WORK WITH THRVE
Thoughtful support for living well in place
THRVE offers design-informed guidance rooted in biophilic and regenerative thinking, lived experience, and care over time.
This work isn’t about creating picture-perfect spaces or fixing your life.
It’s about shaping environments and practices that support how people actually live — especially during periods of transition, fatigue, caregiving, or change.
Support is offered through interior design and home consulting, reflective writing and publications, and seasonal Resets that help align inner and outer environments with greater ease.
Format: Professional + Self Guided Support
Work With THRVE
Support for life, home, and environments that nourish long-term wellbeing
THRVE is a wellness-led design practice exploring how homes and environments support how people live, age, and belong.
Founded by Andrea Leja, the work spans interior design, writing, community initiatives, and regenerative thinking — with a focus on nervous-system awareness, biophilic principles, and lived experience.
The approach is practical, reflective, and grounded in real life rather than ideals.
Every offering is shaped by the understanding that how we live — physically, emotionally, rhythmically, and spatially — matters. The design of your space and the design of your life habits are deeply intertwined, and THRVE helps you bridge that intelligently and compassionately.
Interior Design & Wellness Home Consulting
Where THRVE began — and where the work remains rooted.
Interior design at THRVE isn’t about trends or aesthetics alone. It’s about how space supports your nervous system, your daily rhythms, and your wellbeing in lived experience.
We support:
Biophilic, human-centred design that feels calmer and more supportive
Wellness-informed consultations that meet you where you are
Small, intentional shifts rather than pressure for wide-scale change
Homes, apartments, shared spaces — with solutions that respect your life, not just your vision
Interior design remains the foundation — guiding how spaces support comfort, regulation, sensory balance, and longer lifetimes of living well.
Andrea Leja works with individuals, organizations, and partners seeking thoughtful, grounded support around home, wellbeing, aging, and care.
This work is collaborative, calm, and context-specific — not prescriptive or formulaic.
Only one consultation pathway is offered at a time to ensure depth and care.
Community & Aging-in-Place Initiatives
Design as a framework for belonging.
THRVE works with communities, organizations, and partners on initiatives that support aging well, housing access, and community resilience.
This includes:
Senior housing and lifestyle community development
Advisory and committee-based work
Community engagement and visioning
Built-environment strategies for care, inclusion, and connection
This work grows directly out of residential design experience — scaled thoughtfully, not abstractly.
Writing + Publications
Words that reflect on how we live — and empower people to notice what matters.
Your environments shape you as much as you shape them. THRVE’s writing offers reflective, grounded language about the lived experience of space, home, rhythm, and wellbeing — not aspirational noise.
Here you’ll find:
Books and essays
Seasonal reflections and guides
Soulful Home series and rooted living frameworks
THRVE Passport magazine and other thoughtful publications
This isn’t design instruction alone.
It’s a lens, a slow invitation, a way of noticing — helping you read what your home, habits, and rhythms are asking of you.
The Resets
Rhythms and practices that help you align internal and external worlds.
Resets are THRVE’s seasonal, rhythm-based offerings designed to help you pause, reflect, and re-align with your life and your space as one living system.
Unlike one-off “checklist” programs, Resets:
support transitions gently
help you notice what your environment is asking of you
offer practices you can return to again and again
ground design thinking in experience and embodied rhythm
They sit alongside design and writing to support living that feels steady, soulful, and real.
Education, Speaking & Workshops
Sharing what works, not what sounds good on paper.
THRVE offers education and speaking grounded in lived practice, research, and real homes.
This may include:
Biophilic design workshops
Home and wellness education
Talks on aging, housing, and community wellbeing
Writing and curriculum development
Education is offered as an extension of the work — not a separate brand.
A Unified Approach
At THRVE, these elements are not separate silos but expressions of one commitment:
to support human wellbeing by tending places, practices, and meaning together.
Interior design helps your space be supportive in its form.
Writing helps you understand what your life and space are telling you.
The Resets help you integrate practices and rhythms into your daily living.
Together they form a fluid, compassionate path from feeling unsettled or overwhelmed to feeling supported, understood, and grounded — in environment and life alike.
A Note for Past Interior Design Clients
If you know THRVE from its design work, you’re seeing something familiar expressed more fully.
Interior design remains foundational, but it’s now joined by writing and Reset experiences because your questions were larger than walls, finishes, and furniture. You’ve asked about how environments affect mood, rhythm, transitions, and identity — and THRVE responded by speaking to those deeper currents, without losing the design heart.
This evolution is continuity, not departure. It simply honours the full lived experience of home — the physical and the emotional, the space and the self, the outer rhythms and the inner world.
Ready to Explore?
Whether you’re seeking thoughtful design support, grounded writing, or a seasonal Reset that meets you where you are, THRVE meets you with care, curiosity, and depth — always in relationship to your life in place.Our work is rooted in the same philosophy explored in Rooted in Home: care over correction, support over performance.
Begin with Rooted in Home
Rooted in Home is the foundation of THRVE’s approach.
It introduces a regenerative way of understanding home — not as something to perfect, but as a living system that can support energy, steadiness, and care over time.
This work helps you:
understand how your home affects your nervous system and daily rhythm
identify where your space is supportive — and where it may be asking too much
build awareness before making changes, purchases, or design decisions
Rooted in Home is designed to meet you wherever you are: homeowner or renter, settled or in transition, rested or depleted.
Guided Support
The Wellness Home Reset
For those who want more structure, The Wellness Home Reset builds on the Rooted in Home framework.
This guided digital experience offers a low-pressure way to restore clarity and comfort at your own pace, especially if your home feels heavier, noisier, or less supportive than it used to.
It helps you:
reduce sensory and emotional overload
create small, realistic shifts that improve ease and regulation
move forward without urgency or performance
Seasonal & Signature Support
At certain times of year, THRVE offers limited seasonal or signature guided experiences that build on the Rooted in Home framework.
These offerings are designed to provide:
continuity over time
seasonal rhythm and reflection
deeper integration of home, body, and daily life
Availability varies by season. Active offerings will be listed here.
Fees & Consultation
Fees vary depending on scope, scale, and level of involvement.
A complimentary 15-minute consultation is available to explore alignment, timing, and appropriate next steps.
BOOK A FREE 15 MIN CONSULTATION
Your home doesn’t need to be fixed.
It needs to be allowed to support you.
Design Packages for Wellbeing
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What if you could design a home for your family that supports their health and happiness, eases your daily routine, and brings you closer to nature?
With this blueprint, you'll go from feeling overwhelmed and unsure of your healthy home design decisions to feeling confident and prepared for your renovation or new build journey.
You'll Have The Tools You Need To...
Make educated decisions about the home planning process
Create a functional and comfortable home layout
Select healthy and sustainable material options
Decide what building methods to choose
Confidently share your decisions with your contractor and/or design team! So you can create a home that works for your family, brings ease into your daily life, supports your health and well-being, and helps the planet.
By utilizing this toolkit, you will have...
Nailed down your goals and priorities for your project.
A clear understanding of your property and the best location for your new build or addition for healthy and sustainable design strategies and zoning requirements.
Crafted an easy to follow guide for your contractor to inform the project team of your sustainable and healthy home design goals.
Determined the low-cost design strategies that you will implement into your home design.
Incorporated health, wellness and sustainable design strategies by following the healthy home design checklist.
Developed a list of healthy and sustainable building and finish materials.
We have been focused in designing homes that enhance the health of people and the planet since 2002, I’ve built the tools needed to create spaces that nourish your body, your mind, and the earth.
I've helped many clients renovate their homes or build new homes that truly align with their values, meet their family's goals, and makes their daily lives easier and happier.
The thing is, there's a lot that goes into the home design process. And if you don't have experience with design and the building process, it can get pretty overwhelming and even turn ugly.
The Healthy Home Design Toolkit is designed to help guide you through your healthy and sustainable renovation or new build design journey so that you can create a family home that enhances your health, happiness and longevity.
I can’t wait to help you get there.
Want more information? Contact us at info@andrealejainteriordesign.com or call 905-902-843
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NOTE: Prices quoted in CAD (tax not included).
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THIS E-DESIGN SERVICE INCLUDES:
Direct communication with an Interior Designer
Private access to your design project
Professional shopping services for styling your room with furniture, lighting, art & decor
Access to trade exclusive furnishings
Custom curated furniture & decor for your personal Design Style
Floor plan (if desired)
Paint colour selection (if desired)
Mood board
One round of revisions (if desired)
Shopping list with links to order your furniture & decor
Assistance with ordering & coordinating delivery of trade exclusive furnishings (if applicable)
Interior design notes & setup instructions
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NOTE: Prices quoted in CAD (tax not included).
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Vaastu (an ancient Indian science) Feng Shui (an ancient Chinese science) are both concerned with aspects of harmonious living in the home.
Properly designing your home will enable you to make effective changes in your daily life and help you fulfil your potential in every way and ensure health, wealth, peace and prosperity. Incorporating, Vaastu and Feng Shui, into your home, you will;
Attract good fortune.
Enhance positive energy.
Promote careers and business.
Increase employee productivity.
Ensure physical, mental and emotional well-being.
Harness the power of prana or chi (cosmic energy).
Utilize natural elements to promote peace, prosperity and harmony.
By restoring the energy balance between the home and the cosmos, Vaastu and Feng Shui will ensure a healthier, happier and more prosperous life.
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NOTE: Prices quoted in CAD (tax not included).
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The Healthy Home Sanctuary Package considers all ten healthy home design elements:
Air, Water, Light, Comfort, Nourishment, Movement, Mind, Sound, Materials and Community.
A truly healthy home, one that optimizes your healthy lifestyle and allows you to thrive, needs to consider the eight elements. Its best to start the process early in the design phase of your new build or renovation, but if you're further along in the design phase, that's ok too!
We will work together to ensure your air, water and light quality are healthy, and continue on to discuss design strategies for creating a thermally and acoustically comfortable home.
We'll talk about strategies to create a wellness kitchen that encourages healthy eating habits. We'll look at your window design and make suggestions for creating well-lit spaces.
You'll receive custom strategies for creating a peaceful home that helps reduce stress.
During the design process, we also select healthy and sustainable materials and finishes.
This package is custom to you, your home design, your construction budget, and your lifestyle. You'll also have access to me during the construction or renovation of your home for any health and wellness related questions.
Call to inquire What the 8 Elements Package Includes.
Want more information? Contact us at andrea@andrealejainteriordesign.com or call 905-902-8437.
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NOTE: Prices quoted in CAD (tax not included).