A practice of whole-home design calibrated to the body that lives inside it.
The Sensory Living
Method™
EXPERTISE
For private clients, builders, developers, and building and design professionals.
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Michelle Taylor Interiors & Home · Austin, Texas
The Thesis
Most homes are decorated. A Sensory Living Method™ home is calibrated— to how light moves through the day, to the texture the body wants under hand, to the rhythm of the household.
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GROUND
What holds the body. The plane underfoot, the weight of the seat, the gravity of the room. Ground settles the household before anything else can.
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LIGHT
How a room moves through the day. Calibrated to the eye that wakes in it and the eye that closes in it — daylight first, layered light second.
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TEXTURE
What the hand carries home from a room. The grain, the weave, the patina. Texture is where ultra-luxury earns its quiet.
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RHYTHM
The cadence of a household across morning, afternoon, evening, season. The plan attuned to the work of the family that lives inside it.
Homes we have calibrated.
Waterbank Cove Project
Downtown Condo
Compositions, named
and numbered.
The MTI Home Collection
Fourteen pieces. Each pillow is a complete sensory composition — drawn from the four pillars, sewn slowly, signed and numbered. From $500 to $2,500.
Arc Drift·Atelier Reverie·Dune Echo·Ember Reverie·Loom Form·Quarry Shadow·Sierra Sculpt·Trace Form
Three ways to work with the studio.
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Whole-home design, concept to installation.
For private clients
A single, fully resolved residence. The Method applied across every room. 12–24 months. Engagements begin at $250,000.
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Bespoke textile commissions.
For private clients · interior designers · trade
A single pillow, a set, or a room of soft goods drawn from the Collection and tuned to the home. 8–14 weeks.
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Trade & developer partnerships.
For builders, developers, and building and design professionals
Whole-home and amenity packages for builders and developers, with a trade program for licensed designers and architects.
About
“I began designing the way I was taught to live — slowly, by had, attuned to the room. The Method is what came of writing it down.”
from the founder
michelle taylor
found + Principal