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 sense when their home is out of alignment, even if they can’t name why. Small frictions; a layout that complicates routines, lighting that disrupts rest, rooms that feel disconnected, systems that never quite work add up over time and quietly shape how each day feels.
At SDS Designs, we see the home as a living ecosystem that influences your mood, energy, family rhythms, clarity, and overall well-being.
When your environment supports you, life feels more grounded and intentional. When it doesn’t, it adds an invisible weight you were never meant to carry.
Our work is about releasing that weight and creating a home that lifts you into the life you’re growing into.
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 — the sensory and aesthetic experience
Behavior — how your home shapes daily rhythms
Emotion — the tone and atmosphere each room creates
Identity — whether your home reflects your present and future self
Relationships — how your spaces support connection and togetherness
Systems — the practical flow of objects, tasks, and routines
Spirit — where your home provides grounding, renewal, and inspiration
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 · Student of Neuroaesthetics & Wellness-Based Design
I founded SDS Designs after personally experiencing how deeply a home can influence clarity, well-being, and emotional renewal. During a major transition in my life, I began reshaping my environment with intention using design, sensory awareness, and supportive rhythms to help me rebuild from the inside out.
Over the years, I’ve immersed myself in how space shapes mood, behavior, connection, and daily flow. My study of wellness principles, environmental behavior, and neuroaesthetics continues to deepen my understanding of how our surroundings support (or hinder) the life we’re trying to create.
With a master’s degree in interior design and a passion for whole-person well-being, I developed the Home as Healing approach to help others create supportive, grounding environments that align with who they are and who they’re becoming.
My work blends thoughtful design with intention, creating homes that nurture your energy, your relationships, and your sense of possibility.
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.