Pictured: Sara Kostelnik encourages clients at Jade Scott Design to combine wellness with interior design. Photo by LeeAnn K. Photography.

To Sara Kostelnik, if life feels scattered or cluttered, the solution begins at home.

After working for years in corporate health care and craving a more creative outlet, Kostelnik decided to pursue interior design and founded Jade Scott Design in 2017. During COVID, she began studying Feng Shui, which changed her impression of not just design, but how people experience it.

“I started doing more design focused on Feng Shui, which takes personal goals and maps them out inside a home,” Kostelnik says, while also utilizing the five elements of interior design in her work—space, line, form, color and texture. “Interior designers quite naturally and intuitively work with those elements.”

Kostelnik’s process of working with clients involves meeting them where they presently are in their lives. She says most of her clients are not first-time home buyers and are now working to recreate their home environment, especially if they’re empty-nesting.

“My philosophy of this mind-body-home alignment goes beyond decorating and renovating,” she says. “It’s more about using color, texture and materials in a way that supports people’s personalities, floor plans and what already exists in the home.”

All of Jade Scott Design’s services are virtual, and Kostelnik does meet with clients one-on-one. She serves clients in the Sarasota and Tampa regions.

“A lot of my work involves treating the home as a source of support instead of a source of stress,” Kostelnik says. “Jade Scott Design focuses on helping women specifically come into alignment with their homes.”

Her business also features a virtual agent called TASKED that is focused on branding, marketing and content creation, along with a soft focus on visibility about coming back into alignment with what feels true and safe.

“Mind-body-home starts at home, and then it carries into work,” Kostelnik says.

As Kostelnik continues to see more conversations around the combination of home and design with wellness, she is currently adding a seasonal alignment practice that takes the brainwork of mind-body-home and expands it into an everyday routine.

“Seasonal alignment practice is really becoming my community, and I’m finding women really want to create not only alignment at home, but also in their businesses,” she says.

Jade Scott Design, jsd@jadescottdesign.com, jadescottdesign.com

Pictured: Sara Kostelnik encourages clients at Jade Scott Design to combine wellness with interior design. Photo by LeeAnn K. Photography.