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“Longevity” Is the Next Big Home Wellness TrendEmily Minton Redfield
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Pictured above: A meditation room designed by Julee Wray of Truss Interiors.
When it comes to personal wellness, longevity is hardly a new concept. Back in 2024, Vogue claimed that “living longer” was going to be 2025’s hottest new trend, and not even a year ago, ELLE posted about why everyone is talking about “skin longevity.”
While trends often take longer to reach the interior design world—after all, our homes aren’t as easily refreshed as our wardrobes or skincare routines—the topic of longevity has finally entered the conversation between designers and their clients.
In the latest installment of Next Issue, our talk series celebrating House Beautiful’s 130th anniversary, our market director Carisha Swanson sat down with three experts in the wellness space—Rich Dorment, editorial director of Men’s Health and Women’s Health; Tanya Ryno, founder of Iron House Design; and Siobhan Barry, design director at Gensler—to discuss how our homes can and are supporting our emotional and physical health.
At Iron House Design, Ryno and her husband, Jim, create beautiful home gyms that meet their clients’ every wellness goal while fitting into their personal interior aesthetics. But people aren’t coming to her and saying they want to be more muscular and fit, she tells Swanson. Instead, the latest desire has been for longevity—so much so that she and her team have made the focus one of their pillars of design.
“The idea is basically to not just live longer but live better for the years that you have,” Ryno explains. Barry and Dorment agree that this shift is popping up more and more in the wellness industry, with Barry adding that she thinks of longevity “not just being a kind of a box that you tick off…but more of like a long-term relationship that you are building and analyzing and providing care for.”
A moody sauna that anyone would want to relax in.Oleg Breslavtsev – Getty Images
Other experts believe this lifestyle focus is going to only get more relevant in the next few years, so much so that Ryno’s currently working on a “longevity suite” for her clients in Montana because their real estate agent told them it’ll help their house eventually sell. It has a place for meditation, a cold plunge, a salt room, a sauna, and an extended home gym. These clients told Ryno that they don’t really even work out—they’re just doing this for the future.
To learn more about how wellness is being worked into the home, check out the full Next Issue panel below.
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