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CRD Home is a space for exploring well-being, creativity, and belonging through the metaphor of a home. Each room reflects a different aspect of daily life: rest, renewal, nourishment, and connection. It invites reflection on how your routines and environments support your well-being.

This is also a welcoming space. Like being invited into someone's home, the intention is not to prescribe choices but to offer comfort, inspiration, and care. You are encouraged to take what is useful, leave what is not, and adapt what resonates with you. Through mutual exchange, I hope to learn from others as well, gaining insight that supports my own well-being and creative expression.

In today’s climate, CRD Home also aims to foster a sense of safety and community. It offers a quiet place to return to, reflect, and consider what it means to live with care.

How to Engage

  • Explore the rooms and content based on what feels relevant to you.

  • Use the framework as a tool for self-reflection. What supports you? What might need more attention?

  • Adapt ideas and practices in a way that suits your life.

  • Return as often as needed. This space is constantly evolving.

  • Please feel free to share your thoughts, reflections, and feedback through comments or social channels. Your voice contributes to a thoughtful and vibrant community.

CRD Home is a resource for intentional living, shaped by presence, simplicity, and shared care. Our collective engagement should support individual growth. We can all improve each other through meaningful connections.

Why I Created CRD Home

The idea of home has never felt fixed. Moving often and navigating change shaped my understanding of belonging in quiet and complex ways. Over time, I came to see home not as a place, but as a feeling — something created through care, clarity, and intention. CRD Home grew from that realization. It began as a personal space to explore what it means to feel grounded and to live with purpose. It is a working model for intentional living, shaped by the metaphor of a home.

Along the way, I began to think more deeply about space, not just as a physical structure, but as a layered experience. Physical space supports comfort and clarity. Psychological space creates room to reflect, rest, and process. Social space holds connection, trust, and shared care. Sensory space influences our perception through light, texture, sound, and stillness. Temporal space gives shape to rhythm and routine. Negative space, the unfilled and the quiet, helps create balance.

Influenced by the spatial philosophies of Judd, Ando, Zumthor, Pawson, and Chipperfield, CRD Home explores how these different dimensions of space can support well-being. Here, architecture is not only a structure. It becomes a rhythm, a ritual, and a restoration. I reflect on how space and intention can serve as tools for care and support.

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
Bedroom Chaz Deans Bedroom Chaz Deans

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
Living Chaz Deans Living Chaz Deans

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
Living Chaz Deans Living Chaz Deans

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
Living Chaz Deans Living Chaz Deans

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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