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Designing the Sensual Home

It's more than a few pictures and flower arrangements, but also includes how one moves from room to room, and how they emotionally react while doing so.

Designing the Sensual Home takes a journey through each area of your home... through each doorway and hallway, to each bedroom, bathroom, and even the closets.


Sensual Home Design



Helping connect Design with your own personal taste involves more than matching paint colors and fabric samples.  It's the art of combining things you have, things you love, things you want and things you need... and doing it in a way that makes you feel good.

Follow Suzanne through a Tactile Design Experience....  Designing for the Senses.  And learn how to incorporate these planning practices into your own home or office space.

Designing the Sensual Home is more than just creating a romantic and relaxing bedroom.  It takes a journey through each area of your home... through each doorway and hallway, to each bedroom, bathroom, and even the closets.

What doe this mean?
Think of your five senses and break it down.

Eyes: What can you see? What do you want to see?  Is there enough Light? Task Lighting?
Nose: What can you smell?  What do you want to smell? Is it fresh, is it musty?
Mouth: Taste?  Can you taste something?
Ears: What sort of sound can you hear?  Is it NOISY? Soothing?
Touch:  What tactile elements are in the room... ? What does the floor feel like?  Is it too hot? Too cold?  Is there a draft? Does the space need circulation?  A new window? A ceiling fan?

Do you want to bring the outdoors in, or the Indoors Out?  Creative outdoor Landscape LivingSpaces are an additional space where life happens... so don't forget that space...

Once all the elements are addressed, then you have a starting point for your space.  The next question is what to put in there.  How are you using the space?  What do you already have? What do you want to keep?  What is the function of the room?  Office, Living Room, or Kitchen... where are you and your family going to sit, work, or play? What do you want to invest in? 

When you buy a large investment piece, what are you buying? A sofa because you need something to sit on. A large sofa because you have 3 kids, 2 dogs, and 4 cats? You need leather because you like the feel?  You have an antique from your family that MUST be incorporated.  You have family photos that you'd like to put into a collage gallery with matching frames?  You have 23 windows and hate mini-blinds and want curtains or fabric, how much is that going to cost?  How long will it take? What is our budget?

So the questions can be overwhelming... but with some realistic planning and an game plan, your ideas can be realized.

Join Suzanne for a Designer Conversation

Bring your questions, notes, magazine clippings, and let's organize and plan.
Together we can find a starting point.  We will build idea boards, setup your wish and want lists, and set some priorities.



Discover focal points and tricks of the trade, and explore the options that have been holding you back.


Schedule your Home Consultation with Suzanne Today! 

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