Wellness Design Group

Your guest arrives, sets down a suitcase, and begins looking for somewhere to unpack. An empty drawer and a place to hang a shirt make it possible to settle in without asking you to rearrange the room.

Later, a lamp they can reach from the bed lets them finish a chapter and turn out the light without getting up again. These small details help someone find their way through an unfamiliar space.

As we prepare to welcome friends and family into our homes for the holidays, the guest room offers a lovely opportunity to think about hospitality through design. Alongside fresh linens and a welcoming bed, we can make room for the ordinary things our guests will want to do.

Think about adding a luggage tray, extra towels, hairdryer, and products in the ensuite, maybe a chair to rest in, or a couple bottles of water to quench a midnight thirst. Simple touches can make their visit stress-free and memorable. After all, true hospitality is in the experience.

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📸: Carlos Escobar
🏡: Lake Park
📐: Ashmore Homes
🪑: AtFaro
🌱: Wellness Design Group April Raque, NBC-HWC Wellness Design Group

Just steps from Tamiami Trail, a simple bench beneath a large banyan tree offers a reason to pause. Nestled within the NCH campus, in the Garden of Hope and Courage, we found a view worth pausing for: a small pond filled with koi moving beneath lily pads and a fountain whose delicate splashing mingles with the breeze creating a musical experience throughout the garden.

The shade makes sitting a moment longer inviting. The pond gives your eyes somewhere to wander, while the fountain brings a calm sound into your new experience of downtown. Together, these details create a place where you can spend a little time with nature before returning to the day.

It’s a beautiful reminder of how much a thoughtfully cared-for place can offer within a busy neighborhood.

Read more about how embracing our natural environment enhances our quality of life. https://www.pbscontractors.com/embracing-our-natural-environment-for-mindful-living-and-greater-well-being/



📸: Wellness Design Group Wellness Design Group

You wander into the kitchen, make your morning coffee, and venture over to sit down in your favorite spot. You know where to set your cup and how the room looks before the rest of the house is even awake.

This quiet spot was designed with intention; kissed by the soft morning light, a moment of tranquil rest is created while the body receives support for its daily rhythm.

We know from research by the NIH that our exposure to light directly affects our sleep/wake cycle. And we can all agree that when our natural cycle is off we just aren’t operating at our best.

When planning where to spend your morning, the daylight available in that place matters alongside the furniture. That’s why it was important for us to create a spot where someone could drink in the morning coffee and the morning light to awake and align.

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📸: Anna Nguyen with Zee Anna Photography Anna Nguyen Stratton
🏡: Pelican Bay
📐 + 🌱: Wellness Design Group April Raque

The second you walk into a room, you may instantly feel extreme calm or an uneasiness you just can’t put your finger on and that is because your mind has all ready registered and readied a response.

Walking into this place, you might feel energized by the grain of a hand-carved wooden cabinet or soothed by the soft pile and simple repeated pattern on an area rug and that is because the mind recognizes those strong elements are balanced by the visual blank space of the large cream sofa and the open wall beyond it.

When several strong patterns sit together, each can draw your attention in a different direction, but adding a simpler surface alongside them gives you a chance to appreciate one detail without immediately being drawn to another.

This is worth considering when a room feels busier than you expected. The pieces you love may simply need a little more space around them to be enjoyed.

We observe how incorporating pattern, finishes, and key neuroaesthetics into each place plays a part in how our lives and homes are enhanced. Learn how we do, what we do. https://www.wellnessdesigngroup.com/work-with-us



📸: Carlos Escobar
🏡: Lake Park
📐: Ashmore Homes
🪑: AtFaro
🌱: Wellness Design Group

When you settle into a chair with a good book, notice how your eyes react to the page. They just might be telling you they want more light. A reading lamp beside you can provide relief without lighting up the whole room, which is why the overhead light might stay off.

When choosing lighting for your home: think about what you want to do in each part of the room. Reading in a chair, finding something on a shelf, and having friends over may call for different lighting. A room becomes easier to use when you can choose the light that suits the moment.

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A porch can be beautifully furnished and still sit empty in the afternoon. If sunlight falls directly across the chairs, everyone may choose to stay inside.

That makes shade part of how the porch is used. The position of a roof, a tree, or a chair can help determine whether it becomes a place for a long conversation or somewhere people simply pass through.

Looking at a home this way changes the design question. Alongside how a space looks, we need to consider what makes us want to spend time there.

Read more about how embracing our natural environment enhances our quality of life by clicking the link in our bio to the blog article or here: https://www.pbscontractors.com/embracing-our-natural-environment-for-mindful-living-and-greater-well-being/



Project: Private Naples Residence
Staging: Wellness Design Group +

Every home begins with a possibility: that the way we shape our surroundings might bring us closer to the life we want to live.

✨The mornings you hope to have.
✨The people you gather around your table.
✨The quiet you look forward to when the day is done.

At Wellness Design Group, these are the conversations that guide our work. We bring a deeper understanding of people, their surroundings, and the natural world into making a home, a home. Together, we explore how light, sound, materials, and connections to nature can shape a place that feels personal and makes room for the life you want. We’re here to help you carry those hopes into the choices that make a home your own.

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📸: Anna Nguyen Anna & Team • Zee Anna Photography Anna Nguyen / Editorial & Commercial Photographer Anna Nguyen Stratton

What would you say if someone asked you, “what does living beautifully mean?”

For me, living beautifully is the art of weaving nature’s whispers into the walls we call home, where sunlight dances with shadows and fresh air breathes life into every corner. It’s about crafting sanctuaries that cradle the soul, where the rhythm of the earth echoes in each detail, nurturing health and harmony. Here, beauty isn’t just seen—it’s felt, a seamless blend of nature’s grace and the science of well-being.

After all, nature is our original design mentor 🌱


🏡 Location: Pelican Bay Villas, Naples, FL
🛏️ Designed by: April Raque, NBC-HWC
🌱 Environmental Wellness Consultant: April Raque, NBC-HWC
📸 Photo by: Anna & Team • Zee Anna Photography Anna Nguyen / Editorial & Commercial Photographer

Today, let us celebrate the ones who make every place we inhabit feel a bit more special, with their joy, smiles, energy, and good vibes.