Don’t settle for a visually stunning home that exhausts your nervous system.

Create a home that actively aligns with your actual, daily lived experience.

The Sentient Home provides the sensory intelligence layer for renovations, new builds and high-specification residential redesigns translating architecture, lighting, material, and spatial specifications into physiological performance for the people who live there.

We use The NeuroDesign Blueprint™: a science-backed methodology that integrates neuroscience, environmental psychology, and sensory design to create spaces that quiet your mind, restore your energy, and eliminate hidden stressors that drain your capacity.

A beautiful renovation that exhausts you is not a successful renovation.

When sensory intelligence is absent from a design brief, the result is predictable: spaces that look exceptional in photographs and feel draining to live in.

  • Lighting that disrupts sleep.

  • Acoustics that prevent concentration.

  • Materials and finishes that create invisible friction your nervous system manages every day.

  • Layouts that are beautiful on plan yet create small, repeated demands on your attention and energy every time you move through it.

These are not aesthetic failures. They are signs that the environment has not been calibrated to the person living within it.

Retrospective corrections to acoustic conditions, fixed lighting infrastructure, and structural layout decisions can add €10,000 to a completed renovation for errors that a neurological specification brief would have identified before a single contractor was engaged.

At The Sentient Home, we begin somewhere different. We look at what your home needs to do for you: how it should help you arrive, focus, recover, connect, rest and move through daily life without unnecessary demand.

You are in the right place if:

  • You are looking to buy, rent, renovate or build a home, and want to understand what to look for or change; and make the right decisions before lighting, layouts, materials and fittings are fixed.

  • You want your home to feel coherent and restorative in daily life—not simply impressive in photographs.

  • You are moving through a life transition and want your next environment to reflect how you live now.

  • You are sharing a home across different sensory needs and want the space to hold everyone with more ease.

  • You already have an architect, designer or contractor and want a more human-centred layer to inform the wider project.

  • You work at a high level, recover at home, and understand that the environment you return to matters.

Our Foundation: The NeuroDesign Blueprint™

A structured methodology for homes that support human capacity.

Every engagement is shaped by The NeuroDesign Blueprint™: a four-stage method that turns lived experience into intentional design direction.

Assess

We map the sensory patterns, environmental preferences and recurring points of friction that matter in your everyday life.

Align

We identify where your current or planned environment may be placing unnecessary demands on your attention, routines and sense of ease.

Design

We translate those findings into a coherent strategy for light, sound, materiality, colour, spatial flow and everyday use.

Integrate

We anchor these changes to support your rituals, cues, and sensory habits in daily life, so the design can continue to support you long after installation.

The method remains consistent.

The depth of the engagement changes with the scope of your project.

Ways to work together

Tier 1: Pre-Design Sensory Intelligence Brief

Know what your home needs to do for you, before the design decisions begin.

Investment— €950

Before drawings are finalised, lighting is selected or renovation contracts are signed, begin with the person who will live in the space.

The Pre-Design Sensory Intelligence Brief is a private, individual-first process that helps you understand the environmental conditions that support your focus, ease, recovery and daily rhythm, and the conditions that tend to create unnecessary friction.

It gives you clear language for what you need from your home. You can use it to guide your own decisions, return to it as your project moves forward, or share it with an architect, interior designer or contractor as part of your wider brief.

This is not a technical drawing package. It is the human context that allows design decisions to become more considered from the outset.

The Sensory Intelligence Brief reveals:

  • Your dominant sensory processing patterns and environmental tolerance thresholds

  • The spatial and sensory mismatches creating cognitive or physiological strain

  • How your current life phase, hormonal rhythm, and behavioural context influence spatial regulation

  • Environmental friction zones within your home and their nervous system impact

  • The design levers most likely to restore focus, rest, and coherence

What you receive:

  • A 60-minute private profiling conversation focused on how you experience your current or planned environment.

  • A Sensory & Environmental Profile across five channels: visual, auditory, tactile, thermal and olfactory.

  • A clear account of the environmental patterns and friction points most relevant to your daily life.

  • Personal design direction for light, sound, materials, spatial flow and sensory layering.

  • A concise guide to the priorities worth carrying forward into your project.

  • A recommendation on the most appropriate next step, should you require deeper support.

Who it is for:

The Brief is designed for one individual and one residential project. It is especially valuable when you are early enough to influence a renovation or build, but it can also bring clarity to a project already in motion.

How it works

1. Request your Brief. You will be taken to a payment page which then redirects you to the session, which you complete at your own pace.

2. Complete your session and hit send. Our team works on your answers.

3. Receive your Brief. Your Sensory Intelligence Brief is delivered digitally within 7–10 working days after your session is completed.

  • Available in English and French.

  • Delivered digitally within 7–10 working days after brief completion.

  • Available internationally.

If the Sensory Intelligence Brief does not change how you think about your project, we will refund it in full!

Or begin immediately:

What This Brief Is; and Is Not

  • It gives you a clearer way to understand and articulate what you need from your environment, whether you are making decisions independently or working with a project team.

  • It is not a questionnaire, moodboard or clinical assessment.

    It does not diagnose medical or psychological conditions, replace specialist technical advice, or instruct your architect or designer how to complete their professional work.

  • It is designed to be useful to you first.

    You do not need to become an expert in light, acoustics or material specification to benefit from it. The purpose is to help you recognise the environmental conditions that allow you to feel more settled, clear and supported at home.

Tier 2:

The NeuroDesign Blueprint™ Integration

A complete strategy for the two spaces that carry the most weight in your life.

Remote: €7,500

On-site engagement: €10,000

The NeuroDesign Blueprint™ is a twelve-week residential design strategy for two priority spaces.

It is for clients who do not simply want to know what their home needs. They want a coherent, evidence-informed plan for making those changes—one that brings together layout, materiality, light, sound, sensory comfort and the daily patterns the space needs to hold.

The outcome is an implementation-ready design strategy for the rooms that most affect how you live.

  • Twelve weeks

  • Seven deliverables

  • Informed by your sensory brief

What is a priority space?

A priority space is a single room whose role matters in your daily life. It may be your bedroom, kitchen, living space, home office or a shared family area.

Where a room carries more than one function—for example, a bedroom with a reading area or a living room that is also your primary recovery space—those uses are considered together within that room.

Additional priority spaces are priced from €2,250 remote or €3,000 on site, according to complexity and required scope.

What is included

1. Pre-Design Sensory Intelligence Brief and spatial analysis

Your engagement begins with the individual-first understanding developed through the Brief. If you have already completed a Brief, a €500 continuation credit is applied. If not, the assessment is included at the start of your Blueprint engagement.

2. Environmental Alignment

A clear strategy for the layout, circulation and spatial relationships that shape how each priority space feels and functions in everyday life.

3. Visual Quietude

Direction for material, finish, colour and texture specifications shaped around your sensory preferences and the level of visual demand that feels sustainable for you.

4. Acoustic Containment

Evidence-based methods for controlling low-frequency resonance and reducing auditory stress.

5. Circadian Anchor Lighting Plan

Kelvin and Lux specifications for each space designed to stabilise your cortisol pattern across the day, support sustained cognitive function, and restore your natural sleep cycle.

6. Behavioural Habit Integration

Spatial anchors and environmental cues that support your nervous system's adaptation to your newly redesigned environment across the twelve-week period.

7. Implementation Blueprint

A structured, client-owned document that brings together the agreed design direction, spatial recommendations, material and colour guidance, lighting direction and sourcing priorities.

Where the project calls for it, the Blueprint includes the plans and sections needed to communicate the agreed design. It is designed to guide your own next steps and to support clear conversations with your architect, designer, contractor or suppliers where relevant.

8. Twelve weeks of guided implementation support

You will not receive a document and be left to navigate it alone. Six structured sessions across the twelve weeks give you direct access to our studio, providing guided support through every stage of implementation.

Delivery Formats

Remote

All sessions are held by video. Your Brief, strategy and final Blueprint are delivered digitally. This engagement is available internationally.

In-person

On-site engagements include a spatial assessment at your home before the strategy phase begins. They are available in France and selected European locations.

Optional: Studio-managed implementation

If you would like the studio to manage the implementation of your two priority spaces, we can oversee sourcing, procurement, delivery, installation and agreed trade coordination on your behalf.

Your investment for this stage is your Blueprint engagement fee, plus 15% of the managed project cost.

The managed project cost covers the elements we actively coordinate for you. The scope is confirmed in writing before sourcing begins and distinguishes studio fees, project costs, travel, taxes and any third-party professional services.

You may choose studio-managed implementation at the start of your engagement or any time before sourcing begins. Your Implementation Blueprint remains yours in full, whether you implement independently or with the studio.

Technical scope clarity

The NeuroDesign Blueprint™ is an interior-design engagement. The studio develops the agreed interior design, including plans, sections and technical drawing information appropriate to the two priority spaces and the confirmed scope of work.

Some projects require a further level of technical development—for example built-ins, staircases, complex joinery, detailed construction interfaces or other specialist drawing packages. Where this is required, the additional drawing, coordination and specialist input are identified and quoted separately before that work begins.

Where a project requires structural, building-services or specialist engineering design, statutory approvals, permits or specialist certification, we coordinate with the appropriate appointed professionals and integrate their input into the interior-design process.

Blueprint engagements may be spread across three instalments. You may choose this option at checkout.

Timeline

The blueprint will be delivered within 7–10 days of completing the brief. This is then followed by a twelve-week guided implementation.

Ideal For

Comprehensive nervous system recalibration of your two most essential living spaces.

The NeuroDesign Blueprint Integration accepts a limited number of new clients each quarter to maintain the depth of attention each engagement requires.

Tier 3:

Full-Service NeuroDesign

— Project Based Pricing

A home designed and delivered around the person who lives there.

Full-Service NeuroDesign is for clients undertaking a renovation, new build or significant residential redesign who want The Sentient Home to guide the work from the earliest strategic decisions through to installation and handover.

Ideal for:

  • New builds and full-scale renovations

  • Multi-sensory family homes with complex shared-space requirements

  • Post-transition redesigns: relocation, separation, empty nesting, significant life-stage shift

  • Residential projects requiring a complete neurodesign layer alongside an existing architectural brief

  • Hospitality projects where occupant and guest wellbeing is a commercial performance metric

Includes:

  • The NeuroDesign Blueprint™ for the household and project.

  • Spatial planning, interior design direction, and the plans, sections and technical drawing information appropriate to the agreed scope.

  • Material, finish, lighting and colour strategy.

  • Custom millwork, joinery and specialist technical drawing packages where required.

  • Sourcing and Procurement

  • Supplier, contractor and installation coordination as agreed.

  • Styling, installation and final sensory integration.

This is the complete, done-for-you execution of the Blueprint.

Ideal for: This is a complete design-to-installation service for clients who want a fully executed environment aligned with their nervous system.

Working with an architect, developer, or design team?

Add the human layer without replacing the team already in place.

The Sentient Home works alongside architects, interior designers and developers when a project requires a more precise understanding of the people who will live in it.

We provide the sensory intelligence layer: translating the primary occupant’s or household’s lived needs into clear design considerations for light, sound, materiality, spatial flow and everyday use.

This is not a replacement for architectural, interior-design, engineering or contractor expertise. It is a specialist contribution that allows those disciplines to work from a more human-centred brief.

Here's what people are saying

About Lolade Ajai

Interior Designer. Neuroscience Researcher. Creator of The NeuroDesign Blueprint™.

I have worked on projects where the brief was sound, the finish was exceptional, and the client still came home to a space that did not feel right.

That gap is what this my addresses.

I translate neuroscience, environmental psychology, and sensory research into a structured design methodology that holds up to the most demanding residential briefs.

The NeuroDesign Blueprint™ was developed across fifteen years of design practice, applied research, and the recognition that every human being processes their home environment differently, and that design must account for this if a space is to perform as intended.

The Sentient Home now works with private homeowners, families navigating complex sensory and relational demands, and architectural and development partners across in Europe and internationally.

When the specification is right, you stop noticing the space...

You arrive home after a demanding day and within the hour your body has begun to recover without effort.

The lighting has shifted. The acoustic environment has settled. Nothing is demanding your attention.

That is the difference between a home that has been styled and a home that has been calibrated

Your home is your largest capital investment.

It should be designed for the human who lives in it.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. At what stage of a renovation or build should I engage you?

As early as possible; ideally before architectural drawings are finalised. The Sensory Intelligence Brief can be completed in a matter of days and produces a design brief your team can work from from the outset. Engaging early eliminates the need to correct neurological friction retrospectively, which is considerably more expensive than building it correctly in the first place.

2. Can you collaborate with my existing architect or design team?

Yes, and this is one of the most common ways we work. We integrate directly alongside existing teams as the Sensory Intelligence Specialist — providing the neurological layer that translates your occupant’s sensory profile into specifications your architect or contractor can implement. Many design teams specifically engage us to add this dimension to projects where the structural and aesthetic brief is already in place.

3. What does the Sensory Brief add to an existing design brief?

An existing design brief tells your team what the space should look like. The Sensory Brief tells them what the space needs to do for the person living in it at a physiological level — specifying lighting by Kelvin and Lux rather than fixture preference, acoustic management by frequency rather than material feel, and materiality by sensory threshold rather than visual style. It converts subjective preferences into measurable specifications.

4. How is this different from standard interior design?

Standard design starts with how a space looks. The NeuroDesign Blueprint™ starts with how the person living in it processes their environment neurologically, then designs for both. The result is a space that is exceptional to look at and genuinely restorative to live in.

5. What if the renovation has already started?

The Sensory Intelligence Brief can be completed at any stage of a project. If decisions have already been made, the report identifies which specifications are still open for optimisation and which remaining design elements have the highest neurological impact. Introducing sensory intelligence mid-project consistently produces better outcomes than not introducing it at all.

6. Do you work internationally?

Yes. The Sensory Intelligence Brief and the NeuroDesign Blueprint™ Integration are both fully available remotely, across Europe and internationally. Full-service design is available for select projects. Contact us to discuss scope and location.

7. What if I am renting or cannot make structural changes?

The Blueprint can be adapted to non-structural interventions: lighting adjustments, furniture placement, material introductions, and sensory layering. Many of the highest-impact specifications in the Blueprint require no structural work.

Contact us to discuss what is achievable within your constraints.

8. What happens if the engagement is not the right fit for my project?

The Sensory Intelligence Brief carries a full refund guarantee: if it does not change how you think about your project, we refund it in full. For the Blueprint Integration, a structured stage-based refund policy applies at every point before the Implementation Blueprint is delivered. The terms are confirmed in your letter of engagement before any work begins, so there are no surprises at any stage of the process.

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