Your environment shapes how you feel, function, and live.
SDS Designs brings environmental wellness into the places where everyday life happens by using design to support wellbeing, function, comfort, and connection.
Serving clients across Northern Virginia and the greater DC area, with virtual design support available anywhere.
What is Environmental Wellness Design?
Environmental Wellness Design considers how the spaces around us influence our physical, cognitive, sensory, and emotional experience.
At SDS Designs, we look beyond how a space appears to understand how it is actually experienced by considering light, color, layout, sensory conditions, materials, nature, routines, and the individual needs of the people who live there.
Drawing from interior design, environmental psychology, neuroaesthetics, biophilic design, and emerging research on human wellbeing, we identify opportunities for the environment to better support everyday life.
How can your environment better support you?
Whether you're trying to understand what's not working in your space or you're ready to transform it, our work begins with the same thing: understanding you.
Environmental Wellness Assessment
Understand your environment.
A focused evaluation of your space and how you experience it. Together, we consider lighting, sensory conditions, layout, color, materials, nature, routines, and individual needs to identify where your environment is supporting you, where it may be creating friction, and practical opportunities for improvement.
Environmental Wellness Design
Transform your environment.
A deeper engagement that begins with understanding you and your environment, then translates those insights into a cohesive design strategy. We consider layout, lighting, color, materials, furnishings, sensory experience, biophilic elements, and other environmental interventions to create a space better aligned with your needs, routines, wellbeing, and way of living.
Environmental Wellness Designer & Founder of SDS Designs
Samantha D. Smith, MA, SIDC, LEED Green Associate, founded SDS Designs to explore a question at the heart of her work: How can the environments we inhabit better support human wellbeing?
With a background in interior design and an interdisciplinary approach informed by environmental psychology, neuroaesthetics, biophilia, sensory design, and healthy building principles, Samantha helps individuals and families understand how their environments are affecting everyday life, and what can be changed to better support them.
Samantha Smith
Your environment should support the life you're trying to build.
Let's explore how your space could better support the way you feel, function, and live.