Wellness Design Group

Wellness Design Group Design for the Life You Want—And the World You Love It is her mission to make the world a place where healthy and happy is the norm, not the exception.

Naples-based, Wellness Design Group LLC is a wellness firm out to change the perception of what it means to live a healthy life. We've helped numerous woman design a more balanced lifestyle and achieve their health goals by seamlessly integrating principles of wellness into their homes and everyday lives. Our Founder, April Raque is a Mayo Clinic Certified and National Board Certified Health and W

ellness Coach (NBC-HWC), wellness designer, and co-host of the popular podcast THINGS MOM NEVER SAID: Secrets to Aging Well. We invite you to explore our wellness design services, as well as our personal and group health+wellness coaching, educational opportunities, and podcast via our website. Link to all things: https://linktr.ee/WellnessDG

What would you say if someone asked you, “what does living beautifully mean?”For me, living beautifully is the art of we...
08/28/2026

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...
08/26/2026

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.

08/13/2026

In the news!

07/31/2026

We couldn’t be more excited to have been featured in Gulfshore Life magazine’s Healthy Life issue ✨

What a perfect time to push the wellness conversation toward Place. We believe the places we inhabit are never neutral. They influenced the rhythms of our days, the quality of our relationships, our capacity to restore, our ability to focus, and even the way we care for the people and the places around us. Every environment participates in human experience, whether intentionally designed or not.

Thank you to annamarie for listening to our story, to the magazine for opening the conversation, and to our fellow designers helping to push the boundaries one step closer to a life better designed. 😉

07/09/2026

Shocker… I love the color blue💙🩵 I find it soooo soothing and wearing blue makes me feel like myself in any situation. So, it’s no surprise that you’ll find moments of blue throughout my home.

Color plays an important role in our everyday lives - Our feelings, personalities, memories, actions, and even dreams are associated with color.

Did you know that color also plays a major role in improving our health and well-being?

It’s true, our mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional health can be enhanced or, on the flip side, wrecked by color. Color can lower your blood pressure, increase your metabolism, make you feel calm, soothe your eyes, energize you, and increase serotonin - the happy hormone.

Because color creates emotional and physical responses, it’s important to consider colors carefully when designing your space.

My advice to our clients is to choose colors that make YOU feel amazing.


Taking time to dream, sketch, brainstorm, and ideate is imperative when it comes to creating unique spaces and designs ...
07/01/2026

Taking time to dream, sketch, brainstorm, and ideate is imperative when it comes to creating unique spaces and designs that set us apart. To be honest, we could spend all of our time dreaming up new ways to add plants to all of our biophilic interior plans 😉

We have a few things in the works and are spending our summer in creation mode.

Feel free to share any of your ideas or things you’d like to see us create in the comments below👇🏻 It’s shaping up to be a fun summer.

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06/22/2026

Don’t you just love seeing a vision come to life?

It’s a magical moment when a project reaches the final stages of completion. Simply put, it is “abstract chaos transitioning to tangible reality.”

🔔Teaser Alert: As we make the final selections of this beautifully photographed space, we’re putting the finishing touches on the story of how this spa-bungalow by the sea came to life. We’ll be sharing all very soon.

This week, I had the honor of presenting along side three amazing ladies, as part of the Empowering Women Networking Ser...
06/19/2026

This week, I had the honor of presenting along side three amazing ladies, as part of the Empowering Women Networking Series.

I shared how Wellness Design Group uses Emotional Design - designing spaces to regulate our nervous system.

My discussion was part of a larger conversation on designing to improve the human experience, but I shared a couple of quick tactics that you can do yourself to lower your heart rate, slow your breathing, decrease your cortisol, get you into “the flow”, and help you feel grounded and connected to your space.

☀️Let in the Natural Light - Natural light boosts vitality and helps you align with the natural rhythm of the circadian cycle fostering balance and good sleep.
👋🏻Use Your Senses - Engaging the sense of touch through the use of natural woods, plush fabrics, and handcrafted elements soothes overstimulation and restores focus.
🌱Add a Plant - Integrating nature aand greenery will significantly reduce stress and improve mental health.
🫟Apply Color - Specific hues will set the mood for relaxation and healing (i.e. blues for calm, green for balance, and white/cream to quiet the mind).

If you need our help and you’re ready to get regulated, contact us!

This is our promise! We believe we can impact health and the human experience by changing the way we build and design ou...
06/05/2026

This is our promise! We believe we can impact health and the human experience by changing the way we build and design our spaces.

We look at the invisible layers of a space—the air quality, chemical exposure, light patterns, acoustics, and sensory cues that shape how your nervous system responds. We consider how the body interprets safety, stress, and restoration through its surroundings.

We also reconnect spaces to nature. Through natural materials, light, texture, pattern, and form, we reintroduce the elements our biology has always depended on. This is where science meets something deeper—an innate human need to feel grounded, calm, and connected.

This doesn’t require extreme design or rigid aesthetics. It requires intention.

You can find joy in the simplest of places and in ways that will make you smile. Connecting to our environment by using ...
06/03/2026

You can find joy in the simplest of places and in ways that will make you smile. Connecting to our environment by using natural materials in unique ways helps to find balance, tranquility, and joy within any space.

At Wellness Design Group, LLC, we craft spaces that honor the natural world and the natural rhythms of life. With a focus on health, sustainability, and soulful connection, we design homes that nourish both people and the planet - grounded, intentional, and truly yours.

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