Interior design for the ordinary home - Lived In

Toby Witte: We Need Better Homes, Not Bigger Ones (Part 1)

Interior design for the ordinary home - Lived In

Show Notes

Season 3 Episode 9 (Part 1):

Interviews with Experts: Toby Witte of Wittehaus

Who dictates the types of houses we live in?

Why are architects so far removed from residential home design?

What should we prioritize when it comes to designing our homes?

Do bigger houses really lead to happier lives?

Toby Witte, founder of Wittehaus joins the podcast to share what he has observed and what he hopes for when it comes to residential design. Tune into this episode to have your preconceptions about house and home challenged, broadened, and turned upside down.

Toby Witte is the principal of Wittehaus, a Forbes Magazine 2025 Americas Top 200 Residential Architect, and he is a modern, luxury home designer who thinks like an architect. Author of the 2023 book Supersizing Bliss, Toby is passionate about rethinking the way we think about our homes and approach home design.

Connect with Toby and the Wittehaus team here:

www.witteha.us Instagram: @wittehaus

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