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What is CRD Home?

This space is where I document and explore ideas around well-being, creativity, and belonging.

CRD Home is built on a simple idea: home is not something we find—it’s something we create. The content is organized around this idea, using rooms to reflect the rhythms of daily life. It serves as a personal framework for reflection, creativity, and well-being — one room, one practice at a time. CRD Home is an individual and creative research project that explores holistic well-being. It is a space for restoration, reflection, and process. Through writing, design, and documentation, this platform becomes a quiet archive of ideas, practices, and environments that support clarity and care.

It is not about completion, but presence. Not about performance, but practice.

My Story

Why I Created CRD Home

The idea of home has always felt abstract. Moving often and navigating change shaped my understanding of belonging in subtle ways. Over time, I realized that home is less about a location and more about how I feel, what I create, and what I return to with care. CRD Home is part of that process—a space to reflect, feel grounded, and live with intention.CRD Home is a working model for intentional living, shaped by the metaphor of a home. Influenced by the spatial philosophies of Judd, Ando, Zumthor, Pawson, and Chipperfield, this project examines how both internal and external spaces can contribute to overall well-being.

Here, architecture is more than structure. It becomes a ritual, a rhythm, and a restoration. Through material honesty, light, and form, I explore how space can serve as a tool for care and compassion. This is minimalism as care, not more, just enough.

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Browse by Room

The content is organized into four themes, inspired by the structure of a home:

  • The Bedroom: Rest and Reflection

  • The Bathroom: Release and Renewal

  • The Kitchen: Nourishment and Creativity

  • The Living Room: Connection and Expression

Each room represents a theme. Together, they form a way to engage with daily life by balancing structure and creativity

The Architecture of Rest
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The Architecture of Rest

This article explores how the design of our physical spaces, particularly the bedroom, can support rest, mental clarity, and emotional regulation. Drawing from wellness research and minimalist design traditions, it illustrates how thoughtful spatial and mental environments work together to foster well-being.

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On Belonging
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On Belonging

A personal reflection on how belonging shapes how we understand care, not as something earned through sameness, but as a sense of safety to exist without explanation.

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The CRD Home Framework
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The CRD Home Framework

The CRD Home Framework is a personal structure for exploring holistic well being through rest, renewal, nourishment, and connection. Inspired by the metaphor of a home, it offers a gentle and flexible way to reflect, realign, and return to what matters.

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The Story Behind CRD Home
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The Story Behind CRD Home

CRD Home is a personal framework for exploring well-being through creativity, reflection, and space. It began as a way to build a sense of home from within and continues as an ongoing practice of living with intention and care.

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