Create a Home That Heals, Supports, and Inspires Your Life
Your home can be a source of steadiness, clarity, and renewal. At SDS Designs, we transform everyday environments into meaningful, supportive spaces that elevate your well-being and daily life.
Serving clients across Northern Virginia and the greater DC area, with virtual design support available anywhere.
Most people can sense when their home is out of alignment, even if they can’t name why. Small frictions in a layout that complicates routines, lighting that disrupts rest, rooms that feel disconnected, or systems that never quite work add up over time and quietly shape how each day unfolds.
At SDS Designs, we see the home as a living ecosystem, one that influences your mood, energy, family rhythms, clarity, and overall well-being through both the physical conditions it creates and the experiences it holds. From light, layout, and materials to the air you breathe and the water you use every day, your environment is in constant conversation with your body.
When your environment supports you, life feels steadier and more intentional. When it doesn’t, it can place a subtle, ongoing strain on your energy and attention, one that’s easy to normalize and hard to name.
Our work is about understanding that strain at its source and shaping homes that support how you live, grow, and move through each day.
The Heart of What We Do
Our Approach: The Home as Healing Framework
To create meaningful, lasting change, we use the Home as Healing Framework, a holistic method that helps us understand the relationship between your environment and your well-being.
We look at your space through seven interconnected dimensions:
Environment — biological, sensory, and physical conditions of the home
Behavior — daily patterns and habits shaped by space
Emotion — how spaces support regulation, safety, and ease
Identity — how home reflects values, self-concept, and agency
Relationships — how space supports connection and boundaries
Systems — routines, maintenance, and long-term patterns
Spirit — meaning, purpose, and reverence in daily life
This framework allows us to create spaces that are not only beautiful, but deeply supportive to your life.
Every home, and every season of life, needs a different level of guidance.
We offer three pathways, each designed to meet you where you are and help you move toward where you want to be.
A focused 90-minute session to understand what your home needs now and uncover simple, high-impact changes that bring immediate relief and clarity.
A complete transformation of one room designed to bring more beauty, ease, and emotional support to the space you use most.
A multi-room or whole-home design experience using the full Home as Healing Framework to create an environment that supports long-term well-being, growth, and alignment.
How We Can Support You
Founder of SDS Designs · Interior Designer · Home as Healing Practitioner
I I founded SDS Designs with a deep understanding of how profoundly a home shapes clarity, well-being, and emotional renewal. My work centers on designing environments with intention, paying attention not only to how a space looks, but to the physical and sensory conditions that support daily life.
Through my work and study in interior design, wellness-based design, and neuroaesthetics, I’ve developed a clear perspective on how homes influence mood, behavior, connection, and flow. Elements such as light, layout, materials, air, and water quietly shape how we feel, function, and move through each day.
With a master’s degree in interior design and a focus on whole-person well-being, I developed the Home as Healing approach to help people create environments that reduce unnecessary strain and support who they are and who they’re becoming.
Meet Samantha
Samantha D. Smith MA (Interior Design), SIDC, LEED Green Associate
Begin Creating a Home That Supports Your Life
If you’re ready to explore how your home can strengthen your well-being and daily rhythms, I’d love to help you begin.