Moving

Between focused work and rest, homeowners want to balance productivity with rooms to sit back and relax. How can a home encourage ideas like fitness? One approach we take is active design, where the layout of a home encourages movement and healthy choices. Active design extends to durable material selection and details, as well the location of stairs, lightwells, and hallways.

Often, an active design might include a dedicated home gym, or simply outdoor space to stretch and move. In the Fin Home entry, visitors first discover a floating walnut stair that serves as a sculptural centerpiece rising three levels through a lightwell. It draws people in and up through the home. Additionally, a gym with mirrored walls encourages movement and keeps with the home’s open feel.

The right luxury home design can center comfort and well-being in our day-to-day life. As we focus on wellness at Bpsk and continue designing new residences, it’s not only about what someone wants to see when they come home. When our clients walk inside, it should feel like home, a retreat perfectly tailored to them. That is the heart of our work.