Home as Medicine
Jill Makek Wallpaper
A Biophilic Interior Design Magazine Where Nature Meets Health and Sustainability
Summer 2025 Issue 3
Home as Medicine
“Therapeutic Home Environments are residential spaces transformed into active healing sanctuaries that promote physical recovery, mental restoration, and emotional balance.”
Featured Article
Your Home Is Medicine: The Science of Healing Spaces
Nostalgia Meets Nature - Curating Meaning-filled Spaces
Travel to Amangiri: A Masterclass in Multisensory Healing Design
Cover Story
The $100,000 Fix That Failed - And the Dog Who Found the Hidden Room Destroying My HealthRead
In Their Own Words - Personal Stories of How Biophilic Design Can Help You Heal
A Letter from the Editor
Sometimes the places we call home can quietly harm us without our knowing. This issue explores how intentional design and awareness can transform those spaces into powerful sources of healing and renewal.
Living Stories
Cover Story: After $100,000 Failed to Fix My House, A Dog Found What Was Still Destroying My Health: The Hidden Room That Launched My Mission to Transform Homes into Healing Spaces
After spending six figures on remediation, it took a mold-sniffing dog to find the hidden room making me sick and lead us to rediscover how homes become medicine.
In Their Own Words
How five people around the world discovered that their homes could be medicine and what their stories teach us about the power of therapeutic environments
Living interviews
Constructing Health: Am I an Architect or Am I a Public Health Worker?
Exploring the intersection of architecture and well-being, Tye Farrow's Constructing Health reimagines how design can shape our health through multisensory environments that foster healing and vitality.
Like Birds at Dusk: A Sensory Journey Through Jill Malek's Design World
Words become textures. Stories become patterns. In the hands of Jill Malek, wallpaper is no longer background, it's a whisper, a memory, a feeling made visible.
Living Interiors
From Biophilic to Therapeutic: A New Framework for Analyzing Your Living Spaces
Thoughtful design reveals how spaces can become havens of healing. By tuning into the needs of chronic illness, our homes can support wellness in deeply meaningful ways.
Nostalgia Meets Nature - Curating Meaning-filled Spaces
Exploring how vintage items and sentimental pieces can spark connection, memory, and well-being in your home.
Held by the Walls: A Circular Cabin and the Family it Nurtured
This round cabin in the woods hasn’t changed in fifty years and it doesn’t need to. Built by hand, shaped by love, and surrounded by trees, it reminds us that the most lasting design feels like belonging.
Diy Living
DIY Windchimes for a Biophilic Soundscape
Bring the soothing sounds of nature into your home with handmade windchimes. By incorporating natural materials, you'll create a calming, sensory experience that connects you to the outdoors and enhances your space's biophilic design.
Growing Medicine: The Therapeutic Power of Indoor Herb Gardens
Growing herbs indoors adds more than flavor to your meals. It brings color, scent, ritual, and daily moments of care that support your body and calm your mind.
Living Science
Your Home Is Medicine: The Science of Healing Spaces
What if your next prescription wasn’t a pill, but your home? This article explores the groundbreaking science behind therapeutic interiors—and the biochemist redefining how we heal.
Living Products
Product Spotlight
Scent as Medicine: Designing Therapeutic Fragrance for Your Home
From scent scapes to science-backed delivery, we explore how intentional aromatherapy and our favorite nebulizing diffusers can transform your home into a healing environment.
Living Travel
Amangiri: A Masterclass in Multisensory Healing Design
Amangiri exemplifies the next generation of therapeutic environments, blending nature, sound, scent, and touch to create healing experiences beyond traditional hospitality.
Living assesssment
The $140K Lesson: Take Dorothy's Home Air Quality Quiz That Could Save Your Life
Discover the life-saving air quality lessons Dorothy learned the hard way, take her simple home quiz to uncover hidden toxins that could be silently harming your health.
About the Magazine
The Dayhouse Living magazine aims to integrate design, health, nature and sustainability to empower your well-being through inspiring stories and expert insights. Our goal is to grow awareness about biophilic design, home design to improve health, featured products that foster wellness and sustainable practices, natural environments and evidence-based self-care, all of these to enjoy longevity. We strive to be a marketplace for ideas and knowledge to create healthy dwellings.
The magazine is owned by Dayhouse Studio, a health-focused biophilic interior design company located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Our editorial team includes: Dorothy Huntsman (Editor-in-Chief, Founder of Dayhouse Studio), Dr. Grzegorz Bulaj (Editor, OMNI Self-care), McKenzie Lunt (Contributing Editor, Dayhouse Studio), Lily Alexandra Huntsman (Contributing Editor, Huntsman Communications), Audrey Nielson (Contributing Editor), Kristin Stockham (Guest Contributing Editor), and Jill Malek (Guest Contributing Editor). We are open to collaborations with experts who are interested in writing articles that are aligned with our goals and values.
About the Editors
Dorothy Day Huntsman is a founder of Dayhouse Studio, an interior design firm using biophilic design to connect people with nature and self-care. Her multifaceted approach to creating sustainable and health-focused interiors integrates aesthetics, functionality, and multi-disciplinary research. Dorothy's award winning designs have been featured in Utah Style and Design, as well as The Best In Awards for IIAD-IC. She is known for her "sophisticated, yet playful designs" and holds a B.A. degree from Columbia University.
Dr. Grzegorz (Greg) Bulaj is the founder of OMNI Self-care LLC, a health promotion and education company, specializing in evidenced-based information about self-care. He is also an Associate Professor in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Utah. The main goal of his cross-disciplinary projects is to bridge self-care and health care. He has published over 130 peer-reviews articles and book chapters, and he holds a PhD degree in biochemistry from the University of Wroclaw, Poland.
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