Sensory bedrooms
Sleep-first design: blackout layers, dimmable warm light, low-stimulation colour, and bedding chosen for your child's touch preferences.
Sensory-friendly room design
A school psychologist owned and run business.
We redesign bedrooms, playrooms and quiet corners for children with autism and sensory needs — so your child has somewhere in the house that always feels safe.
Designed around one child — yours.
No two sensory profiles are the same, so no two rooms we build are either. Here's where families usually start.
Calm-down corners
A retreat that fits your home — enclosed, soft, and predictable, with the pressure, light and sound your child actually settles with.
Movement & play spaces
Swings, crash pads, climbing and balance built safely into playrooms, basements and garages for the proprioceptive input kids seek out.
Broader home adjustments
Small changes with big impact: lighting swaps, sound softening, visual schedules, storage that makes transitions easier for everyone.
How it works
01
Free consult
A relaxed call or meeting about your child — what soothes, what overwhelms, and what a hard day looks like in your home.
02
In-home sensory audit
We observe the space with your child in mind: light, sound, texture, sightlines, safety and how the room is really used.
03
Design plan
You get a visual plan, product list and clear budget. Specialists may be brought in for more involved estimates. Nothing is ordered until it feels right to you.
04
Gentle install
We build and style around your family's schedule, then walk you through the room and adjust after a few weeks of real life.
What we look at in a space
Every room is different, but these are the things we always work through with you before anything changes.
Light
Dimmable, warm and flicker-free, with layers you can turn down as the day winds down.
Sound
Soft surfaces and placement choices that take the edge off echo, hum and hallway noise.
Texture
Fabrics and finishes chosen around what your child seeks out and what they can't tolerate.
Safety
Anchoring, clearances and materials checked before anything goes on a wall or ceiling.
Why we started haven
Most homes are designed for a nervous system that filters things out. For a lot of children, they don't. The hum of a light, a scratchy seam, a room with too many places to look — it adds up long before anyone says a word.
Haven exists to change that one room at a time. We work alongside parents, and where you have them, your occupational therapist's recommendations, translating them into a space that actually looks and feels like home — not a clinic.
- Parent-led — you know your child best; we bring the design
- OT recommendations translated into real rooms
- Safety-checked anchoring, materials and finishes
- Clear budgets, and phased plans when that helps
From the founder
A school psychologist's passion
I'm a school psychologist, and I started Haven because I believe a child's home should be as therapeutic as any strategy or support plan. In the school setting, I see how much environment shapes attention, regulation, and calming — and I wanted to bring that same lens into the place where children spend the most time and feel most safe: their home.
Every design here is grounded in an understanding of sensory needs, learning differences, and what actually helps a child feel safe. But while the approach may be methodical, the spaces we create are never clinical — they are warm, personal, and built around real family life.
Let's talk about the room
Tell us a little about your child and the space you have in mind. The first conversation is free, and there's never any pressure to book.