Designing Spaces That Support Human Well-Being
Soma Atelier is a wellness-centered interior design studio creating residential and hospitality environments that feel calm, restorative, and deeply connected to the people who experience them.
Our work combines human-centered design principles, integrated collaboration, and decades of real-world building expertise — creating spaces that function beautifully both emotionally and practically.
Design Should Support the Way People Live and Feel
Most spaces are designed around appearance alone. We believe truly successful environments do something deeper — supporting emotional well-being, daily life, and the way the body naturally experiences space.
Spaces designed to reduce stress, invite calm, and create an instinctive sense of comfort and belonging from the moment you enter.
Color, light, materials, and flow work together to create spaces that feel naturally calming, restorative, and emotionally supportive.
A beautiful space that fights the way you live isn't beautiful enough. We design for the rhythms of your actual life.
An Integrated Design Approach Built Around Human Experience
Most spaces are designed around appearance alone. We believe truly successful environments do something deeper — supporting emotional well-being, daily life, and the way the body naturally experiences space.
Where Science Informs Soul
Spaces designed to reduce stress, invite calm, and create an instinctive sense of comfort and belonging from the moment you enter.
Design & Build, Unified from Day One
Our roundtable-style process brings architects, designers, builders, and trade partners together early — creating better coordination, smoother execution, and greater clarity throughout the project.
Vision Backed by Real-World Expertise
Our team bridges design vision and construction execution to ensure every detail is aligned, intentional, and professionally managed from concept through completion.
Meet Danette Fuller Veatch
Danette Fuller Veatch didn't take the traditional path to interior design — and that's exactly what makes her different. She grew up traveling the world alongside her parents — a contractor father and a designer mother who built homes that lived in harmony with their natural surroundings. From a young age, Danette understood something most designers take years to discover: the spaces we inhabit change how we feel, how we function, and how we heal.
But her path didn't lead to design school. It led to ministry and healing work. As a pastor and missionary, Danette traveled internationally, earning certifications in multiple healing modalities and helping people process grief, trauma, and pain through color, intuition, and deep listening. Those years sharpened her ability to read what people need — even before they can name it.Her years attending Burning Man offered another revelation: intentionally designed environments don't just serve as backdrops. They transform.
After settling in Ohio, she met and married Scott Veatch, a general contractor and licensed remodeler with three decades of experience. Together, they founded Soma Atelier — where the soul of interior design meets the science of quality craftsmanship.
Over the years she pursued formal credentials in neuroaesthetics, color psychology, and aging-in-place design, confirming what she'd always known intuitively: color, light, texture, and spatial flow affect how our bodies feel, not just how our spaces look.
"I design beautiful spaces where you belong, heal, and restore."
Today, Danette brings neuroaesthetics, biophilic design, color psychology, and decades of lived wisdom to every project — creating award-winning spaces across Ohio that are undeniably beautiful and genuinely transformative.
VP, Columbus IDS Chapter
Science in Design Certified (SIDC)
Certified Living in Place (CLIPP)
Certified Color Expert (CCE)
7x Local Award Winner
2026 National Design + Build Award — Regional & East Coast Division
3x Regional Award Winner
Meet Scott Veatch
Scott serves on Soma Atelier’s architectural design team while helping coordinate collaboration between build, remodel, and trade partners. With more than 37 years of industry experience, he plays a key role in keeping projects aligned from early design through final execution.
His combination of technical expertise, integrated leadership, and hands-on project coordination creates a client experience that feels clear, organized, and professionally managed throughout the process.
Through Soma’s collaborative roundtable approach, Scott helps ensure communication stays aligned across all stakeholders — bridging design vision with construction realities from concept through completion
VP, Columbus IDS Chapter
Science in Design Certified (SIDC)
Certified Living in Place (CLIPP)
Certified Color Expert (CCE)
7x Local Award Winner
3x Regional Award Winner
2026 National Design + Build Award — Regional & East Coast Division
Five Steps to a Space That Changes Everything
We begin by understanding how you want the space to feel, function, and support everyday life — before a single line is drawn.
Our collaborative roundtable process aligns designers, architects, builders, and trade partners around one unified vision from the beginning.
We refine layouts, materials, lighting, textures, and sensory details that shape the emotional experience of the environment.
Our team works closely with contractors and trades to ensure thoughtful coordination and precise implementation throughout construction.
The result is a space designed to feel as good as it looks — and continue supporting the way you live, feel, and experience daily life for years to come.
Design Should Support the Way People Live and Feel
Most spaces are designed around appearance alone. We believe truly successful environments do something deeper — supporting emotional well-being, daily life, and the way the body naturally experiences space.
Deep expertise across residential, hospitality, remodeling, and integrated project delivery.
Locally and regionally recognized for thoughtful, experience-centered design excellence throughout Central Ohio.
Architects, builders, designers, and trade partners aligned from the very first conversation through final execution.
A process designed to reduce stress, create clarity, and provide thoughtful support for clients throughout every phase of the project.
Spaces That Change How People Experience Daily Life
A thoughtfully designed environment doesn’t simply look different. It changes how people experience rest, focus, connection, comfort, and the rhythms of everyday life.
“Every space feels cohesive, warm, and welcoming. Their team was respectful, detail-oriented, and consistently thoughtful throughout the project. The entire experience felt organized, collaborative, and professionally managed from beginning to end.”
Let’s Create a Space Designed Around Human Experience
Whether residential or hospitality-focused, Soma Atelier creates environments that combine emotional intelligence, thoughtful functionality, and integrated execution — shaping spaces that feel deeply connected to the people who experience them.
We intentionally work with a limited number of clients at a time because meaningful design requires focused attention, thoughtful collaboration, and genuine care throughout the process.