b'DESIGNMany home ownersadds. Certainly in the are looking tokitchen, people dont prioritize wellnesswant monochromatic by establishinganymore. Another dedicated spaces such as an outdoorbenefit to porcelain is yoga area its affordability. There are so many beautiful porcelains out there now, you can have the same beautiful floorsthings can be moved around, so people can you would find in a traditional manor homebring exercise into their lives without it being at a fraction of the cost of marble, which is sosecondary to everything else, she says. If your expensive, Volk says. Were doing things forgear is not right there, you tend to not use it.$10 or $20 a square foot. MAKE STYLE SUSTAINABLEAbove left: CVDT Interior Design/Virgina Macdonald; right: Nickolas SargentCREATE AN AT-HOME WELLNESS CENTRE In the process of wanting to be environmen-Gone are the days of just having a plain oldtally friendly, homeowners are asking more bathroom. Instead of going to the gym orquestions about where their furnishings are the yoga studio, people are putting wellnesscoming from, looking for things that tell a centres in their home, Gillies says. Thisstory. Were incorporating a lot more craft means not just a steam shower but perhapspieces into our design schemes, and people also an infrared sauna, a plunge pool or aare also more interested in buying locally, shower with body-massaging jets. And withinGillies says. And when we cant buy locally, that, were incorporating sound, colour andthey really want to understand the story smell, which helps balance all the senses,behind the piece.Gillies says. People really want to take careUtilizing existing piecesvintage or of themselves, and they want to feel that theirantique itemsis a great way to bring home is the place for that, rather than goingsustainability into the home, van den Thillart somewhere else. says, often presenting better quality for better If you already have a gym at home, vanvalue. And when I say antiques, that can den Thillart says, you may also want it tomean Mid-Century Modern furniture, cool now function as a meditation room or a yogavintage 80s pieces, edgy stainless-steel stuffstudio, too. Within smaller homes, it maythe whole gamut. This also brings character be a case of just setting up furniture so thatinto the space, sustainability is just a lucky theres a corner dedicated to wellness, whereby-product.14 BEYONDA Heaps Estrin PublicationBeyond_FEB23_DesignTrends_FINAL.indd 14 2023-01-24 5:46 PM'